avoid-cleavage-in-prose

avoid-cleavage-in-prose is a cursor rule for Cursor from prisma/orm. It costs 273 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A writing rule that bans the word "cleavage" from technical prose and suggests clearer alternatives such as "split," "boundary," or "distinction."

In plain words
What is it for?
It guides wording in documentation, plans, specifications, code comments, and commit messages.
Why use it?
It avoids wording that may distract readers or be misunderstood because the word has another common meaning.

Cursor rule for Cursor ✓ vendor

Written for Cursor: a Cursor rule (.mdc). Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit It guides wording in documentation, plans, specifications, code comments, and commit messages.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/prisma/orm/avoid-cleavage-in-prose
About the project

Prisma ORM is a Node.js and TypeScript database toolkit that lets applications work with databases through a programming interface instead of writing every query directly in SQL. Developers use it with databases including PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Server, SQLite, MongoDB, and CockroachDB. The catalogue add-ons provide agent rules, skills, hooks, agents, and other workflows for using Prisma.

prisma/orm · 47,695 stars · on GitHub · prisma.io

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/prisma/orm

Made for: Cursor.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 273 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 273 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00273 $0.00273
Opus 5.5 $0.00109 $0.00109
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00055 $0.00055
Haiku 4.5 $0.00027 $0.00027

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 8500c45a3972, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

avoid-cleavage-in-prose scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.agents/rules/avoid-cleavage-in-prose.mdc · 20 lines

What it actually says

Avoid the word "cleavage" in prose

Don't use "cleavage" as a metaphor for a split, boundary, or division in any prose: docs, ADRs, specs, plans, READMEs, PR descriptions, commit messages, or code comments. The word is technically correct in the geological / structural sense but reads weirdly in technical writing because of its other common meaning, and the alternatives are clearer anyway.

Prefer the natural English alternative for the context:

Instead of Prefer
"the natural cleavage between X and Y" "the natural split between X and Y" / "the natural distinction between X and Y"
"the cleavage is precise:" "the split is precise:" / "the boundary is precise:"
"the cleavage between Project 1 and Project 2" "the boundary between Project 1 and Project 2"
"predicate / non-predicate cleavage" "predicate / non-predicate split"

Use whichever of "split", "boundary", "distinction", or "divide" reads most naturally in the surrounding sentence.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 20 lines · 273 tokens per session scan A 8500c45a3972

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avoid-cleavage-in-prose is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository prisma/orm (47,695 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 273 tokens to every session, about $0.0011 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.