verify-reality

A project rule saying that the actual filesystem, Git state, and fresh build results are the source of truth.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when checking whether files exist, reviewing changes, confirming generated output, or verifying that a build passes.
Why use it?
It prevents decisions based only on earlier claims, old reminders, manifests, or reports that may no longer match the project.

Cursor rule for Cursor

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/punkadillo/figma-code-composer/verify-reality
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/punkadillo/figma-code-composer

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 410 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 410 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00410 $0.00410
Opus 5 $0.00205 $0.00205
Sonnet 5 $0.00082 $0.00082
Haiku 4.5 $0.00041 $0.00041

Measured 2d ago against content hash 726f13139148, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

verify-reality 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 2d 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.

.cursor/rules/verify-reality.mdc · 30 lines

What it actually says

Rule 7 — Verify against reality

When you need to know the state of the project, inspect it directly:

  • Need to know if a file exists? → Glob or Read, do not trust an earlier turn.
  • Need to know what's on the working tree? → git status / git diff.
  • Need to know if a token is emitted? → read the token output file, do not infer from a runner's claim.
  • Need to know if a build passes? → run it.

Specific traps to avoid

  • "An earlier turn said this component exists" — verify by reading the file.
  • "The manifest says existsOnDisk: true" — also verify by Glob-ing diskPath before patching, because the manifest snapshot can lag the filesystem.
  • "The agent's final-report listed it as created" — confirm with Glob before treating the file as canonical (an agent report describes intent, not necessarily the outcome).
  • "A system-reminder mentioned X" — re-check the actual file; reminders can be stale.

In the figma pipeline specifically

  • After a specialist finishes, do not chain "next" work based purely on its componentsCreated[] / iconsCreated[] arrays. Glob the claimed paths first.
  • When auditing whether the coordinator should re-run a step, base the decision on what's actually on disk, not on a recalled "I already ran token-builder."
  • Treat manifest.json as a snapshot of when the fetcher ran — for anything time-sensitive (does this component exist NOW?), re-glob.

If a fresh check disagrees with what was claimed earlier — the fresh check wins. Surface the discrepancy as a flag.

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. 2d ago First seen · 30 lines · 410 tokens per session scan A 726f13139148

Subscribe to this mod's changes

verify-reality is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository punkadillo/figma-code-composer (3 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 410 tokens to every session, about $0.0020 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-31.