rules--js-early-exit

rules--js-early-exit is a cursor rule for Cursor from ratnesh-maurya/cursor-claude-personas. It costs 0 tokens per session (271 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A function-writing pattern that returns as soon as its answer is known. This is also called an early exit.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it in validation, searches, and loops where the first matching error or result is enough.
Why use it?
Continuing through the remaining items after finding an error or result wastes processing and can overwrite useful information.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit Use it in validation, searches, and loops where the first matching error or result is enough.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/ratnesh-maurya/cursor-claude-personas/rules-js-early-exit
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ratnesh-maurya/cursor-claude-personas

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 271 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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 $0.00000 $0.00271
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00135
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00054
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00027

Measured 7d ago against content hash 925ce5ce87f3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rules--js-early-exit 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 7d 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.

3d-frontend-developer/.cursor/rules/rules--js-early-exit.mdc · 51 lines

What it actually says

Early Return from Functions

Return early when result is determined to skip unnecessary processing.

Incorrect (processes all items even after finding answer):

function validateUsers(users: User[]) {
  let hasError = false
  let errorMessage = ''
  
  for (const user of users) {
    if (!user.email) {
      hasError = true
      errorMessage = 'Email required'
    }
    if (!user.name) {
      hasError = true
      errorMessage = 'Name required'
    }
    // Continues checking all users even after error found
  }
  
  return hasError ? { valid: false, error: errorMessage } : { valid: true }
}

Correct (returns immediately on first error):

function validateUsers(users: User[]) {
  for (const user of users) {
    if (!user.email) {
      return { valid: false, error: 'Email required' }
    }
    if (!user.name) {
      return { valid: false, error: 'Name required' }
    }
  }

  return { valid: true }
}
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. 7d ago First seen · 51 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 925ce5ce87f3

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rules--js-early-exit is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository ratnesh-maurya/cursor-claude-personas (8 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 271 tokens. 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 2026-09-03.