token-efficiency

token-efficiency is a cursor rule for Cursor from ravinperera/ai-token-efficiency-playbook. It costs 323 tokens per session, scanned A, original, no licence file.

A set of rules for helping AI coding agents use fewer tokens. Tokens are the small pieces of text an AI processes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Applying token-efficient behaviour while an AI coding agent works on tasks.
Why use it?
It guides the agent toward shorter interactions and less unnecessary output. This can reduce the amount of text needed during coding work.

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/ravinperera/ai-token-efficiency-playbook/token-efficiency
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ravinperera/ai-token-efficiency-playbook

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.

agentmods badge for token-efficiency

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/ravinperera/ai-token-efficiency-playbook/token-efficiency.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/rules/ravinperera/ai-token-efficiency-playbook/token-efficiency)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/ravinperera/ai-token-efficiency-playbook/token-efficiency"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/ravinperera/ai-token-efficiency-playbook/token-efficiency.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 323 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 323 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00323 $0.00323
Opus 5 $0.00161 $0.00161
Sonnet 5 $0.00065 $0.00065
Haiku 4.5 $0.00032 $0.00032

Measured 3d ago against content hash 7b2f1f7b75a2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

token-efficiency 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 3d 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/token-efficiency.mdc · 38 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 3d ago First seen · 38 lines · 323 tokens per session scan A 7b2f1f7b75a2

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token-efficiency is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository ravinperera/ai-token-efficiency-playbook (10 stars, last pushed 4d ago), with no licence file. It adds 323 tokens to every session, about $0.0016 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.

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