git-remote-sync

A set of Git workflow rules for keeping a local repository aligned with its remote repository. Git tracks code changes, while a remote repository is the shared copy hosted elsewhere.

In plain words
What is it for?
It guides fetching updates, bringing base branches forward, checking changes and tests, scanning before pushing, and safely updating a branch before push.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of starting work from outdated code or pushing changes that conflict with newer remote changes.

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/rdudov/task-agent/git-remote-sync
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rdudov/task-agent

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 220 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 220 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 $0.00220 $0.00220
Opus 5 $0.00110 $0.00110
Sonnet 5 $0.00044 $0.00044
Haiku 4.5 $0.00022 $0.00022

Measured yesterday against content hash 15ad9fce6cbd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

git-remote-sync 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 yesterday.

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/git-remote-sync.mdc · 33 lines

What it actually says

Git Remote Sync

For any git repository with a configured remote:

Before Creating a Branch

  1. Run git fetch <remote>.
  2. Check whether the base branch is behind its remote tracking branch.
  3. Fast-forward the base branch before creating a feature branch.

Do not start new feature work from a stale local base branch when the remote is reachable.

Before Push

  1. Run relevant tests or verification for the task.

  2. Run the pre-push leak check:

    .venv/bin/python skills/repo-health/scripts/check_pre_push.py --remote <remote>
    
  3. Review the outgoing diff.

  4. Fetch the remote again.

  5. Rebase or merge onto the latest target branch according to repository policy.

  6. Push the branch.

Use --force-with-lease instead of --force when rewriting a branch is explicitly required. Do not force-push shared base branches unless the task explicitly calls for history repair.

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. yesterday First seen · 33 lines · 220 tokens per session scan A 15ad9fce6cbd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

git-remote-sync is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository rdudov/task-agent (4 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 220 tokens to every session, about $0.0011 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.