040-anti-patterns

040-anti-patterns is a cursor rule for Cursor from redf0x1/camofox-browser. It costs 463 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A list of browser-automation mistakes to avoid when using CamoFox, such as acting before taking a page snapshot or reusing element references after navigation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing CamoFox automation code and checking workflows for stale references, unsafe login handling, incorrect user profiles, and poorly structured output.
Why use it?
It prevents failed actions, mismatched sessions, leaked credentials, and scripts that break when a page 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/redf0x1/camofox-browser/040-anti-patterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/redf0x1/camofox-browser

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 463 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 463 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 5.1 $0.00463 $0.00463
Opus 5 $0.00231 $0.00231
Sonnet 5 $0.00093 $0.00093
Haiku 4.5 $0.00046 $0.00046

Measured 6d ago against content hash 566120a0f464, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

040-anti-patterns 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 6d 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/040-anti-patterns.mdc · 90 lines

What it actually says

Anti-Patterns (Avoid These)

1) Skipping snapshot before actions

# BAD
camofox click e4

# GOOD
camofox snapshot
camofox click e4

2) Reusing refs after navigation/rerender

# BAD
camofox click e9
camofox navigate https://another-page.com
camofox click e9

# GOOD
camofox click e9
camofox navigate https://another-page.com
camofox snapshot
camofox click e3

3) Mixing userId across same tab flow

# BAD
camofox open https://x.com --user alice
camofox snapshot --user bob

# GOOD
camofox open https://x.com --user alice
camofox snapshot --user alice

4) Parsing text output in automation

# BAD
camofox get-url | awk '{print $2}'

# GOOD
camofox get-url --format json

5) Hardcoded query URLs instead of macros

# BAD
# manually composing search URL every time

# GOOD
# API macro use
# {"macro":"@google_search","query":"my query"}

6) Embedding plaintext credentials in scripts

# BAD
type e2 "my-secret-password"

# GOOD
camofox auth save profile
camofox auth load profile --inject --username-ref e2 --password-ref e3

7) Forgetting tab invalidation after display toggle

# BAD
# toggle display then keep using old tabId

# GOOD
# toggle display, then create a new tab

8) Assuming download command performs server-side direct fetch

# BAD
camofox download https://files.example.com/a.zip

# GOOD
camofox downloads --format json
# or call /tabs/:tabId/batch-download
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. 6d ago First seen · 90 lines · 463 tokens per session scan A 566120a0f464

Subscribe to this mod's changes

040-anti-patterns is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository redf0x1/camofox-browser (382 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 463 tokens to every session, about $0.0023 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 2026-08-30.