python-core

A set of rules for writing and structuring Python code, including formatting, type annotations, documentation, logging, error handling, and project layers.

In plain words
What is it for?
It guides coding agents when creating or changing Python files, including how to format code, document public parts, handle errors, log events, and separate API, service, repository, and model code.
Why use it?
It gives Python files a consistent style and helps avoid common problems such as hidden errors, unsafe secrets, unclear types, and inaccurate money calculations.

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/rishapgandhi/python-skills/python-core
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rishapgandhi/python-skills

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 158 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 158 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 $0.00158 $0.00158
Opus 5 $0.00079 $0.00079
Sonnet 5 $0.00032 $0.00032
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00016

Measured yesterday against content hash 9982b2912ee1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

python-core 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/python-core.mdc · 22 lines

What it actually says

Python Core Rules

  • 4 spaces indentation, no tabs
  • Full type annotations on all function signatures
  • Docstrings on all public functions/classes (Google style)
  • No hardcoded secrets — use pydantic-settings
  • structlog for logging — never print()
  • Never bare except: — catch specific exceptions
  • Never use mutable default arguments
  • Monetary values: Decimal, never float
  • Prefer X | None over Optional[X]
  • Use from __future__ import annotations for forward refs
  • Layer discipline: API → Service → Repository → Model

Reference: skills/common/code-style.md

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 · 22 lines · 158 tokens per session scan A 9982b2912ee1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

python-core is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository rishapgandhi/python-skills (4 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 158 tokens to every session, about $0.0008 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.