git-author

git-author is a cursor rule for Cursor from RyanAlberts/best-of-Agent-Harnesses. It costs 235 tokens per session, scanned A, original, CC-BY-SA-4.0.

A rule that sets the author identity Git records on each commit. Git is the version-control system used to track code changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when configuring who appears as the author of repository changes.
Why use it?
It prevents commits from being linked to the wrong person or account on GitHub.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit Use it when configuring who appears as the author of repository changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/ryanalberts/best-of-agent-harnesses/git-author
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RyanAlberts/best-of-Agent-Harnesses

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 git-author

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/ryanalberts/best-of-agent-harnesses/git-author/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/rules/ryanalberts/best-of-agent-harnesses/git-author)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/ryanalberts/best-of-agent-harnesses/git-author"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/ryanalberts/best-of-agent-harnesses/git-author/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for git-author

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/ryanalberts/best-of-agent-harnesses/git-author"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/ryanalberts/best-of-agent-harnesses/git-author.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 235 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 235 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00235 $0.00235
Opus 5 $0.00118 $0.00118
Sonnet 5 $0.00047 $0.00047
Haiku 4.5 $0.00023 $0.00023

Measured 11d ago against content hash 77548b075ca3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

git-author 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 11d 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/git-author.mdc · 19 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed CC-BY-SA-4.0

The repository is licensed CC-BY-SA-4.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

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. 11d ago First seen · 19 lines · 235 tokens per session scan A 77548b075ca3

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git-author is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository RyanAlberts/best-of-Agent-Harnesses (818 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed CC-BY-SA-4.0. It adds 235 tokens to every session, about $0.0012 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.