engineering-standards

A repository rule that applies the engineering standard from AGENTS.md to all code work. It also directs the agent to read more specific guidance for areas such as architecture, data, security, and testing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it as a general engineering standard for creating, changing, reviewing, or designing software across different technical areas.
Why use it?
It gives code edits, reviews, and refactors a shared order of priorities: correctness, clarity, simplicity, maintainability, then speed.

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/s13g/engineering-standards-plugin/engineering-standards
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/S13G/engineering-standards-plugin

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 184 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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 $0.00000 $0.00184
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00092
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00037
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00018

Measured yesterday against content hash e5cc17e4e7d1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

engineering-standards 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/engineering-standards.mdc · 15 lines

What it actually says

Engineering Standards

Follow the engineering standard defined in @AGENTS.md at the repository root, and load the per-domain deep-dive under skills/engineering-standards/reference/<domain>.md when relevant.

Apply its Universal Laws to all code you write, review, refactor, or design — silently, without narrating the rules. The priority order is fixed: Correct → Clear → Simple → Maintainable → Fast.

When a task touches a specific domain, open and apply the matching deep-dive file under skills/engineering-standards/reference/: architecture, paradigms, algorithms, backend, data, concurrency, frontend, mobile, cloud, systems, security, testing, git-craft.

Before calling work done, pass the Review Gate in AGENTS.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 · 15 lines · 184 tokens per session scan A e5cc17e4e7d1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

engineering-standards is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository S13G/engineering-standards-plugin (3 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 184 tokens. 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.