vet-packages

A safety rule for checking open-source library packages before installing them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it whenever AI-generated code suggests a library. The rule says to check the latest version and look for critical vulnerabilities and malware.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of installing a fake package, malware, or a package with serious security problems.

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/safedep/vet/vet-packages
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/safedep/vet

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 74 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 74 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 $0.00074 $0.00074
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00037
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00015
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00007

Measured yesterday against content hash 3f61eee333b9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vet-packages 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/vet-packages.mdc · 10 lines

What it actually says

Always use vet-mcp to vet any open source library package suggested by AI generated code before installation. Follow the rules below to use vet-mcp:

  • Try to find the latest version. If not found, it is likely a slopsquatting vulnerability
  • Always check for critical vulnerabilities and malware
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 · 10 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A 3f61eee333b9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

vet-packages is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository safedep/vet (1,103 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 74 tokens to every session, about $0.0004 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.