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.
npx agentmods add rules/saif-shines/technical-writing-cursor-rules/code-snippet-formattinggit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/saif-shines/technical-writing-cursor-rulesWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/rules/saif-shines/technical-writing-cursor-rules/code-snippet-formatting)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/saif-shines/technical-writing-cursor-rules/code-snippet-formatting"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/saif-shines/technical-writing-cursor-rules/code-snippet-formatting.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00145 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00072 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00029 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00015 |
Grade A, and why
code-snippet-formatting 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 3d 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.
What it actually says
metadata: alwaysApply: true
Code Snippet Formatting
Always format code snippets using triple backticks () in documentation, markdown files, and code comments. When possible, specify the language immediately after the opening backticks for proper syntax highlighting (e.g., js, python, bash).
Example:
- Good:
const x = 5; - Bad:
const x = 5; - Bad: const x = 5;
This rule ensures code snippets are easy to read, copy, and understand, and that they render correctly in all documentation tools.
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.
- 3d ago First seen · 26 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 555f10001fe5
code-snippet-formatting is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository saif-shines/technical-writing-cursor-rules (7 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 145 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.
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