document-structure

A writing rule for organizing documents with a concise introduction, task-focused headings, clear navigation, and related next steps.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing guides or technical documents that need an introduction, headings, subheadings, a contents list, or links between related sections.
Why use it?
It helps readers understand what a document covers, what knowledge it expects, and how its sections fit together.

Cursor rule

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/saif-shines/technical-writing-cursor-rules/document-structure
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/saif-shines/technical-writing-cursor-rules
Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 175 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 $0.00175
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00088
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00035
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00017

Measured 2d ago against content hash 888094a154aa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

document-structure 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 2d 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.

principles/structure/document-structure.mdc · 35 lines

What it actually says

metadata: alwaysApply: true

Document Structure Guide

Introduce a Document

An effective introduction includes:

  • What the document covers.
  • Expected prior knowledge.
  • What the document doesn't cover.

Keep it concise and accurate reflect the document's content.

Organize with Headings

  • Prefer task-based headings: Use verb phrases (e.g., "Running the command", "Creating the site").
  • Provide text under each heading: Avoid nesting headings without introductory text between them.

Add Navigation

Ensure clear navigation to help users:

  • Introduction and summary sections.
  • Logical flow of the subject.
  • Clear headings and subheadings.
  • Table of contents (if applicable).
  • Links to related resources and next steps.
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. 2d ago First seen · 35 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 888094a154aa

Subscribe to this mod's changes

document-structure 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 175 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.