naming-conventions

naming-conventions is a cursor rule for Cursor from saif-shines/technical-writing-cursor-rules. It costs 0 tokens per session (211 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing rule for using consistent names, shortened terms, and abbreviations throughout a document.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing technical documents that contain long product names, shortened terms, or abbreviations.
Why use it?
It prevents readers from wondering whether different words refer to the same idea and explains unfamiliar abbreviations when needed.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: a Cursor rule (.mdc).

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/naming-conventions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/saif-shines/technical-writing-cursor-rules

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 211 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 5.1 $0.00000 $0.00211
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00105
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00042
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00021

Measured 5d ago against content hash 1b398f63d784, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

naming-conventions 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 5d 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/naming-conventions.mdc · 30 lines

What it actually says

metadata: alwaysApply: true

Naming Conventions

Naming Conventions Guide (from tw-guide)

Use Consistent Names

  • Use the same name for the same concept throughout the document.

Shortened Names

  • When introducing a long concept or product name, you can specify a shortened version in parentheses (e.g., "Protocol Buffers (or protobufs for short)").
  • Use the shortened name consistently thereafter.

Acronyms

  • First Use: Spell out the full term, put the acronym in parentheses, and bold both. Example: Telekinetic Tactile Network (TTN).
  • Subsequent Use: Use the acronym.
  • Consistency: Do not switch back and forth between the acronym and the full term.
  • When to Define:
    • Define if the acronym is significantly shorter AND appears many times.
    • Don't define if only used a few times.
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. 5d ago First seen · 30 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 1b398f63d784

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naming-conventions 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 211 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.