cursorrules

A set of Cursor rules for a PDF intelligence project. Cursor rules are project instructions that guide an AI coding assistant's work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when working on the pdf-mcp project, especially for checking its server, editing its React web app, running quality checks, and saving generated PDFs correctly.
Why use it?
They give the assistant the project's required tools, commands, coding standards, file locations, and safety boundaries.

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/sandraschi/pdf-mcp/cursorrules
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sandraschi/pdf-mcp

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 283 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 283 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 $0.00283 $0.00283
Opus 5 $0.00142 $0.00142
Sonnet 5 $0.00057 $0.00057
Haiku 4.5 $0.00028 $0.00028

Measured yesterday against content hash 50063619d70c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cursorrules 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.

.cursorrules · 20 lines

What it actually says

pdf-mcp Cursor Rules

Session Context (pdf-mcp)

pdf-mcp is a PDF intelligence MCP server (FastMCP 3.4.4, FastAPI/Starlette HTTP on 11131, React webapp on 11130). Before starting work: run pdf_status to confirm the server is alive and pdf_help to see the current tool surface. The 16 tools are pdf_extract, pdf_manipulate, pdf_annotate, pdf_forms, pdf_convert, pdf_validate, pdf_rag, pdf_analyze, pdf_redact, pdf_classify, pdf_dedupe, pdf_export, pdf_do, pdf_help, pdf_status, pdf_shutdown. Each domain tool is a portmanteau with an operation param - read the docstring for operation names. At end of work: save any generated PDFs to data/uploads/ and note the job_id in the thread.

Standards

  • Check central docs first: D:\Dev\repos\mcp-central-docs\ (standards/, patterns/)
  • Python: ruff (0.16.x) + pyright, all gates via just ci
  • Webapp: React + Vite + Tailwind + Zustand; bun, not npm
  • Never edit files in _upstream/; never commit .env or secrets
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 · 20 lines · 283 tokens per session scan A 50063619d70c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cursorrules is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository sandraschi/pdf-mcp (1 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 283 tokens to every session, about $0.0014 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 2026-08-31.