implementation-honesty

implementation-honesty is a cursor rule for Cursor from sandraschi/virtualization-mcp. It costs 114 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A coding rule that requires runtime code and user interfaces to be honest about unfinished behavior. Unimplemented integrations must report that they are unavailable instead of pretending an operation succeeded.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when reviewing or building application behavior, especially unfinished features, integrations, security checks, and UI states.
Why use it?
It prevents fake success messages and made-up security or runtime results from hiding incomplete work. Users can see clearly when functionality is still under construction.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit Use it when reviewing or building application behavior, especially unfinished features, integrations, security checks, and UI states.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/sandraschi/virtualization-mcp/implementation-honesty
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.

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

Made for: Cursor.

Wrote 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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 114 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 114 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00114 $0.00114
Opus 5.5 $0.00046 $0.00046
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00023 $0.00023
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00011

Measured 1mo ago against content hash a51b3c67bc9c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

implementation-honesty 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 1mo 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.

.cursor/rules/implementation-honesty.mdc · 14 lines

What it actually says

Implementation Honesty Rule

  • Prototype placeholders are temporary and must be clearly marked.
  • Runtime code must not return simulated success for unimplemented behavior.
  • Missing integrations/models/providers must return explicit not_implemented errors.
  • Security/runtime findings must never be synthetic in production paths.
  • Webapp must show Under construction for unavailable functionality.
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. 1mo ago First seen · 14 lines · 114 tokens per session scan A a51b3c67bc9c

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implementation-honesty is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository sandraschi/virtualization-mcp (16 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 114 tokens to every session, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.