git

git is a cursor rule for Cursor from sanjeed5/awesome-cursor-rules-mdc. It costs 2,065 tokens per session, scanned A, original, CC0-1.0.

A set of team guidelines for using Git, a tool for tracking code changes and collaborating through branches. It covers branch naming, commit standards, history, and automated hooks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create feature and bug-fix branches, write consistent commits, review changes, and protect shared branches.
Why use it?
It helps keep project history readable, reduce merge conflicts, and make collaboration more predictable.

Cursor rule for Cursor

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

Good fit Use it to create feature and bug-fix branches, write consistent commits, review changes, and protect shared branches.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/sanjeed5/awesome-cursor-rules-mdc/git
About the project

awesome-cursor-rules-mdc is a generator that creates Cursor MDC rule files from structured library information, using semantic search and language models to gather and organize guidance. Developers use it to produce reusable rules for libraries in Cursor, and the catalogue includes 200 of those rules.

sanjeed5/awesome-cursor-rules-mdc · 3,571 stars · on GitHub

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/sanjeed5/awesome-cursor-rules-mdc

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.

agentmods badge for git

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/sanjeed5/awesome-cursor-rules-mdc/git.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/rules/sanjeed5/awesome-cursor-rules-mdc/git)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/sanjeed5/awesome-cursor-rules-mdc/git"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/sanjeed5/awesome-cursor-rules-mdc/git.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 2,065 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 2,065 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 $0.02065 $0.02065
Opus 5 $0.01033 $0.01033
Sonnet 5 $0.00413 $0.00413
Haiku 4.5 $0.00206 $0.00206

Measured 4d ago against content hash 01f1286d67f1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

git 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 4d 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.

rules-mdc/git.mdc · 258 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 258 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Git Best Practices

Git is the backbone of our development workflow. Adhering to these practices ensures a clean, readable history, minimizes conflicts, and enables rapid, reliable delivery. These are non-negotiable standards.

1. Branching Strategy: Feature-Branch Workflow

We use a feature-branch workflow with short-lived branches. All development happens on dedicated branches, never directly on main or develop.

  • main branch: Always production-ready. Only merges from release branches or squashed feature branches are allowed. Protected.
  • develop branch: Integrates completed features. Protected.
  • Feature branches: Created from develop, short-lived, for a single feature or bug fix. Merged into develop via Pull Requests (PRs).

Guideline: Branch Naming

Name branches clearly and consistently, linking directly to a ticket or feature.

BAD:

git checkout -b my-feature
git checkout -b fix

GOOD:

# For a new feature (e.g., JIRA ticket FEAT-123)
git checkout -b feat/FEAT-123-add-user-profile

# For a bug fix (e.g., JIRA ticket BUG-456)
git checkout -b fix/BUG-456-auth-redirect-loop

# For a refactor
git checkout -b refactor/improve-logging-middleware

2. Commit Messages: Conventional Commits

Every commit message must follow the Conventional Commits specification. This enables automated changelog generation and semantic versioning.

Format: <type>(<scope>): <description>

  • type: feat, fix, docs, style, refactor, perf, test, build, ci, chore, revert.
  • scope (optional): The part of the codebase affected (e.g., auth, api, ui, database).
  • description: Concise, imperative, present tense. Max 50 characters.
  • Body (optional): More detailed explanation, breaking changes, references to issues.

Guideline: Write Clear, Atomic Commits

Each commit should represent a single logical change.

Read the full file on GitHub · 258 lines

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. 4d ago First seen · 258 lines · 2,065 tokens per session scan A 01f1286d67f1

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git is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository sanjeed5/awesome-cursor-rules-mdc (3,571 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed CC0-1.0. It adds 2,065 tokens to every session, about $0.0103 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 2026-09-03.