cursor-rules-location

A rule for Cursor, an AI coding editor, that requires its rule files to live in the project's .cursor/rules directory and use descriptive kebab-case names ending in .mdc.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or checking Cursor rule files and their locations.
Why use it?
It prevents Cursor from finding rules in the wrong place and keeps project instructions organized consistently.

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/seanlf/weather-mcp/cursor-rules-location
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SeanLF/weather-mcp

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 461 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 461 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 84% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00461 $0.00461
Opus 5 $0.00230 $0.00230
Sonnet 5 $0.00092 $0.00092
Haiku 4.5 $0.00046 $0.00046

Measured yesterday against content hash d4faefe5d42a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cursor-rules-location 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.

Origin

This is a copy

84% identical to cursor-rules-location — 15 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.cursor/rules/cursor-rules-location.mdc · 73 lines

What it actually says

actions:

  • type: reject conditions:

    • pattern: "^(?!\.\/\.cursor\/rules\/.*\.mdc$)" message: "Cursor rule files (.mdc) must be placed in the .cursor/rules directory"
  • type: suggest message: | When creating Cursor rules:

    1. Always place rule files in PROJECT_ROOT/.cursor/rules/:

      .cursor/rules/
      ├── your-rule-name.mdc
      ├── another-rule.mdc
      └── ...
      
    2. Follow the naming convention:

      • Use kebab-case for filenames
      • Always use .mdc extension
      • Make names descriptive of the rule's purpose
    3. Directory structure:

      PROJECT_ROOT/
      ├── .cursor/
      │   └── rules/
      │       ├── your-rule-name.mdc
      │       └── ...
      └── ...
      
    4. Never place rule files:

      • In the project root
      • In subdirectories outside .cursor/rules
      • In any other location

examples:

  • input: |

    Bad: Rule file in wrong location

    rules/my-rule.mdc my-rule.mdc .rules/my-rule.mdc

    Good: Rule file in correct location

    .cursor/rules/my-rule.mdc output: "Correctly placed Cursor rule file"

metadata: priority: high version: 1.0

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 · 73 lines · 461 tokens per session scan A d4faefe5d42a

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cursor-rules-location is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository SeanLF/weather-mcp (2 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It adds 461 tokens to every session, about $0.0023 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 84% identical to cursor-rules-location, differing in 15 lines, and is treated as a copy.