always

always is a cursor rule for Cursor from shumatsumonobu/awesome-ai-rules. It costs 104 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of project-wide coding rules that applies to every request, such as TypeScript restrictions, export style, required checks, and commit size.

In plain words
What is it for?
It guides TypeScript code, module exports, pre-commit checks, and how changes are split into commits.
Why use it?
It keeps the same basic standards in force across the project, even when different files are being edited.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit It guides TypeScript code, module exports, pre-commit checks, and how changes are split into commits.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/shumatsumonobu/awesome-ai-rules/always
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shumatsumonobu/awesome-ai-rules

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 104 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 104 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 $0.00104 $0.00104
Opus 5 $0.00052 $0.00052
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00021
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00010

Measured 9d ago against content hash 6b638993ae99, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

always 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 9d 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.

examples/nextjs-app/cursor/.cursor/rules/always.mdc · 14 lines

What it actually says

Always-On Rules

This file loads on EVERY request, regardless of what file you're editing. Keep it minimal -- only rules that apply everywhere.

  • TypeScript strict mode. No any, no @ts-ignore, no enum (use as const).
  • Named exports only. No default exports.
  • Run pnpm typecheck && pnpm lint before committing.
  • One logical change per commit.
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. 9d ago First seen · 14 lines · 104 tokens per session scan A 6b638993ae99

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always is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository shumatsumonobu/awesome-ai-rules (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 104 tokens to every session, about $0.0005 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.