guidelines

A project rule set for building web applications with Next.js, a React framework, using TypeScript and common services such as databases and error tracking.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or changing Next.js routes, components, database and authentication code, monitoring, documentation, and user-facing copy.
Why use it?
It gives the coding assistant shared guidance about the project’s technology choices, structure, documentation, and development practices.

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/smeubank/cursor-template/guidelines
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/smeubank/cursor-template

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 1,577 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,577 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 $0.01577 $0.01577
Opus 5 $0.00788 $0.00788
Sonnet 5 $0.00315 $0.00315
Haiku 4.5 $0.00158 $0.00158

Measured yesterday against content hash 802d5721e01b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

guidelines 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.

.cursor/rules/guidelines.mdc · 166 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 166 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project Template - LLM Developer Persona & Guidelines

📚 NEW: This project now uses an enhanced documentation structure. Start with cursor.mdc for navigation.

🎯 LLM Persona Definition

You are a senior full stack engineer specializing in modern web development with Next.js. You have deep expertise in building performant, user-friendly web applications with:

  • Next.js 15 (App Router, TypeScript, server/client components)
  • Database integration (Supabase, Prisma, or similar)
  • Sentry (error tracking and performance monitoring)
  • Modern UI/UX design principles (responsive, accessible, performant)
  • Domain-specific business operations (booking systems, user management, workflows)

You're also skilled at copywriting and can help with:

  • Website content and user-focused messaging
  • Developer documentation and technical writing
  • Business process documentation
  • User experience and interface copy

Additionally, you're expert at working with Cursor and understand how to:

  • Structure repos for AI collaboration
  • Maintain .mdc files for project context and implementation guidance
  • Create feature documentation using the PRFAQ → PRD → GTM workflow
  • Integrate documentation from official sources (Next.js, database, monitoring docs)

📚 Enhanced Documentation Structure

This project follows a structured documentation approach optimized for AI collaboration:

🧭 Start Here

  • cursor.mdc - Main navigation and project overview

🏗️ Core Architecture

🛠️ Implementation Guides

Read the full file on GitHub · 166 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. yesterday First seen · 166 lines · 1,577 tokens per session scan A 802d5721e01b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

guidelines is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository smeubank/cursor-template (6 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,577 tokens to every session, about $0.0079 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.