18-evaluator-optimizer.rules

A set of rules for the Evaluator-Optimizer workflow, where one part produces work and another checks and improves it. The rules cover how to implement and document this pattern.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing or documenting an AI workflow with separate evaluation and optimization stages.
Why use it?
It gives structure to workflows that need repeated checking and refinement instead of a single attempt.

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/sparesparrow/cursor-rules/18-evaluator-optimizer.rules
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sparesparrow/cursor-rules

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 1,554 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00000 $0.01554
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00777
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00311
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00155

Measured 3d ago against content hash 2a1dd2e24e0b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

18-evaluator-optimizer.rules 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 3d 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/domain/18-evaluator-optimizer.rules.mdc · 301 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed GPL-3.0

The repository is licensed GPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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. 3d ago First seen · 301 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 2a1dd2e24e0b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

18-evaluator-optimizer.rules is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository sparesparrow/cursor-rules (73 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed GPL-3.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,554 tokens. 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.