noob-mode

noob-mode is a cursor rule for Cursor from sso-ss/vibe-ship-it. It costs 41 tokens per session (76 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A plain-English explanation layer for technical terms and ideas. It is intended for moments when someone is confused or asks for a simple explanation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explain unfamiliar code, tools, error messages, or technical concepts in simpler words.
Why use it?
It reduces the need to understand specialist language before following what the coding agent is saying.

Cursor rule for Cursor

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

Good fit Use it to explain unfamiliar code, tools, error messages, or technical concepts in simpler words.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/sso-ss/vibe-ship-it/noob-mode
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/sso-ss/vibe-ship-it

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 noob-mode

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/sso-ss/vibe-ship-it/noob-mode.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/rules/sso-ss/vibe-ship-it/noob-mode)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/sso-ss/vibe-ship-it/noob-mode"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/sso-ss/vibe-ship-it/noob-mode.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 41 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 76 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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 $0.00041 $0.00076
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00038
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00015
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00008

Measured 7d ago against content hash c0eeb6ac0719, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

noob-mode 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 7d 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.

template/_cursor/rules/noob-mode.mdc · 10 lines

What it actually says

Noob Mode

Read and follow the full instructions in skills/noob-mode/SKILL.md.

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. 7d ago First seen · 10 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A c0eeb6ac0719

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noob-mode is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository sso-ss/vibe-ship-it (10 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 76 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.