typescript

A set of coding rules for TypeScript and TSX files, covering types, modules, null handling, and formatting.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for guiding TypeScript implementation and review, including strict typing, exports, callbacks, optional values, and linting.
Why use it?
It gives developers consistent ways to write safer TypeScript and avoid loosely typed or difficult-to-maintain code.

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/sunnykgupta/ai-helpers/typescript
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sunnykgupta/AI-Helpers

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 360 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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 $0.00000 $0.00360
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00180
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00072
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00036

Measured 3d ago against content hash 0006b2481d06, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

typescript 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/.cursor/rules/typescript.mdc · 38 lines

What it actually says

TypeScript Conventions

These rules apply only to .ts and .tsx files. They extend (not override) the baseline rules in project-always.mdc.


Types

  • Enable strict mode in tsconfig.json; never disable strictNullChecks.
  • Prefer type aliases for unions, intersections, and mapped types; use interface for object shapes that may be extended.
  • No any — use unknown and narrow with type guards instead.
  • No non-null assertions (!) — handle nullability explicitly.
  • Export all domain types from a single barrel file (e.g. types/index.ts).
  • Avoid as type casts; if a cast is unavoidable, add a comment explaining why.

Functions & Modules

  • Prefer named exports over default exports for easier rename-refactoring.
  • Avoid namespace — use ES modules (import/export) instead.
  • Mark callbacks and event handlers async only if they actually await something.

Null / Undefined Handling

  • Prefer undefined over null in new code; null only when interfacing with APIs that return it.
  • Use optional chaining (?.) and nullish coalescing (??) rather than || guards.

Linting & Formatting

  • Use eslint with @typescript-eslint/recommended; do not suppress rules without a comment.
  • Format with prettier; do not mix prettier and manual style fixes in the same commit.
  • Run tsc --noEmit as part of the lint step.
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 · 38 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 0006b2481d06

Subscribe to this mod's changes

typescript is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository sunnykgupta/AI-Helpers (70 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 360 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.