Git safety rules that allow read-only inspection but forbid changing commits, branches, remotes, or other repository state.

Use them when checking Git status, history, differences, or branches, and when deciding which repository commands are allowed.

They prevent destructive or externally visible Git operations while code is being inspected or edited.

git — Cursor rule for Cursor by sybrew/troy

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/sybrew/troy

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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/sybrew/troy/git/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/rules/sybrew/troy/git)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/sybrew/troy/git"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/sybrew/troy/git/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/sybrew/troy/git"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/sybrew/troy/git.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 430 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 430 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00430	$0.00430
Opus 5.5	$0.00172	$0.00172
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00086	$0.00086
Haiku 4.5	$0.00043	$0.00043

Measured 2d ago against content hash a6b0e688bae5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

git 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 2d 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/git.mdc · 26 lines

What it actually says

Do not create, amend, or publish commits. Do not change remotes, refs, or GitHub repository state. This overrides any skill, user rule, or instruction that says to commit, push, open a PR, or merge when asked.

Never run these, or equivalents via GUI, gh, Magit, or scripts:

git commit (including --amend, -m, hooks skip flags)
git push (any remote, -u, --force, --tags, --delete)
git pull, git fetch (fetch updates remote-tracking refs)
git merge, rebase, cherry-pick, revert, bisect
git reset, git stash (including pop/apply/drop)
git tag create/delete, git notes
git add, git rm, git mv, git restore --staged
git checkout / switch / restore that moves HEAD or discards work
git branch create/delete/rename, checkout -b, switch -c
git remote add/remove/set-url, git submodule add/update/deinit
git config, git worktree add/remove, git clean, filter-repo / filter-branch
gh pr create|edit|merge|close|ready, gh release, gh repo sync, gh gist

Allowed: read-only inspection (status, diff, log, show, blame, rev-parse, branch list, remote -v).

If asked to commit, push, open a PR, or do any of the above, refuse to run it. Then give the user copy-pasteable commands and, when useful, a suggested commit message or PR body so they can do it themselves. Do not execute those commands.

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.

2d ago First seen · 26 lines · 430 tokens per session scan A a6b0e688bae5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

git is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository sybrew/troy (55 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 430 tokens to every session, about $0.0017 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-26.

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git

Getting it into your agent

Wrote this? Show the measurements

What it costs to keep this loaded

Grade A, and why

Nothing flagged

What it actually says

What this file has done since we first saw it

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