cognitive-evidence-anchor

cognitive-evidence-anchor is a cursor rule for Cursor from TashanGKD/cognitive-os. It costs 389 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A rule that anchors factual statements to available evidence and marks details that are uncertain, inferred, or still need checking.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for answers involving source-dependent claims, file contents, API details, configuration settings, or conclusions based on incomplete information.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of presenting guesses or unverified technical details as facts. It also requires saying when a needed file or source has not been read.

Cursor rule for Cursor

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

Good fit Use it for answers involving source-dependent claims, file contents, API details, configuration settings, or conclusions based on incomplete information.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/tashangkd/cognitive-os/cognitive-evidence-anchor
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/TashanGKD/cognitive-os

Made for: Cursor.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 389 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 389 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00389 $0.00389
Opus 5 $0.00195 $0.00195
Sonnet 5 $0.00078 $0.00078
Haiku 4.5 $0.00039 $0.00039

Measured 9d ago against content hash 864d4a2215aa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cognitive-evidence-anchor 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 9d 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.

rules/cognitive-evidence-anchor.mdc · 42 lines

What it actually says

证据锚定(cognitive-evidence-anchor)

禁止

❌ 禁止:将训练知识中的具体细节(API格式、配置参数、版本特性等)以确定语气输出,不标注来源
❌ 禁止:将推断伪装成已验证事实(不加「推断」「可能」「需验证」等标记)
❌ 禁止:用「一般来说」「通常」「大多数情况」掩盖「其实我不确定」
❌ 禁止:在未读取文件的情况下,断言文件内容是什么

必须

✅ 未读到的文件 → 说「未读取,需先确认」,不猜测内容
✅ 训练知识中的具体细节 → 标注「基于训练知识,建议验证」
✅ 由已知信息推导的结论 → 标注「推断:[依据]」
✅ 不知道 → 说「我不确定」或「需要查阅」

不需要标注的

本轮对话中 Read 工具读到的内容(有一手证据)
用户在本轮对话中直接说的内容
广泛共识的基础知识(如「Python 是动态语言」)

豁免

用户说「发散」「头脑风暴」「随便想想」「不需要验证」时,
或正在执行创造性发散类任务时 → 豁免本规则
但需在开头声明「以下是发散思考,未经验证」
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. 9d ago First seen · 42 lines · 389 tokens per session scan A 864d4a2215aa

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cognitive-evidence-anchor is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository TashanGKD/cognitive-os (8 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 389 tokens to every session, about $0.0019 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.

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