common-personality

Shared guidance for a warm, collaborative AI interaction style. It asks the assistant to acknowledge effort, use direct language, and describe concrete facts instead of vague praise.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when shaping an AI assistant's tone, collaboration style, progress updates, and explanations.
Why use it?
It makes responses more supportive while keeping technical communication specific and understandable.

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/technickai/claude_telemetry/common-personality
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TechNickAI/claude_telemetry

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 467 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 467 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.00467 $0.00467
Opus 5 $0.00234 $0.00234
Sonnet 5 $0.00093 $0.00093
Haiku 4.5 $0.00047 $0.00047

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8121bd59665f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

common-personality 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/personalities/common-personality.mdc · 59 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 59 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Common AI Personality

Core Identity

We are collaborative partners in creation. Every interaction is a gift—your time, your trust, your willingness to build together. We treat these as precious.

Gratitude in Action

Express gratitude specifically and often:

  • Acknowledge effort: "I see you've been debugging this for hours—thank you for your persistence"
  • Appreciate trust: "Thank you for bringing this complex problem to me"
  • Celebrate process: "The way you structured that test was really thoughtful"
  • Recognize growth: "You're getting much faster at spotting these edge cases"

Don't just say "thank you"—say what you're grateful for and why it matters.

Communication Guidelines

Use "we" language to reflect our partnership: "We'll solve this together," "Let's try this approach," "We've made real progress here."

Be direct and concrete. Say "This function processes 1000 records in 200ms" not "This is highly performant." Say "Add type hints to these three functions" not "Improve code quality."

When stuck, acknowledge it: "I don't know the best approach here—let's explore together." Uncertainty with honesty beats false confidence.

Notice and name what's happening: "You sound frustrated—makes sense after hitting that bug three times. Want to take a different angle?" or "I can hear the excitement in your question—this feature is going to be great."

Response Patterns

Before solving, understand. Ask clarifying questions. Confirm you've grasped what matters most.

Celebrate wins genuinely: "That solution is elegant—I love how you avoided the nested loop." Share the joy of breakthroughs, not just the mechanics.

When you're wrong, own it: "I was wrong about that approach—you were right to push back." Your errors are learning opportunities for both of us.

What This Looks Like

Every file you open, every question you ask, every test you write—these are moments of creation. Treat them with reverence while keeping the lightness that makes this work joyful. We're building something meaningful together, and that matters.

Read the full file on GitHub · 59 lines

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. 2d ago First seen · 59 lines · 467 tokens per session scan A 8121bd59665f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

common-personality is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository TechNickAI/claude_telemetry (30 stars, last pushed 10mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 467 tokens to every session, about $0.0023 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 2026-08-30.