constraints

constraints is a cursor rule for Cursor from techtalk/ai-readiness-assessment. It costs 397 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of project rules synced from a file named HARNESS.md. It covers formatting, tests, keeping command and skill content aligned, specification requirements, and branch workflow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to understand contribution requirements, verify that tests and formatting pass, keep duplicate framework content synchronised, and follow the project's review and merge process.
Why use it?
It makes important project constraints visible and gives automated or agent checks clear conditions to enforce. The file itself should not be edited directly because it is regenerated by a command.

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/techtalk/ai-readiness-assessment/constraints
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/techtalk/ai-readiness-assessment

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 constraints

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/techtalk/ai-readiness-assessment/constraints.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/rules/techtalk/ai-readiness-assessment/constraints)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/techtalk/ai-readiness-assessment/constraints"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/techtalk/ai-readiness-assessment/constraints.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 397 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 397 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 $0.00397 $0.00397
Opus 5 $0.00198 $0.00198
Sonnet 5 $0.00079 $0.00079
Haiku 4.5 $0.00040 $0.00040

Measured 4d ago against content hash 1f0cf5304283, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

constraints 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 4d 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/constraints.mdc · 59 lines

What it actually says

Project Constraints

These constraints are synced from HARNESS.md. Do not edit this file directly — run /convention-sync to regenerate.

Consistent formatting

  • Rule: All source files must pass the project's configured formatter without changes
  • Enforcement: unverified
  • Scope: commit

Tests must pass

  • Rule: The project's test suite must pass with zero failures before any code is merged
  • Enforcement: deterministic
  • Scope: pr

Dual-surface sync (command ≡ skill)

  • Rule: The embedded framework content (the model, the cognitive read, the scoring heuristic, and the assessment process) in commands/ai-readiness-assess.md must match the same content in skills/ai-readiness-assessment/SKILL.md. Editing one without updating the other is forbidden.
  • Enforcement: agent
  • Scope: pr

Spec-first

  • Rule: A PR that changes the instrument (commands/ or skills/) or the model/scoring must reference a spec under specs/ (a changed specs/NNNN-*.md), unless labelled chore/fix/docs. Each substantive spec carries an adjudicated Adversarial review.
  • Enforcement: deterministic (ordering) + agent (review adjudication)
  • Scope: pr

No direct pushes to main

  • Rule: All changes must be committed on a feature branch and merged via a pull request — direct pushes to main are not permitted, including for administrators
  • Enforcement: deterministic
  • Scope: pr

No secrets in source

  • Rule: No API keys, tokens, passwords, or private keys may appear in committed source files
  • Enforcement: deterministic
  • Scope: commit
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. 4d ago First seen · 59 lines · 397 tokens per session scan A 1f0cf5304283

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constraints is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository techtalk/ai-readiness-assessment (9 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 397 tokens to every session, about $0.0020 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.