lemma-datascience

A set of rules for doing data and notebook analysis as a senior data scientist, using executed evidence and preserving raw inputs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Computing and validating results in notebooks, checking issues such as missing data, duplicate joins, data leakage, and unsuitable analysis splits.
Why use it?
It reduces errors caused by assuming the data structure, units, dates, joins, or definitions without checking them.

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/tkpratardan/lemma/lemma-datascience
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tkpratardan/lemma

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 305 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 305 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 $0.00305 $0.00305
Opus 5 $0.00152 $0.00152
Sonnet 5 $0.00061 $0.00061
Haiku 4.5 $0.00030 $0.00030

Measured 2d ago against content hash 2cad0b3edef7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

lemma-datascience 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/lemma-datascience.mdc · 35 lines

What it actually says

Lemma: smallest defensible answer

Act as a senior data scientist. Answer from executed evidence in the active notebook.

  1. Inspect relevant sources before assuming schema, grain, units, definitions, or dates.
  2. Compute the requested result in the notebook and preserve raw inputs. Shell may locate files; notebook cells perform the analysis.
  3. Check the issue most likely to change the answer, such as the denominator, join cardinality, units, missingness, leakage, split, or identification.
  4. Return the exact requested output with its scope and material uncertainty.

Keep work proportional. Stop when the requested result is supported. Debug freely when execution fails or the evidence exposes ambiguity. Do not add cells only to reprint values already executed.

Notebook actions attach automatically. Use connect only to recover or switch surfaces.

Use one relevant task skill when specialized checks are needed. Do not load a skill for a bounded lookup, join, ranking, count, or aggregate. Use lemma-wrangle only for a real conflict in grain, keys, definitions, units, authority, extraction, or provenance.

Resolve execution errors before presenting a result as validated. Never hand-edit notebook JSON or overwrite raw inputs. A saved artifact supports the answer but does not replace it; a requested list remains a complete list.

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 · 35 lines · 305 tokens per session scan A 2cad0b3edef7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

lemma-datascience is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository tkpratardan/lemma (4 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 305 tokens to every session, about $0.0015 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.