must-read

must-read is a cursor rule for Cursor from tobitege/Flowery.Uno. It costs 501 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for coding-agent work, including when to ask before changing approach or expanding scope. It also includes a Windows Git Bash rule for handling carriage returns in command output.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during multi-step coding tasks, especially when a fix may become a larger refactor or shell commands are reading Windows-formatted files.
Why use it?
It limits silent scope changes and makes investigation safer when an attempted approach repeatedly fails.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit Use it during multi-step coding tasks, especially when a fix may become a larger refactor or shell commands are reading Windows-formatted files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/tobitege/flowery.uno/must-read
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/tobitege/Flowery.Uno

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 501 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 501 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 $0.00501 $0.00501
Opus 5.5 $0.00200 $0.00200
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00100 $0.00100
Haiku 4.5 $0.00050 $0.00050

Measured 13d ago against content hash f1f26a1a5697, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

must-read 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 13d 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/must-read.mdc · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Must Read

⛔ 3-Iteration Rule (No Silent Scope/Approach Changes)

During multi-tool execution: If an approach isn't working after 3 attempts, ASK before trying something different. Do NOT:

  • Silently decide "this is too complex, let me rewrite/simplify it"
  • Expand scope from a targeted fix to a multi-hundred-line refactor
  • Switch fundamental approaches mid-execution without user awareness

The rule prevents the AI from unilaterally changing direction. Interactive discussion with the user is always fine.

"Fix Root Cause" vs "Minimal Change" — These are NOT contradictory:

  • ✅ Fix root causes across multiple files if needed — just mention what you're doing
  • ❌ Don't refactor unrelated code "while you're there"
  • ⚠️ Pause and ask only for significant scope changes (10-line fix → 200-line rewrite, architecture changes)

⚠️ Git Bash CRLF Rule

When using sed, cat, head, tail on Windows files, ALWAYS pipe through | tr -d '\r':

sed -n '100,110p' file.cs | tr -d '\r'

Otherwise output will be garbled due to CRLF line endings.

"No Change" Is Valid

When investigating issues without a specified fix, ASK before coding. Don't go on a "coding spree" - the behavior may be intentional.

Search Tool Quirks

Some agents' search tools fail silently on single-file paths. If search returns 0 results unexpectedly:

  • Try searching a directory instead, with a filter for the specific file
  • Fall back to terminal rg if the native tool misbehaves

When native search tools fail or for complex regex searches, use terminal rg (ripgrep):

clear && rg "pattern" path/to/search

Code Generation

  • No Trailing Whitespace: Never generate lines with trailing spaces or tabs

Refactoring Standards

  • Property/Field Sync: When renaming/deleting, search file-wide for ALL references
  • Verify Infrastructure: Check constructors/fields exist before using them
  • Constructor Fallback: Use property initializers { Prop = value } if no matching constructor

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 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. 13d ago First seen · 61 lines · 501 tokens per session scan A f1f26a1a5697

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must-read is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository tobitege/Flowery.Uno (16 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 501 tokens to every session, about $0.0020 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 2026-10-02.