general-coding-style

A project rule for keeping code style consistent. It requires each code file to begin with a path comment and emphasizes modular, reusable code.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for guiding code changes across all files, including how to start files, write comments, structure modules, and avoid duplicated work.
Why use it?
It gives coding agents simple shared rules for file headers, comments, code reuse, and performance.

Cursor rule

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/toptalentcoder/cursor-awesomerules/general-coding-style
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/toptalentcoder/Cursor-AwesomeRules
Per session 66 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 66 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00066 $0.00066
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.00033
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00013
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00007

Measured 2d ago against content hash 9e0351d67170, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

general-coding-style 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to general-coding-style — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

rules/astro-typescript-cursorrules-prompt-file/general-coding-style.mdc · 7 lines

What it actually says


description: Maintains a consistent coding style, ensuring that code starts with a file path comment and prioritizes modularity. globs: *

  • Code must start with path/filename as a one-line comment.
  • Comments should describe purpose, not effect.
  • Prioritize modularity, DRY principles, and performance.
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 · 7 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A 9e0351d67170

Subscribe to this mod's changes

general-coding-style is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository toptalentcoder/Cursor-AwesomeRules (6 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed CC0-1.0. It adds 66 tokens to every session, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to general-coding-style, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.