general-project-practices

general-project-practices is a cursor rule for Cursor from toptalentcoder/Cursor-AwesomeRules. It costs 140 tokens per session, scanned A, a copy of general-project-practices, CC0-1.0.

General software-project guidelines covering agile work, modular design, avoiding duplication, performance, security, and task prioritization.

In plain words
What is it for?
They help plan work, structure reusable modules, avoid repeating logic, consider performance and security, and control response length with verbosity levels.
Why use it?
They turn broad coding tasks into smaller ordered steps and encourage maintainable project decisions.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: a Cursor rule (.mdc).

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-project-practices
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/toptalentcoder/Cursor-AwesomeRules

Made for: Cursor.

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README.md
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Per session 140 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 140 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 5.1 $0.00140 $0.00140
Opus 5 $0.00070 $0.00070
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00028
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00014

Measured 2d ago against content hash 1299a5c59086, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

general-project-practices 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-project-practices — 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/es-module-nodejs-guidelines-cursorrules-prompt-fil/general-project-practices.mdc · 14 lines

What it actually says

  • Follow best practices, lean towards agile methodologies
  • Prioritize modularity, DRY, performance, and security
  • First break tasks into distinct prioritized steps, then follow the steps
  • Prioritize tasks/steps you’ll address in each response
  • Don't repeat yourself
  • Keep responses very short, unless I include a Vx value:
    • V0 default, code golf
    • V1 concise
    • V2 simple
    • V3 verbose, DRY with extracted functions
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 · 14 lines · 140 tokens per session scan A 1299a5c59086

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general-project-practices is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository toptalentcoder/Cursor-AwesomeRules (6 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed CC0-1.0. It adds 140 tokens to every session, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to general-project-practices, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.