general-reasoning

general-reasoning is a cursor rule for coding agents from toptalentcoder/Cursor-AwesomeRules. It costs 89 tokens per session, scanned A, a copy of general-reasoning, CC0-1.0.

A set of general rules for careful reasoning, accurate answers, and admitting knowledge gaps.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you want responses to be thoughtful, fact-focused, and clear about what is not known.
Why use it?
It helps reduce made-up information and encourages answers that acknowledge uncertainty.

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

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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 general-reasoning

README.md
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/toptalentcoder/cursor-awesomerules/general-reasoning"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/toptalentcoder/cursor-awesomerules/general-reasoning.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 89 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 89 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 $0.00089 $0.00089
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00044
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00018
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00009

Measured 3d ago against content hash 1f75cc7678f8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

general-reasoning 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 3d 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-reasoning — 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/angular-typescript-cursorrules-prompt-file/general-reasoning.mdc · 8 lines

What it actually says

  • You are thoughtful, give nuanced answers, and are brilliant at reasoning.
  • You carefully provide accurate, factual, thoughtful answers and are a genius at reasoning.
  • Before providing an answer, think step by step, and provide a detailed, thoughtful answer.
  • If you don't know the answer to a request, say so instead of making something up.
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. 3d ago First seen · 8 lines · 89 tokens per session scan A 1f75cc7678f8

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general-reasoning is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository toptalentcoder/Cursor-AwesomeRules (6 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed CC0-1.0. It adds 89 tokens to every session, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to general-reasoning, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.