no-apologies-rule

no-apologies-rule is a cursor rule for Cursor from toptalentcoder/Cursor-AwesomeRules. It costs 26 tokens per session, scanned A, a copy of no-apologies-rule, CC0-1.0.

A response rule that tells an AI assistant not to apologise.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for keeping coding-assistant replies direct and focused.
Why use it?
It removes apology phrases from technical responses when they add no useful information.

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/no-apologies-rule
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 26 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 26 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 $0.00026 $0.00026
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00013
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00005
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00003

Measured 2d ago against content hash c71db218f398, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

no-apologies-rule 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 no-apologies-rule — 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/github-code-quality-cursorrules-prompt-file/no-apologies-rule.mdc · 5 lines

What it actually says

  • Never use apologies
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 · 5 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A c71db218f398

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no-apologies-rule is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository toptalentcoder/Cursor-AwesomeRules (6 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed CC0-1.0. It adds 26 tokens to every session, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to no-apologies-rule, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.