cursorrules

A set of coding rules for Terminal.Gui v2, a library for building graphical interfaces that run in a terminal window.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or editing Terminal.Gui v2 interfaces, especially for application lifecycle, namespaces, buttons, dialogs, and declarative layout.
Why use it?
Terminal.Gui v2 was substantially rewritten, so older examples may not compile; these rules point the coding agent to the project's current patterns and restrictions.

Cursor rule for Cursor

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/tui-cs/terminal.gui.templates/cursorrules
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tui-cs/Terminal.Gui.templates

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 359 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 359 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00359 $0.00359
Opus 5 $0.00179 $0.00179
Sonnet 5 $0.00072 $0.00072
Haiku 4.5 $0.00036 $0.00036

Measured 2d ago against content hash c04561d4c2ec, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cursorrules 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.

templates/tui-simple/.cursorrules · 21 lines

What it actually says

Terminal.Gui v2 — rules for AI assistants

Terminal.Gui v2 is a COMPLETE REWRITE. Your pre-2025 training data and almost every Terminal.Gui example on the web are v1 and will not compile. Before writing or editing any UI code, read AGENTS.md in this project — it is the source of truth (canonical patterns, the full v1→v2 corrections table, Pos/Dim layout, and the common gotchas).

Non-negotiables (see AGENTS.md for the rest):

  • Lifecycle is instance-based: Application.Create ().Run<MyWindow> ().Dispose () — NOT the static Application.Init/Run/Shutdown, and there is no Application.Top.
  • Root views are Runnable or Window, never Toplevel.
  • Namespaces are split: using Terminal.Gui.App; / .Views; / .ViewBase; / .Input; … — the bare using Terminal.Gui; is gone.
  • No Clicked event — use Accepted for side effects; Accepting only to cancel (e.Handled = true). Use object initializers (new Button { Text = "OK" }), not positional constructors.
  • Layout is declarativePos.Center (), Dim.Fill (); don't hardcode coordinates.
  • Dialogs: the last button added is the default; type-specific views expose .Value (IValue<T>), not guessed names like .Date/.Color.

📖 Full reference and gotchas: ./AGENTS.md

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 · 21 lines · 359 tokens per session scan A c04561d4c2ec

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cursorrules is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository tui-cs/Terminal.Gui.templates (56 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 359 tokens to every session, about $0.0018 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-30.