hard-cut

A set of rules for removing a feature completely, including its interface, callers, tests, documentation, comments, fallbacks, and placeholder code. It does not preserve backward compatibility.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a feature must be ripped out, unshipped, or deleted entirely and all related code and documentation should be removed.
Why use it?
It prevents a deleted feature from leaving behind confusing or unused code. This is for deliberate removal rather than a gradual deprecation process.

Cursor rule for Codex

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/udecode/plate/hard-cut
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/udecode/plate

Made for: Codex.

Per session 64 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 391 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00064 $0.00391
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00196
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00078
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00039

Measured yesterday against content hash a0bd692db25c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hard-cut 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 yesterday.

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.

.agents/rules/hard-cut.mdc · 56 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. yesterday First seen · 56 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A a0bd692db25c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

hard-cut is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository udecode/plate (16,542 stars, last pushed 2d ago), with no licence file. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 391 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.