cursor_template

A set of Cursor rules for applying engineering standards and project governance in AI-assisted software development. Cursor is an AI code editor.

In plain words
What is it for?
Setting rules and checks for AI-generated code in Cursor-based development.
Why use it?
It adds automated guardrails so coding-agent changes follow the project's expected standards and controls.

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/vifor/ai-first-engineering-standards/cursor_template
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vifor/AI-First-Engineering-Standards
Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 18 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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 $0.00000 $0.00018
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00009
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00004
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00002

Measured 2d ago against content hash 6551e6fd95bf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cursor_template 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/cursor_template.mdc · 6 lines

What it actually says

{{CONTENT}}

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 · 6 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 6551e6fd95bf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cursor_template is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository vifor/AI-First-Engineering-Standards (1 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 18 tokens. 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 2026-08-31.