claude-code-rules

claude-code-rules is a cursor rule for Cursor from VitDavid10/karpathy-claude-10-rules. It costs 987 tokens per session, scanned A, original, no licence file.

A set of ten coding-agent behaviour rules for writing, reviewing, and refactoring code. It focuses on checking assumptions, keeping changes focused, avoiding unnecessary complexity, and defining ways to verify the result.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when implementing, reviewing, or refactoring code to identify assumptions, make targeted edits, limit complexity, and establish verifiable completion criteria.
Why use it?
It helps reduce common mistakes made by AI coding assistants, such as making broad changes, overengineering, or leaving success criteria unclear.

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/vitdavid10/karpathy-claude-10-rules/claude-code-rules
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/VitDavid10/karpathy-claude-10-rules

Made for: Cursor.

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agentmods badge for claude-code-rules

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/vitdavid10/karpathy-claude-10-rules/claude-code-rules"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/vitdavid10/karpathy-claude-10-rules/claude-code-rules.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 987 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 987 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.00987 $0.00987
Opus 5 $0.00494 $0.00494
Sonnet 5 $0.00197 $0.00197
Haiku 4.5 $0.00099 $0.00099

Measured 5d ago against content hash 3ab31ae457e2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claude-code-rules 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 5d 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.

.cursor/rules/claude-code-rules.mdc · 118 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. 5d ago First seen · 118 lines · 987 tokens per session scan A 3ab31ae457e2

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claude-code-rules is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository VitDavid10/karpathy-claude-10-rules (7 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 987 tokens to every session, about $0.0049 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 2026-08-31.