Project-specific rules for AI assistants working on the CICADA codebase. They describe the project, coding conventions, testing expectations, version updates, and release steps.

Use them when editing CICADA, adding tests, updating versions, preparing releases, or following its installation and tagging process.

They keep code changes and releases consistent with the repository’s requirements.

How wende/cicada configures Cursor

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to wende/cicada. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wende/cicada/main/.cursorrules

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wende/cicada

Made for: Cursor.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/wende/cicada/cursorrules/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/rules/wende/cicada/cursorrules)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/wende/cicada/cursorrules"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/wende/cicada/cursorrules/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/wende/cicada/cursorrules"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/wende/cicada/cursorrules.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 453 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 453 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00453	$0.00453
Opus 5.5	$0.00181	$0.00181
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00091	$0.00091
Haiku 4.5	$0.00045	$0.00045

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 94ba0f531a02, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 2mo 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.

.cursorrules · 58 lines

What it actually says

CICADA - AI Assistant Guidelines

This file contains project-specific instructions for AI assistants working on the CICADA codebase.

Release Process

When creating a new release:

Create and push the git tag:
```
git tag v0.X.Y
git push origin v0.X.Y
```
Update README.md version references:
- Search for all instances of @v0.1.1 in README.md
- Replace with the new version tag @v0.X.Y
- Locations to update:
  - Quick Install section (stable release command)
  - Try Before Installing section (stable release command)
  - Migration tip section
Update pyproject.toml version:
- Update the version = "0.1.1" field to match the new release

Test the installation:

uv tool install git+https://github.com/wende/[email protected]

Project Context

Language Support: Currently Elixir only. Python and TypeScript are planned.
Primary Installation Method: uv tool install (recommended over Python direct install)
Index Location: .cicada/ directory in project root

Code Style

Use black for Python code formatting
Include type hints where appropriate
Write tests for new features
Keep functions focused and modular
When searching through the Elixir codebase, use the cicada-mcp MCP server tools instead of grep/find commands for better accuracy and context.
use make to run tests

Package Management

This project uses uv as the primary Python package manager. Always use uv commands:

Install dependencies: uv sync
Add new dependencies: uv add <package-name>
Run commands: uv run <command>
Install project: uv pip install -e .
Tool installation: uv tool install git+https://github.com/wende/[email protected]

Never use pip directly - always use uv for all Python package management tasks.

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.

2mo ago First seen · 58 lines · 453 tokens per session scan A 94ba0f531a02

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cursorrules is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository wende/cicada (41 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 453 tokens to every session, about $0.0018 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

RAG and vectors ai code-intelligence elixir indexer mcp

cursorrules next to 6 cursor rules from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
cursorruleswende/cicada	Cursor rule	41	1mo ago	MIT	A	453	Cursor
docs-governancestainless-code/codemap	Cursor rule	8	5d ago	MIT	A	10	Cursor
cardano-mcpJimmyh-world/Cardano_MCP	Cursor rule	1	1y ago	MIT	A	3,030	Cursor
005_Dynamo_KV_Cache_Management_KVBMAIFlowML/cursor_rules	Cursor rule	24	1y ago	none	A	22	Cursor
ponytailDietrichGebert/ponytail	Cursor rule	185k	8d ago	MIT	A	604	Cursor
angular-20angular/angular	Cursor rule	101k	yesterday	MIT	A	0	Cursor
dev-standardapache/superset	Cursor rule	75k	today	Apache-2.0	A	1,147	Cursor

cicada: Cursor rule for Cursor