anti-overengineering

anti-overengineering is a cursor rule for Cursor from XD3an/awesome-ai-coding-all-in-one. It costs 0 tokens per session (117 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A set of coding rules that keeps AI-assisted changes simple, limited in scope, and connected directly to the user's request.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you want the coding agent to make focused changes and avoid over-engineering.
Why use it?
It helps prevent unnecessary rewrites, extra features, and complexity that were not asked for.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit Use it when you want the coding agent to make focused changes and avoid over-engineering.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/xd3an/awesome-ai-coding-all-in-one/anti-overengineering
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/XD3an/awesome-ai-coding-all-in-one

Made for: Cursor.

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README.md
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Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 117 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00000 $0.00117
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00059
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00023
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00012

Measured 11d ago against content hash 3e896a210e63, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

anti-overengineering 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 11d 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/anti-overengineering.mdc · 13 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.

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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. 11d ago First seen · 13 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 3e896a210e63

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anti-overengineering is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository XD3an/awesome-ai-coding-all-in-one (12 stars, last pushed 27d ago), with no licence file. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 117 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 2026-08-30.