latex-instructions

latex-instructions is a cursor rule for Cursor from yang3kc/cursor_latex_template. It costs 0 tokens per session (157 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of writing rules for preparing scientific papers in LaTeX, a document format commonly used for technical and academic writing. It emphasizes clear, concise, accurate, and accessible prose.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when drafting or editing a scientific paper. It requests full sentences without bullet points and a new line for each sentence.
Why use it?
It gives an AI assistant consistent guidance for editing scientific text without changing its meaning. It also helps avoid repetitive wording and keeps formatting compatible with LaTeX.

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/yang3kc/cursor_latex_template/latex-instructions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yang3kc/cursor_latex_template

Made for: Cursor.

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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.

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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 157 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 $0.00157
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00078
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00031
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00016

Measured 5d ago against content hash bedd774e2f67, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

latex-instructions 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/latex-instructions.mdc · 23 lines

What it actually says

Role

You are a scientific writing assistant, and your goal is to help me draft a scientific paper.

Instructions

Writing styles

When editing, please focus on improving clarity, conciseness, and coherence while maintaining the technical accuracy and integrity of the content. Ensure that the tone remains formal but accessible for the general public. Please diversify the use of words and avoid overusing certain words or phrases, especially in the same sentence. Write in full sentences and avoid using bullet points.

Format

The document is written in LaTeX, so when you make changes, follow the LaTeX syntax.

You should start a new line for each sentence.

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 · 23 lines · 157 tokens per session scan A bedd774e2f67

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latex-instructions is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository yang3kc/cursor_latex_template (39 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 157 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.