command-execution

Rules for planning and running shell commands safely and efficiently. Shell commands are text instructions used to work with files, programs, and services from a terminal.

In plain words
What is it for?
They guide when to use one command, chained commands, or grouped steps, and how to verify and document command results.
Why use it?
They help avoid unnecessary commands while keeping complex work understandable and checked. The rules require reviewing requirements, choosing suitable command grouping, verifying results, and recording what happened.

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/zenobia000/cursor-agentic-coding-template/command-execution
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Zenobia000/cursor-agentic-coding-template

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 12 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,237 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 $0.00012 $0.01237
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00619
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00247
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00124

Measured 2d ago against content hash fe7450063525, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

command-execution 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.cursor/rules/isolation_rules/Core/command-execution.mdc · 129 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 129 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

COMMAND EXECUTION SYSTEM

TL;DR: This system provides guidelines for efficient command execution, balancing clarity and token optimization through appropriate command chaining, with proper documentation of commands and results.

🔍 COMMAND EFFICIENCY WORKFLOW

graph TD
    Start["Command<br>Planning"] --> Analyze["Analyze Command<br>Requirements"]
    Analyze --> Balance["Balance Clarity<br>vs. Efficiency"]
    Balance --> Complexity{"Command<br>Complexity?"}
    
    Complexity -->|"Simple"| Single["Execute<br>Single Command"]
    Complexity -->|"Moderate"| Chain["Use Efficient<br>Command Chaining"]
    Complexity -->|"Complex"| Group["Group Into<br>Logical Steps"]
    
    Single & Chain & Group --> Verify["Verify<br>Results"]
    Verify --> Document["Document<br>Command & Result"]
    Document --> Next["Next<br>Command"]

📋 COMMAND CHAINING GUIDELINES

graph TD
    Command["Command<br>Execution"] --> ChainApprop{"Is Chaining<br>Appropriate?"}
    
    ChainApprop -->|"Yes"| ChainTypes["Chain<br>Types"]
    ChainApprop -->|"No"| SingleCmd["Use Single<br>Commands"]
    
    ChainTypes --> Sequential["Sequential Operations<br>cmd1 && cmd2"]
    ChainTypes --> Conditional["Conditional Operations<br>cmd1 || cmd2"]
    ChainTypes --> Piping["Piping<br>cmd1 | cmd2"]
    ChainTypes --> Grouping["Command Grouping<br>(cmd1; cmd2)"]
    
    Sequential & Conditional & Piping & Grouping --> Doc["Document<br>Commands & Results"]

🚦 DIRECTORY VERIFICATION WORKFLOW

graph TD
    Command["Command<br>Execution"] --> DirCheck["Check Current<br>Directory"]
    DirCheck --> ProjectRoot{"In Project<br>Root?"}
    
    ProjectRoot -->|"Yes"| Execute["Execute<br>Command"]
    ProjectRoot -->|"No"| Locate["Locate<br>Project Root"]
    
    Locate --> Found{"Project Root<br>Found?"}
    Found -->|"Yes"| Navigate["Navigate to<br>Project Root"]
    Found -->|"No"| Error["Error: Cannot<br>Find Project Root"]
    
    Navigate --> Execute
    Execute --> Verify["Verify<br>Results"]

Read the full file on GitHub · 129 lines

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 · 129 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A fe7450063525

Subscribe to this mod's changes

command-execution is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository Zenobia000/cursor-agentic-coding-template (30 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 1,237 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.