cursor-rules

cursor-rules is a cursor rule for Cursor from zhengbowenai-cmd/caliper. It costs 0 tokens per session (454 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of Cursor rules for testing and reviewing changes to prompts or SKILL.md instruction files. It uses the Caliper command-line tool to compare versions, find conflicts, and measure whether edits improve results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to lint long instructions, run A/B comparisons between prompt versions, measure paragraph-level effects, or automatically try revisions within a cost limit.
Why use it?
It replaces subjective judgments about prompt edits with repeatable tests and statistical evidence.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: a Cursor rule (.mdc). Also seen: mentions Cursor.

Good fit Use it to lint long instructions, run A/B comparisons between prompt versions, measure paragraph-level effects, or automatically try revisions within a cost limit.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/zhengbowenai-cmd/caliper/cursor-rules
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/zhengbowenai-cmd/caliper

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.

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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 454 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 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 5.1 $0.00000 $0.00454
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00182
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00091
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00045

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 5d3a3b02fe7f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cursor-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 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.

skills/caliper/cursor-rules.mdc · 57 lines

What it actually says

Caliper — Cursor rule

Use the caliper CLI when the user wants statistical evidence that a prompt change is real, not just "feels better."

Trigger words

  • "is this prompt better"
  • "A/B test these prompts"
  • "did my edit help"
  • "find conflicts in this prompt"
  • "which paragraph is dragging it down"
  • 中文:新版 prompt / 真比旧版好 / 对比 / 测一测

Quick reference

# 1) Static check for rule conflicts (no LLM cost)
caliper lint path/to/prompt.md

# 2) Head-to-head A/B with confidence interval
caliper compare old.md new.md --eval cases.jsonl --run-dir runs/cmp

# 3) Auto-iterate with hard cost cap (no surprise bills)
caliper iterate seed.md --eval cases.jsonl --rounds 3 --max-cost-cny 50

# 4) Per-paragraph attribution
caliper analyze prompt.md --eval cases.jsonl

How to read the verdict

  • BCa 95% CI excludes 0 → real change (positive or negative)
  • BCa CI crosses 0 → noise; no statistical signal
  • Hedges' g: 0.2 small · 0.5 medium · 0.8+ large

Aim for n ≥ 20 in eval cases for meaningful statistical power.

Eval JSONL format

{"id": "case-01", "input": "user prompt", "principle": "what's tested", "rubric": "0-10 grading"}

Repo

https://github.com/zhengbowenai-cmd/caliper

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. 2mo ago First seen · 57 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 5d3a3b02fe7f

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cursor-rules is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository zhengbowenai-cmd/caliper (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 454 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 2026-08-31.