Cursor rules for GitHub development with instructions integration

Cursor rules for GitHub development with instructions integration is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AmariahAK/atlarix-skills. It costs 9 tokens per session (2,634 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Guidance for writing readable code and connecting GitHub project instructions to Cursor, a code editor with an AI assistant. It explains clean-code ideas and how project-specific rules can guide development.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when setting up Cursor rules for GitHub work or when improving the readability and maintainability of a codebase.
Why use it?
It gives developers a shared standard for code that is easier to understand, maintain, and extend instead of merely making it run.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Cursor.

Good fit Use it when setting up Cursor rules for GitHub work or when improving the readability and maintainability of a codebase.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/amariahak/atlarix-skills/acr-github-cursorrules-prompt-file-instructions
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.

Any agent
npx skills add AmariahAK/atlarix-skills --skill acr-github-cursorrules-prompt-file-instructions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AmariahAK/atlarix-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 9 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,634 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 $0.00009 $0.02634
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.01317
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00527
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00263

Measured 12d ago against content hash 813a4dcb0756, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Cursor rules for GitHub development with instructions integration 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 12d 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/acr-github-cursorrules-prompt-file-instructions/SKILL.md · 259 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 259 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cursor rules for GitHub development with instructions integration

When to use this skill

Cursor rules for GitHub development with instructions integration.

Source

Synced from https://github.com/PatrickJS/awesome-cursorrules/tree/main/rules/github-cursorrules-prompt-file-instructions.mdc.

Writing code is like giving a speech. If you use too many big words, you confuse your audience. Define every word, and you end up putting your audience to sleep. Similarly, when you write code, you shouldn't just focus on making it work. You should also aim to make it readable, understandable, and maintainable for future readers. To paraphrase software engineer Martin Fowler, "Anybody can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand."

As software developers, understanding how to write clean code that is functional, easy to read, and adheres to best practices helps you create better software consistently.

This article discusses what clean code is and why it's essential and provides principles and best practices for writing clean and maintainable code.

What Is Clean Code?

Clean code is a term used to refer to code that is easy to read, understand, and maintain. It was made popular by Robert Cecil Martin, also known as Uncle Bob, who wrote "Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship" in 2008. In this book, he presented a set of principles and best practices for writing clean code, such as using meaningful names, short functions, clear comments, and consistent formatting.

Ultimately, the goal of clean code is to create software that is not only functional but also readable, maintainable, and efficient throughout its lifecycle.

Why Is Clean Code Important?

When teams adhere to clean code principles, the code base is easier to read and navigate, which makes it faster for developers to get up to speed and start contributing. Here are some reasons why clean code is essential.

Readability and maintenance: Clean code prioritizes clarity, which makes reading, understanding, and modifying code easier. Writing readable code reduces the time required to grasp the code's functionality, leading to faster development times.

Read the full file on GitHub · 259 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 12d ago First seen · 259 lines · 9 tokens per session scan A 813a4dcb0756

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Cursor rules for GitHub development with instructions integration is a skill published in the GitHub repository AmariahAK/atlarix-skills (2 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 9 tokens to every session and 2,634 once invoked, about $0.0000 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 2026-08-31.

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