Minimize Cursor Cost

Minimize-Cursor-Cost

Drop-in AI rules for Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, Windsurf, and any other agent that reads `AGENTS.md` — designed to reduce token usage without reducing accepted-change quality.

No fluff in your AI's responses. No tutorials when you asked for a fix. No full-file rewrites when a 5-line patch will do. No re-reading the same file six times in a single chat.

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TL;DR

# macOS / Linux / WSL
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/inboxpraveen/Minimize-Cursor-Cost/main/install.sh | bash

# Windows
irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/inboxpraveen/Minimize-Cursor-Cost/main/install.ps1 | iex

The default installs only Cursor's two core rules plus prompt templates. Choose tool and stack adapters explicitly when you need more — `--tool agents` for the cross-tool `AGENTS.md`, `--tool claude` for Claude Code.

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What's included

lean-cursor/
├── AGENTS.md                           # Cross-tool standard — Cursor, Codex, Copilot, Windsurf, Zed…
├── CLAUDE.md                           # Auto-loaded by Claude Code on session start
├── .cursorrules                        # Cursor — legacy fallback rules
├── .claude/
│   └── rules/                          # Same scoped rules, Claude Code `paths:` format
│       └── *.md                        # Generated from .cursor/rules/*.mdc
├── .cursor/
│   └── rules/
│       ├── core.mdc                    # 🔥 Always-active response discipline
│       ├── agent-efficiency.mdc        # 🔥 Always-active tool-call discipline
│       │
│       ├── python.mdc                  # *.py
│       ├── types