mnema-instructions Cursor ruleA

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mnema-instructions from mnema-work/mnema is a Cursor rule: instructions the Cursor agent follows in that repo.

Install it, pinned
mdr add mnema-work/mnema/.cursor/rules/mnema-instructions.mdc@git:20261103.120f6fc

Pins git:20261103.120f6fc in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 14 of 14 checks passed
Kind
Cursor rule
Repository
mnema-work/mnema
Path
.cursor/rules/mnema-instructions.mdc
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
git:20261103.120f6fc, committed Nov 3, 2026
First version recorded
Oct 29, 2026
Size
2,748 bytes
Repository stars
4
License
Apache-2.0

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

<!-- mnema:begin v4 (written by mnema; `mnema instructions --remove` takes it out) -->

## Recording the work (mnema)

This repository keeps a signed record of its decisions in `.mnema/`. Where the mnema tools are connected:

- At the start of a session, call `bootstrap`: it opens with what is in force, what awaits a judgement and the work in flight.
- Before changing a file, call `governing_rules` with its path.
- When a choice is settled, with the person or alone, that someone could later question (a library, an approach, a trade-off, an option turned down), call `record_decision` in that turn, with the `rationale` and, in `alternatives`, what was turned down and why. Record it even when it is also written in a plan, a ledger, this file or your own memory.
- A decision is born `proposed`; once it is accepted it is in force here. If the person dictated it, or chose it among options you offered (a recommended one included), accept it now with `decision_transition` and a note quoting their answer; one you concluded alone waits for the person. An agent’s acceptance is recorded as an agent’s, and `mnema switch off agent-accepts` leaves every acceptance to a person.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add mnema-work/mnema/.cursor/rules/mnema-instructions.mdc@sha256:0beb2be87bb28e5b

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261103.120f6fc, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Oct 29, 2026 and Nov 3, 2026, about one every 5 days.

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git:20261103.120f6fc latest2026-11-03 120f6fc 2,748 BA view · diff
git:20261029.28f87272026-10-29 28f8727 2,527 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  14 of 14 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (2748 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

mnema-work/mnema · 4 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_nk4brdvbmajyn6qa
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mnema-work/mnema/.cursor/rules/mnema-instructions.mdc
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0beb2be87bb28e5b64840d481d4af914a3b9b251752eacf58467d01d31aef6b0

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

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