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Rules Health Check by Handoff

Scores your AGENTS.md or .cursorrules file and lists what to fix.

Our review

Checked 2026-10-02

Scores your AGENTS.md or .cursorrules in the browser and lists what to fix - free, no account, and a shop window for another product.

Paste a rules file and it scores length, hierarchy, wording, sectioning, duplication and the risk of the file being compacted away, then lists concrete fixes. For anyone whose coding agent ignores half its instructions, that is a useful diagnosis, because the usual cause is a rules file that is too long or too vague rather than a model that will not listen.

Everything runs in the browser and nothing is uploaded, which matters because a rules file usually describes a private codebase in some detail. There is no account and no payment.

It is a lead magnet for Handoff, the commercial product behind it, and the page says so - expect prompts toward the paid offering. The scoring is one team's opinion of what good rules look like rather than a standard, so treat a low score as a prompt to reread your file, not as a defect report.

Best for

  • Working out why a coding agent ignores your rules file
  • A quick check that sends nothing to a server

Where it falls short

  • Marketing for a paid product, with prompts to match
  • Opinionated heuristics rather than an accepted standard
  • Does one narrow thing and nothing else

About Rules Health Check by Handoff

Paste an AGENTS.md, .cursorrules or .mdc file and get a health score with specific fixes. It grades length, hierarchy, alwaysApply cues, wording, sectioning, duplication and compaction risk, then explains what each score means — a short file scores badly with the note that agents will invent the gaps. Runs entirely in the browser; nothing is uploaded. Useful before handing a rules file to Cursor or a multi-agent setup.

Key features

  • Scores AGENTS.md, .cursorrules and .mdc files
  • Grades length, hierarchy, wording, sectioning and duplication
  • Flags compaction risk and alwaysApply cues
  • Lists specific fixes per issue
  • Runs locally in the browser — nothing uploaded

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