doctrine-library-change

doctrine-library-change is a cursor rule for coding agents from 0ryant/engineering-doctrine. It costs 0 tokens per session (342 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A required checklist for changing an engineering-doctrine library, including research, design records, linked documentation, and verification.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding or editing doctrine pages, architecture decision records, or the main engineering guide. It covers navigation updates, cross-links, checklists, and preflight checks.
Why use it?
It prevents documentation changes from becoming inconsistent, hard to find, or disconnected from the rest of the library.

Cursor rule

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/0ryant/engineering-doctrine/doctrine-library-change
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/0ryant/engineering-doctrine

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.

agentmods badge for doctrine-library-change

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/0ryant/engineering-doctrine/doctrine-library-change.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/rules/0ryant/engineering-doctrine/doctrine-library-change)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/0ryant/engineering-doctrine/doctrine-library-change"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/0ryant/engineering-doctrine/doctrine-library-change.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 342 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00342
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00171
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00068
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00034

Measured 5d ago against content hash 8d1f2e1ec37d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

doctrine-library-change 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 5d 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.

docs/cursor/doctrine-library-change.mdc · 21 lines

What it actually says

Engineering doctrine library edits

When editing this repository’s doctrine/ tree, docs/adr/, or umbrella ENGINEERING.md:

  1. Follow doctrine/patterns/doctrine-library-change-harness.md (research → ADR → layered content → navigation).
  2. ADR: create or reference docs/adr/; update docs/adr/README.md index for new ADRs. Skip only for pure editorial fixes.
  3. Layering: principles vs patterns vs tooling per doctrine/principles/timeless-principles-and-tooling.md; cross-link so there are no orphan pages.
  4. Regenerate doctrine/SITEMAP.md: ./scripts/generate-doctrine-sitemap.sh (or ./scripts/doctrine-change-preflight.sh).
  5. Update as needed: doctrine/glossary.md, doctrine/REFERENCES.md, doctrine/README.md, tldr-principles-and-mvp.md, ENGINEERING.md, checklists, CHANGELOG.md (material releases).
  6. Complete doctrine/checklists/doctrine-change-checklist.md and state change class + consumer impact in the PR.

Use the copy-paste agent prompt in §7 of the harness file for full step-by-step tasks.

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. 5d ago First seen · 21 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 8d1f2e1ec37d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

doctrine-library-change is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository 0ryant/engineering-doctrine (5 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 342 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.