04-context-session

04-context-session is a cursor rule for Cursor from alieismy/codex-three-layer-delivery. It costs 616 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of working rules for keeping an AI coding session accurate as it grows longer or changes direction. It covers checking project changes, refreshing important files, and organizing documents and searches.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during complex, multi-step work that moves between requirements, research, design, writing, review, or delivery.
Why use it?
Long sessions can rely on outdated information or lose track of constraints, causing repeated mistakes or conflicting work.

Cursor rule for Cursor

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/alieismy/codex-three-layer-delivery/04-context-session
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alieismy/codex-three-layer-delivery

Made for: Cursor.

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README.md
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Per session 616 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 616 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.00616 $0.00616
Opus 5 $0.00308 $0.00308
Sonnet 5 $0.00123 $0.00123
Haiku 4.5 $0.00062 $0.00062

Measured 4d ago against content hash 13fb03afbded, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

04-context-session 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 4d 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.

cursor/project/.cursor/rules/04-context-session.mdc · 60 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 60 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Context And Session Management

Context Health

  • Use full file paths in plans, review reports, and final reports.
  • Summarize key constraints before complex multi-step work.
  • Refresh context when the task changes between requirements, feasibility, research, proposal, detailed design, standards work, professional writing, review, and delivery orchestration.
  • If answer quality degrades or the same issue fails twice, stop and reassess context before continuing.
  • Reuse previously inspected stable project context only when its authoritative source, revision, and applicability remain known.
  • Before substantive work, use applicable low-cost change detectors such as branch and HEAD, worktree status, changed paths, and relevant source revisions to scope the refresh; do not rescan the entire repository by default.
  • Re-read affected or decision-critical sources after revision changes, external edits, new evidence, context compaction, task redirection, or conflicting observations. Do not claim prior context remains current when applicable change detectors have not been checked.
  • For complex or high-impact work, briefly identify the reused baseline and newly refreshed dynamic evidence at the first meaningful checkpoint when that improves reviewability; do not impose a fixed context-accounting format on simple tasks.

Task State Boundary

  • Keep current goals, progress, branch or commit snapshots, test results, known issues, failed approaches, and next actions in a task plan or delivery record, not in this file. This file may define when and where to read that state but must remain limited to durable project rules.

Session Strategy

For large tasks, split work into independently verifiable sessions:

Session Goal Persistence
1 Understand documents, scope, and constraints Notes, rules, or document map
2 Draft or revise document content Tracked document changes
3 Independent review and verification Review findings and verification notes

Read the full file on GitHub · 60 lines

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. 4d ago First seen · 60 lines · 616 tokens per session scan A 13fb03afbded

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04-context-session is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository alieismy/codex-three-layer-delivery (2 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 616 tokens to every session, about $0.0031 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.