mode-transition-optimization

mode-transition-optimization is a cursor rule for Cursor from alkoleft/mcp-bsl-platform-context. It costs 0 tokens per session (2,384 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of mode-transition-optimization, MIT.

A procedure for carrying important task information from one work phase to another. It creates a summary, stores key details, checks that they are available, and loads them when work continues.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when moving between planning, implementation, review, or other distinct work modes that need the same context.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of losing decisions, requirements, or progress when changing how the work is being handled.

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/alkoleft/mcp-bsl-platform-context/mode-transition-optimization
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alkoleft/mcp-bsl-platform-context

Made for: Cursor.

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README.md
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Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 2,384 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00000 $0.02384
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01192
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00477
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00238

Measured 4d ago against content hash 1b24d8ee78bc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mode-transition-optimization 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to mode-transition-optimization — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.cursor/rules/isolation_rules/Core/mode-transition-optimization.mdc · 361 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 361 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MODE TRANSITION OPTIMIZATION

TL;DR: This file implements optimized mode transitions to preserve context efficiently between different phases of the Memory Bank system.

🔄 UNIFIED CONTEXT TRANSFER PROTOCOL

graph TD
    Start["Mode A"] --> Create["Create Context<br>Summary Document"]
    Create --> Store["Store Critical<br>Context Data"]
    Store --> Transition["Transition<br>to Mode B"]
    Transition --> Verify["Verify Context<br>Availability"]
    Verify --> Load["Load Relevant<br>Context Data"]
    Load --> Continue["Continue in<br>Mode B"]
    
    style Start fill:#4da6ff,stroke:#0066cc,color:white
    style Create fill:#ffa64d,stroke:#cc7a30,color:white
    style Store fill:#4dbb5f,stroke:#36873f,color:white
    style Transition fill:#d94dbb,stroke:#a3378a,color:white
    style Verify fill:#4dbbbb,stroke:#368787,color:white
    style Load fill:#d971ff,stroke:#a33bc2,color:white
    style Continue fill:#ff71c2,stroke:#c23b8a,color:white

📊 CONTEXT TRANSITION DOCUMENT

Create a standardized transition document when switching modes:

# MODE TRANSITION: [Source Mode] → [Target Mode]

## Context Summary
- Task: [Task name/description]
- Complexity: Level [1-4]
- Current Phase: [Phase name]
- Progress: [Percentage or status]

## Key Decisions
- [Decision 1]: [Brief summary]
- [Decision 2]: [Brief summary]
- [Decision 3]: [Brief summary]

## Critical Context
- [Context item 1]: [Value/status]
- [Context item 2]: [Value/status]
- [Context item 3]: [Value/status]

## Next Steps
1. [Next step 1]
2. [Next step 2]
3. [Next step 3]

## Resource Pointers
- [Resource 1]: [Location]
- [Resource 2]: [Location]
- [Resource 3]: [Location]

🔍 MODE-SPECIFIC TRANSITION HANDLERS

VAN → PLAN Transition

### VAN → PLAN
- Context preserved: Complexity level, platform detection, file structure
- Files transferred: tasks.md (initialized), activeContext.md (initialized)
- Rule optimization: Pre-load planning rules based on complexity level

Read the full file on GitHub · 361 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 · 361 lines · 2,384 tokens per session scan A 1b24d8ee78bc

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mode-transition-optimization is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository alkoleft/mcp-bsl-platform-context (191 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,384 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to mode-transition-optimization, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.