phased-implementation

A staged method for implementing level-four complex software tasks. It divides the work into smaller phases, each with conditions for starting and checks for finishing before the next phase begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps plan and deliver foundation, core, and later implementation phases with explicit verification and revision points.
Why use it?
Breaking a large change into verified parts makes problems easier to find and limits the risk of building too much on a faulty foundation.

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/phased-implementation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alkoleft/mcp-bsl-platform-context

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 4,833 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 $0.04833
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.02416
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00967
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00483

Measured 3d ago against content hash 4298bb88b5c9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

phased-implementation 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 3d 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 phased-implementation — 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/Level4/phased-implementation.mdc · 655 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 655 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PHASED IMPLEMENTATION FOR LEVEL 4 TASKS

TL;DR: This document outlines a structured phased implementation approach for Level 4 (Complex System) tasks, ensuring controlled, incremental delivery of complex systems with appropriate verification at each phase.

🔍 PHASED IMPLEMENTATION OVERVIEW

Level 4 Complex System tasks require a controlled, incremental approach to implementation to manage complexity, reduce risk, and ensure quality. This document outlines a phased implementation methodology that divides complex system development into discrete, verifiable phases with clear entry and exit criteria.

flowchart TD
    classDef phase fill:#f9d77e,stroke:#d9b95c,color:#000
    classDef artifact fill:#f4b8c4,stroke:#d498a4,color:#000
    classDef verification fill:#c5e8b7,stroke:#a5c897,color:#000
    
    Start([Begin Implementation<br>Process]) --> Framework[Establish Implementation<br>Framework]
    Framework --> Plan[Create Phasing<br>Plan]
    Plan --> Foundation[Implement<br>Foundation Phase]
    Foundation --> VerifyF{Foundation<br>Verification}
    VerifyF -->|Pass| Core[Implement<br>Core Phase]
    VerifyF -->|Fail| ReviseF[Revise<br>Foundation]
    ReviseF --> VerifyF
    
    Core --> VerifyC{Core<br>Verification}
    VerifyC -->|Pass| Extension[Implement<br>Extension Phase]
    VerifyC -->|Fail| ReviseC[Revise<br>Core]
    ReviseC --> VerifyC
    
    Extension --> VerifyE{Extension<br>Verification}
    VerifyE -->|Pass| Integration[Implement<br>Integration Phase]
    VerifyE -->|Fail| ReviseE[Revise<br>Extension]
    ReviseE --> VerifyE
    
    Integration --> VerifyI{Integration<br>Verification}
    VerifyI -->|Pass| Finalization[Implement<br>Finalization Phase]
    VerifyI -->|Fail| ReviseI[Revise<br>Integration]
    ReviseI --> VerifyI
    
    Finalization --> VerifyFin{Finalization<br>Verification}
    VerifyFin -->|Pass| Complete([Implementation<br>Complete])
    VerifyFin -->|Fail| ReviseFin[Revise<br>Finalization]
    ReviseFin --> VerifyFin
    
    Framework -.-> IF((Implementation<br>Framework))
    Plan -.-> PP((Phasing<br>Plan))
    Foundation -.-> FP((Foundation<br>Phase))
    Core -.-> CP((Core<br>Phase))
    Extension -.-> EP((Extension<br>Phase))
    Integration -.-> IP((Integration<br>Phase))
    Finalization -.-> FiP((Finalization<br>Phase))
    
    class Start,Complete milestone
    class Framework,Plan,Foundation,Core,Extension,Integration,Finalization,ReviseF,ReviseC,ReviseE,ReviseI,ReviseFin step
    class VerifyF,VerifyC,VerifyE,VerifyI,VerifyFin verification
    class IF,PP,FP,CP,EP,IP,FiP artifact

Read the full file on GitHub · 655 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. 3d ago First seen · 655 lines · 4,833 tokens per session scan A 4298bb88b5c9

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phased-implementation 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 4,833 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to phased-implementation, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.