task-tracking-basic

A lightweight way to track a small software enhancement. It records the feature, status, priority, estimated effort, requirements, subtasks, and dependencies.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to break a simple enhancement into checkable tasks and note what other work or components it depends on.
Why use it?
It makes progress and remaining work visible without the detailed tracking needed for a large project.

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/task-tracking-basic
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 1,141 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 $0.00000 $0.01141
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00571
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00228
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00114

Measured 2d ago against content hash dc333867e173, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

task-tracking-basic 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 2d 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

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

.cursor/rules/isolation_rules/Level2/task-tracking-basic.mdc · 188 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 188 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

BASIC TASK TRACKING FOR LEVEL 2

TL;DR: This document outlines a streamlined task tracking approach for Level 2 (Simple Enhancement) tasks. It provides a balanced framework for managing task progress with minimal overhead.

🔍 TASK TRACKING OVERVIEW

Level 2 tasks require a more structured tracking approach than Level 1, but don't need the comprehensive tracking of higher-level tasks. This basic tracking system provides sufficient structure while maintaining efficiency.

📋 TASK TRACKING PRINCIPLES

  1. Clarity: Tasks should be clearly defined
  2. Visibility: Progress should be visible at a glance
  3. Structure: Break work into logical subtasks
  4. Updates: Keep progress regularly updated
  5. Completion: Clearly mark when tasks are done

📋 TASK STRUCTURE FOR LEVEL 2

## [Feature Name] Enhancement

**Status**: [Not Started/In Progress/Complete]
**Priority**: [High/Medium/Low]
**Estimated Effort**: [Small/Medium/Large]

### Description
[Brief description of the enhancement]

### Requirements
- [Requirement 1]
- [Requirement 2]
- [Requirement 3]

### Subtasks
- [ ] [Subtask 1]
- [ ] [Subtask 2]
- [ ] [Subtask 3]

### Dependencies
- [Dependency 1]
- [Dependency 2]

### Notes
[Any additional information or context]

📋 TASKS.MD ORGANIZATION

Organize tasks.md with these sections for Level 2 tasks:

# Tasks

## Active Enhancements
- [Enhancement 1] - [Status]
- [Enhancement 2] - [Status]

## Enhancement Details
### [Enhancement 1]
[Task structure as above]

### [Enhancement 2]
[Task structure as above]

## Completed Enhancements
- [X] [Completed Enhancement 1] (YYYY-MM-DD)
- [X] [Completed Enhancement 2] (YYYY-MM-DD)

📋 UPDATING TASK STATUS

Update tasks using this process:

  1. Starting a Task:

    • Update Status to "In Progress"
    • Add start date to Notes
  2. Progress Updates:

    • Check off subtasks as completed
    • Add brief notes about progress
    • Update any changed requirements
  3. Completing a Task:

    • Update Status to "Complete"
    • Check off all subtasks
    • Move to Completed Enhancements
    • Add completion date

Read the full file on GitHub · 188 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. 2d ago First seen · 188 lines · 1,141 tokens per session scan A dc333867e173

Subscribe to this mod's changes

task-tracking-basic is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository alkoleft/mcp-bsl-platform-context (190 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,141 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 2026-08-30.