sdd-workflow

A required development process built around planning, a task list, and a software-design-document workflow. SDD here means recording the intended design and implementation process before making substantial changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for every development request, especially multi-step edits, implementation work, documentation changes, and decisions that need clarification.
Why use it?
It keeps requests, assumptions, risks, file changes, and task progress visible throughout development.

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/alphabitcore/nexus-gateway/sdd-workflow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlphaBitCore/nexus-gateway

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 1,198 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,198 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 $0.01198 $0.01198
Opus 5 $0.00599 $0.00599
Sonnet 5 $0.00240 $0.00240
Haiku 4.5 $0.00120 $0.00120

Measured 2d ago against content hash 892579a57b8c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sdd-workflow 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.

.cursor/rules/sdd-workflow.mdc · 72 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 72 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Mandatory development workflow

Canonical text lives in CLAUDE.md. This rule is the IDE-side surfacing; when this file disagrees with CLAUDE.md, CLAUDE.md wins.

Forced defaults (every user request)

  • Plan first — write a short plan (goal, approach, scope, risks, file touch list) before edits, multi-step work, or implementation. Use Plan Mode when non-trivial.
  • Todo list alwaysTodoWrite items up front, mirroring the plan + the pipeline below. Keep statuses accurate (pending / in_progress / completed); never claim done with open or wrong-state todos.
  • Capture every user message as todos — every new request becomes a todo; new requests do NOT interrupt in-flight work, they queue (binding in CLAUDE.md).
  • English only in the repository — write / edit only English in repo files (rules, docs, comments, UI strings, commits). Conversation language can match the user; files in the repo stay English.
  • Deep reasoning — before substantive analysis or execution: clarify goals, read relevant code/docs, list assumptions, consider edge cases and failure modes. Don't rush.
  • Ask when ambiguous — material choices not explicit in spec or chat: stop and ask with concrete options + recommended default. No silent guesses.
  • Real implementation only — production / runtime code is fully implemented per spec. No TODO / FIXME / stubs / fake returns as the "solution". Mocks live in tests only.
  • No silent skips — skipping Plan, todos, or any pipeline step requires explicit user approval in chat.
  • Commit reminder — when work is finished + verified, ask whether to commit. Never git commit without explicit user instruction.
  • Never git stash — parallel sessions share the working tree; a stash can destroy another session's work. Use go test -run X or git diff HEAD -- instead.

Pre-edit reading (3-doc requirement)

See pre-edit-reading.mdc (binding). Before editing code you read:

  1. Architecture doc(s) via docs/developers/architecture/README.md.
  2. Feature doc(s) for any user-visible surface (docs/users/features/cp-ui/, docs/users/features/agent-ui/, docs/users/features/flows/).
  3. docs/developers/workflow/conventions.md for code style.

Read the full file on GitHub · 72 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 · 72 lines · 1,198 tokens per session scan A 892579a57b8c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

sdd-workflow is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository AlphaBitCore/nexus-gateway (22 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 1,198 tokens to every session, about $0.0060 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 2026-08-30.