archive-basic

archive-basic is a cursor rule for Cursor from Angry-Robot-Deals/ace-mcp. It costs 1,153 tokens per session, scanned A, a copy of archive-basic, MIT.

A lightweight guide for recording completed small software enhancements and preserving their important context.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to archive completed work with a summary, completion date, changed files, addressed requirements, and links to related work.
Why use it?
It keeps a record of what changed, why it changed, and what was learned so the information can be found later.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is - [X] [Feature Name] (YYYY-MM-DD) - [Archive Link](../docs/archive/enhancements/YYYY-MM/feature-name.md).

Good fit Use it to archive completed work with a summary, completion date, changed files, addressed requirements, and links to related work.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Angry-Robot-Deals/ace-mcp
agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/angry-robot-deals/ace-mcp/archive-basic

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 1,153 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,153 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.01153 $0.01153
Opus 5.5 $0.00461 $0.00461
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00231 $0.00231
Haiku 4.5 $0.00115 $0.00115

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 2e4bfff7fbf2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

archive-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 1mo 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 archive-basic — 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/Level2/archive-basic.mdc · 181 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 181 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.


description: Basic archiving approach for Level 2 Simple Enhancement tasks globs: "/level2/", "/archive/", "/completion/" alwaysApply: false

BASIC ARCHIVING FOR LEVEL 2 TASKS

TL;DR: This document outlines a basic archiving approach for Level 2 (Simple Enhancement) tasks, ensuring that completed work is properly documented and knowledge is preserved with minimal overhead.

🔍 ARCHIVING OVERVIEW

Even for Level 2 tasks, proper archiving ensures that completed work is documented and knowledge is preserved. This basic archiving approach provides sufficient structure while maintaining efficiency.

📋 ARCHIVING PRINCIPLES

  1. Completion: Clearly document what was completed
  2. Context: Preserve the context of the enhancement
  3. Knowledge: Capture key insights and lessons
  4. Findability: Make archived information easy to find
  5. References: Create cross-references to related work

📋 BASIC ARCHIVE STRUCTURE

# Enhancement Archive: [Feature Name]

## Summary
[Brief summary of the enhancement]

## Date Completed
YYYY-MM-DD

## Key Files Modified
- [File path 1]
- [File path 2]
- [File path 3]

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

## Implementation Details
[Brief description of how the enhancement was implemented]

## Testing Performed
- [Test 1]
- [Test 2]
- [Test 3]

## Lessons Learned
- [Lesson 1]
- [Lesson 2]
- [Lesson 3]

## Related Work
- [Link to related task/enhancement 1]
- [Link to related task/enhancement 2]

## Notes
[Any additional information or context]

📋 ARCHIVE LOCATION

Store archives in an organized structure:

docs/
└── archive/
    └── enhancements/
        └── YYYY-MM/
            ├── feature-name-1.md
            └── feature-name-2.md

📋 ARCHIVING PROCESS

Follow these steps to archive a Level 2 task:

  1. Prepare Archive Content:
    • Gather all relevant information
    • Fill in the archive template
    • Include all key implementation details

Read the full file on GitHub · 181 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. 1mo ago First seen · 181 lines · 1,153 tokens per session scan A 2e4bfff7fbf2

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archive-basic is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository Angry-Robot-Deals/ace-mcp (4 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,153 tokens to every session, about $0.0046 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to archive-basic, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.