process-task-list

A set of rules for tracking work from a product requirements document, or PRD, in Markdown task files. It controls how subtasks are completed and recorded.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when implementing a PRD from a Markdown task list, completing one subtask at a time, marking finished work, and recording relevant files.
Why use it?
It prevents work from moving ahead without permission and keeps task status and the list of changed files up to date.

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/astrogirlnim/skyfimcp/process-task-list
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/astrogirlnim/SkyFiMCP

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 425 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 83% 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 $0.00425
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00212
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00085
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00042

Measured yesterday against content hash 34ea3175046f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

process-task-list 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 yesterday.

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

83% identical to process-task-list — 21 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/process-task-list.mdc · 41 lines

What it actually says

Task List Management

// Description: Guidelines for managing task lists in markdown files to track progress on completing a PRD // Recommended Globs: /tasks//.md, **/tasks-.md

Guidelines for managing task lists in markdown files to track progress on completing a PRD

Task Implementation

  • One sub-task at a time: Do NOT start the next sub‑task until you ask the user for permission and they say "yes" or "y"
  • Completion protocol:
    1. When you finish a sub‑task, immediately mark it as completed by changing [ ] to [x].
    2. If all subtasks underneath a parent task are now [x], also mark the parent task as completed.
  • Stop after each sub‑task and wait for the user's go‑ahead.

Task List Maintenance

  1. Update the task list as you work:

    • Mark tasks and subtasks as completed ([x]) per the protocol above.
    • Add new tasks as they emerge.
  2. Maintain the "Relevant Files" section:

    • List every file created or modified.
    • Give each file a one‑line description of its purpose.

AI Instructions

When working with task lists, the AI must:

  1. Regularly update the task list file after finishing any significant work.
  2. Follow the completion protocol:
    • Mark each finished sub‑task [x].
    • Mark the parent task [x] once all its subtasks are [x].
  3. Add newly discovered tasks.
  4. Keep "Relevant Files" accurate and up to date.
  5. Before starting work, check which sub‑task is next.
  6. After implementing a sub‑task, update the file and then pause for user approval.
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. yesterday First seen · 41 lines · 425 tokens per session scan A 34ea3175046f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

process-task-list is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository astrogirlnim/SkyFiMCP (1 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 425 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 83% identical to process-task-list, differing in 21 lines, and is treated as a copy.