rules-aidlc-phase-inception

rules-aidlc-phase-inception is a cursor rule for Cursor from awslabs/aidlc-workflows. It costs 7 tokens per session (49 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT-0.

A set of practices for the inception phase of AI-DLC, a development process for building software with AI assistance.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when planning or carrying out the inception phase of an AI-DLC project.
Why use it?
It helps teams follow consistent early-stage project practices before implementation begins.

Cursor rule for Cursor ✓ vendor

Written for Cursor: a Cursor rule (.mdc).

Good fit Use it when planning or carrying out the inception phase of an AI-DLC project.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/awslabs/aidlc-workflows/rules-aidlc-phase-inception
About the project

AI-DLC Workflows is a reusable software-development lifecycle that guides AI coding agents through staged engineering work and human approval gates. Teams use it to run structured, reviewable development processes across several coding-agent environments, and the catalogue entries are its agents, skills, rules, MCP integrations, and instructions.

awslabs/aidlc-workflows · 4,395 stars · on GitHub · awslabs.github.io

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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/awslabs/aidlc-workflows

Made for: Cursor.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for rules-aidlc-phase-inception

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/awslabs/aidlc-workflows/rules-aidlc-phase-inception"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/awslabs/aidlc-workflows/rules-aidlc-phase-inception.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 7 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 49 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 5.1 $0.00007 $0.00049
Opus 5 $0.00003 $0.00024
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00010
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00005

Measured 5d ago against content hash 55ae779aaddf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rules-aidlc-phase-inception 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 5d 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.

harness/cursor/rules-aidlc-phase-inception.mdc · 9 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed MIT-0

The repository is licensed MIT-0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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. 5d ago First seen · 9 lines · 7 tokens per session scan A 55ae779aaddf

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rules-aidlc-phase-inception is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository awslabs/aidlc-workflows (4,395 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT-0. It adds 7 tokens to every session and 49 once invoked, about $0.0000 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 2026-09-02.

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