reflection-basic

Basic reflection format for Level 2 Simple Enhancement tasks.

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/bia-technologies/yaxunit/reflection-basic
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bia-technologies/yaxunit

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 1,232 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,232 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.01232 $0.01232
Opus 5 $0.00616 $0.00616
Sonnet 5 $0.00246 $0.00246
Haiku 4.5 $0.00123 $0.00123

Measured today against content hash d65b57dfe0d7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reflection-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 today.

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/isolation_rules/Level2/reflection-basic.mdc · 178 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 178 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

BASIC REFLECTION FOR LEVEL 2 TASKS

TL;DR: This document outlines a basic reflection approach for Level 2 (Simple Enhancement) tasks, ensuring that key insights and lessons are captured without unnecessary overhead.

🔍 REFLECTION OVERVIEW

Reflection is essential for improving future work, even for simpler Level 2 enhancements. This basic reflection approach focuses on key outcomes, challenges, and lessons learned while maintaining efficiency.

📋 REFLECTION PRINCIPLES

  1. Honesty: Accurately represent successes and challenges
  2. Specificity: Include concrete examples and observations
  3. Insight: Go beyond surface observations to derive useful insights
  4. Improvement: Focus on actionable takeaways for future work
  5. Efficiency: Keep reflection concise and focused on key learnings

📋 BASIC REFLECTION STRUCTURE

# Level 2 Enhancement Reflection: [Feature Name]

## Enhancement Summary
[Brief one-paragraph summary of the enhancement]

## What Went Well
- [Specific success point 1]
- [Specific success point 2]
- [Specific success point 3]

## Challenges Encountered
- [Specific challenge 1]
- [Specific challenge 2]
- [Specific challenge 3]

## Solutions Applied
- [Solution to challenge 1]
- [Solution to challenge 2]
- [Solution to challenge 3]

## Key Technical Insights
- [Technical insight 1]
- [Technical insight 2]
- [Technical insight 3]

## Process Insights
- [Process insight 1]
- [Process insight 2]
- [Process insight 3]

## Action Items for Future Work
- [Specific action item 1]
- [Specific action item 2]
- [Specific action item 3]

## Time Estimation Accuracy
- Estimated time: [X hours/days]
- Actual time: [Y hours/days]
- Variance: [Z%]
- Reason for variance: [Brief explanation]

📋 REFLECTION QUALITY

High-quality reflections for Level 2 tasks should:

  1. Provide specific examples rather than vague statements
  2. Identify concrete takeaways not general observations
  3. Connect challenges to solutions with clear reasoning
  4. Analyze estimation accuracy to improve future planning
  5. Generate actionable improvements for future work

Read the full file on GitHub · 178 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. today First seen · 178 lines · 1,232 tokens per session scan A d65b57dfe0d7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

reflection-basic is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository bia-technologies/yaxunit (322 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 1,232 tokens to every session, about $0.0062 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 2026-09-01.