van-complexity-determination

Visual process map for VAN mode complexity determination.

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/van-complexity-determination
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bia-technologies/yaxunit

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 1,276 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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 $0.00000 $0.01276
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00638
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00255
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00128

Measured yesterday against content hash 334ff9cd46ec, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

van-complexity-determination 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

Copies of this mod

3 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

.cursor/rules/isolation_rules/visual-maps/van_mode_split/van-complexity-determination.mdc · 142 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 142 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

VAN MODE: COMPLEXITY DETERMINATION

TL;DR: This component determines the appropriate complexity level (1-4) for the current task and directs the workflow accordingly.

🔍 COMPLEXITY DECISION TREE

graph TD
    Start["New Task"] --> Q1{"Bug fix or<br>error correction?"}
    Q1 -->|Yes| Q1a{"Affects single<br>component?"}
    Q1a -->|Yes| L1["Level 1:<br>Quick Bug Fix"]
    Q1a -->|No| Q1b{"Affects multiple<br>components?"}
    Q1b -->|Yes| L2["Level 2:<br>Simple Enhancement"]
    Q1b -->|No| Q1c{"Affects system<br>architecture?"}
    Q1c -->|Yes| L3["Level 3:<br>Intermediate Feature"]
    Q1c -->|No| L2
    
    Q1 -->|No| Q2{"Adding small<br>feature or<br>enhancement?"}
    Q2 -->|Yes| Q2a{"Self-contained<br>change?"}
    Q2a -->|Yes| L2
    Q2a -->|No| Q2b{"Affects multiple<br>components?"}
    Q2b -->|Yes| L3
    Q2b -->|No| L2
    
    Q2 -->|No| Q3{"Complete feature<br>requiring multiple<br>components?"}
    Q3 -->|Yes| Q3a{"Architectural<br>implications?"}
    Q3a -->|Yes| L4["Level 4:<br>Complex System"]
    Q3a -->|No| L3
    
    Q3 -->|No| Q4{"System-wide or<br>architectural<br>change?"}
    Q4 -->|Yes| L4
    Q4 -->|No| L3

    style Start fill:#4da6ff,stroke:#0066cc,color:white
    style L1 fill:#10b981,stroke:#059669,color:white
    style L2 fill:#f6546a,stroke:#c30052,color:white
    style L3 fill:#f6546a,stroke:#c30052,color:white
    style L4 fill:#f6546a,stroke:#c30052,color:white

📋 LEVEL INDICATORS

Level 1: Quick Bug Fix

  • Keywords: fix, bug, error, crash, issue
  • Scope: Single component
  • Time: Minutes to hours
  • Risk: Low, isolated
  • Example: Button not working, styling issue

Level 2: Simple Enhancement

  • Keywords: add, improve, update, enhance
  • Scope: Single component/subsystem
  • Time: Hours to 1-2 days
  • Risk: Moderate, contained
  • Example: Add form field, improve validation

Level 3: Intermediate Feature

  • Keywords: implement, create, develop
  • Scope: Multiple components
  • Time: Days to 1-2 weeks
  • Risk: Significant
  • Example: User authentication, dashboard

Read the full file on GitHub · 142 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. yesterday First seen · 142 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 334ff9cd46ec

Subscribe to this mod's changes

van-complexity-determination is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository bia-technologies/yaxunit (322 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,276 tokens. 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.