project-planning

project-planning is a cursor rule for Cursor from cam-douglas/agent-instructions. It costs 84 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for planning new projects or large changes in ordered phases.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create foundation and later phase plans, then gather remaining manual tasks and environment settings into a final checklist.
Why use it?
It keeps multi-system work organized and makes sure each phase is checked before the next one begins.

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/cam-douglas/agent-instructions/project-planning
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cam-douglas/agent-instructions

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 project-planning

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/cam-douglas/agent-instructions/project-planning.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/rules/cam-douglas/agent-instructions/project-planning)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/cam-douglas/agent-instructions/project-planning"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/cam-douglas/agent-instructions/project-planning.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 84 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 84 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.00084 $0.00084
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00042
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00017
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00008

Measured 3d ago against content hash 0b6dc12be191, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

project-planning 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 3d 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.

.cursor/rules/project-planning.mdc · 7 lines

What it actually says

For a new project or major multi-system change, activate /instructions/PROJECT_PLANNING.md. Create and implement docs/plans/phase_0_foundations_plan.md first, then generate exactly one later phase plan after each verified completion. Consolidate remaining human-only actions and environment-variable names into the final implementation checklist.

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. 3d ago First seen · 7 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A 0b6dc12be191

Subscribe to this mod's changes

project-planning is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository cam-douglas/agent-instructions (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 84 tokens to every session, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.