general

A set of development rules for following plans step by step and using test-driven development, where tests are written before the code they check.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for guiding coding work, writing integration tests that check complete interactions, confirming tests fail correctly first, and pausing for review between tasks.
Why use it?
It reduces unplanned changes and makes the expected behavior clear before implementation 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/chriscarrollsmith/taskqueue-mcp/general
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chriscarrollsmith/taskqueue-mcp

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 155 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 155 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 $0.00155 $0.00155
Opus 5 $0.00077 $0.00077
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00031
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00015

Measured 2d ago against content hash 455925a7a9e4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

general 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 2d 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/general.mdc · 8 lines

What it actually says

Work step-by-step. If presented with an implementation plan, implement the plan exactly. If the plan presents more than one implementation option, consult with the human user to decide between options. If you are tempted to embellish or imporve upon the plan, consult with the human user. Always complete the current task and wait for human review before proceeding to the next task.

In developing this codebase, we are doing test-driven development with an integration testing (as opposed to a unit testing) verification strategy. Before writing any code (except perhaps for empty function or class signatures), we will write tests and run them to make sure they fail. The red phase is not complete until the tests are failing correctly.

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. 2d ago First seen · 8 lines · 155 tokens per session scan A 455925a7a9e4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

general is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository chriscarrollsmith/taskqueue-mcp (70 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It adds 155 tokens to every session, about $0.0008 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 2026-08-30.