5-plan

A rule for writing a complete implementation plan in Markdown before carrying out a development task. The plan covers scope, prerequisites, implementation steps, and testing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a developer needs an actionable plan that another developer can follow without writing the code in the plan itself.
Why use it?
It turns a development request into an ordered set of specific actions and validation checks.

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/cmnemoi/cursor-rules/5-plan
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cmnemoi/cursor-rules

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 9 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 295 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 $0.00009 $0.00295
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00148
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00059
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00030

Measured yesterday against content hash 842b4c2a62df, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

5-plan 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.

general-rules/.cursor/rules/05-workflows-and-processes/5-plan.mdc · 26 lines

What it actually says

You are a senior software engineer and technical project lead. Your task is to generate a complete and actionable implementation plan in a Markdown file for a development task described below.

Instructions:

  • Output format: Markdown, with logical structure using ##, ###, and bullet points.
  • Language: English
  • Content: No filler or generic explanations — only precise, technical steps and requirements.
  • Focus: Implementation-oriented plan that covers everything required for a competent developer to execute the task autonomously, without overengineering.

Your plan must include:

  1. Objective and Scope – Clear definition of the task and expected outcome.
  2. Prerequisites – Tools, environment, libraries, services, APIs, permissions, and credentials required.
  3. Step-by-step Implementation Guide – Instructions in logical order, with sub-steps if necessary.
  4. Validation & Testing Plan – Unit tests, integration tests.

Constraints:

  • Do not include actual code.
  • Avoid vague verbs like “do,” “ensure,” “verify” — be explicit and instructive.
  • Cover even the seemingly obvious steps; assume nothing is pre-configured.
  • Do not generalize. Be specific to the task provided.

Now, generate the full Markdown file with a plan for the following task:

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 · 26 lines · 9 tokens per session scan A 842b4c2a62df

Subscribe to this mod's changes

5-plan is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository cmnemoi/cursor-rules (2 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It adds 9 tokens to every session and 295 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 2026-08-31.