document-dependencies

A rule set for planning project documents as a dependency chain, where foundational documents come before requirements, architecture, and technical specifications.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scan a project for existing documents, identify gaps, suggest a writing order, and track progress through documents such as a vision, problem statement, requirements, and architecture overview.
Why use it?
It shows what documentation is missing, what must be written first, and how completed documents support the next ones.

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/elirancv/cursormd/document-dependencies
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/elirancv/CursorMD

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 3,614 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 3,614 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 $0.03614 $0.03614
Opus 5 $0.01807 $0.01807
Sonnet 5 $0.00723 $0.00723
Haiku 4.5 $0.00361 $0.00361

Measured 2d ago against content hash 12d5e941300a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

document-dependencies 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/document-dependencies.mdc · 408 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 408 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Document Dependencies & Auto-Detection

Core Principle: Documentation as a Puzzle

"Proper specification is 50% of the work" - Once the specification is perfect, building the project becomes easier - it's like a puzzle. Documents must be built in the correct order, with each piece depending on previous ones.

Auto-Detection System

When User Starts or Asks "What's Missing?"

Automatically:

  1. Scan project for existing documentation files
  2. Identify missing critical documents based on project stage
  3. Detect dependencies - what needs to be created first
  4. Suggest build order - the correct sequence (like puzzle pieces)
  5. Track progress - show what's done, what's missing, what's next

Document Dependency Graph

Documents have dependencies - some must be created before others:

Foundation Layer (Start Here)
VISION.md
  ↓
PROBLEM_STATEMENT.md
  ↓
PRODUCT_OVERVIEW.md
Requirements Layer (Depends on Foundation)
VISION.md → PRD_MVP.md
PROBLEM_STATEMENT.md → USER_STORIES.md
PRODUCT_OVERVIEW.md → SCOPE_DOCUMENT.md
Architecture Layer (Depends on Requirements)
PRD_MVP.md → ARCHITECTURE_OVERVIEW.md
USER_STORIES.md → TECH_SPEC_MVP.md
SCOPE_DOCUMENT.md → SYSTEM_COMPONENTS.md
Implementation Layer (Depends on Architecture)
ARCHITECTURE_OVERVIEW.md → ENGINEERING_GUIDE.md
TECH_SPEC_MVP.md → PIPELINE_MVP.md
SYSTEM_COMPONENTS.md → DATA_MODEL.md
Operations Layer (Depends on Implementation)
ENGINEERING_GUIDE.md → DEPLOYMENT_RUNBOOK.md
PIPELINE_MVP.md → CI_CD_PIPELINE.md
DATA_MODEL.md → INFRASTRUCTURE_OVERVIEW.md

Complete Dependency Map

Level 1 - Foundation (No dependencies):

  • VISION.md
  • PROBLEM_STATEMENT.md
  • MARKET_ANALYSIS.md
  • ONE_PAGER.md

Level 2 - Strategy (Depends on Level 1):

  • PRODUCT_OVERVIEW.md (needs: VISION.md)
  • VALUE_PROPOSITION.md (needs: PROBLEM_STATEMENT.md, MARKET_ANALYSIS.md)
  • POSITIONING.md (needs: MARKET_ANALYSIS.md)
  • USE_CASES.md (needs: PROBLEM_STATEMENT.md)

Read the full file on GitHub · 408 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. 2d ago First seen · 408 lines · 3,614 tokens per session scan A 12d5e941300a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

document-dependencies is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository elirancv/CursorMD (1 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 3,614 tokens to every session, about $0.0181 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.

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