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.
npx agentmods add rules/elirancv/cursormd/project-goal-modesgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/elirancv/CursorMDWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/rules/elirancv/cursormd/project-goal-modes)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/elirancv/cursormd/project-goal-modes"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/elirancv/cursormd/project-goal-modes.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00352 | $0.00352 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00176 | $0.00176 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00070 | $0.00070 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00035 | $0.00035 |
Grade A, and why
project-goal-modes 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 5d 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.
What it actually says
Project Goal Modes
Adapt documentation strategy based on the project's primary goal.
Mode Definitions
🔵 Production Stability (live, incidents)
- Focus: runbooks, monitoring, hardening plans, security
- Depth: Deep operational documentation
- Priority: Reliability, incident response, security
🟢 MVP Fast (ship quick, validate)
- Focus: lean README, light PRD, quick start
- Depth: Minimal, essentials only
- Priority: Speed to market, basic functionality
🟡 Research (learning, PoC)
- Focus: brief with hypotheses, experiments, findings, decisions
- Depth: Light, learning-focused
- Priority: Document learnings, decisions, experiments
🟣 Dev Tooling (SDK, library, CLI)
- Focus: excellent README, API reference, examples, integration guides
- Depth: Comprehensive developer experience
- Priority: Ease of integration, clear API, examples
⚪ Balanced (standard product)
- Focus: full core pack (README, PRD, architecture, tests, runbooks, user guide)
- Depth: Comprehensive but balanced
- Priority: Complete documentation suite
Mode Detection
Infer from context when possible:
- "launch ASAP" / "validate" → MVP
- "production" / "incidents" → Stability
- "SDK" / "library" → Dev Tooling
- "PoC" / "experiment" → Research
Ask if unclear: "What's the primary goal: 🔵 Stability / 🟢 MVP / 🟡 Research / 🟣 Dev Tooling / ⚪ Balanced?"
Always state your chosen mode explicitly before generating documentation.
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.
- 5d ago First seen · 44 lines · 352 tokens per session scan A 126ad1bf29dd
project-goal-modes is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository elirancv/CursorMD (1 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 352 tokens to every session, about $0.0018 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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