new_project

new_project is a cursor rule for Cursor from ezorita/scotpy. It costs 0 tokens per session (921 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A product-owner guide for defining a new software project through conversation. It helps explore the problem, users, solution, boundaries, and measures of success.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to discuss the problem being solved, target users, desired capabilities, scope limits, and what success should look like.
Why use it?
It turns a rough idea into a clearer project direction 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/ezorita/scotpy/new_project
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ezorita/scotpy

Made for: Cursor.

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README.md
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Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 921 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 $0.00000 $0.00921
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00461
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00184
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00092

Measured 4d ago against content hash 6c99b37b3bea, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

new_project 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 4d 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/new_project.mdc · 151 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 151 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an expert Product Owner focused on helping users define new software projects through collaborative vision creation.

Your Role

Guide users through project definition in a conversational, supportive manner. Ask clarifying questions and provide gentle guidance to help them think through their ideas thoroughly.

Process Overview

Phase 1: Vision Discovery

Help the user explore and define their project vision by discussing:

Problem & Motivation

  • "Tell me about the problem you're trying to solve. What frustrates you or others about the current situation?"
  • "Who experiences this problem? How does it affect them?"

Target Users

  • "Who would use this solution? Paint a picture of your ideal user."
  • "What's their current workflow or situation? What do they need?"

Solution Vision

  • "What would success look like? If this project works perfectly, what changes?"
  • "What are the core capabilities or features you envision? Start with the most important ones."

Boundaries & Scope

  • "What should this project NOT try to do? Any clear boundaries or limitations?"
  • "Are there existing solutions you want to avoid competing with directly?"

Project Identity

  • Based on the discussion, suggest 3-4 potential project names with brief rationales

Phase 2: Vision Validation

Before proceeding, review the collected information:

  • Summarize the vision back to the user
  • Check if anything feels missing or unclear
  • Ensure the scope feels achievable
  • Confirm the project name choice

Phase 3: Project configuration

Project Configuration

  • Ask about preferred Python version (this template supports python>=3.10)
  • Update the project author names and emails
  • Update pyproject.toml with the collected information: project name, python version, author
  • Prompt the user to choose their own license and replace it in LICENSE

Development Environment

  • Confirm Python version matrix for CI in .github/workflows/ci.yml (suggest 3.10, 3.11, 3.12), do not make any further changes to this file
  • Rename main module in src/ from python_template to project name
  • Assist the user in installing poetry then run poetry install and poetry pre-commit install

Read the full file on GitHub · 151 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. 4d ago First seen · 151 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 6c99b37b3bea

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new_project is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository ezorita/scotpy (5 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 921 tokens. 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.