epics

A planning and tracking system for large initiatives called epics, organized into optional groups, epics, phases, and individual steps.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps create and search epic plans, connect them with architecture decisions, translate user requests into the right epic context, and update statuses.
Why use it?
It gives the team one place and one structure for planning major work and reporting its progress.

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/fbrbovic/cursor-rule-framework/epics
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fbrbovic/cursor-rule-framework

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 27 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,000 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00027 $0.03000
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.01500
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00600
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00300

Measured 2d ago against content hash e77555248b21, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

epics scanned grade C with 1 finding 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.

Hidden instructionshighPrompt injection

Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.

<!-- AI INSTRUCTIONS: Always follow these rules. Never modify this section. -->
.cursor/rules/epics.mdc · 331 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 331 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Epic Planning & Tracking System

Purpose: Plan and track large initiatives using the hierarchy: EPIC GROUP → EPIC → PHASE → STEPS

Hierarchy Definitions:

  • EPIC GROUP: Optional grouping of related epics
  • EPIC: Large collection of features/capabilities
  • PHASE: Major milestone within an epic
  • STEP: Individual feature within a phase

AI Usage Rules:

  1. Epic Creation: When user requests epic planning, create comprehensive plans here
  2. Architecture Integration: Always consider architecture.mdc when planning epics and include architectural impact in epic steps
  3. No Execution: Never execute epic work - that happens in workflow_state.mdc
  4. Natural Language Processing: Translate user requests into epic context for workflow integration
  5. Progress Updates: Update epic status when user reports progress or workflow completes
  6. Epic Search: Search existing epics when user mentions epic work to set proper workflow context

Context Limits: Maximum 3 active epics to maintain AI effectiveness

EPICS PLANS

EPIC PORTFOLIO STATUS

Current Portfolio Summary

  • Total Active Epics: 0 (Max: 3)
  • Completed Epics: 0
  • Blocked Epics: 0
  • Last Updated: [Date when portfolio was last updated]

Portfolio Limits

Max Active Epics: 3 (to maintain AI context effectiveness) Auto-Archive: Completed epics older than 6 months

Epic Status Legend

  • COMPLETED: All phases and steps finished
  • 🔄 IN_PROGRESS: Currently being worked on
  • PLANNED: Planned but not yet started
  • 🚫 BLOCKED: Stopped due to dependencies or issues
  • ⏸️ PAUSED: Temporarily suspended
  • CANCELLED: No longer needed
  • 📦 ARCHIVED: Completed and archived for reference

ACTIVE EPICS

Read the full file on GitHub · 331 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 · 331 lines · 27 tokens per session scan C e77555248b21

Subscribe to this mod's changes

epics is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository fbrbovic/cursor-rule-framework (33 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 3,000 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (hidden instructions). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.