do-small-increments

do-small-increments is a cursor rule for Cursor from FeatureFactory-io/mimir. It costs 54 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A development rule that asks agents to make changes in small, method-by-method increments.

In plain words
What is it for?
Breaking implementation work into small vertical slices and checking each slice as it is built.
Why use it?
It makes problems easier to detect by requiring each change to be written, tested, evaluated, and corrected before the next one.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit Breaking implementation work into small vertical slices and checking each slice as it is built.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/featurefactory-io/mimir/do-small-increments
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/FeatureFactory-io/mimir

Made for: Cursor.

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README.md
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Per session 54 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 54 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00054 $0.00054
Opus 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00022
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00011
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00005

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 42a9f3484b74, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

do-small-increments 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 1mo 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/do-small-increments.mdc · 10 lines

What it actually says

Rule: Small Increments

Work in method-by-method steps.

  • Implement small vertical slices.
  • After every change: write → run → test → evaluate → fix.
  • No large PRs or 1000-line commits.
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. 1mo ago First seen · 10 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 42a9f3484b74

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do-small-increments is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository FeatureFactory-io/mimir (16 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 54 tokens to every session, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-30.