Change-Scope-Control

A set of rules for keeping software changes limited to the requested goal.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to guide coding work so implementations stay small, focused, compatible, and complete.
Why use it?
It reduces unrelated edits, unnecessary cleanup, new dependencies, and accidental expansion of the task.

Cursor rule for Cursor

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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/fullive-ai/anima/change-scope-control
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Fullive-AI/Anima

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 312 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 312 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 $0.00312 $0.00312
Opus 5 $0.00156 $0.00156
Sonnet 5 $0.00062 $0.00062
Haiku 4.5 $0.00031 $0.00031

Measured 2d ago against content hash f5db753f0512, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Change-Scope-Control 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/Change-Scope-Control.mdc · 54 lines

What it actually says

Keep every change tightly scoped to the requested goal.

Core rule

Solve the target problem completely, but do not let the task expand into unrelated cleanup, redesign, or opportunistic refactoring.

Scope rules

  • Implement the smallest sufficient change that correctly solves the task.
  • Fix directly related issues when needed to make the solution complete.
  • Avoid unrelated renames, formatting sweeps, moves, or cleanups.
  • Avoid changing code that is not necessary for correctness, integration, validation, or compatibility.
  • Do not introduce new dependencies unless required.

Allowed scope expansion

You may extend scope slightly only when the additional work is:

  • necessary to complete the task correctly
  • needed to prevent an obvious regression
  • required for compatibility
  • required to keep tests or builds passing
  • small, low-risk, and directly adjacent to the same root cause

Disallowed scope expansion

Do not expand scope just because you noticed:

  • old code you dislike
  • naming inconsistencies
  • possible future improvements
  • architectural ideas unrelated to the request
  • broad style issues
  • unrelated technical debt

Before making extra changes

Ask internally:

  • Is this required for the requested outcome?
  • Is it required for correctness or compatibility?
  • Is it required for validation to pass?
  • Is it directly tied to the same root cause?

If not, leave it alone.

Completion rule

A task is better completed with a focused, safe, reviewable diff than with a large diff that tries to improve everything.

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 · 54 lines · 312 tokens per session scan A f5db753f0512

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Change-Scope-Control is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository Fullive-AI/Anima (1,049 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 312 tokens to every session, about $0.0016 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 2026-08-30.