auto_scaffold_memory_bank

A project-start rule that offers to create a memory-bank folder with Markdown files for the project's goals, technical context, design patterns, active work, and progress. These files give an AI agent persistent project notes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting an AI project and you want standard files for recording its requirements, architecture, current tasks, and completed work.
Why use it?
It provides a consistent place to preserve project context between sessions instead of relying only on the current conversation.

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/gitmaxd/ai-init/auto_scaffold_memory_bank
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Gitmaxd/ai-init

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 163 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 163 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 $0.00163 $0.00163
Opus 5 $0.00081 $0.00081
Sonnet 5 $0.00033 $0.00033
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00016

Measured 2d ago against content hash c67fe351bd19, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

auto_scaffold_memory_bank 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.

lib/templates/next/.cursor/rules/auto_scaffold_memory_bank.mdc · 27 lines

What it actually says

  I will create:
  - memory-bank/projectbrief.md
  - memory-bank/techContext.md
  - memory-bank/systemPatterns.md
  - memory-bank/activeContext.md
  - memory-bank/progress.md

  These provide persistent memory and AI-readable context.

examples:

  • input: "Starting a new AI project" output: "Prompt to scaffold memory-bank structure" metadata: priority: low version: 1.0
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 · 27 lines · 163 tokens per session scan A c67fe351bd19

Subscribe to this mod's changes

auto_scaffold_memory_bank is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository Gitmaxd/ai-init (8 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It adds 163 tokens to every session, about $0.0008 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.