planning-standards

planning-standards is a cursor rule for Cursor from golid-ai/golid. It costs 0 tokens per session (449 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for writing implementation plans in a code repository. It covers the goal, scope, current-state evidence, work slices, risks, acceptance checks, and rollback approach.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when editing plans for features, modules, deployments, operations, documentation, audits, refactors, or experiments.
Why use it?
Vague plans leave important decisions and verification steps unclear. These rules make plans specific enough to carry out while keeping them proportionate to the work.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit Use it when editing plans for features, modules, deployments, operations, documentation, audits, refactors, or experiments.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/golid-ai/golid/planning-standards
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/golid-ai/golid

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 449 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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 $0.00000 $0.00449
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00225
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00090
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00045

Measured 8d ago against content hash 6bd2a6e70d6f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

planning-standards 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 8d 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/planning-standards.mdc · 41 lines

What it actually says

Planning Standards

Thesis: Plans should be short enough to execute and specific enough to prevent predictable mistakes.

Use this rule for every docs/plans/**/*.md edit. First identify the plan type:

  • Feature/module: use plan-feature.
  • Deploy/env/ops: use plan-infra.
  • Docs/audit/refactor/experiment: use the closest workflow rule, or this rule alone.

Universal Checklist

  • State Risk tier: using workflow-routing when the plan will drive implementation; keep T0/T1 plans lightweight.
  • State the goal, non-goals, and default decisions.
  • Verify current-state claims with file references for nontrivial plans.
  • Verify schema claims (tables, columns, enum values, status strings) against current migrations and cite migration:line. Schema names you remember are often wrong; the cost of catching that during SQL authoring is hours, the cost of catching it during plan review is minutes.
  • Organize work into slices with acceptance criteria.
  • Name risks with concrete mitigations, not just warnings.
  • Include a verification path and rollback/reset posture where relevant.
  • Keep the plan proportional. Prefer 250-350 lines for infra/feature plans unless the scope truly needs more.

Avoid

  • Forcing a feature template onto infra or docs work.
  • Over-documenting obvious implementation details to hide unresolved decisions.
  • Safety mechanisms that cost more than the failure mode they prevent.
  • Placeholder follow-ups like "seed/test/docs later".
  • Mismatched numbering between plan phases and execution slices.
  • Asserting schema from memory. Grep the migrations for every table/column/enum the plan names; the wrong table name is a 30-minute discovery in execution that costs 30 seconds in planning.

Retro Hook

After executing a plan, capture one lesson that should change the next plan's shape. If every plan keeps the same structure regardless of execution feedback, the template is calcifying.

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. 8d ago First seen · 41 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 6bd2a6e70d6f

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planning-standards is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository golid-ai/golid (40 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 449 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 2026-08-30.