update-backlog

update-backlog is a cursor rule for coding agents from Hundia/autospec. It costs 0 tokens per session (643 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Rules for maintaining a sprint backlog, which is a list of planned work and its current status. It covers feature tickets, bug reports, notes, and status changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to update ticket statuses, add feature or bug tickets, record reproduction details, and attach context to existing work.
Why use it?
It keeps project work consistently recorded and makes it clear whether a task is not started, in progress, being tested, complete, or blocked.

Cursor rule

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/hundia/autospec/update-backlog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Hundia/autospec

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for update-backlog

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 643 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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 $0.00000 $0.00643
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00321
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00129
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00064

Measured yesterday against content hash aad122726287, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

update-backlog 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 yesterday.

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.

examples/ai-support-ops/skills/cursor/rules/update-backlog.mdc · 99 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 99 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Update Backlog

Rules for managing specs/backlog.md — the central task tracker for this project.

Actions

1. Status Update

Change a ticket's status emoji. Valid transitions:

From To Meaning
🔲 🔄 Starting work
🔄 🧪 Implementation done, entering QA
🧪 QA passed, ticket complete
🔄 Small change, QA inline with implementation
🔄 ⏸️ Blocked by dependency or decision
⏸️ 🔄 Unblocked, resuming work
🧪 🔄 QA failed, returning to development

2. Add a Feature Ticket

Format: - 🔲 **X.Y** — Description of the feature

Where:

  • X = sprint number
  • Y = ticket number within the sprint (sequential)

Example:

- 🔲 **16.4** — Add dark mode toggle to viewer settings panel

3. Add a Bug Ticket

Format: - 🔲 **B.XX** — Bug description

Where XX is a globally sequential bug number.

Example:

- 🔲 **B.23** — Viewer crashes when spec file contains empty YAML frontmatter

Bug tickets should include:

  • Steps to reproduce (if known)
  • Expected vs actual behavior
  • Affected component (CLI, Viewer, etc.)

4. Add a Note

Add context to a ticket using a sub-bullet:

- 🔄 **16.3** — Create Cursor IDE skill files
  - Note: Using .mdc format with YAML frontmatter

5. Add Documentation Links

When a ticket produces or updates documentation, link it:

- ✅ **16.3** — Create Cursor IDE skill files
  - Docs: `docs/environments/cursor-setup.md`

Formatting Rules

  • Preserve existing section headers and sprint boundaries
  • Keep tickets in numerical order within each sprint
  • Do not remove completed tickets — they serve as history
  • Use exactly one space after the status emoji
  • Bold the ticket number with **X.Y**
  • Use an em dash (space-emdash-space) between number and description
  • Keep descriptions concise (one line, under 80 characters)

Status Summary Shortcuts

When reporting sprint status, count tickets by emoji:

Read the full file on GitHub · 99 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. yesterday First seen · 99 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A aad122726287

Subscribe to this mod's changes

update-backlog is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository Hundia/autospec (4 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 643 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 2026-09-03.