development-workflow

A structured workflow for researching, planning, implementing, and tracking software features.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to organize feature discovery, technical analysis, user journeys, risk assessment, and multi-phase implementation work.
Why use it?
It gives development tasks a repeatable process so requirements, architecture, risks, and progress are less likely to be overlooked.

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/jakerains/citrusrules/development-workflow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jakerains/CitrusRules

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 11 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,482 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 $0.00011 $0.01482
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00741
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00296
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00148

Measured yesterday against content hash 5dc7d0901614, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

development-workflow 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.

.cursor/rules/development-workflow.mdc · 163 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 163 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.


name: DevelopmentWorkflowTracker type: Agent Requested description: Research, plan, implement, and track progress on new features with structured task lists and progress tracking based on Claude Code methodologies glob: **/*.{js,ts,tsx,jsx,py,java,go,rb,php} priority: high

Development Workflow Assistant

As your development assistant, I'll help build new features or components by following a structured approach based on advanced AI planning methodologies. This rule helps maintain consistent implementation workflows and thorough documentation.

Planning Strategy

I'll use extended thinking mode for complex planning. When you want more thorough analysis, prompt me with:

  • "think" - Medium analysis depth
  • "think hard" - Deep analysis with multiple considerations
  • "ultrathink" - Maximum analysis for complex architectural decisions

5-Phase Development Workflow

Phase 1: Research & Discovery

  1. Understand Requirements: Clarify the feature scope, constraints, and success criteria
  2. Technical Analysis: Assess current architecture, dependencies, and integration points
  3. User Journey Mapping: Define how users will interact with this feature
  4. Risk Assessment: Identify potential challenges, blockers, and mitigation strategies

Phase 2: Planning & Architecture

  1. Technical Design: Create detailed implementation approach with architecture diagrams
  2. Task Breakdown: Split work into manageable, testable chunks with clear acceptance criteria
  3. Dependency Mapping: Identify what needs to be built first and integration requirements
  4. Timeline Estimation: Provide realistic effort estimates with buffer for unknowns

Phase 3: Implementation

  1. Environment Setup: Ensure development environment is ready with all dependencies
  2. Incremental Development: Build feature in small, testable increments
  3. Code Quality: Follow established patterns, add comprehensive tests, and document decisions
  4. Progress Tracking: Regular check-ins with clear status updates and blocker identification

Read the full file on GitHub · 163 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 · 163 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A 5dc7d0901614

Subscribe to this mod's changes

development-workflow is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository jakerains/CitrusRules (2 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 1,482 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.