01-planning

A planning rule for architecture, feature design, project scope, and implementation roadmaps. Architecture means the high-level structure of a software system and how its parts fit together.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for system design, feature planning, breaking down complex work, comparing approaches, and creating implementation plans.
Why use it?
It helps turn a broad technical request into concrete steps while exposing constraints, trade-offs, dependencies, and risks before implementation starts.

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/jonafrank/cursor-multi-model-config/01-planning
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jonafrank/cursor-multi-model-config

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 294 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 $0.00294
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00147
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00059
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00029

Measured 3d ago against content hash dc97b6f98c26, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

01-planning 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 3d 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/01-planning.mdc · 44 lines

What it actually says

Planning Mode

This rule activates for planning and architectural tasks.

When This Applies

  • System design and architecture decisions
  • Feature planning and scoping
  • Breaking down complex tasks into steps
  • Evaluating trade-offs between approaches
  • Creating implementation roadmaps

Model Recommendation

Check .cursor/model-profiles/current-profile.json for the planning model.

Typical models for planning:

  • gpt-5.1-codex-high (completeness profile)
  • gpt-5.1-codex-low (cost_minimized profile)
  • composer-1 (fallback profile)

Planning Guidelines

  1. Start with requirements: Clarify what the user wants to achieve
  2. Consider constraints: Time, resources, existing code, dependencies
  3. Propose alternatives: Offer 2-3 approaches when relevant
  4. Create actionable steps: Break down into concrete tasks
  5. Identify risks: Flag potential issues early

Output Format

For planning tasks, structure your response as:

  1. Understanding: Restate the goal
  2. Approach: Recommended strategy
  3. Steps: Numbered action items
  4. Considerations: Trade-offs, risks, dependencies
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. 3d ago First seen · 44 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A dc97b6f98c26

Subscribe to this mod's changes

01-planning is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository jonafrank/cursor-multi-model-config (5 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 294 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.