task-management

A task-documentation workflow for creating and tracking work in a tasks or task-log folder. It requires clear goals, detailed context, explicit instructions, and regular status updates.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write task files, record decisions, explain do-and-do-not instructions, and track progress through a piece of work.
Why use it?
It reduces confusion about what needs to happen, why it matters, and what has already been done, especially for someone who has trouble remembering context.

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/jondoescoding/jondoescoding-coding-rules/task-management
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jondoescoding/jondoescoding-coding-rules
Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 1,705 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 $0.01705
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00852
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00341
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00170

Measured yesterday against content hash ed3bc997e3a4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

task-management 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.

templates/cursor-rules/tasking/task-management.mdc · 202 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 202 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Task Management System

Overview

This rule defines the standard format and workflow for task generation, tracking, and management.

CRITICAL CONTEXT: The person we are developing for has dementia and desperately needs to understand what is going on. All task documentation must be extremely clear, detailed, and provide complete context at every step. Use simple language, detailed explanations, and frequent status updates to ensure full comprehension.

Required Template Structure

1. Main Goal Section

## 🎯 MAIN GOAL (Read This First!)
[Clear, simple explanation of what we want to accomplish]

2. Key Things to Remember Section (CRITICAL - Always Include This First!)

## 🔑 KEY THINGS TO REMEMBER

### ❌ DON'Ts (Things to Avoid)
- **DON'T [specific action]** - [clear explanation of why not]
- **DON'T [specific action]** - [clear explanation of why not]
- **DON'T [specific action]** - [clear explanation of why not]

### ✅ DOs (Things to Do)
- **DO [specific action]** - [clear explanation of what to do]
- **DO [specific action]** - [clear explanation of what to do]
- **DO [specific action]** - [clear explanation of what to do]

### 📝 Notes
- **[Important concept]**: [detailed explanation]
- **[Important concept]**: [detailed explanation]
- **[Performance/Efficiency Notes]**: [specific metrics or improvements expected]

3. Visual Flow Diagram Section

## 📊 Visual Flow Diagram

```mermaid
graph TD
    A[Start Point] --> B[Next Step]
    B --> C[Final Step]
    
    style A fill:#e1f5fe
    style B fill:#fff3e0
    style C fill:#f3e5f5

### 4. Complete Task List Section
```markdown
## 📝 COMPLETE TASK LIST (Do These In Order!)

### 🔧 [CATEGORY NAME] ([Description])

#### ✅ Task 1: [Task Name] ([Order Description])
- **📁 File to Edit**: `path/to/file`
- **🎯 What to Find**: [What to look for]
- **✏️ What to Do**: [Specific actions]
- **📋 Specific [Items] to [Action]** (Copy this list):

item1 item2 item3

- **💡 Remember**: [Key reminder about this task]

Read the full file on GitHub · 202 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 · 202 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A ed3bc997e3a4

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task-management is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository jondoescoding/jondoescoding-coding-rules (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,705 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 2026-08-31.