jep-process

A set of rules for creating Jumpstarter Enhancement Proposals, or JEPs: written proposals for changes that affect multiple components, public interfaces, or community decisions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a correctly named JEP, fill in its metadata and required sections, and move it through draft and discussion stages.
Why use it?
It gives contributors a consistent process for numbering, drafting, reviewing, and documenting changes before implementation.

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/jumpstarter-dev/jumpstarter/jep-process
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jumpstarter-dev/jumpstarter

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 584 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 $0.00584
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00292
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00117
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00058

Measured 2d ago against content hash 5331e0677424, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

jep-process 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 2d 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/jep-process.mdc · 63 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 63 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

JEP Process

This rule helps with creating Jumpstarter Enhancement Proposals (JEPs).

When to Use

  • JEP: Cross-cutting changes that affect multiple components, change public APIs or protocols, or require community consensus.

Creating a JEP

  1. Choose the next JEP number: Look at existing files in docs/source/contributing/jeps/ and pick the next available incrementing integer. JEP-0000 through JEP-0009 are reserved for process/meta-JEPs, so start from JEP-0010 for regular proposals.

  2. Create the file: Copy the template from docs/source/contributing/jeps/JEP-NNNN-template.md to docs/source/contributing/jeps/JEP-NNNN-short-title.md, replacing NNNN with the zero-padded number and short-title with a descriptive slug.

  3. Fill in the metadata table:

    • Set the JEP number (incrementing integer, NOT the PR number)
    • Set the title, author(s) with GitHub handle and email
    • Set the type: Standards Track, Informational, or Process
    • Set the status to Draft initially, then Discussion when the PR is ready for review
    • Set the created date to today
  4. Fill in all mandatory sections:

    • Abstract (3-5 sentences)
    • Motivation (concrete problem description)
    • Proposal (written as if teaching the feature)
    • Design Decisions (use DD-N pattern with alternatives and rationale)
    • Design Details (architecture, data flow, error handling)
    • Test Plan (unit, integration, HiL, manual)
    • Backward Compatibility
    • Consequences (positive and negative)
    • Rejected Alternatives
  5. Open a PR against main with the jep label.

Design Decision Format (DD-N)

JEPs use this format for individual decisions:

### DD-N: Decision title

**Alternatives considered:**

1. **Option A** - Brief description.
2. **Option B** - Brief description.

**Decision:** Option A.

**Rationale:** Explain why this option was chosen.

Key Rules

  • JEP numbers are incrementing integers, NOT derived from PR numbers
  • JEPs live in docs/source/contributing/jeps/
  • All JEPs should be merged as PRs so the documentation is part of the Jumpstarter docs/source
  • Rejected JEPs are normally not merged, but can be merged with "Rejected" status if there is an architectural reason to preserve them
  • The license for all documents is Apache-2.0

Read the full file on GitHub · 63 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. 2d ago First seen · 63 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 5331e0677424

Subscribe to this mod's changes

jep-process is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository jumpstarter-dev/jumpstarter (214 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 584 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.