task-tracking

A task-tracking rule that uses a file named tasks.md as the single place for task status. It records pending work with empty checkboxes and completed work with marked checkboxes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to record current tasks, subtasks, completed work, and progress checks for coding projects.
Why use it?
It prevents task status from being scattered across files or conversations and scales the amount of tracking to the task’s complexity.

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/kfnzero/mantis-mcp-server/task-tracking
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kfnzero/mantis-mcp-server

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 2,597 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 $0.02597
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01299
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00519
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00260

Measured 2d ago against content hash e47ef7487b17, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

task-tracking 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.cursor/rules/Core Implementation/task-tracking.mdc · 394 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 394 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ADAPTIVE TASK TRACKING PROTOCOL

TL;DR: Use tasks.md as the SINGLE SOURCE OF TRUTH for all task tracking. The task tracking process scales based on task complexity from Level 1 (quick bug fixes) to Level 4 (complex systems).

🚨 SINGLE SOURCE OF TRUTH RULE

Tasks.md is the ONLY file that should contain task status tracking:

  • Use [ ] for pending tasks
  • Use [X] for completed tasks

📝 TASKS.MD STRUCTURE

# Project Tasks

## Current Tasks
- [ ] Task 1: Description and details
  - [ ] Subtask 1.1
  - [ ] Subtask 1.2
- [ ] Task 2: Description and details

## Completed Tasks
- [X] Task 3: Completed on YYYY-MM-DD
- [X] Task 4: Completed on YYYY-MM-DD

🔄 ADAPTIVE TASK TRACKING BY LEVEL

Level 1: Quick Bug Fix

Update Frequency: 2-3 updates total

  • Initial bug documentation
  • Fix implementation
  • Verification of fix

Tracking Detail:

  • Single task with 1-3 checkboxes
  • Focus on problem statement and solution
  • Minimal but sufficient documentation

Example Task Entry:

## Current Tasks
- [ ] Fix login button not working
  - [ ] Identify root cause
  - [ ] Implement fix
  - [ ] Verify solution

Example Update Format:

🔄 TASK UPDATE: Fix login button - [X] Complete
- Updated in tasks.md ✓
- Root cause identified: CSS z-index conflict
- Solution implemented and verified

Level 2: Simple Enhancement

Update Frequency: 4-6 updates total

  • Initial task creation
  • Plan finalization
  • Implementation milestones (1-2)
  • Testing completion
  • Final verification

Tracking Detail:

  • Main task with 3-5 subtasks
  • Implementation approach documented
  • Basic testing steps included

Example Task Entry:

## Current Tasks
- [ ] Add logout button to navbar
  - [ ] Create button component
  - [ ] Add logout functionality
  - [ ] Style button to match design
  - [ ] Add tooltip/confirmation
  - [ ] Test functionality

Example Update Format:

🔄 TASK UPDATE: Add logout button - In Progress
- Updated in tasks.md ✓
- [X] Create button component
- [X] Add logout functionality
- [ ] Style button to match design
- [ ] Add tooltip/confirmation
- [ ] Test functionality
- Implementation details added to activeContext.md ✓

Read the full file on GitHub · 394 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 · 394 lines · 2,597 tokens per session scan A e47ef7487b17

Subscribe to this mod's changes

task-tracking is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository kfnzero/mantis-mcp-server (10 stars, last pushed 12mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,597 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.