spend-lanes

spend-lanes is a cursor rule for Cursor from mission69b/t2000. It costs 601 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow rule that separates planning and review in Cursor from implementation in Claude Code. Cursor prepares specifications, plans, and review notes, while Claude Code handles larger coding tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when planning features, writing handoff instructions, reviewing changes, or deciding which tool should handle a refactor or multi-file implementation.
Why use it?
It keeps long, multi-file implementation work in the designated tool and limits unnecessary use of Cursor for tasks it is not meant to perform.

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/mission69b/t2000/spend-lanes
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mission69b/t2000

Made for: Cursor.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for spend-lanes

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 601 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 601 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.00601 $0.00601
Opus 5 $0.00300 $0.00300
Sonnet 5 $0.00120 $0.00120
Haiku 4.5 $0.00060 $0.00060

Measured 4d ago against content hash 38975323f9d0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spend-lanes 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 4d 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/spend-lanes.mdc · 54 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 54 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Spend lanes (founder 2026-07-24, revised)

Burning Cursor frontier tokens (especially claude-fable-*-thinking-high) on implementation is the failure mode this rule stops. Founder pays Cursor Max + Anthropic Max; all multi-file code work goes to Claude Code on the Max subscription (browser OAuth login — never an Anthropic API key in Cursor).

The two lanes

Lane Tool Use for
Think / Review This Cursor chat (default = Auto; Fable only for hard architecture or debugging) Specs, plans, diff review, acceptance criteria, handoff prompts
Build Claude Code (claude) on Anthropic Max Features, refactors, multi-file implementation, long agentic loops, mechanical sweeps

What this chat MUST do

When the user asks for code / implementation / "build X" / "fix the tests":

  1. Write a short plan + acceptance criteria (verifiable).
  2. Emit a paste-ready Claude Code prompt (Build lane).
  3. Stop. Do not open a large edit loop in Cursor.

Exceptions (OK to implement here): single-file typo, one-line config, or the user explicitly says "do it in this chat."

What this chat MUST NOT do

  • Multi-hour agentic coding sessions in Cursor on Fable / thinking-high.
  • Re-open or continue a months-long mega-thread for a new task — one task = one chat.
  • Put an Anthropic API key into Cursor "to use Max" — Max does not cover API keys.

Where the rules actually live (2026-07-24 migration)

Claude Code is now the canonical agent surface. .claude/ owns the content:

  • CLAUDE.md — auto-loaded every turn (architecture, critical rules, release process)
  • .claude/skills/*/SKILL.md — subsystem depth, auto-loaded on task match
  • .claude/commands/*.md — the repeatable rituals (/release, /ship, /tracker)

Files in .cursor/rules/ are pointers into .claude/, not copies — so the two tools cannot drift. When a rule needs updating, edit the .claude/ file. The one deliberate exception is engineering-discipline.mdc, which mirrors the short always-on block from CLAUDE.md because Cursor does not read CLAUDE.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 54 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. 4d ago First seen · 54 lines · 601 tokens per session scan A 38975323f9d0

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spend-lanes is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository mission69b/t2000 (23 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 601 tokens to every session, about $0.0030 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 2026-08-30.