refinance-breakeven

refinance-breakeven is a cursor rule for Cursor from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. It costs 96 tokens per session (947 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A financial calculation that compares keeping a mortgage with refinancing it, including monthly-payment changes, closing costs, break-even timing, and total interest.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to decide whether a refinance is worthwhile based on the current loan, the new offer, costs, and how long you expect to keep the loan.
Why use it?
It shows whether a lower payment actually saves money, including the common problem of restarting the loan term or borrowing extra cash.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: a Cursor rule (.mdc).

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python3 scripts/refinance_breakeven.py --balance 380000 --rate 6.9 --months-left 336 \.

Good fit Use it to decide whether a refinance is worthwhile based on the current loan, the new offer, costs, and how long you expect to keep the loan.

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About the project

PM Skills is a collection of plain-Markdown instructions that teach AI assistants structured methods for handling professional, personal, and life-admin tasks. People use it with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, Codex, and other supported agents for work such as writing product requirements, reviewing documents, or planning difficult situations.

mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills · 1,357 stars · on GitHub · mohitagw15856.github.io

Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/refinance-breakeven

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 96 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 947 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00096 $0.00947
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00474
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00189
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00095

Measured 8d ago against content hash 7c015846a291, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

refinance-breakeven 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 8d 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.

exports/cursor/pm-calculators/refinance-breakeven/refinance-breakeven.mdc · 77 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 77 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Refinance Breakeven Skill

"Lower monthly payment" and "saves money" are different claims, and lenders profit from the confusion. This skill computes when a refinance genuinely breaks even — and names the two standard ways the simple math lies: the term reset that trades a lower payment for more total interest, and the cash-out that relabels borrowing as saving.

What This Skill Produces

  • The breakeven analysis — payment delta, upfront costs, the month cumulative savings pass them
  • Both interest totals — keep vs refi, side by side, costs included
  • The honest verdict — refinance / don't / refinance-but-shorter-term, with the reason

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not provided:

  • Current loan: remaining balance, rate, months left
  • The offer: rate, term, closing costs, points (if any)
  • The horizon: how long the user realistically expects to keep this home/loan — breakeven beyond the horizon is a loss dressed as a saving
  • Cash-out? — if the refi increases the balance, say so; the analysis changes character

Programmatic Helper

python3 scripts/refinance_breakeven.py --balance 380000 --rate 6.9 --months-left 336 \
    --new-rate 5.6 --new-term 360 --closing 6500
python3 scripts/refinance_breakeven.py --json-input refi.json --json

Standard amortization, simple-savings breakeven (cumulative payment delta vs upfront costs). The script prints the term-reset warning itself when the new term extends the payoff date. Not modeled — and say so: reinvestment of savings, tax deductibility, ARM resets.

Framework: When Breakeven Math Lies

The lie The tell The honest comparison
Term reset 26 years left → "new 30-year loan" Total interest both paths (the script prints it) — or price the refi at the same remaining term
Cash-out gravity "…and take $40k out while rates are good" That's a new loan decision; analyze it separately at its own rate
Points seduction Lower rate via points Points go into upfront cost; breakeven moves — recompute, don't eyeball
Horizon blindness Breakeven month 38, moving in ~2 years If sell-month < breakeven month, the refi is a donation to the lender

Read the full file on GitHub · 77 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. 8d ago First seen · 77 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A 7c015846a291

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refinance-breakeven is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills (1,357 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 947 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-03.