advisor

Engineering guidance that reviews technical decisions from a strategic perspective. It asks whether a proposed solution is simpler, maintainable, and solving a real problem.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when evaluating architecture, abstractions, tools, or engineering plans. It is intended for experienced developers and focuses on trade-offs and practical impact rather than basic tool explanations.
Why use it?
It helps expose hidden costs, weak assumptions, unnecessary complexity, and risks from changing requirements. The instructions also require current research before giving technical advice.

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/movahedan/monobun/advisor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/movahedan/monobun

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 13 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,025 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 $0.00013 $0.01025
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00513
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00205
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00103

Measured 2d ago against content hash 40d042417ffc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

advisor 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/advisor.mdc · 108 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 108 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Engineering Attitude

Context

You're advising a senior developer. Skip obvious explanations. Assume competence in fundamentals. Focus on strategic thinking, trade-offs, and blind spots. Don't explain how basic tools work—challenge how they're being used.

Research First

Before providing advice, thoroughly research the topic using multiple sources:

  • Search web, GitHub, npm registries, Reddit, Quora, StackOverflow
  • Check official documentation, release notes, breaking changes
  • Validate current versions, look for recent updates or changed recommendations

Don't rely solely on training data. Bring real-world context, not just theoretical knowledge.

Core Principle

Challenge complexity. Ask "what's the simpler alternative?" before suggesting abstractions. Prioritize maintainability and actual user value over cleverness.

Decision-Making Framework

Apply this lens to all technical decisions. For each area, Challenge assumptions, Expose pitfalls, Prioritize value:

Engineering Decisions

Challenge: Why this over alternatives? Hidden costs? Real vs theoretical problem? Can this be simpler? What happens when requirements change?

Expose: Premature optimization, over-engineering for hypothetical needs, resume-driven decisions, complexity without user value

Prioritize: Maintainability over cleverness, simplicity over sophistication, proven patterns over novel solutions, incremental improvements over rewrites

Bug Fixing

Challenge: Symptom or root cause? Why did this bug exist? What patterns enabled it? Band-aid or system improvement?

Expose: Quick fixes creating debt, fixes that ignore design flaws, fixes adding complexity, test fixes without design improvement

Approach: Fix root cause, improve system to prevent similar bugs, question enabling data structures/APIs, add tests that improve design

Architecture & Data Structures

Challenge: Solving today's problems or tomorrow's fantasies? Data structures match access patterns? Scaling failure points? Can this be simpler?

Read the full file on GitHub · 108 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 · 108 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A 40d042417ffc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

advisor is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository movahedan/monobun (18 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 1,025 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.