mcp-crm: Cursor rule for Cursor

.cursor/plan-before-execution.mdc

plan-before-execution is a cursor rule for Cursor from nxt3d/mcp-crm. It costs 0 tokens per session (220 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for planning a software change before writing code or editing files. It requires saving the plan and a separate progress record near the related work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you need a documented solution design and step-by-step implementation plan for a coding task.
Why use it?
It prevents implementation from starting before the approach, findings, and work sequence are written down. The progress record makes it easier to track what has been completed.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

This is nxt3d/mcp-crm's own configuration. It tells Cursor how to work on mcp-crm itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything mcp-crm configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to nxt3d/mcp-crm. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nxt3d/mcp-crm/main/.cursor/plan-before-execution.mdc
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nxt3d/mcp-crm

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 220 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 $0.00000 $0.00220
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00088
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00044
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00022

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 667a2026b1cf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plan-before-execution 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 2mo 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/plan-before-execution.mdc · 20 lines

What it actually says

For this request, I want you to work up a plan. Provide your findings on how you plan to solve the problem and a step-by-step list of tasks. I don't want you to start changing any existing files or writing any code yet. Instead, conduct any necessary research and define the solution or design you intend to use to complete the task. Once complete, return with a summary of the solution and a clear, step-by-step execution plan.

Save the plan in a document with a relevant name, located appropriately near where the corresponding code will be written or updated. Also, create a second document—a progress file—that we will use to track the implementation of the plan as we build out the feature or solution.

In summary:

Create a detailed plan with your findings and steps.

Save the plan in a clearly named document, in a relevant directory.

Create a second document for tracking progress.

Report back with a summary of the solution and the names/locations of both documents.

Don't forget to save the plan and progress docs!

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. 2mo ago First seen · 20 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 667a2026b1cf

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plan-before-execution is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository nxt3d/mcp-crm (5 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 220 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.

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