prompt-thread-extract-todos

prompt-thread-extract-todos is a cursor rule for Cursor from oakensoul/nextjs-cursor-prompts. It costs 0 tokens per session (2,380 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A prompt for reading the current conversation and finding unfinished work, then turning each item into a continuation template and an organized todo list.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to extract action items, record their project context, create continuation instructions, group priorities, and describe how to use the resulting todos.
Why use it?
It helps recover pending actions from a long thread so important follow-up work is not lost or left without enough context.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit Use it to extract action items, record their project context, create continuation instructions, group priorities, and describe how to use the resulting todos.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/oakensoul/nextjs-cursor-prompts/prompt-thread-extract-todos
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oakensoul/nextjs-cursor-prompts

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 2,380 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 $0.02380
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01190
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00476
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00238

Measured 10d ago against content hash 1754030af21e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prompt-thread-extract-todos 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 10d 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/prompts/prompt-engineering/prompt-thread-extract-todos.mdc · 319 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 319 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Thread Action Item Extraction and Todo Organization

This prompt analyzes the current conversation thread to identify unfinished work items, generates comprehensive thread continuation templates for each item, and creates an organized todo structure with priority analysis and usage guidance.

🎯 TODO EXTRACTION OBJECTIVES:

  1. ANALYZE current thread for incomplete tasks and future work items
  2. EXTRACT actionable items with sufficient context for independent execution
  3. GENERATE continuation templates using thread-continue-thread.mdc format
  4. ORGANIZE todos into structured folder system with clear priorities
  5. CREATE comprehensive summary with usage guidance and complexity analysis

📋 THREAD ANALYSIS AND EXTRACTION PROCESS:

STEP 1: Thread Assessment and Context Analysis

Conversation Analysis:
echo "🔍 Analyzing Current Thread for Action Items"
echo "=========================================="

# Thread metadata collection
echo "📊 Thread Metadata:"
echo "Estimated message count: [Count current conversation messages]"
echo "Primary focus areas: [List main topics/projects discussed]"
echo "Technical domains: [Technologies, frameworks, tools involved]"
echo "Conversation complexity: [Simple/Moderate/Complex/Very Complex]"
echo ""

# Work status assessment
echo "📈 Work Status Assessment:"
echo "Completed deliverables: [Major accomplishments in this thread]"
echo "In-progress items: [Work partially completed]"
echo "Identified future work: [Tasks discussed but not started]"
echo "Unresolved issues: [Problems or blockers identified]"
echo ""

# Context extraction for continuation
echo "🎯 Context Elements for Continuation:"
echo "Project objectives: [What we're trying to achieve]"
echo "Technical constraints: [Limitations or requirements]"
echo "Quality standards: [Standards and patterns being followed]"
echo "Integration requirements: [How work connects to existing systems]"

STEP 2: Action Item Identification and Categorization

Read the full file on GitHub · 319 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. 10d ago First seen · 319 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 1754030af21e

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prompt-thread-extract-todos is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository oakensoul/nextjs-cursor-prompts (4 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,380 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.