requirements-maintenance

requirements-maintenance is a cursor rule for coding agents from panozzaj/cursor-rules. It costs 214 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for keeping project requirements files organized and synchronized with the implementation. Requirements describe what the project should do at a high level.

In plain words
What is it for?
Adding features to appropriate files, organizing requirement folders, marking completed work with checkboxes, and updating requirements as the implementation changes.
Why use it?
It makes planned, completed, outdated, and dependent features easier to track, reducing differences between documentation and the code.

Cursor rule

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/panozzaj/cursor-rules/requirements-maintenance
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/panozzaj/cursor-rules

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README.md
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Per session 214 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 214 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 $0.00214 $0.00214
Opus 5 $0.00107 $0.00107
Sonnet 5 $0.00043 $0.00043
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00021

Measured 3d ago against content hash 9db039123cc4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

requirements-maintenance 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 3d 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.

rules/requirements-maintenance.mdc · 33 lines

What it actually says

Requirements Maintenance Rules

Requirements hold the high-level requirements for the project.

All features must be added to a well-named file in the requirements folder

Adding New Features

  • Each feature must be described in detail, including its purpose and requirements
  • Use subfolders of requirements to organize related features
  • Use GitHub-style checkboxes - [ ] for all features
  • Place new features in the most appropriate file
  • If no appropriate file exists, create a new one
  • Put a descriptive comment at the top of each file (e.g. "# User Authentication Features")

Implementing Features

  • Update checkbox to - [x] when feature is fully implemented
  • Add implementation details as sub-items if needed
  • Keep requirements synchronized with actual implementation

Validation

  • Verify requirements match implemented features
  • Remove or update outdated requirements
  • Resolve conflicts between requirements and implementation
  • Keep track of dependencies between features
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. 3d ago First seen · 33 lines · 214 tokens per session scan A 9db039123cc4

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requirements-maintenance is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository panozzaj/cursor-rules (3 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It adds 214 tokens to every session, about $0.0011 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 2026-08-31.