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.
npx agentmods add rules/pmikutel/directed-memory-bank/area-rule-templategit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pmikutel/directed-memory-bankWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/rules/pmikutel/directed-memory-bank/area-rule-template)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/pmikutel/directed-memory-bank/area-rule-template"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/pmikutel/directed-memory-bank/area-rule-template.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00000 | $0.00460 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00230 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00092 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00046 |
Grade A, and why
area-rule-template 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 6d 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.
What it actually says
[AREA_NAME] — Cursor area scope
Where to put this:
.cursor/rules/[area-name].mdc. Why path-scoped: Cursor'sglobs:is the strongest mechanism Cursor offers today. Each area gets its own rule that activates only when relevant files are in scope. The always-on rule (essentials.mdc) stays minimal; this rule carries the area-specific routing. Keep it thin: this rule is a pointer, not a knowledge dump. The full knowledge lives inmemory-bank/.
When this applies
When editing files matching globs: above (typically [AREA_GLOB]/**).
Load this context
Load these memory-bank files when this rule fires:
memory-bank/project/brief.mdmemory-bank/technical/stack.mdmemory-bank/technical/[area-file].md(if present)memory-bank/technical/quality.md(if present)
Authoring note (delete after customising): consult
memory-bank/_index.mdto see what else exists in this project's DMB and adjust the list above._index.mdis the inventory; this rule names the files directly.
Critical reminders for this area
Two or three lines maximum — only the gotchas a fresh session would miss. Examples:
- "Never run migrations against production without a backup snapshot."
- "All API responses must use the shared error envelope in
backend/api/errors.py."- "Tests in this area mock the payment provider; do not call it for real."
In-flight scratchpads
If memory-bank/tasks/work/ contains a file whose branch: matches the current branch, prefer it as live context. Otherwise skip.
Do not duplicate architecture or domain knowledge here. When you find yourself wanting to, add or update the relevant file in memory-bank/ and link to it instead. See docs/what-goes-where.md for the rule.
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.
- 6d ago First seen · 43 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 0ee7b1bdeb43
area-rule-template is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository pmikutel/directed-memory-bank (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 460 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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