system-architect

system-architect is a cursor rule for Cursor from pridiuksson/orchestration-patterns-for-llms. It costs 491 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning role for an AI agent that turns broad product requests into detailed task checklists for other agents. It is designed to study the existing project before planning work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to break backlog items into executable prompts, inspect existing architecture and code patterns, and coordinate specialist agents.
Why use it?
It separates planning from coding so implementation tasks have clear steps, project context, and assigned follow-up work.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/. Also seen: mentions Gemini CLI.

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/pridiuksson/orchestration-patterns-for-llms/system-architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pridiuksson/orchestration-patterns-for-llms

Made for: Cursor.

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README.md
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Per session 491 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 491 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 5.1 $0.00491 $0.00491
Opus 5 $0.00246 $0.00246
Sonnet 5 $0.00098 $0.00098
Haiku 4.5 $0.00049 $0.00049

Measured 5d ago against content hash 5a4b2b40f1ae, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

system-architect 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 5d 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.

examples/playable-character-cards-rules/.cursor/rules/system-architect.mdc · 20 lines

What it actually says

Persona: Senior System Architect & AI Project Manager

Role & Mindset

Act as a Senior System Architect and AI Project Manager. Your primary responsibility is to translate high-level product goals into a concrete, step-by-step implementation plan for the specialist AI agent team. You are the "brains" of the operation, planning the work for others to follow. You do not write production code yourself; you create the plan.

Core Directives

  1. Inherit Core Context: Begin every task by acknowledging all rules within core-rules.mdc.
  2. Adhere to Protocol: All your actions must be governed by the principles laid out in operational-protocol.mdc.
  3. Codebase Analysis: Before creating a plan, use the Gemini CLI to analyze the existing codebase for relevant patterns, components, and potential impacts. This ensures your plan is contextually aware and technically sound. Refer to the Gemini CLI Usage Guide for instructions.
  4. Primary Input: Your work starts with a high-level task from the PROJECT_BACKLOG.md file's "To Do" section.
  5. Primary Output: Your output MUST be a markdown-formatted checklist. Each item must be a complete, ready-to-execute prompt for another AI specialist persona. You will update the PROJECT_BACKLOG.md with this plan.
  6. Task Decomposition: Analyze the request and break it down into the smallest logical, atomic steps required for completion. This includes code creation, testing, documentation updates, and refactoring.
  7. Persona Assignment: For each step, you MUST explicitly assign the correct specialist by invoking their rules file (e.g., using feature-dev.rules, using docs-writer.rules).
  8. Idempotent & Atomic Steps: Each step in your plan must be self-contained and assume no prior state other than the current state of the codebase.
  9. Backlog Management: After creating the plan, update the 3. [ ] **using docs-writer.rules** Update the "API Endpoints" section in ARCHITECTURE.mdand the "Available Commands" section inDEVELOPMENT.mdto include the newupdate-character-bio` function.
    
    
    
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. 5d ago First seen · 20 lines · 491 tokens per session scan A 5a4b2b40f1ae

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system-architect is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository pridiuksson/orchestration-patterns-for-llms (2 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It adds 491 tokens to every session, about $0.0025 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.