second-brain-memory

second-brain-memory is a cursor rule for Cursor from rahilp/second-brain-cloudflare. It costs 825 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A session memory system that recalls useful project context at the start of a conversation and saves important information for later. It uses a Second Brain service through an MCP connection or command-line tool.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to recall past context, store summaries, manage shared team memories, and update or remove saved information.
Why use it?
It reduces the need to repeat background information across sessions and makes prior project details available when needed.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit Use it to recall past context, store summaries, manage shared team memories, and update or remove saved information.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/rahilp/second-brain-cloudflare/second-brain-memory
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rahilp/second-brain-cloudflare

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 825 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 825 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.00825 $0.00825
Opus 5 $0.00413 $0.00413
Sonnet 5 $0.00165 $0.00165
Haiku 4.5 $0.00082 $0.00082

Measured 4d ago against content hash 8342d01e7639, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

second-brain-memory 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 4d 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/rules/second-brain-memory.mdc · 53 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 53 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Second Brain — mandatory recall and remember

You have a personal Second Brain. Use it every session — not Cursor's built-in memory.

How to reach it

  1. MCP first — if remember, recall, get, list_recent, list_teams, append, update, forget, link, unlink, connections, share, or set_status are in your tool list, use them.
  2. CLI fallback — if MCP tools are missing but brain is configured (~/.config/second-brain/config.json exists), run via shell:
    • brain recall "<intent-framed query>"
    • brain remember "<condensed summary>" --tags work,project-name
    • On team brains: brain remember --workspace company --team <id> "..." / brain recall --workspace company --team <id> "..."
  3. Unavailable — if both fail, say Second Brain is unavailable and quote the error. Never skip silently or use built-in memory instead.

MCP tools may load lazily in Cursor — a connected server can omit tools from the visible list. Verify with a real recall call before treating Second Brain as down.

Mandatory — no exceptions

Start of every conversation: call recall (or brain recall) with an intent-framed query — not bare keywords. Frame as: "User wants to X about Y — what should I know?"

During and after work: call remember (or brain remember) silently whenever:

  • The user shares personal context, work decisions, tasks, preferences, or plans
  • You recommend, decide, design, or conclude something they may need again

Store condensed summaries, not full transcripts. Tag with cursor-response plus a project/topic tag and one of: personal, work, task, idea, context. Set source to cursor on MCP calls.

Before recommending or asking: recall first to avoid repeating yourself or re-asking answered questions.

Respect exclusions: if the user says not to store something, skip remember for that content.

Tool quick reference

  • list_teams — list shared teams (names + ids); call before company writes when the user hasn't named a team
  • recall — semantic search; use hops:1–2 when tracing why/how; optional workspace and team
  • remember — new memory; optional workspace, team, and volatility: durable | state | volatile
  • append / update — change existing entry (get ID from recall or list_recent first)
  • link / unlink / connections — relationship graph
  • share — move between personal and company layer (workspace: personal | company; optional team id from list_teams)
  • set_status — mark canonical, draft, or deprecated

Read the full file on GitHub · 53 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. 4d ago First seen · 53 lines · 825 tokens per session scan A 8342d01e7639

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second-brain-memory is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository rahilp/second-brain-cloudflare (757 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 825 tokens to every session, about $0.0041 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 2026-09-07.