sdlc

A guided seven-stage software development life cycle (SDLC) workflow with human approval at each stage, from architecture and security planning to coding, testing, and final deployment or merging.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to develop a feature or handle an incident through architecture, implementation with tests, code review, quality checks, and security auditing.
Why use it?
It adds review points before implementation and before the final change is merged or deployed, helping people control important development decisions.

Cursor rule for Cursor

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/redhat-vmeperf/agent-tasks-template/sdlc
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/redhat-vmeperf/agent-tasks-template

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 38 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 369 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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 $0.00038 $0.00369
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00185
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00074
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00037

Measured 2d ago against content hash b13e6143c409, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sdlc 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 2d 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/sdlc.mdc · 33 lines

What it actually says

SDLC Pipeline

This rule runs the 7-gate SDLC pipeline for software engineering tasks. Read .agents/pipelines/SDLC.md for the full pipeline process definition, gate definitions, escalation protocol, and all process rules.

Invocation

  • "Run SDLC for [task]" — Start the full pipeline from Gate 1
  • "Resume SDLC at gate N for [task]" — Resume the pipeline at Gate N
  • "Jump to [gate name] for [task]" — Jump to a specific gate (architect, security-arch, team-lead, engineer, review, quality, audit)
  • "Emergency SDLC for [incident]" — Expedited Chaotic-domain path (see Emergency Protocol in pipeline)

If the user does not provide a task description, ask them to describe the task.

SDLC Context

This pipeline produces code, tests, and inline documentation as its Gate 4 output.

  • Gate 3 blocks: No code is written until Gate 3 is approved
  • Gate 4 output: Implementation (code, tests, inline docs) + Implementation Report
  • Gate 4 instruction: Write tests alongside the code, not after
  • Gate 7 final action: MERGE / DEPLOY (human-approved)

Security

  • Security steps cannot be skipped.
  • No interaction with any service or system may reduce the security posture of data passing through the process (REQ-5).
  • External context files must pass a security review before loading (REQ-6). See .agents/SECURITY_REVIEW_CHECKLIST.md.
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. 2d ago First seen · 33 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A b13e6143c409

Subscribe to this mod's changes

sdlc is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository redhat-vmeperf/agent-tasks-template (3 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed Unlicense. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 369 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.