801-bedtime-protocol

801-bedtime-protocol is a cursor rule for Cursor from savagelysubtle/BIG-BRAIN-Memory-Bank. It costs 0 tokens per session (774 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A bedtime procedure for preserving and organizing project memory between work sessions.

In plain words
What is it for?
When the user mentions “Bedtime Protocol,” it directs the agent to update memory settings, run a dry run, verify file operations, and confirm that files were preserved.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of losing memory files by previewing, checking, and verifying archive operations before and after they run.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .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/savagelysubtle/big-brain-memory-bank/801-bedtime-protocol
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/savagelysubtle/BIG-BRAIN-Memory-Bank

Made for: Cursor.

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README.md
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Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 774 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 5.1 $0.00000 $0.00774
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00387
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00155
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00077

Measured 6d ago against content hash 39f404478189, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

801-bedtime-protocol 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.

inspiration/original-concepts/My-memory-bank/.cursor/rules/801-bedtime-protocol.mdc · 82 lines

What it actually says


description: WHEN user mentions "Bedtime Protocol" THEN immediately follow the step-by-step process in the README.md file globs: */

<phase name="Memory Preservation & Organization">
  <step>Update memory config file for archiving original files</step>
  <step>Execute memory manager dry run to preview operations</step>
  <step>Verify and execute file operations</step>
  <step>Perform final verification that everything is correctly preserved</step>
</phase>

<critical-note>
  The detailed steps in the README.md file are the authoritative source and must be followed exactly. This summary is only for general awareness.
</critical-note>
This protocol is critical for preserving memory between sessions and must be followed precisely. Failure to follow the exact procedure may result in permanent memory loss.
<bad-practice>
  <description>Incorrect Bedtime Protocol response</description>
  <example>
    "I'll help you implement the Bedtime Protocol by moving some files around.
    Let me start by copying these files to the archive folder..."
    [Not consulting the README file for precise instructions]
  </example>
</bad-practice>
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. 6d ago First seen · 82 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 39f404478189

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801-bedtime-protocol is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository savagelysubtle/BIG-BRAIN-Memory-Bank (5 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 774 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.