What is no-progress-mds?

A project rule that forbids creating new Markdown files for progress updates, status summaries, or completion reports.

Use it when deciding where to record progress, milestones, status information, and completion notes during development.

It prevents progress notes from filling the project with extra files. Updates should go in the conversation or approved files such as MILESTONES.md.

How sfc-gh-abannerjee/SnowGram configures Cursor

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to sfc-gh-abannerjee/SnowGram. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sfc-gh-abannerjee/SnowGram/main/.cursor/no-progress-mds.mdc

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sfc-gh-abannerjee/SnowGram

Made for: Cursor.

Wrote 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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/sfc-gh-abannerjee/snowgram/no-progress-mds/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/rules/sfc-gh-abannerjee/snowgram/no-progress-mds)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/sfc-gh-abannerjee/snowgram/no-progress-mds"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/sfc-gh-abannerjee/snowgram/no-progress-mds/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 347 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 347 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00347	$0.00347
Opus 5.5	$0.00139	$0.00139
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00069	$0.00069
Haiku 4.5	$0.00035	$0.00035

Measured 2mo ago against content hash b8b82187d449, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

no-progress-mds 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 2mo 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/no-progress-mds.mdc · 35 lines

What it actually says

Progress Tracking Rule

NEVER create new .md files for progress summaries, status updates, or completion reports.

Instead:

Update the chat directly - Provide summaries inline in your response
Update MILESTONES.md - Add new milestones with detailed timestamps
Auto-cleanup - After generating files, check the root directory and archive any old progress/status .md files to /archive/docs/

Timestamp Format for MILESTONES.md

### Milestone X: [Title] ✅
**Date**: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM PST
**Duration**: X hours
**Impact**: [Critical/High/Medium/Low]

Exceptions (allowed .md files in root):

README.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, LICENSE, QUICKSTART.md, MILESTONES.md
PRODUCTION_READINESS_COMPLETE.md, IMPLEMENTATION_SUMMARY.md, SPCS_BEST_PRACTICES_AUDIT.md
.github/ templates (bug reports, feature requests)

Files to Archive Automatically:

*_STATUS.md, *_COMPLETE.md, PROGRESS.md, SUMMARY.md, SUCCESS.md, SESSION.md, BUILD.md, DEPLOYMENT.md

Cleanup After Any File Generation:

find . -maxdepth 1 -name "*_*.md" | grep -v "PRODUCTION\|IMPLEMENTATION\|SPCS_BEST" | while read f; do mv "$f" archive/docs/; done

Maximum 10 .md files in root. Archive anything beyond production-necessary documentation.

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.

2mo ago First seen · 35 lines · 347 tokens per session scan A b8b82187d449

Subscribe to this mod's changes

no-progress-mds is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository sfc-gh-abannerjee/SnowGram (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 347 tokens to every session, about $0.0014 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

no-progress-mds next to 6 cursor rules from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
no-progress-mdssfc-gh-abannerjee/SnowGram	Cursor rule	2	1mo ago	MIT	A	347	Cursor
ponytailDietrichGebert/ponytail	Cursor rule	185k	8d ago	MIT	A	604	Cursor
angular-20angular/angular	Cursor rule	101k	yesterday	MIT	A	0	Cursor
dev-standardapache/superset	Cursor rule	75k	today	Apache-2.0	A	1,147	Cursor
prefer-assertions-over-defensive-checksprisma/orm	Cursor rule	48k	yesterday	Apache-2.0	A	0	Cursor
prefer-direct-imports-over-module-mocksprisma/orm	Cursor rule	48k	yesterday	Apache-2.0	A	0	Cursor
shared-plane-packagesprisma/orm	Cursor rule	48k	yesterday	Apache-2.0	A	0	Cursor

SnowGram: Cursor rule for Cursor