feature-development

A required planning workflow for new product features: PRFAQ, PRD, implementation plan, and go-to-market plan. A PRFAQ explains the proposed problem and solution; a PRD records detailed requirements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan features such as booking systems or contact forms, create the required documents, and organize them with numbered kebab-case folders.
Why use it?
It prevents development from starting before the feature’s problem, requirements, implementation, and launch approach have been documented.

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/smeubank/cursor-template/feature-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/smeubank/cursor-template

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 1,640 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 $0.00000 $0.01640
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00820
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00328
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00164

Measured yesterday against content hash 27224c9524da, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

feature-development 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 yesterday.

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/feature-development.mdc · 204 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 204 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Feature Development Workflow

🎯 Overview

This project follows a structured feature development process: PRFAQ → PRD → Implementation → GTM. This ensures thoughtful planning, clear requirements, and successful launches.

CRITICAL: Always follow this workflow for ALL new features. Never skip phases or start implementation before completing PRFAQ and PRD.

📂 Template System

Location

.cursor/project/features/
├── 001-template/          # Master templates
│   ├── PRFAQ.md          # Problem definition and solution
│   ├── PRD.md            # Product requirements document
│   ├── GTM.md            # Go-to-market strategy
│   └── IMPLEMENTATION.md # Technical implementation and PR description
├── 002-example-feature/   # EXAMPLE: Completed feature
│   ├── PRFAQ.md          # ✅ Problem validation
│   ├── PRD.md            # ✅ Technical requirements
│   ├── GTM.md            # ✅ Launch strategy
│   └── IMPLEMENTATION.md # ✅ Technical implementation and PR description
├── 003-feature-name/      # Next feature
└── ...

Naming Convention

  • Use 3-digit zero-padded numbers: 001, 002, 003
  • Follow with descriptive kebab-case name: booking-system, contact-form
  • Example: 002-online-booking-system

Template Files

  • PRFAQ.md - Problem definition, customer quotes, goals
  • PRD.md - Technical requirements, user stories, success criteria
  • GTM.md - Launch strategy, communication plan, success metrics
  • IMPLEMENTATION.md - Technical implementation details and PR description

🔄 Development Workflow

Phase 1: Problem Definition (PRFAQ)

Goal: Validate the problem and solution before investing in detailed requirements

Activities:

  • Copy template: cp -r .cursor/project/features/001-template .cursor/project/features/00X-feature-name
  • Complete PRFAQ.md with problem definition and solution validation
  • Include customer quotes and user reactions
  • Define qualitative and quantitative goals
  • List open questions and assumptions

Read the full file on GitHub · 204 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. yesterday First seen · 204 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 27224c9524da

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feature-development is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository smeubank/cursor-template (6 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,640 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.