task-start-checklist

task-start-checklist is a cursor rule for Cursor from Stramp/Lost-Mines-Phandelver. It costs 3,299 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A required checklist for starting a development task, including checking the task, preparing the project, creating a Git branch, and connecting it to a GitHub issue. TDD, or test-driven development, means writing tests before or alongside the code they verify.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before implementing a new task to verify the project, create the expected branch, link the GitHub issue, and begin with TDD.
Why use it?
It reduces the chance of starting from outdated code, using the wrong branch, missing dependencies, or skipping tests and issue tracking.

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/stramp/lost-mines-phandelver/task-start-checklist
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Stramp/Lost-Mines-Phandelver

Made for: Cursor.

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README.md
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Per session 3,299 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 3,299 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.03299 $0.03299
Opus 5 $0.01649 $0.01649
Sonnet 5 $0.00660 $0.00660
Haiku 4.5 $0.00330 $0.00330

Measured 3d ago against content hash e228a63e2cbf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

task-start-checklist 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 3d 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/task-start-checklist.mdc · 420 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 420 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

📋 Roteiro de Início de Nova Task

🎯 Objetivo

Este documento define o roteiro completo e obrigatório para iniciar uma nova task, garantindo que a branch seja criada corretamente, conectada com a issue no GitHub, e que o desenvolvimento siga TDD desde o início.


✅ Checklist de Início de Task

1. Verificações Pré-Início

  • Task está clara e bem definida?

    • Li a documentação da task (arquivo .md em 04-Planning/ciclos/)
    • Entendi o que precisa ser feito
    • Verifiquei dependências (outras tasks que precisam estar completas)
    • Task tem issue criada no GitHub?
  • Ambiente está pronto?

    • Estou na branch main (ou branch base correta)
    • Branch local está atualizada (git pull origin main)
    • Working tree está limpo (git status limpo)
    • Projeto compila sem erros

2. Criar Branch e Conectar com Issue

  • Criar branch conectada com issue
    • Usar script create-task-branch.ps1
    • Script cria branch no formato: feat/issue-<NUMBER>__<ciclo>-<nome>
    • Script conecta branch com issue no GitHub
    • Script move issue automaticamente para "In Progress"

Comando:

cd "F:\UNREAL GAME\MyProject2"
.\scripts\github\create-task-branch.ps1 <arquivo-task.md>

Exemplo:

.\scripts\github\create-task-branch.ps1 "fase-1\03-criacao-personagem\03-05-ac-base-mvp.md"

O que o script faz:

  1. Lê o arquivo .md e extrai o título
  2. Busca a issue no GitHub pelo título
  3. Cria branch no formato: feat/issue-<NUMBER>__<ciclo>-<nome>
  4. Faz checkout automaticamente
  5. Conecta branch com issue no GitHub
  6. Tenta mover card do projeto para "In Progress"
  • Verificar que branch foi criada corretamente
    • Branch existe localmente?
    • Estou na branch correta?
    • Branch está conectada com issue no GitHub?
    • Issue foi movida para "In Progress"?

Comandos de verificação:

# Verificar branch atual
git branch --show-current

# Verificar issue conectada
gh issue view <NUMBER> --json number,title,state,url

Read the full file on GitHub · 420 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. 3d ago First seen · 420 lines · 3,299 tokens per session scan A e228a63e2cbf

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task-start-checklist is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository Stramp/Lost-Mines-Phandelver (2 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 3,299 tokens to every session, about $0.0165 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.