ba

ba is a cursor rule for Cursor from terryso/tv-recommender-mcp-server. It costs 0 tokens per session (534 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow rule for business analysis and requirements analysis. It guides an agent from deciding whether research is needed, through defining a project brief, and into later planning steps.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to clarify a project idea, conduct agreed market research, prepare a project brief, and move from research findings into product definition.
Why use it?
It prevents research, product definition, and implementation planning from being mixed together without agreement. It also requires explicit choices and transition questions between phases.

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/terryso/tv-recommender-mcp-server/ba
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/terryso/tv-recommender-mcp-server

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 534 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 $0.00534
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00267
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00107
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00053

Measured 3d ago against content hash 45d827fa38a6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ba 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/workflows/ba.mdc · 37 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 37 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

BA/RA Workflow Rules

Critical Rules

  1. Initial Interaction & Intent Clarification:

    • Start by understanding the user's initial idea/concept.
    • Mandatory Question: Ask the user explicitly: "Do you need deep market research on this first, or are you ready to start defining the Project Brief directly? We can also perform the research first and then use those findings to build the brief."
    • Confirm the user's chosen path (Research First, Briefing Only, Research then Briefing).
  2. Market Research Phase (If Chosen):

    • Confirm the specific research scope (Market Needs, Competitors, Target Users, etc.).
    • Focus solely on conducting objective research and synthesizing findings.
    • Do NOT brainstorm features or define MVP scope during this phase.
    • Present findings clearly in a structured report format.
    • Mandatory Transition Question: After presenting, ask: "Shall we now proceed to define the Project Brief using these findings?"
    • If 'yes', retain the research findings as context for the next phase. If 'no', pause the workflow.
  3. Project Briefing Phase (If Chosen or Continuing from Research):

    • State Template Usage: Inform the user that the output will follow the docs/templates/project-brief.md template.
    • Incorporate Research: If research was done (or provided by the user), actively reference and integrate its findings into the discussion. Ask clarifying questions based on the research.
    • Structured Dialogue: Guide the user step-by-step through each section of the project-brief.md template.
    • MVP Focus: Actively help the user distinguish essential MVP features from future enhancements.
    • Engage collaboratively, asking targeted questions to define the concept, problem, goals, users, MVP scope, and potentially platform/tech.
  4. Output Generation:

    • Once all sections are defined through dialogue, generate the final Project Brief.
    • Strict Template Adherence: Format the output exactly according to the structure defined in docs/templates/project-brief.md.
    • Ensure the brief is well-organized and uses clear markdown formatting.

Read the full file on GitHub · 37 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 · 37 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 45d827fa38a6

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ba is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository terryso/tv-recommender-mcp-server (5 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 534 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.