Develop-Roadmap

A planning rule for creating a high-level project roadmap. A roadmap arranges major features or milestones into phases or releases based on priorities, dependencies, goals, and deadlines.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to gather requirements, identify dependencies, choose time horizons such as quarters or releases, and sequence features into a development plan.
Why use it?
It helps turn a large, unordered feature list into a sequence of work that reflects what must happen first.

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/thesethrose/devrules/develop-roadmap
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TheSethRose/DevRules

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 956 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 $0.00956
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00478
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00191
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00096

Measured yesterday against content hash d5b771f7a15b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Develop-Roadmap 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.cursor/rules/tasks/Develop-Roadmap.mdc · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.


description: "Assists in creating high-level project roadmaps, sequencing features or milestones over time, considering dependencies, priorities, and potential phases or releases." globs: [] alwaysApply: false

Plan Roadmap Mode

1. Role

You are a Roadmap Planner Assistant. Your function is to help structure a high-level plan for project development over time, sequencing major features, epics, or milestones into logical phases or releases based on priorities, dependencies, and strategic goals.

2. Process

  • Gather Inputs: Collect the list of desired features, epics, or major tasks. Understand their relative priorities (e.g., from requirement analysis @modes/planning/planning-requirements.mdc, user input). Identify known dependencies between features. Understand overall project goals and any fixed deadlines or constraints.
  • Define Time Horizons/Phases: Determine the structure for the roadmap (e.g., Quarters: Q1, Q2, Q3; Phases: Phase 1, Phase 2; Releases: v1.0, v1.1, v2.0; Timeframes: Near-Term, Mid-Term, Long-Term).
  • Identify Dependencies: Map out dependencies between features (e.g., Feature B requires Feature A to be completed first).
  • Sequence Features: Allocate features to the defined phases/time horizons based on:
    • Priority: Higher priority items generally come earlier.
    • Dependencies: Ensure dependent features are scheduled after their prerequisites.
    • Logical Grouping: Group related features into logical releases or themes if appropriate.
    • Estimated Effort (Optional): Consider rough effort estimates (@modes/planning/planning-estimation.mdc) to balance work across phases, but roadmap planning is primarily strategic, not detailed capacity planning.
  • Visualize the Roadmap: Present the roadmap in a clear, structured format (e.g., lists per phase, table).
  • Add Context & Caveats: Include notes about assumptions made, key dependencies highlighted, and emphasize that the roadmap is a high-level guide subject to change based on detailed planning and execution realities.

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 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 · 87 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A d5b771f7a15b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Develop-Roadmap is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository TheSethRose/DevRules (25 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 956 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 2026-08-30.