050-project-constraints

050-project-constraints is a cursor rule for Cursor from Tholem-AI/Tholem-Cursor-Kit. It costs 237 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for inferring and documenting a project’s technical constraints from its requirements and configuration files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Choosing and documenting project constraints, reviewing inferred versions or technologies, and checking that runtime decisions match the project requirements.
Why use it?
It prevents the coding agent from changing the framework, stack, or architecture without approval and keeps those decisions recorded.

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/tholem-ai/tholem-cursor-kit/050-project-constraints
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Tholem-AI/Tholem-Cursor-Kit

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 237 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 237 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 5.1 $0.00237 $0.00237
Opus 5 $0.00118 $0.00118
Sonnet 5 $0.00047 $0.00047
Haiku 4.5 $0.00024 $0.00024

Measured 5d ago against content hash 6ee730a5b8ec, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

050-project-constraints 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 5d 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.

staging/.cursor/rules/050-project-constraints.mdc · 33 lines

What it actually says

050-project-constraints

Purpose

Define project-level technical constraints while keeping stack decisions requirements-driven and review-gated.

Mandatory policy

  1. Do not change core stack, framework, or architecture without explicit user approval.
  2. Treat stack/version constraints as inferred project context, not fixed template defaults.
  3. Use this stack inference order:
    • requirements/design artifacts,
    • detected project config files,
    • conservative fallback assumptions (explicitly labeled).
  4. Present inferred stack constraints in a reviewable plan/diff before applying.
  5. Treat docs/Project-Constraints.md as the canonical project-constraints documentation surface and keep it aligned with runtime decisions.
  6. Do not treat fallback versions as mandatory policy targets.

Integration points

  • Governance authority: .cursor/rules/010-governance.mdc
  • Execution lifecycle: .cursor/rules/020-execution.mdc
  • Safety constraints: .cursor/rules/030-safety.mdc
  • Validation gates: .cursor/rules/040-quality.mdc
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. 5d ago First seen · 33 lines · 237 tokens per session scan A 6ee730a5b8ec

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050-project-constraints is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository Tholem-AI/Tholem-Cursor-Kit (4 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 237 tokens to every session, about $0.0012 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.