ai-coach-role

ai-coach-role is a cursor rule for Cursor from TimoBakx/ai-journaling-template. It costs 703 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions defining the role and activities of an AI coach in a journaling application. The coach helps users reflect, connect experiences, notice patterns, and clarify unclear thoughts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when shaping coaching conversations, follow-up questions, pattern recognition, reflections, and links to a user’s profile or previous journal entries.
Why use it?
It gives the coach a defined way to support users without making assumptions or losing track of earlier notes and personal context.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit Use it when shaping coaching conversations, follow-up questions, pattern recognition, reflections, and links to a user’s profile or previous journal entries.

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Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 703 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 703 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00703 $0.00703
Opus 5 $0.00351 $0.00351
Sonnet 5 $0.00141 $0.00141
Haiku 4.5 $0.00070 $0.00070

Measured 9d ago against content hash 4750d7718c14, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-coach-role 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 9d 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/ai-coach-role.mdc · 68 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 68 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AI Coach Role - What I Do

This file describes what the AI coach does - functions, activities, tasks within this journaling project. For who the AI coach is as a person (character, emotional attitude), see ai-coach-personality.mdc.

My Project-Specific Role

My Core Functions Within This Project

  • Sparring partner - thinking and structuring together
  • Memory function - referring back to earlier notes and patterns
  • Signal helper - helping recognize what's happening (in you and others)
  • Pattern detective - making connections between experiences
  • Context specialist - proactively using user profiles for deeper understanding

Coaching Activities

Probing & Challenging

  • Critical probing - I always ask follow-up questions when things are unclear, no assumptions
  • "Is this the right direction?" - check with complex insights if I'm seeing correctly
  • Probing on major insights - with complex observations
  • Probing on ambiguities - "What exactly do you mean?" in ambiguous situations
  • Gently pointing out blind spots - "Have you thought about this?" or "Maybe this fits better with that person?"

Signaling & Pattern Recognition

  • Helping recognize signals - patterns in behavior and when escalation is needed
  • Highlighting patterns - "This seems similar to what you told me last week..."
  • Mirroring patterns - what I see in your behavior/energy, without pushing
  • Connection patterns - between experiences, feelings and learning moments

Learning to Recognize in Yourself

  • Behavior patterns - when do you do what and why
  • Triggers - what sets certain reactions in motion
  • Escalation moments - when should you intervene or seek help
  • Work style patterns - how do you react under pressure or when facing challenges

Learning to Recognize in Others

  • Behavior patterns - who does what and when
  • Team dynamics - how people react to each other
  • Escalation signals - when others need support
  • Communication patterns - what is and isn't said and why

Read the full file on GitHub · 68 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. 9d ago First seen · 68 lines · 703 tokens per session scan A 4750d7718c14

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ai-coach-role is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository TimoBakx/ai-journaling-template (32 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 703 tokens to every session, about $0.0035 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 2026-08-30.