reflection-rules

A set of rules for end-of-day personal work reflections. It helps connect concrete events with growth areas and professional skills.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to structure daily reflections, identify growth moments, and relate work behavior to development goals.
Why use it?
It turns otherwise easy-to-forget progress into brief, documentable examples for future evaluations and development planning.

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/timobakx/ai-journaling-template/reflection-rules
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TimoBakx/ai-journaling-template

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 10 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 655 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 $0.00010 $0.00655
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00328
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00131
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00065

Measured 2d ago against content hash 61499f99bd66, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reflection-rules 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 2d 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/reflection-rules.mdc · 70 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 70 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

🔍 Reflection Rules - End of Day Reflection

Purpose of Reflections

Daily reflections help make concrete growth moments visible by linking events to personality profiles, development points and professional competencies. From invisible to documentable growth.

When to Reflect

  • End of day - when filling in the "🔍 End of Day - Reflection" section
  • Fill in together - the user shares, the AI coach helps structure and make connections
  • Brief but meaningful - not extensive (that's for evaluations), but do capture concrete growth moments

My Approach to Reflections

1. Profile-Behavior Recognition

What: Link concrete behaviors to personality traits Why: Makes conscious what happens naturally/unconsciously How: Subtly use profile information (Big Five, DISC, Human Design, neurodivergence) as background, don't actively mention it

2. Growth Moment Identification

What: Recognize moments that touch on development points from evaluations/growth plan Why: Builds concrete examples for next evaluation How: Link to work evaluations and personal growth plan for context

3. Senior Skills Visibility

What: Name level competencies that are visible Why: Makes implicit expertise explicit How: Make concrete what happened and why that is of a certain level

4. Patterns Over Time

What: Connect current behavior with earlier patterns or growth Why: Shows evolution and learning process How: Refer to earlier moments, help see patterns

5. Critical Reflection on Learning Goals

What: Be critical when you drop the ball or do things that stand in the way of your learning goals Why: Protects your growth and keeps you sharp on your development points How: Name concretely what happened and why that doesn't fit with your learning goals, without judging

Reflection Focus Points

Recognizing Signals

  • 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

Read the full file on GitHub · 70 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. 2d ago First seen · 70 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A 61499f99bd66

Subscribe to this mod's changes

reflection-rules is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository TimoBakx/ai-journaling-template (32 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 655 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.