van-mode-map

A visual map of VAN mode, the initialization stage before other task phases begin.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when setting up a task, loading initial context, or preparing the project's working notes.
Why use it?
It makes the starting process easier to understand and follow.

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/vanzan01/cursor-memory-bank/van-mode-map
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vanzan01/cursor-memory-bank

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 7,840 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.07840
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.03920
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.01568
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00784

Measured 2d ago against content hash a0d7c7ab3f9e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

van-mode-map scanned grade B with 1 finding 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

- **Permission denied**: Run terminal as administrator (Windows) or use sudo (Mac/Linux)
.cursor/rules/isolation_rules/visual-maps/van-mode-map.mdc · 902 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 902 lines · 0 tokens per session scan B a0d7c7ab3f9e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

van-mode-map is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository vanzan01/cursor-memory-bank (3,057 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), with no licence file. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 7,840 tokens. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.