ide-bridge cross-IDE context protocol

A required protocol for sharing project context between agent-based coding environments through an MCP server, a system that lets tools exchange structured data. It loads saved checkpoints and records decisions, tasks, and plans.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to load a project's checkpoint at the start of a Cursor session, save progress before or after work, and record decisions and todos.
Why use it?
It keeps different IDE sessions aware of the same project state, reducing repeated explanations and lost decisions.

Cursor rule

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/xsidz/ide-bridge/cursor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Xsidz/ide-bridge
Per session 256 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 256 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 $0.00256 $0.00256
Opus 5 $0.00128 $0.00128
Sonnet 5 $0.00051 $0.00051
Haiku 4.5 $0.00026 $0.00026

Measured yesterday against content hash 595757be3edf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ide-bridge cross-IDE context protocol 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.

src/priming/templates/cursor.mdc · 22 lines

What it actually says

ide-bridge: cross-IDE context protocol (mandatory)

You are connected to an MCP server named bridge. Every Cursor session in this repo must start with a single call to bridge.load_checkpoint. Do this before any other action.

Protocol

  1. Session start: bridge.load_checkpoint({ project_id: "<id from .ide-bridge.yaml>" }). Summarise the plan, decisions, todos.
  2. On decision: bridge.append_decision({ project_id, text, rationale }).
  3. On todo: bridge.append_todo({ project_id, text }).
  4. Before edits / after sub-tasks / on pause: bridge.save_checkpoint({ project_id, source_ide: "cursor", bundle_patch: { plan, decisions, todos } }).

Notes

  • Read .ide-bridge.yaml at repo root for project_id. Do NOT call bridge.get_project_id() without a cwd argument.
  • -32602 responses name the missing argument — fix the call, retry.
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 · 22 lines · 256 tokens per session scan A 595757be3edf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ide-bridge cross-IDE context protocol is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository Xsidz/ide-bridge (7 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 256 tokens to every session, about $0.0013 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.