task-status-update-rule

task-status-update-rule is a cursor rule for Cursor from yodakeisuke/mcp-micromanage-your-agent. It costs 8 tokens per session (267 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A rulebook for moving a software task between statuses such as refinement, in progress, user review, completed, and cancelled.

In plain words
What is it for?
It guides status changes during implementation, including when to begin work, request review, return to development after feedback, finish after explicit approval, or cancel a task.
Why use it?
It prevents tasks from being marked ready, reviewable, or complete before requirements, dependencies, compile checks, tests, documentation, and user approval are accounted for.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit It guides status changes during implementation, including when to begin work, request review, return to development after feedback, finish after explicit approval, or cancel a task.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/yodakeisuke/mcp-micromanage-your-agent/task-status-update-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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yodakeisuke/mcp-micromanage-your-agent

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 8 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 267 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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 $0.00008 $0.00267
Opus 5 $0.00004 $0.00133
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00053
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00027

Measured 9d ago against content hash ca7abb927bfe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

task-status-update-rule 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.cursor/rules/task-status-update-rule.mdc · 31 lines

What it actually says

**STRICT RULES - MUST BE FOLLOWED WITHOUT EXCEPTION:**
There is always exactly one task in either the in_progress or user_review state.
Before updating the status, we guarantee that each condition is met.

needsRefinment → in_progress conditions:
✅ Requirements have been sufficiently clarified and ready for implementation
✅ **Fully understand the code's dependencies and have already reviewed them**
✅ The impact on existing code has been assessed

in_progress → user_review conditions:
✅ I explicitly checked that there were no compile errors
✅ Necessary tests have been added and all pass
✅ Required documentation updates are completed

user_review → in_progress conditions:
✅ From feedback, the content to be modified is completely clear

**user_review → completed conditions**:
✅ Only when explicitly approved by the user, absolutely.

* → needsRefinment conditions:
✅ It becomes apparent that the task requirements are unclear or incomplete

* → cancelled conditions:
✅ There is a clear reason why the task is no longer needed, or alternative methods or solutions to meet the requirements are clear
✅ The impact of cancellation on other related tasks has been evaluated
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 · 31 lines · 8 tokens per session scan A ca7abb927bfe

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task-status-update-rule is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository yodakeisuke/mcp-micromanage-your-agent (13 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It adds 8 tokens to every session and 267 once invoked, about $0.0000 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.