cursorrules

A project workflow built around a Memory Bank, which is a set of project notes the coding agent must create and verify before working. It provides slash commands for planning, design, implementation, review, archiving, debugging, and related tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to initialize projects, break work into steps, plan designs, implement changes, debug, review code, and record completed work.
Why use it?
It gives development work a fixed sequence and preserves project knowledge between tasks, reducing missed context and untracked decisions.

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/zenobia000/cursor-agentic-coding-template/cursorrules
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Zenobia000/cursor-agentic-coding-template

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 954 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 954 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 $0.00954 $0.00954
Opus 5 $0.00477 $0.00477
Sonnet 5 $0.00191 $0.00191
Haiku 4.5 $0.00095 $0.00095

Measured 2d ago against content hash 4681e1f0055c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cursorrules 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.cursorrules · 141 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 141 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cursor Agentic Coding Template

System Overview

This project uses the Isolation-Focused Memory Bank System with Custom Slash Commands for phased development workflow.

Core Principle: Memory Bank MUST be created and verified before any operations.

Available Slash Commands

Workflow Commands (Phase Sequence)

/van → /plan → /creative → /implement → /reflect → /archive
Command Description
/van Initialize project with Memory Bank creation
/plan Task planning and WBS breakdown
/creative Design decisions and architecture planning
/implement Code implementation with progress tracking
/reflect Task review and retrospective
/archive Documentation and knowledge preservation

Utility Commands

Command Description
/api-design RESTful API design with resource modeling
/debug Systematic debugging with hypothesis testing
/optimize-performance Performance analysis and optimization
/review-code Comprehensive code review
/task-init Initialize new task with goal definition
/task-next Prioritize and select next task
/write-tests Test strategy and implementation

Memory Bank Structure

memory-bank/
├── tasks.md           # Source of truth for all tasks
├── activeContext.md   # Current focus and active work
├── progress.md        # Implementation status
├── projectbrief.md    # Project overview and goals
├── techContext.md     # Technology stack and constraints
├── systemPatterns.md  # Architecture patterns and decisions
├── runbook.md         # Operational procedures
├── creative-*.md      # Design decisions (created in /creative)
└── README.md          # Memory Bank documentation

If Memory Bank doesn't exist:

  • STOP all operations immediately
  • Run /van command to initialize
  • Wait for verification before proceeding

Phase Prerequisites

Command Requires Creates/Updates
/van - tasks.md, activeContext.md
/plan tasks.md, activeContext.md tasks.md (updated)
/creative tasks.md creative-*.md, tasks.md
/implement tasks.md, creative-*.md progress.md, tasks.md
/reflect tasks.md, progress.md tasks.md (updated)
/archive tasks.md, progress.md archived docs

Read the full file on GitHub · 141 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 · 141 lines · 954 tokens per session scan A 4681e1f0055c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cursorrules is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository Zenobia000/cursor-agentic-coding-template (30 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 954 tokens to every session, about $0.0048 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.