Blueprint
PHP and Laravel Cursor rules — coding standards, testing, and conventions for the Cursor editor. Install via Composer.
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Use when a single objective is too large for one pull request and must span multiple sessions or PRs. Turns the objective into a sequenced construction plan of 3-12 one-PR steps, each with a cold-start context brief, dependency edges, and exit criteria, then reviews it adversarially and registers it as Markdown.
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Blueprint
Constraints
- Apply
@rules/git/general.mdc— branch, commit, and PR conventions below come from it. - Apply
@rules/compound-engineering/general.mdc— the plan is durable memory the next agent reuses, not throwaway prose. - Apply
@rules/compound-engineering/general.mdcAssign the most relevant existing label when creating a tracker issue for any tracker issue this plan creates or hands off to@skills/create-issues-from-text/SKILL.mdto create. - Apply
@rules/laravel/architecture.mdcwhen the project usespekral/arch-app-services, so each step lands in the correct layer. - Plan only. Do not implement, commit, or push any step.
- Output Markdown only. English only.
- Every step must be one pull request: independently reviewable and mergeable on its own.
- Break the objective into 3-12 steps. Fewer means it likely fits one PR; more means the objective is too broad and should be split first.
- Each step must be executable cold by
@skills/resolve-issue/SKILL.mdor a fresh agent with no prior context. - Do not invent dependencies on tooling that may be absent. Degrade gracefully when GitHub CLI (
gh) is missing.
Use when
- An objective clearly exceeds one pull request (a migration, a multi-layer feature, a cross-cutting refactor).
- Work will span multiple sessions or multiple agents and needs a sequenced, resumable plan.
- You need to know which parts can run in parallel and which must be sequential before starting.
Do not use for single-PR tasks (use @skills/analyze-problem/SKILL.md or @skills/resolve-issue/SKILL.md), for splitting an objective into tracker issues without a dependency graph (use @skills/create-issues-from-text/SKILL.md), or when the user wants one high-leverage suggestion (@skills/smartest-project-addition/SKILL.md / @skills/product-capability/SKILL.md).
Execution
Run the five phases in order. Do not register a plan that has not passed Review.
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Research — Establish ground truth before planning.
- Read the actual code, layers, and conventions the objective will touch. Per
@rules/compound-engineering/general.mdc, find the existing part of the system the work extends before inventing a new abstraction. - Walk
git log/git blameover the affected area to learn how it evolved and what was already tried or reverted. - Detect the git baseline: confirm the repo, the default branch (
master), and whetherghis available (gh auth status). Record the result; it drives the PR template in Output. - For an unfamiliar pattern, library, or security-sensitive surface, consult current authoritative references and cite them.
- Read the actual code, layers, and conventions the objective will touch. Per
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Design — Decompose the objective into 3-12 one-PR steps.
- Each step is the smallest change that delivers reviewable value and can merge alone.
- Sequence steps so each builds on a merged predecessor; never assume an unmerged step's code.
- Map dependency edges: for every step, list which steps must merge before it. Steps with no shared files and no dependency edge between them may run in parallel.
- Name the layer each step lands in (Action, Service, Repository, etc.) when
@rules/laravel/architecture.mdcapplies.
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Draft — Write the per-step plan (structure in Output).
- Give every step a self-contained context brief: enough background, file paths, and conventions for a fresh agent to execute it without reading the other steps.
- Write concrete, observable exit criteria per step (tests, behavior, verification commands).
- Add the parallelism summary: the dependency graph and which steps may run concurrently.
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Review — Adversarially check the draft against the anti-patterns below before registering. Fix every hit; re-run until clean.
- A "step" that spans multiple PRs, or is too small to justify its own PR.
- A step whose context brief is not self-contained (assumes prior conversation or another step's unmerged work).
- Missing, unobservable, or untestable exit criteria.
- Hidden ordering: two steps marked parallel that touch the same files or share an unstated dependency.
- A new abstraction where an existing part of the system already fit (
@rules/compound-engineering/general.mdc). - Branch / commit / PR wording that violates
@rules/git/general.mdc(wrong type, base branch, period, attribution). - A plan that assumes
ghexists when Research found it absent.
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Register — Persist the approved plan as Markdown in the repo (e.g.
docs/plans/<objective-slug>/): oneREADME.mdindex plus one file per step, or a single plan file when small. State the path so the next agent picks it up.
Output
Register a plan index plus one entry per step.
Plan index (README.md): objective in one or two sentences; ordered step list; the parallelism summary; git baseline (default branch master, gh present yes/no).
Per step:
- Title —
type(scope): short description, lowercase type/scope, no trailing period (@rules/git/general.mdc). - Branch — feature branch off
master(e.g.feat/<short-slug>). - Context brief — self-contained background, file paths, and conventions; readable cold, with no reference to other steps' unmerged work.
- Tasks — concrete, ordered actions implementing this one PR.
- Dependencies — the step IDs that must merge first;
noneif it can start immediately. - Exit criteria — observable, verifiable conditions that prove the step is done: tests to pass, behavior to confirm, and the exact verification commands to run.
- PR — title in English; body as Markdown linking the issue (
Closes #N) when one exists. Open withghwhen available; otherwise output the title and body for the human to open manually and say so.
Parallelism summary — the dependency graph (e.g. 1 -> 2 -> 4, 3 parallel to 2) and an explicit list of step sets that may run concurrently because they share no files and no dependency edge.
Done when
- The plan has 3-12 steps, each one mergeable pull request.
- Every step has a self-contained cold-start context brief, explicit dependencies, and observable exit criteria.
- The parallelism summary states what can run concurrently and what must be sequential, with no hidden shared-file conflicts.
- The Review pass found no remaining anti-patterns.
- Branch, commit, and PR templates follow
@rules/git/general.mdcand degrade gracefully whenghis absent. - The plan is registered as Markdown in the repo and its path is reported.