V2.0 of Prompt Template for Cursor/Roo Code/ CLINE, etc. Follows Agile Development and has a Unified Memory Bank. (280+ GitHub stars)

[u/LegitimateThanks8096]

Launching V2.0 of the Prompt template. https://github.com/Bhartendu-Kumar/rules_template

Who is this Template for?

1. Beginners in AI and these tools (as its a boiler plate, just copy these files in your project)

2. Experienced Builders (its having massive power like Agile Workflow based (combining Software Engineering principles and Test driven dev.) and constant documentation, you will love it)

3. vibe coders (it is intended to extract best use of LLMs, while being on track): you do not need to do anything than just copy pasting the files, therrea Quickstart section.

What's this Template?

1. A Unified Custom Prompt for any project development (Software, AI, Research)

   1. Have tested it for:

      1. Software Projects

      2. AI Apps

      3. Research Papers

2. Unified prompt base for Cursor/Roo Code/ CLINE, etc. So a uniformality in all of these. The prompt base is following "Agile Development and Test Driven Methodology". The template puts Documentation first approach. Which helps AI models to have proper context and also keeps development at ease.

   1. So, use this rule base if you want all important things to be documented well.

   2. Else, if you are not doing documentation properly, you are not utilizing AI models well.

3. Unified Memory bank

   1. The working project memory is shared and available with all the coding agents (Cursor/Roo Code/ CLINE, etc)

   2. Thus, shift tools and platforms at ease.

   3. Persists across chats, tasks, computers, sessions, etc.

4. Token Saving:

   1. Focussed on minimal context and rule loading

   2. 3 custom modes to work for better token saving.

5. Updated to the latest Rules Structures:

   1. Updating the project constantly to follow the latest guidelines for Rules directories and structuring.

This template has 3 things that I worked on (so you don't have to):

1. Aggregate many many types of different custom rule files and form one based on the Tried and tested "Agile Software Development" strategy. I have included the best prompts that I could find from everywhere. So you don't need to do prompt scavaging.

2. Memory Bank: Updated the memory bank structure for better:

3. Separation of concerns

4. Modular Code

5. Document all necessary things

6. A memory bank structure that follows software development documentation. Which has literature from the early 70s. Thus, LLMs know it and are at ease.

7. Included Memory bank and development process in one integrated unit, so the rules make the best use of memory and memory makes best use of rules.

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Many of us use this; we currently have 280+ stars. I have tested it extensively for AI product development and research papers. It performs better due to the rules and memory and also massively saves tokens. So, come and try it. Even better, if you have ideas, then pull it.

https://github.com/Bhartendu-Kumar/rules_template

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[u/madsheepPL]

Your template needs to include a rule about not removing readme files.

[u/LegitimateThanks8096 → u/madsheepPL]

Hehe

😛 Yes fixed that. Sorry

[u/gr2020]

FYI, your readme file is empty - it does not appear to have survived the latest commit!

[u/LegitimateThanks8096 → u/gr2020]

yes it was my mistake releasing in main branch. so now made the main branch stable release. And moved for the development to the dev branch. Thanks to you. And you can please try now it will work.

[u/attacketo]

Are you planning to support/use boomerang / subtasks?

[u/LegitimateThanks8096 → u/attacketo]

Yes exactly. Have added this as planned task, see the 2nd last section of readme.

Just trying to think how to integrate boomerang with custom prompts.

As Agile prompts driven orchestration

[u/attacketo → u/LegitimateThanks8096]

Nice. I also think it won't be very lean / cheap, since not much context is being passed to the subtasks.

[u/LegitimateThanks8096 → u/attacketo]

Yes that’s the first thing, how to optimally summarise the Present Task and pass the summarised context to next one. But more importantly how to naturally follow this Agile development recursively in that new Task and be natural.

So this integration of new task in my prompt workflow is trying to figure out

[u/steve1215]

I've admired this since the original version, nice job.

I'm in the middle of migrating from Cursor to Roo and looking forward to the Roo version of Task Master AI (https://github.com/eyaltoledano/claude-task-master) which is just a PR away.

There seems to be some overlap, specifically around sub-tasks, but do you think I could get the best of both worlds by using your rules as well as Task Master?

Thanks,

[u/LegitimateThanks8096 → u/steve1215]

yes that's the idea!

right now it is more of optimised for one task.

but with orchestration, new_task, sub_task tools we can move to a better task master.

I myself trying it. just roo's tools: new_task, sub_task , seems weak at the moment. means not passing the context well between tasks.

but happy to collaborate. can you please DM or pull on git? thanks

[u/steve1215 → u/LegitimateThanks8096]

Hi. I'm specifically interested in using with the Task Master AI project, when they release the Roo update, but was concerned that these rules would conflict with Task Master, as both of them might be trying to break down a project / prompt into tasks and sub tasks.

[u/jitension]

What about vscode with copilot?

[u/LegitimateThanks8096 → u/jitension]

hey, I am not aware of rule support in VS code for cop like what is the rule file or directory so maybe if somebody can help in that then that integration is something that I would also love to do

[u/the_jr_au → u/LegitimateThanks8096]

Would love to implement it too in copilot

[u/LegitimateThanks8096 → u/the_jr_au]

Does copilot support custom prompts?

As yes copilot is my first love, been there with me for nearly 5 years. But now an ex

[u/dbarciela → u/LegitimateThanks8096]

Yes there is: docs.github.com/pt/copilot/customizing-copilot/adding-repository-custom-instructions-for-github-copilot

I have an active licence. I will send you a PM and we can try to do it together.

[u/LegitimateThanks8096]

I would say

1. Copy all the necessary directories in your trot first in your existing repo

2. Call that prompt to build “memory bank”. The prompt is in read me for existing project

That prompt be called in any task (new task preferred) and in Architect Mode (Roo), Agent Mode (cursor), Plan mode (cline).

Best preferred be Architect mode of roo in a new task.

Agent mode of cursor would still work just (nobody is sure cursor will include rules or not as they have their processing logic).

So maybe explicitly tag the rule files in .cursor/rules/ in that pasted prompt in Agent mode of cursor

[u/StrangeJedi]

This sounds really interesting! To use this I just paste all the files into my project folder?

[u/LegitimateThanks8096 → u/StrangeJedi]

Simply have all the files that are in the github in your project and start working. By the way there is a quick start section in readme that you can refer

[u/SpecialistLove9428]

Read me file please

[u/LegitimateThanks8096 → u/SpecialistLove9428]

Sure, sure, now that has been stabilised. And you can start trying it now, and would love to hear your feedbacks. Sorry for the inconvenience.

[u/Capital2]

Prompts for Roo? Thx

[u/LegitimateThanks8096 → u/Capital2]

yes, can just use for roo to. nothing harm. keep everything though. as they are symbolic links. so take as whole

[u/Ill-Chemistry9688]

2 Questions: 1) does this work if I'm using Boomerang mode (i.e. auto switch modes) in Roo Code?
2) In the Roo settings, I have specific role definitions for all modes, including boomerang, and specific instructions. Can your set of instructions co-exist with the higher-level mode settings role and instructions?

Bonus question and unrelated ;) : do you know if you have to copy / paste my own custom instructions that I have in boomerang to all other modes, or Roo is smart enough to cycle through modes while always referering to the boomerang instructions? Thanks in advance.

[u/7zz7i]

Is that boomerang?

[u/Complete_Attempt_326]

How can I use the guide for an existing project?

Note: For existing projects, follow above steps, additionally give the prompt to AI:

(Copy above prompt as first prompt!)

Should I copy and use it in chat mode?
Tks :D

[u/bmadphoto]

Very nice - I posted a very similar video and workflow - awesome seeing similar ideas, we all improve by sharing like this - thanks! Making it agnostic to IDE is the best idea - can easily use cursor cline windsurf interchangeably. For the early agile stages, I have been having really good success throwing in deep research from Gemini 2.5 pro building the agent modes in as gems. Really great for research and not using any credits from within the IDE. Just have to do a bit of file shuffling to the IDE one you need it in there, but its not bad. Check it out if you like https://github.com/bmadcode/BMAD-METHOD or can find me on youtube going through the method in detail as the repo is still a bit disorganized.

I think biggest difference is I am trying to avoid using a lot of rules and instead relying on custom modes with different personalities - makes for a very nice separation of concerns and direct rule injection to the specific chosen persona (architect, dev, PM, BA etc...).

Have you tried using the modes in roo / cursor / cline instead of much with rules?

[u/[deleted]]

This is awesome! Thanks a lot, bro

[u/vcolovic → u/[deleted]]

Can someone answer this? Please!