03-plan-tooling

To prevent scope drift from an approved product plan, you can establish project-specific guardrails using Cursor hooks, rules, and agents. This approach ensures continuous plan adherence by enforcing scope-checking mechanisms throughout the development lifecycle.

Project guardrails are customized rules, skills, and hooks designed to maintain alignment with your approved product plan. You need them when moving from the verification phase to technical planning to block progress until thorough preparation and plan adherence checks are complete.

You set up plan adherence checks and scope-checking hooks in Cursor by creating project-specific rules, agents, and skills tailored to your domain. This process requires your project specifications and decisions to effectively block technical planning until completed.

Yes, you can create domain-specific skills and agents tailored to your project's requirements. This process supports the parallel creation of rules, hooks, and agents to ensure the generated tooling accurately reflects your project specifications and prevents product plan drift.

Yes, approved project specifications and decisions are required before creating development guardrails. These specifications provide the necessary baseline for the scope-checking hooks and plan-adherence rules needed to prevent drift during software development.