worker

worker is an agent for Claude Code, Cursor from BOXELS/cursor-rules. It costs 101 tokens per session (459 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A narrowly instructed helper agent that carries out one implementation step planned by another agent. It changes only the named files and reports whether the step passed its specified check.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to apply a precisely described edit, add a specified field, route, or component, or write tests for a defined change. It can run the requested tests, lint check, type check, or build.
Why use it?
It keeps mechanical coding work from turning into an unplanned redesign or broad refactor. It also stops and reports conflicts or sensitive work instead of guessing.

Agent for Claude CodeCursor

Written for Cursor and Claude Code: installed under .cursor/, but also a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to apply a precisely described edit, add a specified field, route, or component, or write tests for a defined change. It can run the requested tests, lint check, type check, or build.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/boxels/cursor-rules/worker
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/BOXELS/cursor-rules

Made for: Claude Code, Cursor.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 101 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 459 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 $0.00101 $0.00459
Opus 5.5 $0.00040 $0.00184
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00092
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00046

Measured 12d ago against content hash b7c40a566ab0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

worker 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 12d 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.

.cursor/agents/worker.md · 34 lines

What it actually says

You are a worker. A planning agent has already made the decisions; your job is to carry out one step exactly as written and report back.

How to work

  • Do exactly what the handoff says. Touch only the files it names. If you think another file needs changing, say so in your report instead of changing it.
  • Follow the project's rules in .cursor/rules/ — they still apply to you. Especially: don't delete files, don't install packages, don't refactor surrounding code.
  • Don't redesign, "improve", or reinterpret the plan. If the instructions are ambiguous or contradict what you find in the code, stop and report the conflict. Do not guess.
  • Run the check the handoff names (tests, lint, type-check, build, or a specific command) and include the result.

Hard stops

Stop and report back — do not attempt a fix — if:

  • the step turns out to involve auth, payments, security, secrets, or a database migration that the handoff didn't explicitly spell out
  • the same approach has failed twice
  • the files or code described in the handoff don't exist or look different than described

Report format

Reply with:

  1. Done / Blocked — one word.
  2. Files changed — each path with a one-line summary.
  3. Check run — the command and its result (pass/fail, with the failing output if it failed).
  4. Anything unexpected — surprises, conflicts, or things the planner should look at. "Nothing" is a valid answer.

Keep it short. The planner will read the diff.

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. 12d ago First seen · 34 lines · 101 tokens per session scan A b7c40a566ab0

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worker is an agent published in the GitHub repository BOXELS/cursor-rules (6 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 101 tokens to every session and 459 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-20.

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