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.
npx agentmods add agents/igrechuhin/cortex/shared-defaultsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/igrechuhin/CortexWhat 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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00033 | $0.00294 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00016 | $0.00147 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00007 | $0.00059 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00029 |
Grade A, and why
shared-defaults 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 yesterday.
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.
What it actually says
Shared Defaults
These are the Synapse defaults. Projects override via their rules loaded by rules() at runtime.
Quality Thresholds
- Max function length: 30 lines
- Max file length: 400 lines
- Coverage threshold (global): 0.90 (90%)
- Coverage threshold (new/modified code): 0.95 (95%)
Fix Loop Limits
- Max iterations: 3
- Convergence rule: if iteration 2 violation count >= iteration 1, abort — the loop is oscillating and will not converge
Test Pattern
- AAA (Arrange / Act / Assert)
Dependency Injection
- All external dependencies must be injected via initializers (not imported directly inside functions)
Incremental Validation
- After each refactor: run type check and quality check before the next change — do not batch
Agent-internal result text
Sub-agent prose is for other agents, not end users. Keep it compact: drop filler and hedging; keep paths, errors, and identifiers verbatim. Full guidance: cortex://rules — Agent-Internal Communication.
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.
- yesterday First seen · 40 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 3d09af4b803d
shared-defaults is an agent published in the GitHub repository igrechuhin/Cortex (3 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 294 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.
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