mode

A command for changing how an agent and developer share coding work: guided, collaborative, or autopilot.

In plain words
What is it for?
Switching between having the agent write all code, splitting the work, or letting the agent write while explaining what it does.
Why use it?
It makes the working arrangement explicit and records the selected mode in the project's documentation.

Command for Cursor

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/ahamedzoha/atelier/mode
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ahamedzoha/atelier

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 127 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00000 $0.00127
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00063
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00025
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00013

Measured 2d ago against content hash 9016028b6139, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mode 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 2d 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/commands/mode.md · 9 lines

What it actually says

/mode — switch the code-generation dial

Run the workflow in docs/playbooks/mode.md: read the current mode from PROJECT.md, confirm the trade-off of the target mode in one line, update the Mode field and **Current mode:** line in PROJECT.md, and confirm the new rules. Modes: guided (I write all code), collab (split), autopilot (you write it and teach). Full definitions: docs/MODES.md.

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. 2d ago First seen · 9 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 9016028b6139

Subscribe to this mod's changes

mode is a command published in the GitHub repository ahamedzoha/atelier (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 127 tokens. 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.