speckit.constitution

A command for filling in a project constitution template at `.specify/memory/constitution.md`, including its principles and governance details.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or update a project’s written rules, principles, dates, and dependent artifacts from a template.
Why use it?
It replaces placeholder text with values from the user or project files and carries amendments into related project documents.

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/ivangrynenko/cursorrules/speckit.constitution
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ivangrynenko/cursorrules

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 1,026 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 95% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.01026
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00513
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00205
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00103

Measured 2d ago against content hash a28c36e03823, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

speckit.constitution 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.

Origin

This is a copy

95% identical to speckit.constitution — 17 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.cursor/commands/speckit.constitution.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

User Input

Use the user-provided arguments (if any) as contextual input

You MUST consider the user input before proceeding (if not empty).

Outline

You are updating the project constitution at .specify/memory/constitution.md. This file is a TEMPLATE containing placeholder tokens in square brackets (e.g. [PROJECT_NAME], [PRINCIPLE_1_NAME]). Your job is to (a) collect/derive concrete values, (b) fill the template precisely, and (c) propagate any amendments across dependent artifacts.

Follow this execution flow:

  1. Load the existing constitution template at .specify/memory/constitution.md.

    • Identify every placeholder token of the form [ALL_CAPS_IDENTIFIER]. IMPORTANT: The user might require less or more principles than the ones used in the template. If a number is specified, respect that - follow the general template. You will update the doc accordingly.
  2. Collect/derive values for placeholders:

    • If user input (conversation) supplies a value, use it.
    • Otherwise infer from existing repo context (README, docs, prior constitution versions if embedded).
    • For governance dates: RATIFICATION_DATE is the original adoption date (if unknown ask or mark TODO), LAST_AMENDED_DATE is today if changes are made, otherwise keep previous.
    • CONSTITUTION_VERSION must increment according to semantic versioning rules:
      • MAJOR: Backward incompatible governance/principle removals or redefinitions.
      • MINOR: New principle/section added or materially expanded guidance.
      • PATCH: Clarifications, wording, typo fixes, non-semantic refinements.
    • If version bump type ambiguous, propose reasoning before finalizing.
  3. Draft the updated constitution content:

    • Replace every placeholder with concrete text (no bracketed tokens left except intentionally retained template slots that the project has chosen not to define yet—explicitly justify any left).
    • Preserve heading hierarchy and comments can be removed once replaced unless they still add clarifying guidance.
    • Ensure each Principle section: succinct name line, paragraph (or bullet list) capturing non‑negotiable rules, explicit rationale if not obvious.
    • Ensure Governance section lists amendment procedure, versioning policy, and compliance review expectations.

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 lines

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 · 74 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A a28c36e03823

Subscribe to this mod's changes

speckit.constitution is a command published in the GitHub repository ivangrynenko/cursorrules (88 stars, last pushed 10mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,026 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 95% identical to speckit.constitution, differing in 17 lines, and is treated as a copy.