fest-understand

fest-understand is a command for Claude Code, Cursor from Obedience-Corp/festival. It costs 21 tokens per session (216 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A command reference for learning the Festival Methodology, a way to organize development work into phases, sequences, tasks, and quality checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to learn the methodology, structure, task writing, naming rules, work types, quality gates, and available workflows.
Why use it?
It gives a clear explanation of the method and its rules instead of requiring users to infer them from the command names or directory structure.

Command for Claude CodeCursor

Written for Claude Code and Cursor: arguments in frontmatter, but also a Cursor plugin manifest.

Good fit Use it to learn the methodology, structure, task writing, naming rules, work types, quality gates, and available workflows.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/obedience-corp/festival/fest-understand
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/Obedience-Corp/festival

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 21 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 216 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 $0.00021 $0.00216
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00108
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00043
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00022

Measured 8d ago against content hash 6efdb2f59968, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fest-understand 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 8d 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-plugin/commands/fest-understand.md · 35 lines

What it actually says

Learn Festival Methodology

Run fest understand commands to teach the user (or yourself) about the methodology.

If no topic specified, start with the overview:

fest understand methodology

For a specific topic:

fest understand {{topic}}

Available topics:

  • methodology: Core principles and philosophy
  • structure: Three-level hierarchy (phases, sequences, tasks)
  • tasks: How to write and execute tasks
  • rules: Naming conventions and structural rules
  • types: Festival and phase types
  • gates: Quality gates at sequence boundaries

Present the output clearly. If the user has follow-up questions, use additional fest understand commands or read the methodology docs directly.

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. 8d ago First seen · 35 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 6efdb2f59968

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fest-understand is a command published in the GitHub repository Obedience-Corp/festival (50 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 216 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.