mode

A command for switching the project’s working mode between paired, solo, and autopilot. The mode controls how closely the user is involved while the agent works.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to view the current mode or change it before work that may require frequent review, occasional questions, or end-to-end execution.
Why use it?
It makes the expected level of confirmation and autonomy explicit. The command also records the selected mode in the project’s modes guide.

Command

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/tacoda/keystone/mode
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tacoda/keystone
Per session 13 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 248 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 $0.00013 $0.00248
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00124
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00050
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00025

Measured 2d ago against content hash 29f94cf72f11, 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.

.charter/commands/mode.md · 25 lines

What it actually says

mode

Switch the charter pacing mode (paired / solo / autopilot). Read .charter/guides/process/modes.md.

Activities

  1. If the user named paired, solo, or autopilot, set that as the active mode.
  2. If no mode was named, print the current mode and a one-line description of each.
  3. Update .charter/guides/process/modes.md in place — replace the "Current mode" line. Do not rewrite the rest of the file.

Mode summary

  • paired — user is at the keyboard reviewing every step. Confirm before non-trivial edits.
  • solo — user is around but not watching every step. Run sensors and proceed; ask only at genuine forks.
  • autopilot — user is away. Execute end-to-end; pause only on iron-law violations or destructive actions.

Iron law

No silent overwrites of state files. Show the modes.md diff before saving.

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 · 25 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A 29f94cf72f11

Subscribe to this mod's changes

mode is a command published in the GitHub repository tacoda/keystone (44 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 248 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.