cortexloop-baseline

A command for recording and comparing a legacy codebase's existing technical debt, meaning known code problems that have not yet been fixed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to accept an initial baseline, compare later reports, see new, fixed, and remaining findings, and apply the comparison in continuous integration.
Why use it?
It prevents old findings from failing checks while still highlighting new critical or high-severity findings.

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/whitequeen306/code-cortex-loop/cortexloop-baseline
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/whitequeen306/code-cortex-loop
Per session 16 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 451 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 $0.00016 $0.00451
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00226
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00090
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00045

Measured yesterday against content hash 85f6a266e625, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cortexloop-baseline 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.

commands/cortexloop-baseline.md · 68 lines

What it actually says

/cortexloop-baseline

Manage technical debt baseline so CodeCortexLoop only fails on new findings in CI.

When to use

  • First time on a legacy repo — too many existing issues? Run accept to snapshot current debt.
  • Every PR after that — run diff; CI gates only on new Critical/High findings.

Flow

1. Run analysis first

Run /cortexloop or /cortexloop-pre-pr in Report or CI mode to produce docs/cortexloop/report.json.

2. Choose action

Ask the user:

  • Accept baseline — snapshot all current open findings as accepted debt
  • Diff against baseline — compare current report to baseline, show new/fixed/remaining

3. Execute scripts

From project root:

Accept (first time):

node scripts/baseline.mjs accept docs/cortexloop/report.json

Diff (subsequent runs):

node scripts/baseline.mjs diff docs/cortexloop/report.json

Outputs:

  • .cortexloop/baseline.json — accepted fingerprints
  • .cortexloop/baseline-diff.json — new / fixed / remaining

4. CI with baseline

node scripts/baseline.mjs diff docs/cortexloop/report.json
node scripts/ci-gate.mjs docs/cortexloop/report.json --baseline

Only new Critical/High findings fail the gate. Remaining baseline debt is ignored.

Rules

Load rules/baseline-policy.mdc for fingerprint semantics and ratchet behavior.

Report summary

After diff, summarize for the user:

Bucket Meaning
new Introduced since baseline — must fix or update baseline
fixed Was in baseline, no longer present — progress!
remaining Still open from baseline — tracked debt
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. yesterday First seen · 68 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 85f6a266e625

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cortexloop-baseline is a command published in the GitHub repository whitequeen306/code-cortex-loop (15 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 451 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.