event

A structured record of one interaction or action inside an agent conversation. It can include the author, text or other content, state changes, transfers between agents, and related details.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to record and inspect conversation history, tool calls and results, agent actions, state updates, and branches within a session.
Why use it?
A plain message list cannot fully show who acted, what structured data was exchanged, or how the conversation state changed.

Cursor rule

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 rules/altaidevorg/rules-for-ai/event
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/altaidevorg/rules-for-ai
Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 3,564 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 $0.03564
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01782
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00713
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00356

Measured 2d ago against content hash d5885a13fef4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

event 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.

examples/google-adk/event.mdc · 245 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 245 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Chapter 5: Event

In the previous chapter, we explored how the State object manages the dynamic context within a conversation, tracking changes via deltas. But how are these changes, along with the actual messages and actions, recorded chronologically? This chapter introduces the Event object, the fundamental unit representing a single interaction step within a Session.

Motivation and Use Case

A simple list of text messages isn't sufficient to fully capture a complex agent interaction. We need a richer structure to represent:

  • Who said or did something (user or a specific agent)?
  • What was the content (text, but also structured data like function calls/responses, or even references to binary artifacts)?
  • What actions were associated with this step (e.g., updating the State, transferring control to another agent)?
  • What metadata provides context (when did it happen, which agent invocation generated it, does it belong to a specific sub-conversation branch)?

The Event object provides this structured representation. It serves as the immutable log entry for every significant occurrence within a conversation, forming the history stored in Session.events. This detailed history is crucial for providing context to the LLM, enabling multi-turn dialogue, debugging agent behavior, and evaluating performance.

Central Use Case: A user asks our travel agent bot, "Book a flight to Paris for next Tuesday."

  1. The Runner receives this input and creates an Event (author='user', content=...). This event is added to the Session.
  2. The Agent (BaseAgent / LlmAgent) processes this. The underlying BaseLlmFlow might yield an Event representing the LLM's decision to call a flight search tool (author='travel_agent', content=...FunctionCall...). This event is added to the session.
  3. The search_flights Tool (BaseTool) executes and returns results. The flow generates an Event containing the results (author='search_flights', content=...FunctionResponse...) and possibly updates the state (actions.state_delta={'found_flights': [...]}). This event is added.
  4. The flow sends the results back to the LLM, which generates the final response. The flow yields one or more Event objects containing the text parts of the response (author='travel_agent', content=...Part(text=...)). These are added. Each step generates a distinct Event, collectively forming a detailed, replayable history of the interaction.

Read the full file on GitHub · 245 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 · 245 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A d5885a13fef4

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event is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository altaidevorg/rules-for-ai (2 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 3,564 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.