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.
npx agentmods add rules/briangmilnes/apas-verus/step-ngit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/briangmilnes/APAS-VERUSWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/rules/briangmilnes/apas-verus/step-n)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/briangmilnes/apas-verus/step-n"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/briangmilnes/apas-verus/step-n.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00146 | $0.00146 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00073 | $0.00073 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00029 | $0.00029 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00015 | $0.00015 |
Grade A, and why
step-n 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 5d 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.
What it actually says
STEP n
When the user says "STEP n" (e.g., "STEP 3"), this means:
- DO: Perform at most n iterations of file writing / verus verification
- DO: Stop after n iterations, even if problems remain
- DO: Leave the code in its current state with any errors/issues visible
- DO NOT: Continue fixing beyond n iterations
This allows the user to review intermediate states and understand what's happening.
Example: "STEP 2" means make at most 2 edit/verify cycles, then stop and show where things stand.
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.
- 5d ago First seen · 19 lines · 146 tokens per session scan A 6f0a596db049
step-n is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository briangmilnes/APAS-VERUS (10 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 146 tokens to every session, about $0.0007 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 2026-08-31.
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