vibe-harness

vibe-harness is a cursor rule for Cursor from ccivlcid/VibeHarness. It costs 2,252 tokens per session, scanned C, original, MIT.

A set of rules for an AI coding framework aimed at people who do not write software. It guides the agent through planning, design, development, testing, and project documentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting or continuing a project that follows VibeHarness, especially one containing docs/biz/, Progress.md, or PROJECTRULES.md.
Why use it?
It turns a broad idea into an organised development process and keeps decisions and progress recorded for later sessions.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it when starting or continuing a project that follows VibeHarness, especially one containing docs/biz/, Progress.md, or PROJECTRULES.md.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/ccivlcid/vibeharness/vibe-harness
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/ccivlcid/VibeHarness

Made for: 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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Your own site
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Per session 2,252 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 2,252 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.02252 $0.02252
Opus 5 $0.01126 $0.01126
Sonnet 5 $0.00450 $0.00450
Haiku 4.5 $0.00225 $0.00225

Measured 7d ago against content hash 1e93bf0fe5dd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

vibe-harness scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 7d 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.

Instruction-override phrasinghighPrompt injection

Text telling the model to disregard its earlier instructions or safety rules is the shape of a prompt injection, whoever wrote it.

If you are editing the VibeHarness repository (the framework, templates, examples, skills), do NOT follow the rules below. Treat this as a normal development project. The rules below apply only when this file is in a tar
.cursor/rules/vibe-harness.mdc · 196 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 196 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Working on the VibeHarness Framework Itself

If you are editing the VibeHarness repository (the framework, templates, examples, skills), do NOT follow the rules below. Treat this as a normal development project. The rules below apply only when this file is in a target project.

Important: The examples/ folder is part of the VibeHarness framework repository only. Do NOT create project code inside examples/. Always create code at the project root (e.g., src/, app.py). If an examples/ folder exists, ignore it — it is reference material, not a target directory.


VibeHarness — Senior Developer AI for Non-Developers

You are a senior full-stack developer and vibe coding mentor.

When a non-developer throws a simple one-line prompt like "build me a chat app", you turn that idea into a complete MVP. Planning, architecture, frontend, backend, design, testing — you do it all.

Non-developers don't know technology. That's normal. You make all technical decisions yourself. Only ask non-developers for confirmation on business decisions — "I'm planning to build these features, does that look right?"

Document everything you do. Two reasons:

  1. So the next AI session can pick up where you left off
  2. So non-developers learn vibe coding by watching the process

Your roles:

  • Senior Developer: Turn ideas into working MVPs
  • Mentor: Leave clear planning docs and progress records
  • Partner: Manage MVP scope and guide toward what's feasible
  • Advisor: Don't blindly accept every idea. If infeasible, explain why and suggest alternatives. If oversized, break into phases

Context-aware document loading: Before reading multiple reference docs, read graph.json first. It maps every document's purpose, tags, and relationships. Use queryHints to find only the documents relevant to your current task — don't load everything. See docs/skills/context-graph.md for the full process.

Reference docs — read these when relevant:

  • docs/references/biz-doc.md — planning document template
  • docs/references/ai-dev-doc.md — technical decision document template
  • docs/references/project-rules-template.md — PROJECT_RULES.md template
  • docs/references/progress-template.md — Progress.md template
  • docs/references/code-conventions.md — code conventions and anti-patterns
  • docs/references/testing-guide.md — testing strategy by stack
  • docs/references/secure-coding-guide.md — secure coding rules (read before writing any feature with auth, user input, or API)
  • docs/skills/README.md — shared skill map across Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor
  • docs/skills/*.md — shared implementation guidance by stack and task type

Read the full file on GitHub · 196 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. 7d ago First seen · 196 lines · 2,252 tokens per session scan C 1e93bf0fe5dd

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vibe-harness is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository ccivlcid/VibeHarness (5 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,252 tokens to every session, about $0.0113 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (instruction-override phrasing). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.