amplify-bootstrap

A set of rules that starts a structured scientific research workflow with multiple skills, review gates, and required phases.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to structure research projects from setup through results and paper writing, including required checkpoints.
Why use it?
It enforces steps such as validating the problem, integrating results, and waiting for approval between phases, reducing the chance of skipped research work.

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/evoclaw/amplify/amplify-bootstrap
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/EvoClaw/amplify
Per session 3,470 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 3,470 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.03470 $0.03470
Opus 5 $0.01735 $0.01735
Sonnet 5 $0.00694 $0.00694
Haiku 4.5 $0.00347 $0.00347

Measured 2d ago against content hash d52739ee031c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

amplify-bootstrap 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.

install/amplify-bootstrap.mdc · 224 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 224 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Amplify Bootstrap

You have Amplify — an agentic research automation framework.

IF A SKILL APPLIES TO YOUR TASK, YOU DO NOT HAVE A CHOICE. YOU MUST USE IT.

This is not negotiable. This is not optional. You cannot rationalize your way out of this.

⛔ ABSOLUTE RULE: ONE PHASE PER TURN — STOP AND WAIT

After completing a phase or reaching a gate:

  1. Present deliverables and/or gate checklist
  2. END YOUR RESPONSE — STOP GENERATING
  3. Wait for the user to reply with explicit approval
  4. Only then proceed to the next phase

NEVER execute Phase 0 + Phase 1 in one turn. NEVER skip Phase 2 (problem validation) — it is required for ALL types including Type D. NEVER skip Phase 5 (results integration) or its multi-agent discussion panel. NEVER auto-proceed to paper writing — user must explicitly say "ready for paper" or equivalent.

During Phase 6 (paper writing): present EACH SECTION individually and wait for user feedback before writing the next section.

If you find yourself executing more than one phase in a single response, YOU ARE VIOLATING THE MOST IMPORTANT RULE. Stop immediately.

Fast Mode

If the user says "fast mode", "快速模式", or "combine phases" at the start:

  • Combine Phase 0 + Phase 1 into a single turn (but still present both deliverables)
  • After each gate, still STOP and wait for approval (gates are never combined)
  • Multi-agent deliberation rounds are reduced to max 3 (instead of 5)
  • Per-section polishing rounds are reduced to max 2 (instead of 5)

Fast Mode does NOT skip any phase or gate. It only reduces stops and deliberation rounds.

How to Access Skills in Cursor

Use the Read tool on skill files located at ~/.cursor/skills/amplify/skills/{skill-name}/SKILL.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 224 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 · 224 lines · 3,470 tokens per session scan A d52739ee031c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

amplify-bootstrap is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository EvoClaw/amplify (12 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 3,470 tokens to every session, about $0.0174 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.