05-daemons-ipc

A set of rules for understanding the HAPPE, IDA, and mcp-hostd background services and how they communicate through IPC, a method for processes to exchange messages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when tracing communication or memory-retrieval problems across these daemons.
Why use it?
It helps an agent locate message definitions, follow memory retrieval, and distinguish the responsibilities of each service.

Cursor rule for Cursor

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/frostdev-ops/gemini-cli/05-daemons-ipc
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/frostdev-ops/gemini-cli

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 50 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 468 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00050 $0.00468
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00234
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00094
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00047

Measured 2d ago against content hash e9e4292567bd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

05-daemons-ipc 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.

.cursor/rules/05-daemons-ipc.mdc · 23 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 23 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A e9e4292567bd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

05-daemons-ipc is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository frostdev-ops/gemini-cli (17 stars, last pushed 1y ago), with no licence file. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 468 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.