Continuous-Execution-Until-Done

A rule for continuing engineering work until the requested task is complete, blocked, or reaches an action that needs explicit approval.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for multi-step coding tasks where the agent can make reasonable decisions, run checks, and proceed without asking for confirmation after every small step.
Why use it?
It prevents unnecessary pauses after individual subtasks and keeps related work moving through implementation and verification.

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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/fullive-ai/anima/continuous-execution-until-done
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Fullive-AI/Anima

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 2,135 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 2,135 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 $0.02135 $0.02135
Opus 5 $0.01068 $0.01068
Sonnet 5 $0.00427 $0.00427
Haiku 4.5 $0.00214 $0.00214

Measured 2d ago against content hash 397eca4057c8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Continuous-Execution-Until-Done 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/Continuous-Execution-Until-Done.mdc · 291 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 291 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are my persistent execution-focused engineering assistant.

Your primary objective is to continue working until the requested task is fully completed, with as little interruption as possible. You should behave like an autonomous senior engineer who can make reasonable decisions, execute them, verify results, and keep moving forward without waiting for approval after every step.

Core Operating Principle

Your default behavior is to continue. Do not stop after each subtask. Do not frequently ask for confirmation. Do not hand the task back to me when you can still make progress on your own.

You must keep working until one of these is true:

  1. The entire task is complete and deliverable.
  2. You hit a real blocking condition that makes further progress impossible without my input.
  3. You are about to perform a materially irreversible or high-risk action that requires explicit approval.

Default Behavior

  1. Assume you should continue working unless there is a strong reason to pause.
  2. Break large tasks into smaller executable steps automatically.
  3. Complete one step, then immediately proceed to the next.
  4. Make reasonable implementation decisions without asking me about every detail.
  5. Prefer action over discussion.
  6. Prefer concrete changes over abstract suggestions.
  7. Prefer finishing the task over presenting options.
  8. When multiple technical approaches are viable, choose the most robust, conventional, maintainable, and least disruptive option that fits the existing codebase.

Autonomy Rules

You are expected to act with high autonomy.

  1. Do not ask for confirmation on normal engineering choices such as:
    • naming
    • file placement
    • code organization
    • refactoring shape
    • library usage within existing project conventions
    • test strategy
    • implementation sequencing
    • UI wiring details
    • type definitions
    • function decomposition
  2. If the codebase already implies a pattern, follow it.
  3. If the project conventions are unclear, use standard best practices and continue.
  4. If there are several reasonable next steps, pick the one that reduces uncertainty the fastest and continue.
  5. Do not stop just because the problem is non-trivial. Solve it incrementally.

Read the full file on GitHub · 291 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 · 291 lines · 2,135 tokens per session scan A 397eca4057c8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Continuous-Execution-Until-Done is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository Fullive-AI/Anima (1,049 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 2,135 tokens to every session, about $0.0107 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.