030-autoresearch-loop

030-autoresearch-loop is a cursor rule for Cursor from giang6283623/minimal-vibe-coding-kit. It costs 0 tokens per session (159 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Rules for an autoresearch loop that repeatedly changes a repository to improve a defined measurement. TDD is not mentioned; the rules instead require a baseline, limits, protected files, and logged experiments.

In plain words
What is it for?
They are for defining an objective and metric, running a baseline, trying controlled edits, retaining improvements, and checking agent-facing changes.
Why use it?
They keep repeated experiments measurable and prevent changes from being kept without evidence that they help.

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/giang6283623/minimal-vibe-coding-kit/030-autoresearch-loop
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/giang6283623/minimal-vibe-coding-kit

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.

agentmods badge for 030-autoresearch-loop

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/giang6283623/minimal-vibe-coding-kit/030-autoresearch-loop"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/giang6283623/minimal-vibe-coding-kit/030-autoresearch-loop.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 159 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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 $0.00000 $0.00159
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00079
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00032
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00016

Measured 5d ago against content hash 599e429d7f69, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

030-autoresearch-loop 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.

.cursor/rules/030-autoresearch-loop.mdc · 8 lines

What it actually says

Before repeated experiments, read backbone.yml; if it is uninitialized, complete the first-time init approval flow before experiment edits. Define goal, metric command, direction, editable paths, protected paths, budget, and timeout. Run a logged baseline before edits. Keep only improvements or safe simplifications. Run the AgentShield probe before the final report when kept changes touch agent surfaces.

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. 5d ago First seen · 8 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 599e429d7f69

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030-autoresearch-loop is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository giang6283623/minimal-vibe-coding-kit (21 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 159 tokens. 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.