427-stigmergic-workflows-optimized

427-stigmergic-workflows-optimized is a cursor rule for coding agents from hamzaamjad/cursor-rules. It costs 5 tokens per session (380 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Rules for coordinating work through visible changes in a shared project environment, such as status comments, filenames, profiling markers, and workflow files. This is called stigmergic coordination: people or tools respond to traces left in the environment.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to mark work state, record technical decisions, surface performance hotspots, organize large directories, and let automation react to project signals.
Why use it?
It makes progress, decisions, blockers, and recurring patterns easier to discover without direct messages between every worker.

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/hamzaamjad/cursor-rules/427-stigmergic-workflows-optimized
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hamzaamjad/cursor-rules

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Per session 5 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 380 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 $0.00005 $0.00380
Opus 5 $0.00003 $0.00190
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00076
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00038

Measured 3d ago against content hash c1aee28189d6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

427-stigmergic-workflows-optimized 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 3d 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.

rules/400-patterns/427-stigmergic-workflows-optimized.mdc · 59 lines

What it actually says

Stigmergic Workflow Patterns

Purpose: Enable coordination through environmental traces rather than direct communication.

Core Implementation

Environmental Markers

  • Status comments: TODO(category): description → classify work state
  • File naming: feature_WIP_username.tsx → broadcast progress
  • Decision trails: // DECIDED: approach X because Y → document rationale

Adaptive Signals

  • Performance hotspots accumulate profiling markers
  • Success patterns strengthen through repetition
  • Warning indicators emerge at failure points

Artifact Communication

# .workflow-state.yaml
current_phase: implementation
blockers: [api_design]
decisions:
  - choice: REST over GraphQL
    rationale: latency requirements
    evidence: benchmarks/api-comparison.json

Self-Organization Rules

  • Auto-index directories when files > 20
  • Promote patterns used > 10x to recommended
  • Cluster related work via naming proximity

Validation

  • Context discovery < 30 seconds
  • State inferable from environment alone
  • Conflict rate reduction measurable

Integration

  • Version control: Branch names as signals
  • CI/CD: Pipelines respond to state markers
  • Scaling: More valuable with team size

External patterns: @notepads/400-patterns/stigmergic-examples.md

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. 3d ago First seen · 59 lines · 5 tokens per session scan A c1aee28189d6

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427-stigmergic-workflows-optimized is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository hamzaamjad/cursor-rules (2 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It adds 5 tokens to every session and 380 once invoked, about $0.0000 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 2026-08-31.