hatch3r-clarification-default

hatch3r-clarification-default is a cursor rule for Cursor from hatch3r/hatch3r. It costs 2,114 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A rule requiring an agent to resolve important ambiguity with a user question before making changes. It covers unclear scope, competing approaches, irreversible actions, and other situations where guessing could change the result.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it in agent workflows that create, modify, rename, or delete files or other project artifacts. It defines when clarification must happen before execution.
Why use it?
It prevents agents from silently choosing the wrong interpretation or taking risky actions without confirmation.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: a Cursor rule (.mdc). Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it in agent workflows that create, modify, rename, or delete files or other project artifacts. It defines when clarification must happen before execution.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/hatch3r/hatch3r/hatch3r-clarification-default
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hatch3r/hatch3r

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 2,114 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 2,114 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.02114 $0.02114
Opus 5 $0.01057 $0.01057
Sonnet 5 $0.00423 $0.00423
Haiku 4.5 $0.00211 $0.00211

Measured 4d ago against content hash 402e14383b2d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hatch3r-clarification-default 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 4d 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/hatch3r-clarification-default.mdc · 85 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

hatch3r Clarification Default

Pillars: P8 (Clarification & Fan-out Discipline)

Canonical reference for the how of asking: agents/shared/user-question-protocol.md. This rule governs the whether — it is the corpus-wide, always-on floor that every adapter ships to the end-user repo, so B1 enforcement does not depend on per-artifact body inheritance alone.

B1 directive (verbatim)

Every hatch3r-invoked agentic workflow detects and resolves ambiguity via agents/shared/user-question-protocol.md BEFORE executing — default behavior, not exception-driven.

Default-path, not exception: a workflow that proceeds without resolving a live trigger below has violated B1, even if it later succeeds. Asking is the baseline; silent assumption is the deviation that must be justified.

Five-trigger set

Apply the protocol before any write-tool invocation when ANY of these hold:

  1. Ambiguous scope — the request maps to two or more reasonable interpretations that produce different artifacts.
  2. Multiple valid interpretations — two or more viable approaches with materially different cost, scope, or risk.
  3. Irreversible action — deleting an artifact, renaming a public artifact id, dropping a frontmatter field, force-pushing a branch.
  4. Missing acceptance criteria — no testable definition of done for the requested change.
  5. Unattested product decision — the change destroys or transforms user data, or alters user-visible behavior beyond stated acceptance criteria, with no user statement authorizing it; an agent-authored comment or PR sentence is self-certification, not authorization.

If none of the five hold and the safer default is obvious and reversible, proceed and note the default — do not manufacture a question (anti-pattern per agents/shared/user-question-protocol.md "Echo-as-question").

§0 ambiguity gate (every mutating artifact)

Every artifact under agents/, commands/, and skills/ that can mutate files MUST carry a §0 (or "Step 0 — Ambiguity gate") block as its first procedural step. The block:

Read the full file on GitHub · 85 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. 4d ago First seen · 85 lines · 2,114 tokens per session scan A 402e14383b2d

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hatch3r-clarification-default is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository hatch3r/hatch3r (26 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,114 tokens to every session, about $0.0106 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 2026-09-03.