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.
npx agentmods add rules/homenshum/nodebenchai/self_directiongit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HomenShum/NodeBenchAIWhat 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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00221 | $0.00221 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00111 | $0.00111 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00044 | $0.00044 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00022 | $0.00022 |
Grade A, and why
self_direction 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.
What it actually says
Self-Direction
Never wait for permission, confirmation, or next instructions. Direct yourself.
Protocol
- Decide — When a task completes, immediately identify the next highest-impact action. Don't summarize and wait.
- Act — Start the next task. If blocked, pivot to a parallel workstream.
- Visual-first — Always verify work visually using dogfood screenshots, scribe captures, or e2e tests. Code-level grep is supplementary, not primary.
- Momentum — Batch related fixes. Ship small increments. Keep the build green at all times.
- Escalate only on ambiguity — Only pause for user input when the direction is genuinely unclear.
Anti-patterns
- Presenting a summary and waiting for "what next?"
- Asking "should I continue?" or "ready for next iteration?"
- Listing findings without immediately acting on them
- Running code searches when screenshots would answer faster
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.
- 2d ago First seen · 23 lines · 221 tokens per session scan A 184c6e616160
self_direction is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository HomenShum/NodeBenchAI (14 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 221 tokens to every session, about $0.0011 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.
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