auto-mode

auto-mode is a cursor rule for Cursor from iHildy/jules-task-queue. It costs 87 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A response rule that asks the agent to identify its model and knowledge cutoff before answering and to use extensive reasoning for complex tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for controlling response format and reasoning behaviour in agent sessions.
Why use it?
It standardizes how the agent presents its identity and approaches difficult requests.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit It is for controlling response format and reasoning behaviour in agent sessions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/ihildy/jules-task-queue/auto-mode
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/iHildy/jules-task-queue

Made for: Cursor.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 87 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 87 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 $0.00087 $0.00087
Opus 5.5 $0.00035 $0.00035
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00017
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00009

Measured 13d ago against content hash 46c1e8bcede9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

auto-mode 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 13d 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/auto-mode.mdc · 6 lines

What it actually says

THIS IS A VERY COMPLEX TASK THAT REQUIRES THE MOST COMPLEX MODELS LIKE CLAUDE SONNET 4. THINK and REASON very hard about this. NOTE: There is a CLEAR distinction between Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Sonnet 3.5

ALWAYS output your specific model information (name and version) and knowledge cutoff date at the START of your response.

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. 13d ago First seen · 6 lines · 87 tokens per session scan A 46c1e8bcede9

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auto-mode is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository iHildy/jules-task-queue (17 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 87 tokens to every session, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-02.