clare-workflow

clare-workflow is a cursor rule for Cursor from jketreno/clare. It costs 750 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A project-wide set of instructions for how a coding agent should work, based on the CLARE framework.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps agents read project rules, respect human-only paths, plan complex changes, and run the required verification after editing files.
Why use it?
It gives every coding task the same checks, safety boundaries, and session-start context instead of relying on the agent to remember them.

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/jketreno/clare/clare-workflow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jketreno/clare

Made for: Cursor.

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README.md
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Per session 750 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 750 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.00750 $0.00750
Opus 5 $0.00375 $0.00375
Sonnet 5 $0.00150 $0.00150
Haiku 4.5 $0.00075 $0.00075

Measured 3d ago against content hash 51953ae9c7ee, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

clare-workflow 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.

.cursor/rules/clare-workflow.mdc · 82 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 82 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLARE Workflow

This project uses the CLARE framework. Apply these rules to every coding task.

Session Start — Announce Active Principles

At the start of the first response in any new Composer session or conversation, read clare/autonomy.yml and output this status block before answering:

🔒 CLARE framework active

C · Constrained — verify-ci.sh enforced
L · Limited — autonomy.yml: [found ✅ | NOT FOUND ⚠]
A · Assertive — constraint tests required
R · Reality-Aligned — sources_of_truth: [N concepts | none declared]
E · Ephemeral — generated files protected

humans-only zones: [list paths, or "none"]
verify-ci.sh: [found ✅ | NOT FOUND ⚠]

Fill in the bracketed values from the actual files. Show this block once per session. If clare/autonomy.yml is missing, tell the user to run the CLARE installer.

Before Starting Any Task

  1. Read clare/autonomy.yml to identify autonomy levels for affected paths
  2. Read clare/principles.md for applicable constraints
  3. For complex tasks (3+ files, new patterns): use PLAN mode first — show the plan, wait for approval, then implement

Verify After Code Changes

When to run it: only in a turn where you created, updated, or deleted a file. If you edited no files this turn — including any plan-mode, research, or read-only turn — do not run it.

How to run it (a terminating sequence, not a loop):

  1. Run ./clare/verify-ci.sh once.
  2. Exit code 0 → report PASS and stop.
  3. Non-zero → fix the reported failures, then run it once more.

Do not invoke it again for any other reason.

Reporting: if you ran verify-ci.sh this turn, include:

  • verify-ci.sh result: PASS/FAIL
  • command used
  • whether --fast, --fix, or --fail-fast was used (if applicable)

If you edited no files this turn, state "no edits this turn — verify-ci.sh not run" and do not invoke it. If running in read-only mode (Ask mode), state: "verify-ci.sh not run because session is read-only."

Rules guide behavior; CI enforces it. ./clare/verify-ci.sh remains the source of truth.

Read the full file on GitHub · 82 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. 3d ago First seen · 82 lines · 750 tokens per session scan A 51953ae9c7ee

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clare-workflow is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository jketreno/clare (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 750 tokens to every session, about $0.0037 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.