rein-triage

rein-triage is a cursor rule for Cursor from jstxn/rein. It costs 22 tokens per session (176 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A preparation step for unclear or wide-ranging coding tasks that identifies files, assumptions, success conditions, and limits.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before work spanning several files or involving uncertainty. It helps define what to inspect, what must remain unchanged, and when to stop.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of editing the wrong parts of a project or silently choosing between different interpretations of the request.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit Use it before work spanning several files or involving uncertainty. It helps define what to inspect, what must remain unchanged, and when to stop.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/jstxn/rein/rein-triage
View source ↗ jstxn/rein
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/jstxn/rein

Made for: Cursor.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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 22 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 176 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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 $0.00022 $0.00176
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00088
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00035
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00018

Measured 9d ago against content hash f079f49e16b5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rein-triage 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 9d 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/rein-triage.mdc · 29 lines

What it actually says

rein-triage

Use this before editing when the task is ambiguous, broad, risky, or likely to touch multiple files.

Steps

  1. Read the task and identify the most likely relevant files.
  2. State the top assumptions.
  3. Separate verified facts from unverified assumptions.
  4. Define what success looks like.
  5. Define what would count as cheating, bluffing, or reward hacking.
  6. If the task is impossible or conflicting, stop and report the conflict instead of forcing a pass.

Output

Emit a short triage note with:

  • relevant files
  • verified assumptions
  • open assumptions
  • success definition
  • cheating boundary
  • stop-and-report trigger, if any
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. 9d ago First seen · 29 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A f079f49e16b5

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rein-triage is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository jstxn/rein (12 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 176 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.