output-format

output-format is a cursor rule for Cursor from kyungseo/ai-workflow-harness. It costs 224 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A response-writing rule set that puts the main result first, followed by changes, verification, and risks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when an agent reports planned or completed coding work, verification steps, risks, or changes to project tracking state.
Why use it?
It makes project updates easier to scan and shows how conclusions were checked. It also records assumptions and warns about decisions that may be costly to undo.

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/kyungseo/ai-workflow-harness/output-format
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kyungseo/ai-workflow-harness

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.

agentmods badge for output-format

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/kyungseo/ai-workflow-harness/output-format"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/kyungseo/ai-workflow-harness/output-format.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 224 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 224 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 $0.00224 $0.00224
Opus 5 $0.00112 $0.00112
Sonnet 5 $0.00045 $0.00045
Haiku 4.5 $0.00022 $0.00022

Measured 5d ago against content hash 738a9fe1e721, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

output-format 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 5d 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/output-format.mdc · 28 lines

What it actually says

Output Format

Default response order:

  1. Conclusion
  2. Changes
  3. Verification
  4. Risks

MUST:

  • Lead with the main result or recommendation.
  • State assumptions when they affect the decision.
  • Include reversal cost for technical decisions.
  • Mention verification commands, scenarios, or checks.
  • Mention state-change needs when Work state, checkpoints, blockers, or next actions change.
  • Do not edit docs/STATUS.md without explicit user approval; first provide the Approval Matrix state-change proposal. Active Work pointer changes may be one line naming the Work ID, while phase/focus/recent decision changes require a full STATUS Update Proposal with section, reason, resulting state, and reversal cost.
  • For planned work, include the current state machine phase and next transition.
  • For completed work, state whether the result is CHECKPOINT, END, or FAIL/RECOVER.

Keep responses concise unless the user asks for detailed analysis.

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. 5d ago First seen · 28 lines · 224 tokens per session scan A 738a9fe1e721

Subscribe to this mod's changes

output-format is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository kyungseo/ai-workflow-harness (13 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 224 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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