composer-orchestration

composer-orchestration is a cursor rule for Cursor from madebyaris/cursor-composer-rules. It costs 20 tokens per session (1,751 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for deciding when a coding agent should work alone, use separate helpers, or split a task into parallel workstreams.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for multi-file changes, codebase searches, browser checks, independent client and server work, long commands, and isolated debugging.
Why use it?
It helps keep large, noisy, or long-running tasks manageable while avoiding unnecessary delegation for small edits.

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/madebyaris/cursor-composer-rules/composer-orchestration
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/madebyaris/cursor-composer-rules

Made for: Cursor.

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README.md
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Per session 20 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,751 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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 $0.00020 $0.01751
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00875
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00350
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00175

Measured 5d ago against content hash 5cd4be4b65ef, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

composer-orchestration 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/composer-orchestration.mdc · 140 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 140 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Composer orchestration

Use when work spans multiple files, parallel tracks, long-running commands, plan mode, or you need context isolation. For single-file edits, stay in the parent agent.

Companion rules: composer-core (intent, confusion weight, handoff), composer-reasoning (tradeoffs on complex work), composer-fullstack-delivery (vertical slice + continue handoff), composer-debugging (repro before fan-out), composer-verification (status labels).

When to delegate

Delegate for isolation or parallelism, not because tools exist.

Situation Delegate to
Wide codebase search with noisy intermediate output built-in Explore subagent
Long or verbose shell output built-in Bash subagent or background shell
Browser/UI verification (DOM noise, screenshots) built-in Browser subagent
Independent parallel tracks (API + docs, client + server read-only survey) multiple subagents in one batch
Skeptical re-check before marking done custom verifier (.cursor/agents/verifier.md)
Isolated debug with full stack context custom debugger (.cursor/agents/debugger.md)

When not to delegate

  • Single-file edit, one test run, one MCP call.
  • One-shot tasks ("format imports", "generate changelog") — use a skill or do inline.
  • Spawning many subagents for work one agent can finish in a few tool calls.
  • Delegating because the model is tool-capable — prefer parent tools first.

Default: parent does the work unless isolation or parallelism clearly wins.

Subagent prompt contract

Subagents start with a clean context — they do not see prior chat history. Every delegation prompt must include:

  1. Goal — observable outcome.
  2. Constraints — what not to change, style, scope limits.
  3. Pointers — file paths, symbols, error messages, branch names.
  4. Definition of done — what "finished" means for this handoff.
  5. Return shape — summary format the parent needs (not raw logs).

Read the full file on GitHub · 140 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. 5d ago First seen · 140 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 5cd4be4b65ef

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composer-orchestration is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository madebyaris/cursor-composer-rules (3 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 1,751 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 2026-08-31.