human-in-the-loop

human-in-the-loop is a cursor rule for Cursor from marcoemrich/mad-tdd-mob-ai-driven. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,445 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Rules that require an AI coding agent to pause and ask the user for guidance at key points in Test-Driven Development (TDD). TDD means writing a failing test, making it pass with minimal code, and then improving the code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to request approval after the Red, Green, and Refactor phases, while reporting the tests, implementation choices, and code improvements made.
Why use it?
It keeps the person involved in important decisions instead of letting the agent move through every development step without confirmation.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit Use it to request approval after the Red, Green, and Refactor phases, while reporting the tests, implementation choices, and code improvements made.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/marcoemrich/mad-tdd-mob-ai-driven/human-in-the-loop
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/marcoemrich/mad-tdd-mob-ai-driven

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 1,445 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 $0.00000 $0.01445
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00723
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00289
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00145

Measured 9d ago against content hash 52b91f9c06e7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

human-in-the-loop 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/human-in-the-loop.mdc · 160 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 160 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Human-in-the-Loop TDD Rules

Description

These rules ensure the human stays engaged and can provide guidance at critical decision points during Test-Driven Development. The AI should pause and explicitly ask for user feedback in these specific situations.

Rule 1: End-of-Phase Confirmation

When to Apply

At the end of every TDD phase (Red, Green, or Refactor), before proceeding to the next phase or test.

What to Do

  1. Stop after completing the current phase

  2. Summarize what was just completed in this phase:

    After Red Phase:

    • Which test was activated
    • Prediction made and whether it was correct
    • Type of failure achieved (compilation/runtime error)

    After Green Phase:

    • Implementation approach taken (minimal code added)
    • Confirmation that test now passes
    • Any trade-offs or decisions made

    After Refactor Phase:

    • Refactorings attempted/completed:
      • Naming changes made
      • Mass calculations (before/after if applicable)
      • Structural improvements
      • Any refactoring opportunities that were rejected and why
  3. Explicitly ask for permission to continue:

    • After Red: "Red phase complete. Should I proceed to Green phase?"
    • After Green: "Green phase complete. Should I proceed to Refactor phase?"
    • After Refactor: "Refactor phase complete. Should I proceed to the next test?"

Why This Matters

  • Human maintains full control - No phase proceeds without explicit approval
  • Educational opportunity - Human can guide each individual step
  • Prevents over-implementation - Each phase does only what's required
  • Quality assurance - Human reviews every phase before proceeding
  • Fine-grained control - Human can intervene at any point in the process

Examples

🔴 Red Phase Complete:
**Test Activated**: "should return sum for two numbers"
**Prediction**: Runtime assertion error (Expected: 3, Received: 1) ✅ Correct
**Result**: Test fails as expected with assertion error

Red phase complete. Should I proceed to Green phase?

Read the full file on GitHub · 160 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. 9d ago First seen · 160 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 52b91f9c06e7

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human-in-the-loop is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository marcoemrich/mad-tdd-mob-ai-driven (33 stars, last pushed 10mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,445 tokens. 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.