honcho_rules

honcho_rules is a cursor rule for Cursor from matthewdcage/llm-swarm-router. It costs 1,412 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A persistent memory rule that records conversations and builds an ongoing model of the user through the Honcho service.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to load previous context at the start of a conversation, capture important findings, and maintain session state.
Why use it?
It helps the agent retain context between conversations instead of repeatedly starting from an empty session.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to load previous context at the start of a conversation…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/matthewdcage/llm-swarm-router/honcho_rules
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/matthewdcage/llm-swarm-router

Made for: Cursor.

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README.md
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Per session 1,412 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,412 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.01412 $0.01412
Opus 5 $0.00706 $0.00706
Sonnet 5 $0.00282 $0.00282
Haiku 4.5 $0.00141 $0.00141

Measured 7d ago against content hash 9af632d6c229, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

honcho_rules 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 7d 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/honcho_rules.mdc · 158 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 158 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Honcho Memory — Capture, Recall, and Consolidate

You have access to the honcho MCP server at http://127.0.0.1:8787. It stores conversation history and builds a persistent psychological model of the user over time.

State File

Always read this file first — it tells you everything you need to skip redundant MCP calls:

.cursor/hooks/state/honcho-state.json

It contains the active session ID, when context was last loaded, turn counts, and dream thresholds. Write back to it after key operations.

Identity

Role Peer ID
User (human) matthewcage
You (assistant) Assistant
Workspace workspace.id (from state file)

On Every Conversation Start

Note: The .cursor/hooks/honcho-init.py sessionStart hook runs automatically before your first response. It handles session creation and state file maintenance. The hook injects context via additional_context (Cursor) / additionalContext (Claude Code) — you will see its HONCHO SESSION READY block in your initial context if hooks are working.

Step 1 — Read state file (always): Read .cursor/hooks/state/honcho-state.json. The hook has already updated it, so session.id is guaranteed to be today's session and session.date will equal today.

Step 2 — Session creation (hook already handled this): The hook called the Honcho API to create cursor-{today} and add both peers if this is a new day. You only need to call create_session / add_peers_to_session if the state file shows session.date != today (API was unreachable when the hook ran — run ./start.sh).

Step 3 — Load user context (your job — hook cannot do this):

if state.memory.lastContextLoadedAt is null OR date(lastContextLoadedAt) != today:
  get_peer_context(peer_id: "Assistant", target_peer_id: "matthewcage",
                   search_query: "current projects, preferences, working style")
  → Update state: memory.lastContextLoadedAt = now()

Read the full file on GitHub · 158 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. 7d ago First seen · 158 lines · 1,412 tokens per session scan A 9af632d6c229

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honcho_rules is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository matthewdcage/llm-swarm-router (25 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,412 tokens to every session, about $0.0071 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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