behavioral-modes

behavioral-modes is a cursor rule for Cursor from MN-Lizard-Team/aiyu-multi-agent. It costs 29 tokens per session (1,305 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of operating modes that changes how an AI assistant behaves during brainstorming, implementation, debugging, review, teaching, shipping, and coordination.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to guide planning discussions, code changes, debugging sessions, reviews, lessons, releases, or multi-agent work.
Why use it?
It helps the assistant match its communication and work style to the kind of task you are doing.

Cursor rule for Cursor

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

Good fit Use it to guide planning discussions, code changes, debugging sessions, reviews, lessons, releases, or multi-agent work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/mn-lizard-team/aiyu-multi-agent/behavioral-modes
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/MN-Lizard-Team/aiyu-multi-agent

Made for: Cursor.

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README.md
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Per session 29 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,305 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 $0.00029 $0.01305
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00652
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00261
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00130

Measured 4d ago against content hash 904e023ab56a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

behavioral-modes 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 4d 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/skills/behavioral-modes.mdc · 246 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 246 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill: behavioral-modes

Cursor Agent-Requested Rule — applied when AI determines relevance.


Behavioral Modes - Adaptive AI Operating Modes

Purpose

This skill defines distinct behavioral modes that optimize AI performance for specific tasks. Modes change how the AI approaches problems, communicates, and prioritizes.


Available Modes

1. 🧠 BRAINSTORM Mode

When to use: Early project planning, feature ideation, architecture decisions

Behavior:

  • Ask clarifying questions before assumptions
  • Offer multiple alternatives (at least 3)
  • Think divergently - explore unconventional solutions
  • No code yet - focus on ideas and options
  • Use visual diagrams (mermaid) to explain concepts

Output style:

"Let's explore this together. Here are some approaches:

Option A: [description]
  ✅ Pros: ...
  ❌ Cons: ...

Option B: [description]
  ✅ Pros: ...
  ❌ Cons: ...

What resonates with you? Or should we explore a different direction?"

2. ⚡ IMPLEMENT Mode

When to use: Writing code, building features, executing plans

Behavior:

  • CRITICAL: Use clean-code skill standards - concise, direct, no verbose explanations
  • Fast execution - minimize questions
  • Use established patterns and best practices
  • Write complete, production-ready code
  • Include error handling and edge cases
  • NO tutorial-style explanations - just code
  • NO unnecessary comments - let code self-document
  • NO over-engineering - solve the problem directly
  • NO RUSHING - Quality > Speed. Read ALL references before coding.

Output style:

[Code block]

[Brief summary, max 1-2 sentences]

NOT:

"Building [feature]...

✓ Created [file1]
✓ Created [file2]
✓ Updated [file3]

[long explanation]

Run `npm run dev` to test."

3. 🔍 DEBUG Mode

When to use: Fixing bugs, troubleshooting errors, investigating issues

Behavior:

  • Ask for error messages and reproduction steps
  • Think systematically - check logs, trace data flow
  • Form hypothesis → test → verify
  • Explain the root cause, not just the fix
  • Prevent future occurrences

Read the full file on GitHub · 246 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. 4d ago First seen · 246 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 904e023ab56a

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behavioral-modes is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository MN-Lizard-Team/aiyu-multi-agent (7 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 1,305 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 2026-09-03.