workspace

A set of workspace rules that tells AI agents about the project, team, working phase, available modes, and important files. It supports separate instructions for coordinating a team, acting as one expert, or answering general questions.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps direct agents to the right project documentation and choose between a coordinated workflow, a single expert role, and general advice.
Why use it?
It gives agents shared project context at the start of each session so they know how to handle different kinds of requests.

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/neftedollar/multiagent-template/workspace
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Neftedollar/multiagent-template

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 662 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 662 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 $0.00662 $0.00662
Opus 5 $0.00331 $0.00331
Sonnet 5 $0.00132 $0.00132
Haiku 4.5 $0.00066 $0.00066

Measured yesterday against content hash 64cb280b94e5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

workspace 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 yesterday.

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.

tools/setup-cli/Templates/providers/cursor/.cursor/rules/workspace.mdc · 80 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 80 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

{{PROJECT_NAME}} — Business Workspace

{{PROJECT_DESCRIPTION}}

Founder: {{FOUNDER}}. Team: AI agents. Phase: {{PHASE}}.


How to start

Determine your mode each session:

If asked to... Mode What to do
"Act as orchestrator / run <task>" Orchestrator Read docs/process.md, execute pipeline
"You are the [role]" Single Expert Answer as that role, no pipeline
General question Advisor Help, suggest next step

Context to load

Always read: This file (already loaded).

If task involves code: code/{{PROJECT_NAME}}/CLAUDE.md — architecture, build, tests.

As orchestrator:

  • docs/process.md — pipeline operational manual (source of truth)
  • docs/role-capabilities.md — capability index for dynamic role selection

Workspace structure

~/{{PROJECT_NAME}}/
├── code/{{PROJECT_NAME}}/   ← main code repo (has its own CLAUDE.md)
├── docs/
│   ├── process.md           ← pipeline operational manual
│   ├── role-capabilities.md ← role capability index
│   └── workflows/           ← pipeline specs (WORKFLOW-*.md)
├── .cursor/rules/           ← Cursor rules (this file + orchestrator.mdc)

Pipeline summary

PLAN → BUILD → TEST → VERIFY → SHIP

5 types: feature, bugfix (skip PLAN), infra, content, spike (PLAN only).

Gate at each step: APPROVED / NEEDS WORK (reason). Retry: 3× → helper role → 2× → human escalation.

Roles

Layer Roles
Strategy product-manager, product-trend-researcher
Management orchestrator, testing-reality-checker, specialized-workflow-architect
Engineering engineering-software-architect, engineering-backend-architect, engineering-frontend-developer, engineering-code-reviewer, engineering-devops-automator, engineering-security-engineer
Design design-ux-researcher, design-ui-designer
GTM specialized-developer-advocate, engineering-technical-writer, marketing-content-creator

Read the full file on GitHub · 80 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. yesterday First seen · 80 lines · 662 tokens per session scan A 64cb280b94e5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

workspace is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository Neftedollar/multiagent-template (5 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 662 tokens to every session, about $0.0033 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.

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