cost-routing

cost-routing is a cursor rule for Cursor from renanflustosa/octo-cluster. It costs 167 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for choosing an AI model and controlling retries during a coding task. It assigns tasks to effort levels, keeps the chosen model for the session, and stops after repeated failures instead of retrying indefinitely.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to route simple, multi-file, architectural, or difficult debugging work to different models, limit retries, and verify changed behavior with focused tests first.
Why use it?
It reduces unnecessary model cost and prevents an agent from spending time repeating an approach that is not working.

Cursor rule for Cursor

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

Good fit Use it to route simple, multi-file, architectural, or difficult debugging work to different models, limit retries, and verify changed behavior with focused tests first.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/renanflustosa/octo-cluster/cost-routing
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/renanflustosa/octo-cluster

Made for: Cursor.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 167 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 167 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 $0.00167 $0.00167
Opus 5.5 $0.00067 $0.00067
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00033 $0.00033
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00017

Measured 20d ago against content hash d781979c7bef, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cost-routing 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 20d 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/cost-routing.mdc · 14 lines

What it actually says

Cost routing (lite)

Tier at start: L0 trivial · L1 local · L2 multi-file/tests · L3 architecture/hard bug · L4 critical. Session model: L0 haiku · L1-L2 sonnet · L3-L4 opus. Mismatch → say once at start; never switch model mid-task (full cache rebuild). Subagent only for broad fan-out search or verbose output; pass model: haiku for search. Else direct tools. Retry cap: 2 failed attempts, same approach → stop, show evidence, propose escalation. Verify: focused test on changed behavior first; widen only on failure. Same manual task twice → propose script or skill.

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. 20d ago First seen · 14 lines · 167 tokens per session scan A d781979c7bef

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cost-routing is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository renanflustosa/octo-cluster (4 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 167 tokens to every session, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-26.