nen-en-baseline

nen-en-baseline is a cursor rule for Cursor from rlaope/nen. It costs 127 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A baseline workflow rule called En that applies to every incoming request. It classifies the work, selects the relevant supporting abilities in order, states their commitments, and checks them before declaring completion.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it as a default rule for agent sessions, or type “nen off” to suspend it and “nen on” to resume it.
Why use it?
It gives requests a consistent review process and makes the agent's intended obligations explicit before work is considered finished.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit Use it as a default rule for agent sessions, or type “nen off” to suspend it and “nen on” to resume it.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/rlaope/nen/nen-en-baseline
View source ↗ rlaope/nen
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/rlaope/nen

Made for: Cursor.

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README.md
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Per session 127 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 127 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 $0.00127 $0.00127
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.00063
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00025
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00013

Measured 7d ago against content hash c85689f25339, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nen-en-baseline 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/nen-en-baseline.mdc · 13 lines

What it actually says

Run the En protocol on every incoming request: classify the WORK's problem shape — what must be true afterward — engage the nen abilities it genuinely spans in dependency order, announce the engagement in one line, declare the engagement's vows, and audit them before claiming done. The full protocol and the ability bodies live in the other nen-* rules — read each engaged skill's rule before acting. "nen off" suspends this baseline; "nen on" resumes it. Acknowledge both transitions.

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 · 13 lines · 127 tokens per session scan A c85689f25339

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nen-en-baseline is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository rlaope/nen (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 127 tokens to every session, about $0.0006 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.