orchestration

Project rules for work coordinated by Bernstein, a deterministic tool that assigns coding tasks to separate Git worktrees, which are isolated working copies of a repository. The rules explain where task state lives and how agents report completion or blockers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when working in a Bernstein-managed project to read task state, check owned files, commit changes, report progress, run tests, and mark tasks complete or blocked.
Why use it?
They keep task context, ownership, progress, and test results consistent between agents and the orchestrator. They also help prevent changes outside an assigned scope.

Cursor rule

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/sipyourdrink-ltd/bernstein/orchestration
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sipyourdrink-ltd/bernstein
Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 173 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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 $0.00000 $0.00173
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00086
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00035
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00017

Measured 3d ago against content hash 5b8ea869db42, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

orchestration 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 3d 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.

rules/orchestration.mdc · 16 lines

What it actually says

This project uses Bernstein, a deterministic orchestrator for CLI coding agents. When working on tasks:

  • State lives in .sdd/, not in agent memory. Read files there for context.
  • Each agent gets a git worktree. Commit your work; the orchestrator merges it.
  • The task server runs at http://127.0.0.1:8052. Use it to report progress.
  • Complete tasks by calling POST /tasks/{id}/complete with a result summary.
  • If blocked, call POST /tasks/{id}/block with a reason.
  • Do not modify files outside your assigned scope (check task owned_files).
  • Run tests before marking done. The janitor will verify your work.
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. 3d ago First seen · 16 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 5b8ea869db42

Subscribe to this mod's changes

orchestration is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository sipyourdrink-ltd/bernstein (1,038 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 173 tokens. 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.