010-governance

010-governance is a cursor rule for Cursor from Tholem-AI/Tholem-Cursor-Kit. It costs 248 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of project rules for approving changes, resolving conflicting instructions, and keeping runtime work within defined boundaries.

In plain words
What is it for?
Governing architecture changes, file moves, git writes, documentation placement, roadmap updates, and deprecated workflow files.
Why use it?
It prevents high-impact changes or conflicting policies from being applied without review or user approval.

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/tholem-ai/tholem-cursor-kit/010-governance
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Tholem-AI/Tholem-Cursor-Kit

Made for: Cursor.

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README.md
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Per session 248 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 248 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 5.1 $0.00248 $0.00248
Opus 5 $0.00124 $0.00124
Sonnet 5 $0.00050 $0.00050
Haiku 4.5 $0.00025 $0.00025

Measured 5d ago against content hash 84a242c22557, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

010-governance 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 5d 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.

staging/.cursor/rules/010-governance.mdc · 31 lines

What it actually says

010-governance

Purpose

Define always-on governance shared by all runtime rules.

Mandatory policy

  1. Require explicit user approval before high-impact actions, including: architecture changes, structural moves/renames, stack changes, or git writes.
  2. Escalate contradictions across runtime rules, roadmap, manifest, and migration runbook before continuing.
  3. Keep runtime artifacts operational-only. Move tutorials, long examples, and narrative rationale to docs.
  4. Keep ROADMAP.md and relevant docs aligned with actual implementation state.
  5. Do not reactivate deprecated workflow artifacts (for example legacy task or memory archive files) as active execution targets unless explicitly approved by the user.

Rule boundaries

  • Governance defines cross-cutting authority.
  • Execution lifecycle policy lives in .cursor/rules/020-execution.mdc.
  • Safety constraints live in .cursor/rules/030-safety.mdc.
  • Validation gates live in .cursor/rules/040-quality.mdc.
  • Stack constraints live in .cursor/rules/050-project-constraints.mdc.
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. 5d ago First seen · 31 lines · 248 tokens per session scan A 84a242c22557

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010-governance is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository Tholem-AI/Tholem-Cursor-Kit (4 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 248 tokens to every session, about $0.0012 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.