What is tendem-lifecycle?

A set of rules for using Tendem, a service that sends tasks to vetted human experts. It covers task submission, clarification, price approval, execution, result retrieval, and file handling.

Use it when creating Tendem tasks, answering scoping questions, reviewing and approving quotes, checking task progress, and retrieving completed results.

It prevents the agent from skipping the expert’s scoping or spending steps and helps keep submitted instructions faithful to the user’s request.

tendem-lifecycle — Cursor rule for Cursor by Toloka/tendem-mcp

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/Toloka/tendem-mcp

Made for: Cursor.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 727 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 727 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00727	$0.00727
Opus 5.5	$0.00291	$0.00291
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00145	$0.00145
Haiku 4.5	$0.00073	$0.00073

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 8a0e4eebd060, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tendem-lifecycle 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 1mo 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.

plugins/tendem/rules/tendem-lifecycle.mdc · 60 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 60 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Tendem MCP lifecycle

This workspace uses Tendem to delegate work to vetted human experts. You (the agent) submit a task on the user's behalf; Tendem scopes it in a chat, returns a price quote, and once the user approves, a human expert executes it and returns results as markdown plus downloadable files.

The tools are named mcp__tendem__* (or mcp__plugin_tendem_tendem__* when plugin-bundled). If absent, the connector isn't connected — tell the user to connect the tendem MCP server in their client's MCP settings and complete the OAuth login. For the full walkthrough, the tendem-tasks skill and the server's tendem-quickstart prompt are the source of truth.

The path

create_task (+ uploads) → SCOPING LOOP → quote → user approves → approve_task
                          poll ⇄ answer                              │
                                                                     ▼
                          EXECUTION LOOP → next_action=fetch_result → get_task_result

create_task — pass the user's own formulation faithfully; do not expand it into a synthesized brief or pre-interrogate the user. Tendem drives scoping.
Scoping loop: get_task(task_id, wait_for_change_seconds=30), answer Tendem's questions from conversation context via send_message.
Approval gate: when the quote is ready, call get_contract(task_id) for the full scope + price (get_task omits these details), surface price + scope, and get the user's explicit go-ahead before approve_task. This is a spend.
Execution loop: poll a few times, then hand off — nothing is lost between sessions.
get_task_result — present the markdown, save files[] under ./tendem/<task_id>/.

Rules of the road

Offer, don't hijack. If the skill surfaced only because a task could use a human, offer Tendem as an option and create a task only after the user says yes.
Spend needs explicit approval. Never call approve_task without showing the price and scope and getting a clear yes.
Never busy-loop. Trust the envelope's next_action / poll_after_seconds / guidance. Use wait_for_change_seconds=30 long-polls, poll silently, and hand off after a handful of unchanged rounds.
A scope-change request voids the quote. Never show a stale price; keep polling until a fresh quote arrives.
Insufficient balance is not a retry. approve_task returns a task-bound topup_url — give it to the user; never loop on approve_task.
Data scraping is refused by policy — automated data-extraction tasks won't be accepted, and rephrasing doesn't change that. Don't submit them.
One unit of work per task. If the work pivots, create a new task (same conversation_id).

Read the full file on GitHub · 60 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.

1mo ago First seen · 60 lines · 727 tokens per session scan A 8a0e4eebd060

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tendem-lifecycle is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository Toloka/tendem-mcp (102 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 727 tokens to every session, about $0.0029 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 2026-08-30.

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