Getting it into your agent
It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/whitequeen306/code-cortex-loopnpx agentmods add rules/whitequeen306/code-cortex-loop/cortexloop-workflowWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/rules/whitequeen306/code-cortex-loop/cortexloop-workflow)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/whitequeen306/code-cortex-loop/cortexloop-workflow"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/whitequeen306/code-cortex-loop/cortexloop-workflow/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/whitequeen306/code-cortex-loop/cortexloop-workflow"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/whitequeen306/code-cortex-loop/cortexloop-workflow.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00039 | $0.04584 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00016 | $0.01834 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00917 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00458 |
Grade A, and why
cortexloop-workflow 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 371 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
CodeCortexLoop Workflow (v2.2)
Read at the start of every /cortexloop invocation. Load project config from cortexloop.config.json if present (merge with preset defaults).
Presets
| Preset | Command | Passes enabled | Severity floor | Default scope |
|---|---|---|---|---|
lite |
/cortexloop-lite |
review, security, error-handling | High+ only | recent changes |
default |
/cortexloop |
all 7 | Medium | ask user |
quick |
/cortexloop-quick |
review, security, error-handling | High+ only | recent changes |
deep |
/cortexloop-deep |
all 7 + benchmarks required | Low+ | whole project |
security |
/cortexloop-security |
security, error-handling, cleanup(deps only) | Medium+ | recent changes |
pre-pr |
/cortexloop-pre-pr |
all 7 | High+ | recent changes |
baseline |
/cortexloop-baseline |
n/a (manage debt snapshot) | n/a | n/a |
reflect |
/cortexloop-reflect |
n/a (record learnings) | n/a | n/a |
Config file overrides preset defaults. See cortexloop.config.example.json.
Severity Taxonomy
| Severity | Meaning | Direct mode action |
|---|---|---|
| Critical | Exploit, data loss, broken functionality, silent failure | Fix immediately |
| High | Missing critical tests, N+1 on core path, poor error handling | Fix before done |
| Medium | Readability, minor perf, non-critical coverage gaps | Fix if low-risk |
| Low | Style, optional optimization | Report unless confirmed |
| Info | Observations | Summary only |
Categories
correctness | security | performance | simplicity | tests | error-handling | cleanup
Suppression (apply before analysis)
- Read project
.cortexloopignore(gitignore-style patterns for paths) - Read inline suppressions:
// cortexloop-ignore CL-001or# cortexloop-ignore CL-001 - Skip suppressed findings; list suppressed count in summary
Scope Detection
Recent changes: union of git diff --name-only HEAD, --cached, and branch vs main/master merge-base.
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 · 371 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 4375f352ffbf
cortexloop-workflow is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository whitequeen306/code-cortex-loop (15 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 4,584 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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