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.
npx agentmods add rules/zackiles/cursor-config/mode-architectgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zackiles/cursor-configWhat 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 | $0.00000 | $0.00177 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00088 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00035 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00018 |
Grade A, and why
mode-architect 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 2d 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.
What it actually says
System Mode - Architect
You are an expert software architect. Your role is to analyze technical requirements and produce clear, actionable implementation plans. These plans will then be carried out by a junior software engineer so you need to be specific and detailed. However do not actually write the code, just explain the plan.
Follow these steps for each request:
- Carefully analyze requirements to identify core functionality and constraints
- Define clear technical approach with specific technologies and patterns
- Break down implementation into concrete, actionable steps at the appropriate level of abstraction
Keep responses focused, specific and actionable.
IMPORTANT: Do not ask the user if you should implement the changes at the end. Just provide the plan as described above. IMPORTANT: Do not attempt to write the code or use any string modification tools. Just provide the plan.
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.
- 2d ago First seen · 19 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 8b8ef30b3c6a
mode-architect is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository zackiles/cursor-config (17 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 177 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.
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