optimized-creative-template

A template for documenting design work in stages: define the problem, explore options, analyze them, record a decision, and document implementation guidance. It expands the level of detail when a decision is more complex.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for UI, architecture, and other design decisions that need alternatives, evaluation, a final choice, and implementation notes.
Why use it?
It keeps design notes focused at first while preserving space for deeper analysis when needed. This makes decisions easier to review and avoids documenting every option in full detail immediately.

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/alkoleft/platform-context-exporter/optimized-creative-template
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alkoleft/platform-context-exporter

Made for: Cursor.

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Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
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Opus 5 $0.00781 $0.00781
Sonnet 5 $0.00313 $0.00313
Haiku 4.5 $0.00156 $0.00156

Measured 2d ago against content hash bee7fbd9e4d0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

optimized-creative-template 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.

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Nothing flagged

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Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to optimized-creative-template — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.cursor/rules/isolation_rules/Phases/CreativePhase/optimized-creative-template.mdc · 219 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 219 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.


description: Optimized creative phase template with progressive documentation globs: "/creative*/", "/design*/", "/decision*/" alwaysApply: false

OPTIMIZED CREATIVE PHASE TEMPLATE

TL;DR: This template implements a progressive documentation approach for creative phases, optimizing token usage while maintaining thorough design exploration.

📝 PROGRESSIVE DOCUMENTATION MODEL

graph TD
    Start["Creative Phase Start"] --> P1["1️⃣ PROBLEM<br>Define scope"]
    P1 --> P2["2️⃣ OPTIONS<br>Explore alternatives"]
    P2 --> P3["3️⃣ ANALYSIS<br>Evaluate selected options"]
    P3 --> P4["4️⃣ DECISION<br>Finalize approach"]
    P4 --> P5["5️⃣ IMPLEMENTATION<br>Document guidelines"]
    
    style Start fill:#d971ff,stroke:#a33bc2,color:white
    style P1 fill:#4da6ff,stroke:#0066cc,color:white
    style P2 fill:#ffa64d,stroke:#cc7a30,color:white
    style P3 fill:#4dbb5f,stroke:#36873f,color:white
    style P4 fill:#d94dbb,stroke:#a3378a,color:white
    style P5 fill:#4dbbbb,stroke:#368787,color:white

📋 TEMPLATE STRUCTURE

📌 CREATIVE PHASE START: [Component Name]
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

1️⃣ PROBLEM
   Description: [Brief problem description]
   Requirements: [Key requirements as bullet points]
   Constraints: [Technical or business constraints]

2️⃣ OPTIONS
   Option A: [Name] - [One-line description]
   Option B: [Name] - [One-line description]
   Option C: [Name] - [One-line description]

3️⃣ ANALYSIS
   | Criterion | Option A | Option B | Option C |
   |-----------|----------|----------|----------|
   | Performance | ⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
   | Complexity | ⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
   | Maintainability | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐ |
   
   Key Insights:
   - [Insight 1]
   - [Insight 2]

4️⃣ DECISION
   Selected: [Option X]
   Rationale: [Brief justification]
   
5️⃣ IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
   - [Implementation note 1]
   - [Implementation note 2]
   - [Implementation note 3]

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
📌 CREATIVE PHASE END

Read the full file on GitHub · 219 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.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 219 lines · 1,563 tokens per session scan A bee7fbd9e4d0

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optimized-creative-template is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository alkoleft/platform-context-exporter (48 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,563 tokens to every session, about $0.0078 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to optimized-creative-template, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.