adversarial-product-review

adversarial-product-review is a cursor rule for Cursor from AlphaBitCore/nexus-gateway. It costs 523 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of development rules that makes you question each proposed feature, setting, screen, or menu item before building it. It combines critical review with a preference for sensible defaults and fewer options.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when reviewing product ideas, configuration changes, user-interface changes, or behavior changes. It helps decide whether an existing option or a simpler default is enough.
Why use it?
It helps prevent unnecessary features, configuration work, and interface clutter. It also makes trade-offs visible before implementation begins.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit Use it when reviewing product ideas, configuration changes, user-interface changes, or behavior changes. It helps decide whether an existing option or a simpler default is enough.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/alphabitcore/nexus-gateway/adversarial-product-review
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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlphaBitCore/nexus-gateway

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 523 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 523 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00523 $0.00523
Opus 5 $0.00262 $0.00262
Sonnet 5 $0.00105 $0.00105
Haiku 4.5 $0.00052 $0.00052

Measured 10d ago against content hash 20d6644e0759, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

adversarial-product-review 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 10d 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.

.cursor/rules/adversarial-product-review.mdc · 42 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 42 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Adversarial product review + less-is-more (binding)

Two halves of the same product discipline. Apply both to any proposed feature, config knob, UI surface, menu item, behavior change, or "wouldn't it be nice if…" idea — including user proposals.

Half 1 — Steel-man, then attack

Before implementing, surface in chat:

  • (a) Is the user-facing value clear and large?
  • (b) How often will real users hit this path?
  • (c) Could a sensible default, an existing surface, or a convention solve it without a new knob?
  • (d) Is the placement correct (right table / page / layer / menu) or is it being attached to the nearest convenient form?
  • (e) Does the cost (UI surface, config burden, cognitive load, future maintenance) exceed the value?

Counter-arguments go in chat BEFORE implementation. If they're strong and unanswered, push back with "I'd challenge: …" rather than building. If the user persists after seeing them, that's signal — proceed.

Half 2 — Less is more / delete instead of add

Defaults must work out of the box — admins should not face a 5-tab detail page or a JSON editor for every protocol quirk. Spring-style: sensible default for every knob; configuration only when divergence is genuinely needed.

When in doubt about adding a UI surface, config field, menu item, or code path: delete instead.

Prefer:

  1. Adapter / runtime auto-fills over admin-facing config. Canonical pattern: Anthropic max_tokens default in packages/ai-gateway/internal/providers/specs/anthropic/codec/codec.go — adapter fills the protocol-required field from model capability when caller omits it.
  2. Global settings over per-route / per-rule overrides unless real divergence is documented.
  3. One location per concept over scattering across menus.
  4. Extending an existing surface over adding a new tab / page / route.

New surfaces require an explicit "what user journey, how often, why nothing existing covers it" in the plan; without that, the default is no.

Read the full file on GitHub · 42 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. 10d ago First seen · 42 lines · 523 tokens per session scan A 20d6644e0759

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adversarial-product-review is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository AlphaBitCore/nexus-gateway (23 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 523 tokens to every session, about $0.0026 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 2026-08-30.