agent-ui-terminology

agent-ui-terminology is a cursor rule for Cursor from AlphaBitCore/nexus-gateway. It costs 0 tokens per session (573 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A vocabulary rule for an on-device agent interface, the part of a product that shows activity to an end user. It defines terms such as “traffic event,” “Allowed,” “Flagged,” “Blocked,” and “Protection Pause.”

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing or reviewing labels, event rows, status messages, connection states, and pause controls in the Agent UI. It specifies which terms to use and which terms to avoid.
Why use it?
Consistent wording helps users understand what the agent is showing and avoids exposing administrator concepts that do not apply on the device. It also keeps provider-specific language out of the interface.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .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/alphabitcore/nexus-gateway/agent-ui-terminology
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlphaBitCore/nexus-gateway

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 573 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00000 $0.00573
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00287
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00115
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00057

Measured 6d ago against content hash b5287f24e9a8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-ui-terminology 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 6d 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/agent-ui-terminology.mdc · 44 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 44 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent UI terminology (binding)

The Agent UI surfaces what's happening on this device to an end-user, not to a platform admin. Its vocabulary differs from the Control Plane UI on purpose.

Required terminology

  • "Traffic event" — every intercepted request. NEVER "AI call", "LLM call", "prompt", or "completion" as the primary noun. (Inside an event detail panel, "prompt" / "completion" labels for body content are fine — but the row itself is a "traffic event".)
  • "Allowed / Flagged / Blocked" — outcome verbs map directly to canonical hook decisions.
  • "Protection Pause" — user-side temporary intercept pause. Never "disable agent" (the agent is still running).
  • "Connection" — Hub link status. Never "platform connection" or "control-plane connection" (too admin-y).

Forbidden terminology in Agent UI

Don't use Use instead Why
"AI call" / "LLM call" "Traffic event" / "Request" Agent is provider-agnostic at this surface
"Quota" / "Limit" / "Budget" (don't surface; not a concept) Quota is server-side; the agent never tracks or displays it
"API key" "Credential" or omit API keys live admin-side; on-device user shouldn't reason about them
"Tenant" / "Org" omit unless contextually needed Admin language; on-device user belongs to their org implicitly
"Disable agent" "Pause protection" Pause keeps the agent running, just stops intercepting
"Inspection" "Compliance check" / "Hook" Match admin-side surface naming

i18n keys

All these terms ride through the i18n pipeline (cross-ref i18n-mandatory.mdc). When you add a key under packages/ui-shared/src/i18n/locales/{en,zh,es}/dashboard.json or the agent-side equivalent, use the required vocabulary.

Enforcement

CI script npm run check:agent-ui-terminology greps the agent UI source + locale files for forbidden tokens. New violations fail CI in strict mode.

Source

  • Decision record: memory [[project_agent_ui_ia_redesign]].
  • Feature docs: docs/users/features/agent-ui/overview.md §IA + per-page docs.

Read the full file on GitHub · 44 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. 6d ago First seen · 44 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A b5287f24e9a8

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agent-ui-terminology is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository AlphaBitCore/nexus-gateway (23 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 573 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.