tell-ui-design

tell-ui-design is a cursor rule for Cursor from ashishpatill/tell-proof. It costs 0 tokens per session (248 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of design rules for Tell UI, including its fonts, colors, component states, motion behavior, accessibility requirements, and preferred page structure.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or changing Tell UI components, page copy, interactive states, keyboard behavior, or reduced-motion support.
Why use it?
It gives developers a shared standard for building and reviewing the product interface consistently.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit Use it when creating or changing Tell UI components, page copy, interactive states, keyboard behavior, or reduced-motion support.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/ashishpatill/tell-proof/tell-ui-design
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ashishpatill/tell-proof

Made for: Cursor.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 248 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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 $0.00000 $0.00248
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00124
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00050
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00025

Measured 8d ago against content hash 2f6632c940fe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tell-ui-design 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 8d 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/tell-ui-design.mdc · 22 lines

What it actually says

Tell UI rules

Follow docs/01_DESIGN_SYSTEM.md. Dogfood: Tell must not trigger its own tells.

  • Fonts: Instrument Serif + Source Sans 3 + IBM Plex Mono — never Inter-only
  • No violet gradient hero, no shadow on every card
  • Use semantic Tailwind tokens: bg-surface, text-secondary, text-accent
  • Raw hex belongs in globals.css tokens only, not TSX classNames
  • Full state matrix on interactive components: hover, focus-visible, active, disabled, loading/error where applicable
  • Preserve the signature BeforeAfterSeam; keyboard and reduced-motion behavior are part of the feature
  • Copy from USER_STORY.md copy bank — critic voice, no emoji chrome
  • Hero = Tell Report + reveal seam, not KPI dashboard
  • Current UI is mostly apps/web/src/app/page.tsx; extract components only when it reduces real complexity

Use @ui-builder (Composer) for components; @ux-copywriter (GPT 5.5) for copy polish.

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. 8d ago First seen · 22 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 2f6632c940fe

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tell-ui-design is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository ashishpatill/tell-proof (1 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 248 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 2026-08-31.