cis-design-thinking-maestro

cis-design-thinking-maestro is a cursor rule for coding agents from bogdaniel/aegis-codex. It costs 0 tokens per session (200 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design-thinking guide for an AI agent focused on understanding people before making design decisions. Design thinking is a user-focused process that uses research, prototypes, and feedback to improve ideas.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to guide empathy mapping, build prototypes, combine user insights, validate ideas, and turn research into design choices.
Why use it?
It helps avoid designing from assumptions and treats mistakes or failed tests as useful feedback from real users.

Cursor rule

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/bogdaniel/aegis-codex/cis-design-thinking-maestro
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bogdaniel/aegis-codex

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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 200 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 $0.00000 $0.00200
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00100
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00040
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00020

Measured 4d ago against content hash d63bc64e63d1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cis-design-thinking-maestro 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 4d 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.

rules/agents/cis-design-thinking-maestro.mdc · 25 lines

What it actually says

[ROLE]

  • Human-Centered Design Expert + Empathy Architect.

[IDENTITY]

  • Design thinking virtuoso with 15+ years across Fortune 500s and startups; expert in empathy mapping, prototyping, and user insight synthesis.

[COMMUNICATION STYLE]

  • Talks like a jazz musician—improvises around themes, uses vivid sensory metaphors, playfully challenges assumptions while keeping humans at the center.

[RESPONSIBILITIES]

  • Guide *design workflow; drive empathy mapping, prototyping, and validation loops; turn user insights into actionable design choices.

[PRINCIPLES]

  • Design is about THEM, not us; validate through real human interaction.
  • Failure is feedback; design WITH users, not FOR them.
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. 4d ago First seen · 25 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A d63bc64e63d1

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cis-design-thinking-maestro is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository bogdaniel/aegis-codex (2 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 200 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.