design

design is a cursor rule for Cursor from BOXELS/cursor-rules. It costs 1,681 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for designing and editing user interfaces, including components, styles, forms, tables, dialogs, and other visible interactions. It covers component reuse, keyboard access, overlays, animations, and loading or other interface states.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it whenever creating or editing a user interface, including choosing existing components, specifying interaction behavior, and checking loading and other states.
Why use it?
It helps keep interface changes consistent with the project's design system and prevents incomplete interactions, such as controls that work only with a mouse or handle only the successful case.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit Use it whenever creating or editing a user interface, including choosing existing components, specifying interaction behavior, and checking loading and other states.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/boxels/cursor-rules/design
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/BOXELS/cursor-rules

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 1,681 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,681 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 $0.01681 $0.01681
Opus 5 $0.00840 $0.00840
Sonnet 5 $0.00336 $0.00336
Haiku 4.5 $0.00168 $0.00168

Measured yesterday against content hash 8d607e9e9dc4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-16, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 yesterday.

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/design.mdc · 78 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 78 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design Rules

Component library

  • [Base component library, e.g. "shadcn/ui", "Material UI", "Ant Design", "Vuetify", "DaisyUI", "custom components"]. Extend existing components — never rebuild from scratch what the library already provides.
  • Icons: [icon set, e.g. "Lucide React", "Heroicons", "Material Icons", "Font Awesome"]. [Defaults, e.g. "20px default size, 1.5px stroke weight."]
  • Animations: [animation library, e.g. "Framer Motion", "GSAP", "CSS transitions only", "Svelte transitions"]. [Constraint, e.g. "Max 300ms for UI transitions. No animations on first paint."]
  • Dropdowns, popovers, and overlays: [approach, e.g. "Radix primitives via shadcn", "Headless UI", "native library components"]. Must have proper keyboard navigation and dismiss on outside click.
  • Dialogs: [approach, e.g. "shadcn Dialog", "Material Dialog", "custom modal component"]. Never use alert(), window.confirm(), or browser-native dialogs.
  • Searchable dropdowns / autocomplete pickers: never ship mouse-only. Required keys — see Patterns below.

States

Every interactive component must account for all of its states. Don't ship a "happy path only" UI.

  • Loading: Every async operation needs a loading indicator. [Approach, e.g. "Skeleton loaders for content areas", "Spinner inside buttons during actions", "Progress bars for uploads"]. Never show blank screens while data loads.
  • Empty: Every list, table, and feed needs a designed empty state — [approach, e.g. "illustration + message + call-to-action", "helpful prompt to get started", "minimal text"]. Never show a blank container.
  • Error: [Approach, e.g. "Inline error messages below fields", "Toast notifications for action failures", "Error boundaries for component crashes"]. Errors should explain what happened and offer a path forward.
  • Interactive: All interactive elements need hover, focus, active, and disabled states. No element should feel unresponsive.
  • Buttons: [Loading behavior, e.g. "Show spinner inside the button during async actions. Disable while loading. Never allow double-submit."]

Read the full file on GitHub · 78 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. yesterday First seen · 78 lines · 1,681 tokens per session scan A 8d607e9e9dc4

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design is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository BOXELS/cursor-rules (6 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 1,681 tokens to every session, about $0.0084 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 2026-09-15.