cursorrules

Project instructions for metapowers, a collection of repeatable workflows for areas such as design, research, development, marketing, accessibility, and legal work. It explains the available commands, methods, and artifact locations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to discover domain commands, follow processes such as design thinking or the Double Diamond, and store outputs in the expected project folders.
Why use it?
It gives coding agents a shared map of the project and tells them where to find and save workflow documents.

Cursor rule for 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/bromso/metapowers/cursorrules
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bromso/metapowers

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 300 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 300 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.00300 $0.00300
Opus 5 $0.00150 $0.00150
Sonnet 5 $0.00060 $0.00060
Haiku 4.5 $0.00030 $0.00030

Measured yesterday against content hash 6cb631523767, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cursorrules 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.

.cursorrules · 27 lines

What it actually says

Metapowers

Structured, repeatable workflows for digital production domains. This project provides skills across 10 domains: Design, Research, Development, Marketing, Branding, Accessibility, Project Management, Coaching, Leadership, and Legal.

How to Use

Each domain has skills in plugins/<domain>/skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md. Read the SKILL.md file for the domain you need and follow its process.

Key Domains

  • Design — Design thinking: empathize → define → ideate → prototype → test
  • Research — Double Diamond: discover → define → design → deliver
  • Development — Plan → build → test → debug → review → ship
  • Marketing — RACE: strategy → reach → act → convert → engage
  • Branding — Discover → strategy → verbal → visual → guidelines + audit
  • Accessibility — WCAG-EM: scope → evaluate → report → remediate → retest
  • Coaching — Expert feedback: ux, code, copy, a11y, strategy
  • Leadership — Assess → vision → build → develop → sustain + 7 tools

Artifacts

All outputs are stored in .metapowers/<domain>/<project>/ as numbered markdown files.

Skills Location

Skills are in plugins/<domain>/skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md. Each contains structured instructions with prerequisites, process steps, and output format.

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 · 27 lines · 300 tokens per session scan A 6cb631523767

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cursorrules is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository bromso/metapowers (1 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 300 tokens to every session, about $0.0015 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 2026-08-31.