intent-ref-content-strategy

A reference guide for planning product language, including voice, tone, terminology, and common interface text patterns. It explains how to make writing consistent across a product.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating voice frameworks, choosing terminology, shaping interface copy, and checking whether content fits the intended brand character.
Why use it?
It helps teams replace vague style preferences with agreed language rules and avoid inconsistent or generic wording.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/ghaida/intent/intent-ref-content-strategy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ghaida/intent

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 41 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,225 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.
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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00041 $0.03225
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.01613
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00645
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00323

Measured 2d ago against content hash b6e758fd8721, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

intent-ref-content-strategy 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 2d 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/intent-ref-content-strategy.mdc · 234 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 234 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Content Strategy

Voice Framework Methodology

A voice framework is not a list of adjectives. It's a system that produces consistent, recognizable writing across every author, channel, and context in your product. Building one requires methodology, not inspiration.

Step 1: Brand Attribute Identification

Start with the brand's core attributes — the 3-5 characteristics that define how the organization wants to be perceived. These come from brand strategy, not from the content team's preferences.

Process: Gather stakeholders (product, marketing, executive, support). Ask each: "If our product were a person, how would you describe their personality?" Collect independently, then compare. Where there's alignment, you have a genuine attribute. Where there's divergence, you have a conversation that needs to happen before writing guidelines.

Common pitfall: Every brand wants to be "innovative, friendly, and trustworthy." These are not differentiating attributes — they're table stakes. Push for specificity. Not "friendly" — "the kind of friend who tells you the truth even when it's uncomfortable." Not "innovative" — "explains complex things simply, like a scientist at a dinner party."

Output: 3-5 brand attributes with one-paragraph descriptions that include what the attribute means AND what it doesn't mean. Example: "Direct — we get to the point. We don't pad copy with qualifiers or hide bad news behind hedging language. Direct does not mean blunt or cold — we're straightforward because we respect the reader's time, not because we don't care about their feelings."

Step 2: Voice Principles

Translate brand attributes into writing principles. Each attribute generates 1-2 specific principles that a writer can act on.

Attribute → Principle pattern:

  • "Direct" → "Lead with the action. If the user needs to do something, start with the verb."
  • "Empathetic" → "Acknowledge the user's situation before providing instructions. Error messages start with what happened, not what to do."
  • "Expert" → "Use precise terminology when it helps, but always define it in context. Never use jargon as a substitute for explanation."

Read the full file on GitHub · 234 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. 2d ago First seen · 234 lines · 3,225 tokens per session scan A b6e758fd8721

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intent-ref-content-strategy is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository ghaida/intent (139 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed CC0-1.0. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 3,225 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.