transpose

A guide to redesigning an experience for a different platform or situation instead of merely making its layout smaller or larger. It considers how people interact with phones, TVs, kiosks, voice interfaces, and other contexts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when moving a product between platforms, planning for multiple devices, auditing cross-platform experiences, or designing for kiosks, TVs, voice, or embedded interfaces.
Why use it?
A design that works with a mouse and large screen may fail on a TV remote or in a voice interface. This helps teams adapt the interaction, information order, and assumptions to each context.

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/ghaida/intent/transpose
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ghaida/intent

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 136 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,185 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 $0.00136 $0.03185
Opus 5 $0.00068 $0.01592
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00637
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00318

Measured 2d ago against content hash 3a2a43ae506f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

transpose 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/transpose.mdc · 255 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 255 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Transpose — Adapt Across Contexts

Overview

Responsive design is a layout concern. Transposition is a UX concern.

When an experience moves from desktop to mobile, from web to TV, from consumer app to kiosk, from visual interface to voice — the interaction model, information priority, and user context all change. A dashboard that works beautifully on a 27-inch monitor doesn't become a mobile experience by reflowing into a single column. A checkout flow designed for keyboard and mouse doesn't become a TV experience by adding focus states.

Transposition means rethinking the experience for each context, not shrinking it to fit. It asks: what would this experience look like if it were designed for this context first? What would we add? What would we never have included? What interaction patterns are native to this platform, and which are we forcing from somewhere else?

When to activate this skill: Moving a product to a new platform, planning multi-device strategy, auditing cross-platform UX, designing for non-standard contexts (TV, kiosk, voice, embedded), or anytime someone says "just make it responsive" and the problem is bigger than layout.


Skill family

Transpose works alongside the full Intent skill system:

  • /journey: Your flows need to work across the contexts transpose identifies. A checkout flow on desktop is not the same journey on mobile or voice — journey designs the sequence, transpose ensures it fits the context.
  • /organize: Navigation structure may fundamentally change per context. Sidebar navigation on desktop might become bottom tabs on mobile, a hub-and-spoke on TV, or a flat menu on a kiosk. Organize provides the IA; transpose adapts it.
  • /include: Cross-context design IS inclusive design. Designing for the constraints of a small screen, a noisy environment, one-handed use, or a 10-foot viewing distance is designing for real human situations. Include ensures accessibility; transpose ensures contextual fit.
  • /fortify: Different contexts have different failure modes. Mobile loses connectivity. TV remotes run out of batteries. Kiosks get touched by greasy fingers. Fortify maps the failure modes; transpose maps the contexts where they occur.
  • /blueprint: System architecture must support multi-context delivery. APIs need to serve different data shapes. State sync needs infrastructure. Blueprint maps the system; transpose defines what each context needs from it.
  • /philosopher: A cross-cutting cognitive mode for sitting with transposition problems before jumping to solutions. Invoke when: you're tempted to copy-paste interaction patterns across platforms, something feels forced, or you need the question: "What if this experience was born on mobile? What would we never have added?"

Read the full file on GitHub · 255 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 · 255 lines · 3,185 tokens per session scan A 3a2a43ae506f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

transpose is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository ghaida/intent (139 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed CC0-1.0. It adds 136 tokens to every session and 3,185 once invoked, about $0.0007 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.