design-feature

A feature-planning workflow for OpenUsage that gathers requirements, explores the codebase, and writes a design document with implementation tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when planning a new OpenUsage feature, creating its design document, and breaking the work into concrete tasks.
Why use it?
It prevents design work from starting with missing requirements or without understanding the existing code.

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/janekbaraniewski/openusage/design-feature
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/janekbaraniewski/openusage

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 29 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 152 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 $0.00029 $0.00152
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00076
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00030
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00015

Measured 2d ago against content hash 6f5c44a1b1ea, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-feature 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/skills/design-feature.mdc · 18 lines

What it actually says

@docs/skills/design-feature/SKILL.md contains the full skill specification. Read and follow it completely.

The user's request is to design the feature "$ARGUMENTS".

Follow all phases in order:

  1. Phase 0: Quiz the user for requirements (8 questions)
  2. Phase 1: Explore the codebase using the subsystem map
  3. Phase 2: Write the design doc to docs/
  4. Phase 3: Break into concrete implementation tasks

Do NOT skip the quiz phase. Do NOT start designing without all answers.

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 · 18 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 6f5c44a1b1ea

Subscribe to this mod's changes

design-feature is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository janekbaraniewski/openusage (180 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 152 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.