creative-phase-metrics

A set of measures and review templates for judging creative work and design decisions. It scores areas such as requirement coverage, alternatives, trade-offs, verification, and implementation guidance.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare design options, assess whether requirements were met, and check how thoroughly a proposed solution was evaluated.
Why use it?
It gives teams a consistent way to review creative outputs instead of relying only on personal opinion.

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/kfnzero/mantis-mcp-server/creative-phase-metrics
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kfnzero/mantis-mcp-server

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 2,163 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 $0.00000 $0.02163
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01081
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00433
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00216

Measured 3d ago against content hash 27afddbff183, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

creative-phase-metrics 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 3d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.cursor/rules/Core Implementation/creative-phase-metrics.mdc · 277 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 277 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CREATIVE PHASE METRICS

TL;DR: This file establishes objective evaluation frameworks and quality metrics for creative phase outputs. It provides structured approaches to evaluate design decisions, weighted decision matrices for option comparison, and verification metrics to ensure solutions meet requirements.

📊 QUALITY EVALUATION FRAMEWORK

Evaluate creative phase outputs using these objective criteria:

1. Decision Quality Metrics

📊 DECISION QUALITY SCORE
- Requirement Coverage: [1-5] - How completely does the solution address requirements?
- Option Exploration: [1-5] - How thoroughly were alternatives explored?
- Trade-off Analysis: [1-5] - How well were pros/cons evaluated?
- Verification Rigor: [1-5] - How systematically was the solution verified?
- Implementation Guidance: [1-5] - How clear is the implementation path?

TOTAL SCORE: [5-25]
- 20-25: Excellent - Comprehensive analysis with strong justification
- 15-19: Good - Solid analysis with adequate justification
- 10-14: Satisfactory - Basic analysis with minimal justification
- 5-9: Needs Improvement - Incomplete analysis, inadequate justification

→ Minimum acceptable score: 15

⚖️ WEIGHTED DECISION MATRIX

For evaluating multiple options against weighted criteria:

⚖️ WEIGHTED DECISION MATRIX

| Criteria | Weight | Option 1 | Score 1 | Option 2 | Score 2 | Option 3 | Score 3 |
|----------|--------|----------|---------|----------|---------|----------|---------|
| Criterion 1 | [1-5] | Rating [1-10] | Weight × Rating | Rating [1-10] | Weight × Rating | Rating [1-10] | Weight × Rating |
| Criterion 2 | [1-5] | Rating [1-10] | Weight × Rating | Rating [1-10] | Weight × Rating | Rating [1-10] | Weight × Rating |
| Criterion 3 | [1-5] | Rating [1-10] | Weight × Rating | Rating [1-10] | Weight × Rating | Rating [1-10] | Weight × Rating |
| Totals | | | Sum | | Sum | | Sum |

→ Highest total score indicates the recommended option
→ Document rationale for weights and ratings

🔍 VERIFICATION METRICS

Read the full file on GitHub · 277 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. 3d ago First seen · 277 lines · 2,163 tokens per session scan A 27afddbff183

Subscribe to this mod's changes

creative-phase-metrics is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository kfnzero/mantis-mcp-server (10 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,163 tokens. 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.