brutalist-design

brutalist-design is a cursor rule for Cursor from kok-o/koko-contextos-agents. It costs 14 tokens per session (2,261 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for creating raw, utilitarian web interfaces inspired by Swiss print design, industrial manuals, and military computer terminals. It covers grids, typography, limited colors, and effects such as scanlines and halftones.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for telemetry dashboards, analytics monitors, trading systems, developer tools, technical documentation, archival indexes, and portfolios.
Why use it?
It gives an interface a consistent mechanical and data-heavy visual style instead of relying on ordinary consumer-app patterns.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit It is for telemetry dashboards, analytics monitors, trading systems, developer tools, technical documentation, archival indexes, and portfolios.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/kok-o/koko-contextos-agents/brutalist-design
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kok-o/koko-contextos-agents

Made for: Cursor.

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README.md
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Per session 14 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,261 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00014 $0.02261
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.01130
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00452
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00226

Measured 3d ago against content hash 3697185f4863, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

brutalist-design 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.

.cursor/rules/brutalist-design.mdc · 155 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 155 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill: brutalist-design

SKILL: Industrial Brutalism & Tactical Telemetry UI

Overview

Advanced proficiency in architecting web interfaces that synthesize mid-century Swiss Typographic design, industrial manufacturing manuals, and retro-futuristic aerospace/military terminal interfaces. This discipline requires absolute mastery over rigid modular grids, extreme typographic scale contrast, purely utilitarian color palettes, and the programmatic simulation of analog degradation (halftones, CRT scanlines, bitmap dithering). The objective is to construct digital environments that project raw functionality, mechanical precision, and high data density, deliberately discarding conventional consumer UI patterns.

When to Use

  • When building data-heavy telemetry dashboards, analytics monitors, trading systems, or developer command centers.
  • When creating editorial portfolios, archival indexes, or technical documentation sites requiring an industrial blueprint aesthetic.
  • When explicitly prompted for "brutalist", "tactical", "terminal", "Swiss print", or "mechanical" aesthetics.

Rules & Patterns

1. Visual Archetypes

Pick ONE per project and commit to it. Do not alternate or mix both modes within the same interface.

1.1 Swiss Industrial Print

Derived from 1960s corporate identity systems and heavy machinery blueprints.

  • Characteristics: High-contrast light modes (newsprint/off-white substrates). Reliance on monolithic, heavy sans-serif typography. Unforgiving structural grids outlined by visible dividing lines. Aggressive, asymmetric use of negative space punctuated by oversized, viewport-bleeding numerals or letterforms. Heavy use of primary red as an alert/accent color.
1.2 Tactical Telemetry & CRT Terminal

Derived from classified military databases, legacy mainframes, and aerospace Heads-Up Displays (HUDs).

  • Characteristics: Dark mode exclusivity. High-density tabular data presentation. Absolute dominance of monospaced typography. Integration of technical framing devices (ASCII brackets, crosshairs). Application of simulated hardware limitations (phosphor glow, scanlines, low bit-depth rendering).

Read the full file on GitHub · 155 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 · 155 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A 3697185f4863

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brutalist-design is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository kok-o/koko-contextos-agents (2 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 2,261 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 2026-09-05.