architectural-programme-brief

architectural-programme-brief is a cursor rule for Cursor from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. It costs 102 tokens per session (1,364 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A written architectural brief that turns a client's wishes into rooms, areas, relationships, requirements, budget limits, and project exclusions.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for defining building projects before design, setting accommodation schedules, checking budgets, and agreeing what the project will not include.
Why use it?
It prevents unclear scope and unrealistic expectations from becoming redesigns, cost increases, or change requests later.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: a Cursor rule (.mdc).

Good fit It is for defining building projects before design, setting accommodation schedules, checking budgets, and agreeing what the project will not include.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/architectural-programme-brief
About the project

PM Skills is a collection of plain-Markdown instructions that teach AI assistants structured methods for handling professional, personal, and life-admin tasks. People use it with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, Codex, and other supported agents for work such as writing product requirements, reviewing documents, or planning difficult situations.

mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills · 1,352 stars · on GitHub · mohitagw15856.github.io

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Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 102 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,364 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 $0.00102 $0.01364
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00682
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00273
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00136

Measured 7d ago against content hash 467d72081290, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

architectural-programme-brief 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 7d 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.

exports/cursor/pm-architecture/architectural-programme-brief/architectural-programme-brief.mdc · 92 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 92 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Architectural Programme Brief

Clients brief in rooms and adjectives; buildings are designed from areas, adjacencies and constraints. The gap between the two is where scope creep lives. This converts the conversation into a schedule you can design against, tests the budget against the areas before anyone draws anything, and writes down what the project is not — the single most valuable page in any brief.

What This Skill Produces

  • An accommodation schedule — every space with its area, occupancy, and the activity it must support
  • Adjacency and circulation requirements — what must be near what, what must never be, and the routes between
  • Site and statutory constraints — planning context, access, orientation, services, and known designations
  • Performance requirements — servicing, acoustics, daylight, accessibility, and environmental targets, stated as requirements rather than aspirations
  • The budget and programme reality check — the area total against the budget at a realistic rate, before design begins
  • Explicit exclusions — what this project is not doing, agreed and written down

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not provided:

  • The client and the driver — who they are, and what problem the building is supposed to solve
  • The activities — what will actually happen in the building, by whom, and when
  • The site — location, area, existing structures, access, orientation, and any known designations or constraints
  • The budget and programme — the number they have and the date they need it, however soft
  • The fixed points — anything already decided, promised, or non-negotiable

Framework: Activities Before Rooms, Areas Before Budget

  1. Brief the activity, not the room. 'A place for forty people to eat that empties in twenty minutes' designs better than 'a canteen'. Rooms are a solution; activities are the requirement.
  2. Put an area against everything. An unpriced schedule is a wish list. Areas are what make the budget conversation possible.
  3. Test the budget early and bluntly. Total area at a realistic rate per square metre, against the stated budget. If it does not work, say so in the brief rather than discovering it at tender.
  4. Map adjacencies as a matrix. Must-be-near, must-not-be-near, and the routes people take between them. This is where the plan actually comes from.
  5. Name constraints before they become surprises. Planning context, rights of light, access, ground conditions, services capacity, listed status.
  6. Write the exclusions down and get them agreed. The scope you did not include is only excluded if it is on paper.

Read the full file on GitHub · 92 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. 7d ago First seen · 92 lines · 102 tokens per session scan A 467d72081290

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architectural-programme-brief is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills (1,352 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 102 tokens to every session and 1,364 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-03.