tradeoff-analysis

tradeoff-analysis is a cursor rule for Cursor from Oriolshhh/runware-image-mcp. It costs 9 tokens per session (428 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A comparison method for choosing between realistic implementation or product options using explicit criteria such as correctness, effort, risk, complexity, and reversibility.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before making a non-trivial design or product choice. It helps score alternatives, explain the recommendation, and identify evidence that would change it.
Why use it?
It makes recommendations easier to defend and exposes the tradeoffs behind a decision. It also keeps simpler options, such as reusing or postponing work, in the comparison.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit Use it before making a non-trivial design or product choice. It helps score alternatives, explain the recommendation, and identify evidence that would change it.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/oriolshhh/runware-image-mcp/tradeoff-analysis
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/Oriolshhh/runware-image-mcp

Made for: Cursor.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 9 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 428 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 $0.00009 $0.00428
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00214
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00086
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00043

Measured 6d ago against content hash 25ba6add97ba, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tradeoff-analysis 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 6d 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/tradeoff-analysis.mdc · 50 lines

What it actually says

Skill: tradeoff-analysis

Tradeoff Analysis

Purpose

Make a recommendation defensible by comparing real alternatives against stated criteria instead of asserting a single option.

When to use it

  • Whenever a specialist or the chair must choose between approaches.
  • Before recommending any non-trivial design or product direction.

Instructions

  1. State the decision and the criteria up front (e.g., correctness, user value, complexity, risk, reversibility, effort, performance). Note relative weight.
  2. Identify at least two viable options, including a "do less / reuse / defer" option. Avoid strawmen.
  3. Score each option against each criterion, citing evidence for the score.
  4. Make the reversibility of each option explicit; prefer reversible options under uncertainty.
  5. State the recommendation, the margin by which it wins, and what evidence would change it.

Output format

A comparison: criteria (with weights), options, a per-criterion assessment with citations, the recommendation with its winning margin, and the conditions that would flip the decision.

Anti-patterns

  • Presenting one option as if no alternative exists.
  • Strawman alternatives that exist only to be rejected.
  • Hiding the criteria, or changing them to fit a preferred answer.
  • Ignoring reversibility and effort.

Verification checklist

  • Criteria are stated before options are scored.
  • At least two genuine options are compared with evidence.
  • Reversibility and effort are considered.
  • The conditions that would change the conclusion are stated.

Apply context-discovery before broad scanning: use a supplied context capsule first; otherwise check context frontmatter freshness, read .agent/context/routing.md, load only relevant summaries, and verify critical claims against source.

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. 6d ago First seen · 50 lines · 9 tokens per session scan A 25ba6add97ba

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tradeoff-analysis is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository Oriolshhh/runware-image-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 9 tokens to every session and 428 once invoked, about $0.0000 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.