009-design-gate

009-design-gate is a cursor rule for Cursor from phuoctrung-ppt/ai-sdlc-workflow. It costs 311 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A rule for visible interface work that requires a written design specification, a sketch or visual reference, and a declared design track before coding begins. A design track identifies whether the work is for marketing, a product interface, or both.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to gate UI plans and require a designer task before frontend implementation when design files are missing.
Why use it?
It prevents interface implementation from starting without agreed visual direction and supporting design records.

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/phuoctrung-ppt/ai-sdlc-workflow/009-design-gate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/phuoctrung-ppt/ai-sdlc-workflow

Made for: Cursor.

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README.md
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Per session 311 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 311 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.00311 $0.00311
Opus 5 $0.00156 $0.00156
Sonnet 5 $0.00062 $0.00062
Haiku 4.5 $0.00031 $0.00031

Measured 4d ago against content hash 29b7a16985d2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

009-design-gate 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 4d 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/009-design-gate.mdc · 30 lines

What it actually says

DESIGN-GATE (UI work)

Any task that creates or changes visible UI requires, before implementation:

  1. Design spec: docs/design/YYYY-MM-DD-{feature}.md
  2. Sketch or visual reference: ≥1 file under docs/design/sketches/{feature}/
  3. Track declared: marketing | product | split
  4. Hard-rules section pasted from:
    • product → .cursor/skills/saas-product-ui/references/hard-rules-product.md
    • marketing → .cursor/skills/taste-design/hard-rules-marketing.md
  5. Domain pack when known: knowledge-hub-saas | sme-marketing-vn | other saas-product-ui references

Missing any of 1–2 → STOP and dispatch @designer-worker (use visual pipeline: .cursor/skills/taste-design/ui-visual-pipeline.md).

Plan requirements

Plans with UI scope MUST include a designer-worker task before frontend-worker UI tasks, with acceptance = spec path + sketch path exist.

Forbidden

  • Frontend inventing palette/layout without spec
  • Mixing marketing hero patterns inside product app shell
  • Skipping sketches because “simple page”
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. 4d ago First seen · 30 lines · 311 tokens per session scan A 29b7a16985d2

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009-design-gate is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository phuoctrung-ppt/ai-sdlc-workflow (2 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 311 tokens to every session, about $0.0016 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 2026-08-31.