180-creative-process-structure

180-creative-process-structure is a cursor rule for Cursor from savagelysubtle/BIG-BRAIN-Memory-Bank. It costs 0 tokens per session (4,739 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for planning design-heavy work through architecture, component, and algorithm design, followed by evaluation and verification. It applies to Markdown and MDC files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when planning system architecture, designing individual components, working out algorithms, or documenting those decisions in Markdown-based files.
Why use it?
It gives design-intensive tasks a consistent structure for examining requirements, relationships, algorithms, maintainability, and correctness before implementation.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/savagelysubtle/big-brain-memory-bank/180-creative-process-structure
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/savagelysubtle/BIG-BRAIN-Memory-Bank

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 4,739 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 5.1 $0.00000 $0.04739
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.02370
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00948
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00474

Measured 5d ago against content hash a42480568f19, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

180-creative-process-structure 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 5d 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/BIG_BRAIN/Core/Creative/180-creative-process-structure.mdc · 780 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 780 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.


description: WHEN approaching design-intensive tasks APPLY structured creative processes globs: ["/*.md", "/*.mdc"] alwaysApply: true

TL;DR: The Creative Process Structure provides systematic approaches for design-intensive tasks, ensuring thorough problem analysis, exploration, evaluation, and verification for optimal solutions.

1.0.0

1. **Architecture Design**
   - Purpose: System-wide structure and component relationships
   - Focus: Subsystem organization, interaction patterns, data flow
   - Primary concerns: Scalability, maintainability, flexibility
   - Artifacts: Architecture diagrams, component specifications, integration models

2. **Component Design**
   - Purpose: Individual module implementation approach
   - Focus: Internal structure, algorithms, data organization
   - Primary concerns: Performance, reliability, testability
   - Artifacts: Component specifications, interface definitions, behavior models

3. **Algorithm Design**
   - Purpose: Specialized processing logic
   - Focus: Computational efficiency, correctness, edge cases
   - Primary concerns: Complexity, accuracy, optimization
   - Artifacts: Algorithm specifications, flowcharts, pseudocode, complexity analysis

4. **Data Model Design**
   - Purpose: Information organization and relationships
   - Focus: Entity relationships, schema structure, access patterns
   - Primary concerns: Integrity, flexibility, efficiency
   - Artifacts: Entity-relationship diagrams, schema definitions, access pattern documentation

5. **UI/UX Design**
   - Purpose: User interaction and experience
   - Focus: User flows, interface elements, information presentation
   - Primary concerns: Usability, clarity, accessibility
   - Artifacts: Wireframes, user flows, interaction specifications

Each design type has specialized process adaptations.
1. **Problem Analysis**
   - Understand requirements and constraints
   - Analyze context and stakeholder needs
   - Identify success criteria
   - Recognize quality factors

2. **Exploration**
   - Generate multiple solution approaches
   - Research relevant patterns and precedents
   - Consider alternative strategies
   - Leverage different perspectives

3. **Evaluation**
   - Assess alternatives against criteria
   - Consider tradeoffs and implications
   - Analyze risks and challenges
   - Project implementation complexity

4. **Selection**
   - Choose optimal approach
   - Document decision rationale
   - Address risks and concerns
   - Define implementation strategy

Read the full file on GitHub · 780 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. 5d ago First seen · 780 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A a42480568f19

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180-creative-process-structure is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository savagelysubtle/BIG-BRAIN-Memory-Bank (5 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 4,739 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.