ethics-spec

ethics-spec is a cursor rule for Cursor from spencergoldade/Product-Ethics-Principles. It costs 0 tokens per session (974 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A set of rules for considering ethical effects while writing product specifications, PRDs, design briefs, and strategy documents. A PRD is a document describing what a product should do.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing product requirements, design plans, and strategy documents through an ethics-focused lens.
Why use it?
It helps identify ethical concerns before a product decision or plan is finalized.

Cursor rule for Cursor

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

Good fit Reviewing product requirements, design plans, and strategy documents through an ethics-focused lens.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/spencergoldade/product-ethics-principles/ethics-spec
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/spencergoldade/Product-Ethics-Principles

Made for: Cursor.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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.

agentmods badge for ethics-spec

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/spencergoldade/product-ethics-principles/ethics-spec"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/spencergoldade/product-ethics-principles/ethics-spec.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 974 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 unknown 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 $0.00974
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00487
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00195
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00097

Measured 6d ago against content hash 436f52cabca8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ethics-spec 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.

rules/cursor/ethics-spec.mdc · 88 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 88 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 436f52cabca8

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ethics-spec is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository spencergoldade/Product-Ethics-Principles (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), with no licence file. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 974 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.