vision

A product-vision document that defines what the product is intended to be and what it should not become.

In plain words
What is it for?
Checking proposed features against the product's purpose, boundaries, and user needs.
Why use it?
It helps settle feature and scope decisions when the code or other documents do not give a clear answer.

Cursor rule

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/ssheleg/super-ux/vision
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ssheleg/super-ux
Per session 44 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 748 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 $0.00044 $0.00748
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00374
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00150
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00075

Measured yesterday against content hash 135249f03e42, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vision 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 yesterday.

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/vision.mdc · 68 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 68 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

vision — what the product is, and what it refuses to become

The layer above the chain. foundation.md answers who uses the product and why; vision.md answers what the product is. Do not confuse it with scenarios.md, the other layer whose name starts with "what": scenarios say what the product does, step by step. A feature can satisfy every scenario and still violate the anti-vision — that case is the whole reason this layer exists.

Before writing a word

Read the project, not its README: source entry points, the schema, the routing table, the live UI, package.json, and docs/ux/foundation.md if it exists. A vision written from the README alone describes the README. The gap between what a project claims and what its code does is usually where the real vision is hiding, and naming that gap is often the most valuable thing this pass does.

The document — nine sections, these headings, in this order

## 1. Essence            one sentence; survives a rewrite on another stack
## 2. Core idea          an observation about the world, not a problem statement
## 3. What the system does   continuous behaviour, verbs not nouns
## 4. The user's role    what the user becomes: directs, judges, decides
## 5. Principles         "we do X, not Y" — Y is something reasonable people pick
## 6. Anti-vision        what it refuses to become, named product by product
## 7. Horizon            a direction for two to three years, never a roadmap
## 8. The one sentence   if someone remembers exactly one thing
## 9. The alignment test three to five questions a feature must pass

**Status:** draft | approved and **Last reviewed:** YYYY-MM-DD at the top. A section with no rejected alternative is a slogan; a vision with no anti-vision settles no argument.

The half that is actually the point

Writing the document is half the job. The other half is the alignment rule in this project's own instruction file (.cursor/rules/, AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md — whichever this project reads), so that later features get checked against the vision instead of the vision being written once and never read. A vision nothing reads is a document, not a constraint.

Read the full file on GitHub · 68 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. yesterday First seen · 68 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 135249f03e42

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vision is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository ssheleg/super-ux (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 748 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.