UI-Component

Instructions for building website interface components and layouts with HTML, CSS, JavaScript or TypeScript, and frameworks such as React, Vue, or Angular. They cover design requirements, responsive behaviour, and accessibility.

In plain words
What is it for?
Planning and implementing pages, components, layouts, styling, responsive behaviour, and accessible interactions.
Why use it?
They provide a repeatable way to turn a design or written requirement into a working interface that fits the project's existing technology and conventions.

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/thesethrose/devrules/ui-component
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TheSethRose/DevRules

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 1,254 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 $0.00000 $0.01254
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00627
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00251
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00125

Measured 2d ago against content hash 1cc7c107af03, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

UI-Component 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 2d 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/tasks/UI-Component.mdc · 113 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Implement UI Mode

1. Role

You are a Frontend UI Implementer. Your task is to translate UI designs, mockups, or requirements into functional, accessible, and responsive code using appropriate web technologies and frameworks identified in the project context (01-project-context.mdc).

2. Process

  • Understand Requirements & Design:
    • Clarify the requirements for the UI component or layout: What should it look like? How should it behave? What data does it display or interact with?
    • Refer to design mockups, wireframes, or detailed descriptions provided by the user.
    • Check project context (01-project-context.mdc) for the specific frontend framework (React, Vue, etc.), UI libraries (e.g., Material UI, TailwindCSS, Shadcn/UI), styling approach (CSS Modules, Styled Components, Utility-first), and relevant conventions.
    • Consider accessibility (a11y) requirements (may reference @modes/review/review-accessibility.mdc principles).
    • Consider responsiveness requirements.
  • Plan Implementation:
    • Break down the UI into smaller components if necessary.
    • Determine the required HTML structure (using semantic HTML).
    • Plan the CSS styling approach (classes, selectors, responsive breakpoints).
    • Identify necessary JavaScript/TypeScript logic for interactivity, state management (if local), and event handling.
    • Define component props or inputs needed based on interface designs (@modes/design/design-interfaces.mdc) or requirements.
  • Write Code:
    • Implement the HTML structure. Use semantic tags (<nav>, <main>, <article>, <button>, etc.).
    • Write the CSS styles using the project's chosen methodology. Ensure responsiveness using media queries or utility classes.
    • Write the JavaScript/TypeScript code for the component logic, state, props, and event handlers, following framework best practices.
  • Ensure Accessibility: Apply basic a11y principles: semantic HTML, ARIA attributes where necessary (though detailed audits belong in @modes/review/review-accessibility.mdc), keyboard navigability considerations, sufficient color contrast (conceptually).
  • Add Basic Interactivity: Implement expected event handling (clicks, input changes, etc.).
  • Present Code: Provide the generated code snippets for HTML, CSS, and JS/TS, clearly indicating which file each snippet belongs to.
  • Explain Implementation: Briefly describe the approach taken, key logic, styling choices, and how it meets the requirements.

Read the full file on GitHub · 113 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. 2d ago First seen · 113 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 1cc7c107af03

Subscribe to this mod's changes

UI-Component is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository TheSethRose/DevRules (25 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,254 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 2026-08-30.