ask-on-uncertainty

A development rule that says to ask the user whenever the requirements do not settle an important decision. It covers architecture, implementation details, business rules, edge cases, naming, and file placement.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during planning, design, implementation, and refactoring when the project documents do not specify the correct approach.
Why use it?
It prevents the agent from silently guessing about choices that could change how the software works or is organized.

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/yoruto/prd-kit/ask-on-uncertainty
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Yoruto/prd-kit
Per session 616 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 616 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 $0.00616 $0.00616
Opus 5 $0.00308 $0.00308
Sonnet 5 $0.00123 $0.00123
Haiku 4.5 $0.00062 $0.00062

Measured 2d ago against content hash 4991eef41350, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ask-on-uncertainty 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/ask-on-uncertainty.mdc · 62 lines

What it actually says

与 PRD / 用户指令 / 项目栈的优先级

  • PRD 或用户已写清的需求、验收标准、路径与命名 → 直接按文档执行,不必为同一事反复确认。
  • PRD 未覆盖的架构取舍、业务规则、数值、交互流 → 必须先问再写。
  • 技术栈/框架/ API 细节 → 先查当前项目已启用的 Stack Profile(若存在)、本仓库内类似实现、官方文档;仍不确定再提问。

遇到不确定时必须提问

规则

在以下场景中,若 PRD 或 config/PROJECT.md 未说明 且存在任何不确定,须先暂停并询问用户,再实现。

需要提问的场景

  1. 架构与放置位置

    • 不确定应放在哪一模块/目录/包
    • 不确定用哪种设计模式或分层
    • 不确定类型应继承/组合/注入关系
  2. 实现手段

    • 不确定某 API/库 的用法、参数、线程或异步契约
    • 不确定与 UI/引擎/平台的绑定方式
    • 不确定事件/信号/消息命名与触发点
    • 不确定持久化/序列化/数据格式
  3. 业务与产品

    • 不确定与需求相关的规则、范围、流程、数值
    • 不确定边界情况或回退行为
  4. 命名与结构

    • 不确定新文件/类型/导出名
    • 不确定复用现成文件还是新建

禁止的行为

  • 不要猜测后默默写进代码
  • 不要用「差不多」方案代替与产品的对齐
  • 不要用 TODO: 再改 代替当下的澄清

提问的方式

简洁、点明不确定处与可选项,例如:

不确定:(具体内容)
选项 A:…
选项 B:…
请确认采用哪一项(或提供其它约束)。

适用范围

适用于计划、设计、实现与重构。与 00-prd-kit.mdc 及项目 config/PROJECT.md 不冲突时,本文件优先于「脑补」式实现。

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 · 62 lines · 616 tokens per session scan A 4991eef41350

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ask-on-uncertainty is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository Yoruto/prd-kit (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 616 tokens to every session, about $0.0031 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.