reqforge-product-spec

A requirements-gathering guide for turning a product, feature, or interface idea into a written product specification.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to question and refine an idea, identify where AI may help, and produce a Product-Spec.md file.
Why use it?
It replaces vague discussions with clear decisions about users, problems, essential features, user steps, and product type.

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/zxpmail/reqforge/reqforge-product-spec
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zxpmail/ReqForge

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 359 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 $0.00359
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00179
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00072
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00036

Measured 2d ago against content hash eb34108c00ea, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reqforge-product-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 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.

adapters/cursor/.cursor/rules/reqforge-product-spec.mdc · 34 lines

What it actually says

Product Spec Builder

Full skill definition: .cursor/rules/skills/product-spec-builder/SKILL.md

First Principles

  • AI-First: For any feature, first consider how it can be done with AI
  • Simplicity-First: Complexity is the enemy. Question every feature: "do we really need this?"
  • Online-First: WebSearch before recommending competitors, technologies, or solutions

Must Collect (Must Satisfy)

  • Product positioning: what is it? What problem does it solve?
  • Target users: who will use it? Why?
  • Core features: what must it have? What makes the product invalid if removed?
  • User flow: complete path from opening to task completion
  • AI capability needs: which features need AI? What type?
  • Product type: Web / Desktop / CLI / Mobile

Questioning Strategy

  • Only 1-2 questions at a time, make them count
  • Do not accept vague answers: "roughly", "maybe", "probably"
  • Spot logical flaws and point them out directly
  • When the user says "you decide", analyze and recommend then ask for confirmation
  • Proactively suggest AI enhancement: "should we add a one-click AI X here?"

Output: Product-Spec.md

Use .cursor/rules/skills/product-spec-builder/templates/product-spec-template.md for format. Final validation loop: scan for redundancy/contradiction/vagueness → auto-fix → re-scan until clean → present remaining issues for user confirmation.

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 · 34 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A eb34108c00ea

Subscribe to this mod's changes

reqforge-product-spec is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository zxpmail/ReqForge (18 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 359 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.

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