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Summary

Adds \�nti-slop-design-cursorrules-prompt-file.mdc\ under
ules/\ and lists it in \README.md\ under ### CSS and Styling.

  • Rule Purpose: Enforces anti-AI-slop design rules (bans purple radial blobs, raw emoji buttons, and 3-card marketing grids; enforces 1-to-3 UX focus hierarchy, curated token archetypes, tactile 8-state feedback, and a 7-axis pre-emit quality gate).
  • Globs: */.{tsx,jsx,html,vue,svelte,css}\
  • Hygiene Verification: Passes
    ode scripts/check-repo-hygiene.mjs --only rules\ and --only readme\ locally with zero failures.

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  • Documentation
    • Added guidance for creating polished, human-focused interfaces.
    • Covers visual hierarchy, responsive layouts, spacing, typography, accessibility, and interactive feedback.
    • Includes recommendations to avoid repetitive layouts, generic styling, unclear controls, and other common design-quality issues.
    • Adds interaction-state guidance, micro-interaction timing recommendations, and a pre-release quality checklist for consistency, usability, responsiveness, and interface refinement.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The pull request adds an Anti-Slop Design rules file with UI, styling, interaction, spacing, and quality-gate rules. It adds a CSS and Styling README entry that links to the new rule.

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Anti-Slop Design

Layer / File(s) Summary
Rule scope and design guidance
rules/anti-slop-design-cursorrules-prompt-file.mdc
The ruleset defines file globs, prohibited UI patterns, eight interaction states, UX axioms, interaction timing, spacing values, and nested-radius math.
Quality gate and catalog entry
rules/anti-slop-design-cursorrules-prompt-file.mdc, README.md
The ruleset adds a seven-axis quality gate requiring every axis to score at least 4/5 and the aggregate to reach 28/35. The README links to the ruleset.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~3 minutes

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 01b92

The new design rule is correctly cataloged and discoverable; no actionable merge risk remains.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Description check ⚠️ Warning The description summarizes the rule and its README entry, but it omits the required Contribution Type, Value To Cursor Users, Added Or Changed Files, Quality Checklist, and Notes For Maintainers secti… Complete the repository template. Add all required section headings, select the applicable contribution type, describe the practical user value, list the changed files, complete each quality checklist item, and add maintainer notes or state…
✅ Passed checks (4 passed)
Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the addition of an anti-slop design framework under the rules directory. It matches the main changes.
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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Explanation

The description summarizes the rule and its README entry, but it omits the required Contribution Type, Value To Cursor Users, Added Or Changed Files, Quality Checklist, and Notes For Maintainers sections.

Resolution

Complete the repository template. Add all required section headings, select the applicable contribution type, describe the practical user value, list the changed files, complete each quality checklist item, and add maintainer notes or state that none apply.

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🟡 Changes recommended

The README hygiene check fails, and the rule contains several non-actionable or incomplete requirements.

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Pull request overview

Adds an anti-slop UI/UX Cursor rule and catalogs it under CSS and Styling.

Changes:

  • Adds design, accessibility, interaction, spacing, and quality-gate guidance.
  • Adds a README catalog entry.
File summaries
File Summary
rules/anti-slop-design-cursorrules-prompt-file.mdc Adds anti-slop UI/UX guidance; requires clearer state definitions, scoring, reduced-motion handling, Tailwind coverage, and valid CSS syntax.
README.md Adds a catalog entry that conflicts with the repository’s changed-file hygiene check.
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rules/anti-slop-design-cursorrules-prompt-file.mdc:45

  • The accessibility gate requires animation behavior elsewhere in this rule, but it omits respecting prefers-reduced-motion; generated interfaces can therefore pass this gate while animating for users who have requested reduced motion. Add reduced-motion handling to this axis (the existing design guidance also explicitly requires it in rules/toss-style-design-system.mdc:54-60).
6. **Accessibility:** Visible `:focus-visible` rings, semantic tags, WCAG AA contrast.

rules/anti-slop-design-cursorrules-prompt-file.mdc:3

  • The description advertises Tailwind architecture guidance, but this scope only matches component/template and plain CSS files; it never matches tailwind.config.*, where Tailwind tokens and theme architecture are defined. As written, the rule cannot enforce its token guidance in the configuration files it claims to cover.
globs: **/*.{tsx,jsx,html,vue,svelte,css}

rules/anti-slop-design-cursorrules-prompt-file.mdc:39

  • The gate requires a score of at least 4/5, but the rule only lists seven axis names and pass/fail statements; it never defines the scoring scale, weighting, or how a score is calculated. An agent therefore cannot determine whether an implementation passes this mandatory gate. Add a per-axis rubric and aggregation rule, or change this to an explicit checklist.
## 5. Pre-Emit 7-Axis Quality Gate (Score >= 4/5 Mandatory)

rules/anti-slop-design-cursorrules-prompt-file.mdc:44

  • The quality gate writes :active:scale(0.97), which is not valid CSS (there is no :scale pseudo-class) and conflicts with the valid declaration format given above. An agent following this gate can emit an invalid selector; use the same :active { transform: scale(0.97); } form here, or explicitly provide the Tailwind active:scale-[0.97] equivalent.
5. **Micro-Interactions:** Snappy <200ms ease-out, tactile `:active:scale(0.97)`.
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Comment thread README.md

### CSS and Styling

- [Anti-Slop Design (Human-Grade UI)](https://github.com/PatrickJS/awesome-cursorrules/blob/main/rules/anti-slop-design-cursorrules-prompt-file.mdc) - Cures AI frontend slop, enforces 1-to-3 UX hierarchy, tactile 8-state feedback, and pre-emit quality gating.
- **No Single-Word Italic/Gradients:** Enforce uniform, confident typographic weight.
- **No Redundant KPI Duplication:** Exactly one primary source of metric truth per viewport.
- **No Card-Level Date Filters:** Date pickers and global filters belong in the page-level header bar.
- **No Missing Interactive States:** Every interactive primitive MUST support 8 states.

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In `@rules/anti-slop-design-cursorrules-prompt-file.mdc`:
- Line 21: Update the “No Missing Interactive States” rule to explicitly name
all eight required interaction states and define the expected treatment or
visual behavior for each, so agents can implement and audit interactive
primitives consistently.
- Line 39: Expand the “Pre-Emit 7-Axis Quality Gate” section to define the
scoring scale and concrete criteria for each of the seven quality axes, then
state whether passing requires every axis to score at least 4/5 or only the
aggregate score to meet 4/5. Keep the gate’s pass condition unambiguous and
consistent with the intended validation flow.
- Line 3: Update the globs configuration to use documented comma-separated
patterns for each supported extension instead of brace expansion, preserving
coverage for TSX, JSX, HTML, Vue, Svelte, and CSS files.
- Line 46: Update the “Mobile Linearity” guidance to prevent accidental
page-level horizontal overflow while explicitly allowing accessible horizontal
scrolling within containers for intentionally wide content such as tables, code
blocks, and charts.
- Line 44: Update the Micro-Interactions rule to replace the invalid
:active:scale(0.97) notation with explicit implementation syntax: CSS should use
:active with transform: scale(0.97), and Tailwind should use
active:scale-[0.97].

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