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Design screen flow, onboarding and per-screen states before building them — gates and their predicates, the loading/empty/ready/error matrix, dead-end checks, input validation and escape hatches, and waiting states for slow operations. Use this whenever you are planning onboarding or a multi-step flow, adding a screen that loads data, deciding what a user sees before their data arrives, wiring a conditional that picks between screens, or debugging a screen that shows the wrong thing for a moment, shows a new-user prompt to a returning user, or traps someone with no way back. Reach for it while designing rather than after: most of these bugs are invisible to the account you develop with and obvious to every real user.
We split this app-flow-design.mdc into the rules it gives an agent
1 rule. About 0 are common, 0 are distinctive, and 1 is very specific to this project.
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Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
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Distinctive · estimate
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
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Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
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- Very specific: line 6
Read skills/app-flow-design/SKILL.md in this repository and follow it.
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 6,350 Cursor rule files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
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--- description: Design screen flow, onboarding and per-screen states before building them — gates and their predicates, the loading/empty/ready/error matrix, dead-end checks, input validation and escape hatches, and waiting states for slow operations. Use this whenever you are planning onboarding or a multi-step flow, adding a screen that loads data, deciding what a user sees before their data arrives, wiring a conditional that picks between screens, or debugging a screen that shows the wrong thing for a moment, shows a new-user prompt to a returning user, or traps someone with no way back. Reach for it while designing rather than after: most of these bugs are invisible to the account you develop with and obvious to every real user. alwaysApply: false --- Read `skills/app-flow-design/SKILL.md` in this repository and follow it. It is the single source of truth for this topic — this rule only points at it, so that the guidance cannot drift between the formats different tools expect.
Where files are headingNew Cursor rule files have more rules about planning and tracking tasks, and fewer about code style.
Of the Cursor rule files we read, the 3,978 first seen in the last six months, against the older ones: the kind of rule that gained most share, and the kind that lost most. About files like this in general, not this one, and an estimate, since a kind is a pattern in the words.
In this repository10 other files it gives its agents.
- AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- .cursor/rules/ios-app-store-release.mdcCursor rule
- .cursor/rules/supabase-auth-swift.mdcCursor rule
- .cursor/rules/supabase-edge-functions.mdcCursor rule
- .cursor/rules/supabase-rls-data-model.mdcCursor rule
- app-flow-designSkill
- ios-app-store-releaseSkill
- supabase-auth-swiftSkill
- supabase-edge-functionsSkill
- supabase-rls-data-modelSkill
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