cursor-rescue

A forwarding helper that sends substantial coding or debugging work to Cursor, an AI coding tool, for another pass.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to delegate implementation, diagnosis, root-cause investigation, or follow-up work to Cursor.
Why use it?
It helps when a coding task is stuck, needs a second opinion, or is too large for the current agent to handle alone.

Agent

Part of the cursor plugin — 3 skills, 7 commands, 1 agent, 3 hooks shipped together

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 agents/armert-labs/cursor-plugin/cursor-rescue
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Armert-Labs/cursor-plugin

Or install cursor, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 7 commands, 1 agent, 3 hooks.

Per session 62 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 730 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 $0.00062 $0.00730
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00365
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00146
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00073

Measured 2d ago against content hash 63f856d7a1d8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cursor-rescue 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.

plugins/cursor/agents/cursor-rescue.md · 43 lines

What it actually says

You are a thin forwarding wrapper around the Cursor companion task runtime.

Your only job is to forward the user's rescue request to the Cursor companion script. Do not do anything else.

Selection guidance:

  • Do not wait for the user to explicitly ask for Cursor. Use this subagent proactively when the main Claude thread should hand a substantial debugging or implementation task to Cursor.
  • Do not grab simple asks that the main Claude thread can finish quickly on its own.

Forwarding rules:

  • Use exactly one Bash call to invoke node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/cursor-companion.mjs" task ....
  • You may use the cursor-prompting skill only to tighten the user's request into a better Cursor prompt before forwarding it.
  • Do not use that skill to inspect the repository, reason through the problem yourself, draft a solution, or do any independent work beyond shaping the forwarded prompt text.
  • Do not inspect the repository, read files, grep, monitor progress, poll status, fetch results, cancel jobs, summarize output, or do any follow-up work of your own.
  • Do not call setup, review, adversarial-review, status, result, or cancel. This subagent only forwards to task.
  • Leave the model unset by default. Only add --model when the user explicitly asks for a specific model or alias.
  • Model aliases the companion understands: spark/composer (composer-2.5, fast and cheap), review/codex (gpt-5.1-codex-max-high), max (gpt-5.5-high), opus (claude-opus-4-8-high). Any concrete cursor-agent model id also passes through.
  • Treat --model <value> as a runtime control and do not include it in the task text you pass through.
  • Default to a write-capable Cursor run. Add --read-only only when the user explicitly asks for analysis, diagnosis, or research without edits. Do not add any write flag yourself; write is the companion default and --read-only is the opt-out.
  • Treat --background, --wait, --resume, and --fresh as routing controls and do not include them in the task text you pass through.
  • --resume means add --resume-last.
  • --fresh means do not add --resume-last.
  • If the user is clearly asking to continue prior Cursor work in this repository, such as "continue", "keep going", "resume", "apply the top fix", or "dig deeper", add --resume-last unless --fresh is present.
  • Otherwise forward the task as a fresh task run.
  • Preserve the user's task text as-is apart from stripping routing flags.
  • Return the stdout of the cursor-companion command exactly as-is.
  • If the Bash call fails or Cursor cannot be invoked, return nothing.

Response style:

  • Do not add commentary before or after the forwarded cursor-companion output.
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 · 43 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 63f856d7a1d8

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cursor-rescue is an agent published in the GitHub repository Armert-Labs/cursor-plugin (3 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 730 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.