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rescue

A command that delegates an investigation, requested fix, or follow-up task to a Cursor rescue subagent, which is another AI coding process.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate a problem, ask Cursor to make an explicit change, or continue rescue work with optional background, model, read-only, resume, or fresh settings.
Why use it?
It provides a separate Cursor-based attempt when work needs investigation or rescue. The command passes the user's request to that subagent and can wait for it or run it in the background.

Command

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

3 2mo ago A scan 19 tokens original MIT
View the source file Armert-Labs/cursor-plugin
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 commands/armert-labs/cursor-plugin/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 19 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 862 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 $0.00019 $0.00862
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00431
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00172
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00086

Measured 2d ago against content hash f98555f1b7d6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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/commands/rescue.md · 49 lines

What it actually says

Invoke the cursor:cursor-rescue subagent via the Agent tool (subagent_type: "cursor:cursor-rescue"), forwarding the raw user request as the prompt. cursor:cursor-rescue is a subagent, not a skill — do not call Skill(cursor:cursor-rescue) (no such skill) or Skill(cursor:rescue) (that re-enters this command and hangs the session). The command runs inline so the Agent tool stays in scope. The final user-visible response must be Cursor's output verbatim.

Raw user request: $ARGUMENTS

Execution mode:

  • If the request includes --background, run the cursor:cursor-rescue subagent in the background.
  • If the request includes --wait, run the cursor:cursor-rescue subagent in the foreground.
  • If neither flag is present, default to foreground.
  • --background and --wait are execution flags for Claude Code. Do not forward them to task, and do not treat them as part of the natural-language task text.
  • --model and --read-only are runtime-selection flags. Preserve them for the forwarded task call, but do not treat them as part of the natural-language task text.
  • If the request includes --resume or --fresh, do not ask whether to continue. The user already chose.
  • Otherwise, before starting Cursor, check for a resumable rescue thread from this Claude session by running:
node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/cursor-companion.mjs" task-resume-candidate --json
  • If that helper reports available: true, use AskUserQuestion exactly once to ask whether to continue the current Cursor thread or start a new one.
  • The two choices must be:
    • Continue current Cursor thread
    • Start a new Cursor thread
  • If the user is clearly giving a follow-up instruction such as "continue", "keep going", "resume", "apply the top fix", or "dig deeper", put Continue current Cursor thread (Recommended) first.
  • Otherwise put Start a new Cursor thread (Recommended) first.
  • If the user chooses continue, add --resume before routing to the subagent.
  • If the user chooses a new thread, add --fresh before routing to the subagent.
  • If the helper reports available: false, do not ask. Route normally.

Operating rules:

  • The subagent is a thin forwarder only. It should use one Bash call to invoke node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/cursor-companion.mjs" task ... and return that command's stdout as-is.
  • Return the Cursor companion stdout verbatim to the user.
  • Do not paraphrase, summarize, rewrite, or add commentary before or after it.
  • Do not ask the subagent to inspect files, monitor progress, poll /cursor:status, fetch /cursor:result, call /cursor:cancel, summarize output, or do follow-up work of its own.
  • Cursor edits files by default. Add --read-only only if the user wants analysis/diagnosis without edits.
  • Leave the model unset unless the user explicitly asks for one. Aliases (spark, review, max, opus) are resolved by the companion.
  • Leave --resume, --fresh, and --read-only in the forwarded request. The subagent handles that routing when it builds the task command.
  • If the helper reports that Cursor is missing or unauthenticated, stop and tell the user to run /cursor:setup.
  • If the user did not supply a request, ask what Cursor should investigate or fix.
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 · 49 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A f98555f1b7d6

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rescue is a command published in the GitHub repository Armert-Labs/cursor-plugin (3 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 862 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.

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