skill-files

skill-files is a cursor rule for Claude Code, Cursor from Aimeerrhythm/enterprise-change-workflow. It costs 0 tokens per session (321 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of development rules for SKILL.md files, which are instruction files that teach an agent how to perform a task.

In plain words
What is it for?
Writing or reviewing skill files, organizing supplementary references, and checking that required announcements and session-state instructions are present.
Why use it?
It keeps these instruction files within a size limit and places templates, diagrams, and large reference material in separate files.

Cursor rule for Claude CodeCursor

Written for Claude Code and Cursor: installed under .claude/, but also a Cursor rule (.mdc).

Good fit Writing or reviewing skill files, organizing supplementary references, and checking that required announcements and session-state instructions are present.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/aimeerrhythm/enterprise-change-workflow/skill-files
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Aimeerrhythm/enterprise-change-workflow

Made for: Claude Code, Cursor.

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README.md
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Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 321 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00000 $0.00321
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00128
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00064
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00032

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 6cd0ad2ee27e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-files 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 1mo 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.

.claude/rules/skill-files.mdc · 39 lines

What it actually says

SKILL.md Conventions

Size Budget

SKILL.md MUST stay under 400 lines. If exceeding, extract content into supplementary files.

REFERENCE/TEMPLATE Extraction

SKILL.md only contains execution logic. Extract the following into same-directory supplementary files:

  • Output templates → *-template.md
  • Lookup tables / DOT diagrams → *-reference.md / *-diagram.md
  • Large inline prompts → dedicated files

Supplementary files are loaded on-demand via Read references, not embedded in SKILL.md.

Mode-Switch + Announce-at-Start (ALL skills)

Every SKILL.md MUST declare near the top (after Overview):

  1. Announce at start: One sentence telling the user which skill is active (transparency)
    • Format: **Announce at start:** "Using ecw:<skill-name> to <purpose>."
  2. Mode switch: Update session-state.json mode/state fields (state tracking)
    • Format: **Mode switch**: Update \session-state.json` to reflect mode ``.`

Rationalization Defense Tables (Critical skills)

For skills where LLM may self-rationalize skipping steps, include a table of:

Rationalization Pattern Why It's Wrong Correct Behavior

Apply to: risk-classifier, impl-verify, tdd, spec-challenge, writing-plans.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 39 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 6cd0ad2ee27e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

skill-files is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository Aimeerrhythm/enterprise-change-workflow (1 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 321 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 2026-08-31.