use-agent-skills

use-agent-skills is a cursor rule for Claude Code, Cursor from learningmatter-mit/AtomisticSkills. It costs 236 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A discovery rule for finding available AtomisticSkills by scanning their descriptions. It can list skills by research area and explains how to read and run a selected skill.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you need to find an AtomisticSkills skill for materials science, machine learning, chemistry, drug discovery, or general research work.
Why use it?
It helps an agent locate the right task-specific workflow without manually searching the whole project. It also separates finding a skill from following its detailed instructions.

Cursor rule for Claude CodeCursor

Written for Claude Code and Cursor: $ARGUMENTS substitution, but also installed under .cursor/.

Good fit Use it when you need to find an AtomisticSkills skill for materials science, machine learning, chemistry, drug discovery, or general research work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/learningmatter-mit/atomisticskills/use-agent-skills
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/learningmatter-mit/AtomisticSkills

Made for: Claude Code, Cursor.

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README.md
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Per session 236 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 236 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.00236 $0.00236
Opus 5.5 $0.00094 $0.00094
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00047 $0.00047
Haiku 4.5 $0.00024 $0.00024

Measured 21d ago against content hash 8bbb8d247376, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

use-agent-skills 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 21d 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.

.cursor/rules/use-agent-skills.mdc · 26 lines

What it actually says

Skill Discovery

Use the Grep tool to scan all skill descriptions:

Grep pattern="^description:" glob="skills/*/SKILL.md" output_mode="content"

Instructions

  1. Run the Grep search above to get all skill descriptions from YAML frontmatter.
  2. If the user provided a search term ($ARGUMENTS), filter to skills whose name or description matches.
  3. If no search term was provided, display the full list organized by category prefix:
    • mat-: Materials science
    • ml-: Machine learning / MLIPs
    • drug-: Drug discovery
    • chem-: Chemistry / molecular
    • general-: General utilities
  4. Present results as a clean table: skill name and description.
  5. If the user wants to run a skill, read its full SKILL.md at skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md and follow the numbered instructions step by step.
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. 21d ago Changed · -7 tokens per session 8bbb8d247376
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 26 lines · 243 tokens per session scan A 3227a8b20f8f

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use-agent-skills is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository learningmatter-mit/AtomisticSkills (186 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 236 tokens to every session, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.