use-agent-skills

use-agent-skills is a cursor rule for Cursor from learningmatter-mit/AtomisticSkills. It costs 243 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 Cursor

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 rules/learningmatter-mit/atomisticskills/use-agent-skills
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/learningmatter-mit/AtomisticSkills

Made for: Cursor.

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README.md
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Per session 243 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 243 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.00243 $0.00243
Opus 5 $0.00121 $0.00121
Sonnet 5 $0.00049 $0.00049
Haiku 4.5 $0.00024 $0.00024

Measured yesterday against content hash 3227a8b20f8f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 yesterday.

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=".agents/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 .agents/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. yesterday 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 (160 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 243 tokens to every session, about $0.0012 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 2026-09-03.