ai-tool-picker

ai-tool-picker is a cursor rule for Cursor from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. It costs 132 tokens per session (1,079 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to choosing the kind of AI tool that fits a particular task, such as a chatbot, coding assistant, image model, research tool, or automation service.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare tools for a specific job, weigh accuracy, privacy, cost, speed, and integration, and decide when a non-AI tool is better.
Why use it?
It helps you avoid forcing one tool onto every problem or choosing from a long list without clear criteria.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: a Cursor rule (.mdc).

Good fit Use it to compare tools for a specific job, weigh accuracy, privacy, cost, speed, and integration, and decide when a non-AI tool is better.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/ai-tool-picker
About the project

PM Skills is a collection of plain-Markdown instructions that teach AI assistants structured methods for handling professional, personal, and life-admin tasks. People use it with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, Codex, and other supported agents for work such as writing product requirements, reviewing documents, or planning difficult situations.

mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills · 1,352 stars · on GitHub · mohitagw15856.github.io

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/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Made for: Cursor.

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README.md
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Per session 132 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,079 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 $0.00132 $0.01079
Opus 5 $0.00066 $0.00540
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00216
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00108

Measured 7d ago against content hash 629cc2df5094, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-tool-picker 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 7d 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.

exports/cursor/pm-ai-native/ai-tool-picker/ai-tool-picker.mdc · 66 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AI-Tool Picker

Most people reach for the one AI tool they know and force every task through it — or freeze because there are a hundred options and endless hype. The right question isn't "what's the best AI tool," it's "what kind of tool fits this task." This matches your task to the right category of AI (or none), names the trade-offs that actually matter for your case, and shows how to try it cheaply — so you choose by fit, not by marketing.

What This Skill Produces

  • The task-to-tool match — which category of tool fits (conversational assistant, coding assistant, image/video model, research agent, automation, specialized app) and why
  • The trade-offs that matter for you — the 2–3 dimensions that actually decide it for this task (accuracy, privacy, cost, speed, integration), not a generic feature grid
  • The "you don't need AI for this" call — when a non-AI tool or plain human effort is genuinely the better answer
  • A cheap way to try it — how to test the fit with a free tier or a small task before committing time or money
  • A shortlist, not a lecture — a couple of concrete options in the right category, chosen for your constraints

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not provided:

  • The task — what you're actually trying to get done
  • Your constraints — budget, privacy needs, where it has to fit (a workflow, a tool you already use)
  • Your current tools — what you already have access to (often the answer's already in your pocket)
  • The stakes — one-off vs recurring, low-stakes vs must-be-right

Framework: Fit The Task, Not The Hype

  1. Name the task shape. Is it generation, transformation, research, decision support, or automation? The shape points to the tool category far better than brand names do.
  2. Pick the category first. Match the shape to a kind of tool (assistant, coding, image, agent, specialized) before naming any product — categories are stable, products churn.
  3. Find the 2–3 deciding trade-offs. For this specific task, what actually decides it — accuracy, privacy, cost, speed, integration? Ignore the dimensions that don't matter here.
  4. Check if AI is even the answer. Some tasks are better done by a non-AI tool, a template, or ten minutes of human effort — say so when it's true.
  5. Recommend a cheap test. Suggest trying the fit on a small real task via a free tier before investing — fit is revealed by use, not spec sheets.

Read the full file on GitHub · 66 lines

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. 7d ago First seen · 66 lines · 132 tokens per session scan A 629cc2df5094

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ai-tool-picker is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills (1,352 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 132 tokens to every session and 1,079 once invoked, about $0.0007 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.