api-for-yourself

api-for-yourself is a cursor rule for Cursor from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. It costs 112 tokens per session (1,344 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A personal guide written like a software API specification, which is a technical description of how something can be used. It explains what to ask for, what you will return, your limits, trust requirements, failure situations, and changes over time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when joining a team, onboarding a manager or colleague, setting expectations for collaboration, or documenting how people should bring you requests.
Why use it?
It turns vague statements about working preferences into concrete instructions that a new teammate can act on. Clear request formats and boundaries reduce misunderstandings about communication, meetings, and interruptions.

Cursor rule for Cursor

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

Good fit Use it when joining a team, onboarding a manager or colleague, setting expectations for collaboration, or documenting how people should bring you requests.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/api-for-yourself
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 · 1,466 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 112 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,344 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 $0.00112 $0.01344
Opus 5.5 $0.00045 $0.00538
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00269
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00134

Measured 10d ago against content hash d03ec1492902, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

api-for-yourself 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 10d 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-2027/api-for-yourself/api-for-yourself.mdc · 129 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 129 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

API For Yourself Skill

"User manual for me" documents have existed for years and mostly read like horoscopes ("I value transparency"). The API-spec format fixes them by force: an endpoint must say what you send and what comes back; a rate limit must be a number; an error code must name the actual failure behaviour. The joke is the format — the payload is real self-knowledge, and the test of every line is would a new teammate behave differently after reading it? Deadpan technical voice, honest contents, one page.

What This Skill Produces

  • A personal API spec: endpoints, request formats, rate limits, error codes, auth & scopes, dependencies, scheduled maintenance, changelog — in deadpan OpenAPI-ish style
  • A quickstart at the top: the three calls that cover 90% of integrations with this human
  • Optionally a team version: specs for a whole team session, plus the facilitation note for running it as an exercise

Required Inputs

Ask for (if not already provided):

  • How people should bring them things: channel preferences, context depth (one-liner or brief?), and what makes a request instantly workable vs instantly annoying
  • Real capacity: meeting tolerance per day, focus blocks, response-time honest averages by channel
  • Actual failure modes, told honestly: what happens when they're surprised late Friday, overloaded, given vague asks, or micromanaged
  • What earns trust and what burns it; energy sources and drains; current quirks a teammate would discover in week three anyway

Process

  1. Interview past the horoscope. For every generic answer ("I like directness"), push for the behavioural version: what does a well-formed request actually contain? What's the observable symptom when it's missing? The spec is built from behaviours, not values.
  2. Design the endpoints — the 4–6 things people actually come to this person for. Each gets: method + path (POST /decisions), request body (what to include), response (what they'll get and by when), and the errors it can throw. Include one honest deprecated endpoint (/status-meetings — deprecated, use async /updates instead).
  3. Publish real numbers. Rate limits with actual figures ("3 meetings/day before response quality degrades — 429 after that"), response-time SLAs by channel that match reality, scheduled maintenance (focus blocks, the school run, timezone). A limit without a number is a mood.
  4. Write error codes as self-knowledge. The funniest section and the most useful: 429 Too Many Meetings (symptom: monosyllabic replies; retry: tomorrow morning) · 400 Vague Request (returns clarifying questions, not work) · 503 Friday 5pm Surprise (accepted but not processed until Monday; don't resend). Each code: symptom, what NOT to do, the retry strategy.
  5. Auth, changelog, quickstart. Auth: how trust levels are earned and what each unlocks (scope: direct-feedback granted after…). Changelog: 2–3 honest entries ("v3.1: no longer needs to win every argument — patched after 2024 retro"). Quickstart on top: the three most-used calls, copy-paste ready.

Read the full file on GitHub · 129 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. 10d ago Changed · +6 lines d03ec1492902
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 123 lines · 112 tokens per session scan A e21f0c2b3df1

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api-for-yourself is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills (1,466 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 112 tokens to every session and 1,344 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.