cursor-academy: Skill for Cursor

.cursor/skills/hint/SKILL.md

hint is a skill for Cursor from abbanbhan/cursor-academy. It costs 37 tokens per session (196 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A tutoring skill that gives step-by-step hints for a Cursor Academy coding exercise without showing the complete answer immediately. Cursor Academy is a learning environment for coding exercises.

In plain words
What is it for?
Providing a nudge, a smaller next step, or staged guidance during a Cursor Academy exercise.
Why use it?
It helps learners move past a difficult step while keeping them involved in solving the exercise. Hints can be given in smaller stages when needed.

Skill for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

This is abbanbhan/cursor-academy's own configuration. It tells Cursor how to work on cursor-academy itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything cursor-academy configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to abbanbhan/cursor-academy. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/abbanbhan/cursor-academy/master/.cursor/skills/hint/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/abbanbhan/cursor-academy

Made for: Cursor.

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README.md
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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 196 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 unknown 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 $0.00037 $0.00196
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00098
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00039
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00020

Measured 8d ago against content hash 225dfc1b9a3e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hint 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 8d 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/skills/hint/SKILL.md · 25 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 8d ago First seen · 25 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 225dfc1b9a3e

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hint is a skill published in the GitHub repository abbanbhan/cursor-academy (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 196 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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