cursor-prompting

cursor-prompting is a skill for Claude Code from Armert-Labs/cursor-plugin. It costs 27 tokens per session (417 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for writing short, precise prompts for Cursor Agent, a tool that performs coding, review, diagnosis, and research tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when preparing prompts for code changes, read-only reviews, troubleshooting, or research, including choosing a suitable Cursor model and specifying tests or files.
Why use it?
It reduces vague requests and makes the expected result, limits, and verification steps clear to the coding agent.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Part of the cursor plugin — 3 skills, 7 commands, 1 agent, 3 hooks shipped together

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 skills/armert-labs/cursor-plugin/cursor-prompting
Any agent
npx skills add Armert-Labs/cursor-plugin --skill cursor-prompting
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Armert-Labs/cursor-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cursor, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 7 commands, 1 agent, 3 hooks.

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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 417 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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 5.1 $0.00027 $0.00417
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00209
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00083
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00042

Measured 5d ago against content hash bd253b7e1684, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cursor-prompting 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 5d 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.

plugins/cursor/skills/cursor-prompting/SKILL.md · 29 lines

What it actually says

Cursor Prompting

Treat cursor-agent like an operator, not a collaborator. Prompts should be compact and specific.

Principles:

  • State the task and the done-state in one or two sentences. Avoid long preambles.
  • Name the concrete output you expect (a patch, a diagnosis, a list, a one-line answer).
  • Give one task per run. Do not bundle unrelated work.
  • Add constraints only where they matter (files to touch or avoid, tests to keep green, "do not refactor unrelated code").
  • Prefer explicit contracts over vague nudges. If you need verification, say "run the tests and report the result".

Cursor specifics:

  • cursor-agent is headless and write-capable by default in this plugin (--force). --read-only maps to --mode ask (read-only Q&A): Cursor reads and answers but never edits.
  • Cursor resolves its own model unless --model is set. There is no reasoning-effort flag.
  • The agent already has read/write access to the working directory, so reference files by path rather than pasting their contents.

Recommended models per task (set via --model <alias>):

  • Routine rescue / quick edits: spark (composer-2.5) — fast and cheap.
  • Deep implementation or debugging: review/codex (gpt-5.1-codex-max-high) or max (gpt-5.5-high).
  • Code review / adversarial review: review (gpt-5.1-codex-max-high).
  • A second opinion from a different model family: opus (claude-opus-4-8-high).
  • Any concrete cursor-agent model id from cursor-agent --list-models also works.
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. 5d ago First seen · 29 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A bd253b7e1684

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cursor-prompting is a skill published in the GitHub repository Armert-Labs/cursor-plugin (3 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 417 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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