tell-proof: Skill for Cursor

.cursor/skills/tell-proof-verify/SKILL.md

tell-proof-verify is a skill for Cursor from ashishpatill/tell-proof. It costs 47 tokens per session (573 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for checking whether a website change improves its visual design without causing another problem. It compares a baseline with a new capture and returns passed, review, or failed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after drafting or applying a redesign, before merging frontend changes, and when a human needs to review the visual difference.
Why use it?
It helps catch changes that did not apply, made the page worse, or reduced accessibility-related contrast.

Skill for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/. Also seen: mentions Cursor.

This is ashishpatill/tell-proof's own configuration. It tells Cursor how to work on tell-proof 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 tell-proof configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to ashishpatill/tell-proof. 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/ashishpatill/tell-proof/master/.cursor/skills/tell-proof-verify/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ashishpatill/tell-proof

Made for: Cursor.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 573 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 $0.00047 $0.00573
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00287
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00115
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00057

Measured 7d ago against content hash 853e4100de9c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tell-proof-verify 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.

.cursor/skills/tell-proof-verify/SKILL.md · 62 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 62 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Tell Proof verify workflow

When to use

  • After drafting a redesign patch with tell_redesign / tell_apply
  • Before merging a frontend PR that changes rendered UI
  • When Ashish asks whether a visual fix actually improved the surface

MCP path (Cursor Agent)

1. tell_diagnose on the running preview URL
2. tell_redesign with direction (e.g. "editorial")
3. tell_apply with projectRoot set to the workspace
4. tell_proof_verify { url, patch, projectRoot }
5. If status is "failed" and reverted is true → revise patch and retry
6. If status is "passed" or "review" → human approves merge

Verdict meanings

Status Meaning
passed Score improved ≥3, screenshot changed, no focus/structure regression
review Neutral or small change — human should judge
failed Regression or patch did not apply — auto-reverted when configured

Web path

  1. Set up repo locally (/api/setup/start)
  2. Draft fix in Tell Report UI
  3. Click Prove patch — uses /api/proof/apply
  4. Compare before/after screenshots and score delta

Rules

  • Never auto-merge on passed alone — human reviews the diff
  • Always capture the same URL as the baseline report
  • Prefer disposable checkout proof over editing the main branch directly
  • Skill: tell-mcp-tools
  • Skill: tell-dogfood-audit
  • Skill: gates-until-verified — acceptance-gate loop around this verify path
  • Skill: agency-quality-site — for new marketing sites, run typography → spacing → motion → 375px polish before proof-verify; keep axes isolated
  • packages/core/src/proof-verify.ts

Agency polish (when verifying a built marketing page)

If the change set is a greenfield / redesign marketing surface (not a one-line patch):

  1. Confirm agency-quality-site phases 0–3 completed (or run pnpm agency:pipeline)
  2. Proof-verify the final HTML/URL after axis-isolated polish — not the raw first build
  3. Fail proof if ban-list / assertAgencyDelivery regressions appear after the patch
  4. Prefer separate commits or ledger rows per polish axis when iterating

Read the full file on GitHub · 62 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 · 62 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 853e4100de9c

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tell-proof-verify is a skill published in the GitHub repository ashishpatill/tell-proof (1 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 573 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 2026-09-03.