tell-proof: Skill for Cursor

.cursor/skills/tell-schema-contracts/SKILL.md

tell-schema-contracts is a skill for Cursor from ashishpatill/tell-proof. It costs 43 tokens per session (341 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for defining and maintaining shared data contracts with Zod, a TypeScript validation library, across an application’s packages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define report, finding, API, and detector payloads, validate JSON at boundaries, build the schema package, and update dependent tests and types.
Why use it?
It prevents packages from exchanging loosely shaped data and catches incompatible schema changes before they spread.

Skill for Cursor

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

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-schema-contracts/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ashishpatill/tell-proof

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 341 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 $0.00043 $0.00341
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00170
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00068
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00034

Measured 7d ago against content hash 13f4a19d0608, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tell-schema-contracts 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-schema-contracts/SKILL.md · 44 lines

What it actually says

Tell schema contracts

Scope

  • packages/schema/src/index.ts — all shared contracts

Workflow

  1. Identify which packages consume the shape (core, taste, redesign, mcp, web)
  2. Add or extend zod schema with .default() only when backward-compatible
  3. Export inferred type: export type Finding = z.infer<typeof Finding>
  4. Run pnpm -F @tell/schema build
  5. Update consumers to parse at boundaries
  6. Only then split parallel Tasks across subagents

Key contracts

Schema Used by
CapturePayload core capture, web diagnose, MCP
DesignFingerprint core fingerprint, taste context
Finding detectors, taste, report UI
TasteVerdict taste engine, report UI
ArtDirection taste, redesign, voice API
RedesignProposal redesign, MCP, web API
TellReport web UI, MCP, fixtures

Rules

  • Never pass loose objects across package boundaries
  • Model JSON must re-validate with zod before use
  • Enum changes (TellDetector, DriftDetector, Verdict) require detector + test updates

DoD

  • Schema builds cleanly
  • All downstream packages typecheck
  • No duplicate type definitions outside @tell/schema
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 · 44 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 13f4a19d0608

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tell-schema-contracts is a skill published in the GitHub repository ashishpatill/tell-proof (1 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 341 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.

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