tell-proof: Skill for Cursor

.cursor/skills/tell-template-craft/SKILL.md

tell-template-craft is a skill for Cursor from ashishpatill/tell-proof. It costs 88 tokens per session (1,301 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for creating or repairing Tell's premium website templates by reusing proven layout mechanics and checking the result against measured design patterns.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding a site template, fixing navigation or layout behavior, or refining composition, spacing, typography, and responsive states.
Why use it?
It helps avoid layout bugs and inconsistent visual quality while keeping template code anonymous and focused on reusable design rules.

Skill for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .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-template-craft/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ashishpatill/tell-proof

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,301 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 $0.00088 $0.01301
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00651
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00260
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00130

Measured 8d ago against content hash 62515c7cb708, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tell-template-craft 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/tell-template-craft/SKILL.md · 93 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 93 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Tell template craft (plumbing → designer corridors)

Token-efficient loop for templates. Do not invent layout plumbing from scratch. Do not restyle from named agencies. Two phases, always in this order:

Phase Source Use for
A — Plumbing Local peer checkout (research/plumbing-reference.local.jsonlocalCheckout, or /tmp/learn-plumbing/reference) Working solutions: landmarks, sticky/opaque nav, focus-visible, reduced-motion, stacking/z-index, overflow, hero claim vs figure collision, state coverage, anti-AI-slop checks
B — Craft Measured corpus + research/aggregate.json + docs/10_DESIGN_EVIDENCE.md Composition corridors from top designer / product pages (fold figure, inverse share, display, bleeds) — ids/categories only, never names or URLs in commits

The peer daemon is not an aesthetic source. Peer theme packs and named studios must not appear in committed code, comments, docs, or copy. Local study of designer GitHub template repos is allowed for measurement and eye only; encode results as anonymised corridors (same as design-research-loop). Never name the peer product in commits. Platform/MCP/auth adaptations: docs/11docs/13.

When to run

  • Creating a new siteKind / template / showcase offering
  • Fixing a visual bug (overlap, ghosting, empty band, clipped type)
  • Improving an existing template until satisfactory
  • Redesigning /showcase or Studio presentation of offerings

Phase A — peer plumbing (do this first)

  1. Reproduce the bug or blank feature with Playwright (pnpm research:shots -- --page <id> or a local route screenshot).
  2. Search the peer checkout for a solved pattern, not a look:
    • craft/anti-ai-slop.md, craft/typography*.md, craft/state-coverage.md, craft/accessibility-baseline.md
    • design-templates/* only for structure/HTML landmarks / CSS stacking ideas
  3. Encode the fix in @tell/design-skills (or apps/web for showcase chrome) + add a gate in basics-checklist.ts when the failure is repeatable.
  4. Prefer the smallest change that clears the plumbing failure. For labeled hero figures (studio/consumer): stack fold — opaque claim band in document flow, then the figure. Never absolutely overlay stage labels under readable type (Fieldmark collision). Soft-gradient overclaim is fine only when the underlayer has no competing ink.

Read the full file on GitHub · 93 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. 8d ago First seen · 93 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A 62515c7cb708

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tell-template-craft is a skill published in the GitHub repository ashishpatill/tell-proof (1 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 1,301 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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