automate-me

A guided process for turning a developer's working habits and preferences into a reusable skill for coding agents. It can also revise an existing personal skill.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to capture coding conventions, create a personal agent mode, update that mode as preferences change, and refine the resulting instructions.
Why use it?
It saves the developer from repeating the same instructions about how work should be done across future tasks.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/backnotprop/pstack/automate-me
Any agent
npx skills add backnotprop/pstack --skill automate-me
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/backnotprop/pstack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,766 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 $0.00070 $0.01766
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.00883
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00353
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00177

Measured 2d ago against content hash 34e7eab6f495, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

automate-me 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 2d 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.

skills/automate-me/SKILL.md · 110 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 110 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Automate me

A guided flow for turning the user's working conventions into a skill agents will follow. The output is one -mode skill tailored to them (e.g. jay-mode, priya-mode).

This skill orchestrates three others: an inline mining pass (see step 1), Cursor's built-in create-skill (authoring), and the unslop skill (prose discipline). It sequences them; it doesn't replace them.

Flow

0. Check for an existing skill

Look recursively for .cursor/skills/**/*-mode/SKILL.md and ~/.cursor/skills/*-mode/SKILL.md matching the user's handle. Mode skills can live in a personal category directory (.cursor/skills/<handle>/), not only at the top level. If one exists, confirm intent with AskQuestion (unless they already said "update my skill" or similar):

  • Update the existing skill (default for repeat runs)
  • Start fresh (rare; ask why before doing it)

Update mode changes the rest of the flow:

  • Step 1 mines only history since the skill was last edited (git log -1 --format=%cI <path>).
  • Step 2 asks what's changed or missing, not what to capture from zero.
  • Step 4 edits the existing file in place. Preserve sections the user hasn't contradicted; revise ones with new evidence; add new sections only for genuinely new rules.

1. Mine their history

Locate the active workspace's transcripts before fanning out. The system prompt names the workspace's agent-transcripts/ directory. Use only that path. Don't glob across ~/.cursor/projects/*/. That crosses workspace boundaries and reads private chats from unrelated projects.

Survey recent agent conversations within that scope for recurring patterns. Run multiple parallel subagents across slices of history (e.g. last 2-4 weeks, split into 3 slices so each has enough material). Each slice mining subagent reads transcripts from the workspace-scoped path the parent provides, looks for the signals below, and returns a short structured list of patterns it saw with evidence pointers. Default signals worth hunting:

Read the full file on GitHub · 110 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. 2d ago First seen · 110 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 34e7eab6f495

Subscribe to this mod's changes

automate-me is a skill published in the GitHub repository backnotprop/pstack (181 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 1,766 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.