mcp-doctor: Skill for Cursor

.cursor/skills/cross-machine-fetch/SKILL.md

cross-machine-fetch is a skill for Cursor from Coefficient-work/mcp-doctor. It costs 79 tokens per session (1,620 once invoked), scanned D, original, MIT.

A procedure for copying files from another Mac over Tailscale, a private network that connects the machines. It covers finding the other computer and fetching files over SSH, a secure remote terminal connection.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to retrieve downloads, PDFs, CSVs, or other files from Louis’s MacBook Air or Mac mini when working on the other machine.
Why use it?
It helps when a file exists on a different Mac and is missing from the current workspace. It prevents an agent from guessing the contents of important CSV or PDF files.

Skill for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

This is Coefficient-work/mcp-doctor's own configuration. It tells Cursor how to work on mcp-doctor 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 mcp-doctor configures →

Not installable: its command points at a path on the author’s own machine, so it runs nowhere else. The line is /Users/louisreid/Downloads.

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Coefficient-work/mcp-doctor. 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/Coefficient-work/mcp-doctor/main/.cursor/skills/cross-machine-fetch/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Coefficient-work/mcp-doctor

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,620 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan D 2 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 $0.00079 $0.01620
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00810
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00324
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00162

Measured 7d ago against content hash 1e96fe33d533, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade D, and why

cross-machine-fetch scanned grade D with 2 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/fetch-from-peer.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

2. **Tailscale SSH** — optional: `sudo tailscale set --ssh` only when CLI and GUI share the same daemon.

Reaches for credential fileshighPrivilege escalation

SSH keys, cloud credentials, git-credentials, .npmrc, /etc/shadow: reading these is how a config file becomes a credential leak.

BatchMode (agent) fetches need a **pubkey** in the peer’s `~/.ssh/authorized_keys`. Password prompts will fail under BatchMode.
.cursor/skills/cross-machine-fetch/SKILL.md · 144 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 144 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cross-machine fetch (Tailscale / Remote Login SSH)

When to use

  • User gives an absolute path under /Users/louisreid/... but the agent runs on the Mini (roundtableopenclaw)
  • Local ls fails with “No such file” for Downloads CSVs/PDFs that Louis just exported on the Air
  • User asks to SSH to the MacBook / Air and pull files

Do not invent file contents. Fetch or ask — never fake bank/CSV data.

Machine map (bidirectional)

Role Tailscale / Host alias Typical IP SSH user Home
Mini (agents often here) roundtableopenclaw / mini 100.84.168.56 roundtableopenclaw /Users/roundtableopenclaw
MacBook Air (Louis daily) louiss-macbook-air / air 100.83.203.72 louisreid /Users/louisreid

Resolve live: tailscale status (prefer MagicDNS name over hardcoding the IP).

Preferred auth

  1. macOS Remote Login (classic SSH on port 22) — preferred when Tailscale CLI/daemon versions disagree. System Settings → General → Sharing → Remote Login → On (allow the peer user).
  2. Tailscale SSH — optional: sudo tailscale set --ssh only when CLI and GUI share the same daemon.

BatchMode (agent) fetches need a pubkey in the peer’s ~/.ssh/authorized_keys. Password prompts will fail under BatchMode.

Identity files

Direction Client Key to offer Where it must be authorized
Mini → Air Mini ~/.ssh/reid-finance-deploy (ed25519) Air: ~louisreid/.ssh/authorized_keys
Air → Mini Air Louis’s Mac key (matches Mini authorized_keys) Mini: ~roundtableopenclaw/.ssh/authorized_keys

SSH config Host aliases (install script / manual):

Host air louiss-macbook-air
  HostName 100.83.203.72
  User louisreid
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/reid-finance-deploy
  IdentitiesOnly yes

Host mini roundtableopenclaw
  HostName 100.84.168.56
  User roundtableopenclaw
  IdentitiesOnly yes

Read the full file on GitHub · 144 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 144 lines · 79 tokens per session scan D 1e96fe33d533

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cross-machine-fetch is a skill published in the GitHub repository Coefficient-work/mcp-doctor (0 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 1,620 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it D with 2 findings (asks for root, reaches for credential files). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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