use-cursor

use-cursor is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from contains-studio/fable-delegator. It costs 81 tokens per session (1,581 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for sending coding tasks to Cursor’s command-line agent, which is another AI coding assistant that can work in a repository. It supports headless runs and requires Cursor authentication.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you explicitly want Cursor to implement code, review an approach, or provide another analysis of a repository.
Why use it?
It lets the main agent delegate implementation work or request a second opinion from Cursor while keeping responsibility for checking the result.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents; mentions AGENTS.md.

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/contains-studio/fable-delegator/use-cursor
Any agent
npx skills add contains-studio/fable-delegator --skill use-cursor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/contains-studio/fable-delegator

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,581 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 5.1 $0.00081 $0.01581
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00790
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00316
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00158

Measured 6d ago against content hash 83637a667ada, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

use-cursor 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 6d 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/use-cursor/SKILL.md · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cursor Subagent Skill

Spawn autonomous Cursor CLI (cursor-agent) subagents for implementation work. Same delegation philosophy as use-codex / use-grok: subagents burn their own tokens; the parent verifies and synthesizes.

Auth (required before first use)

cursor-agent status must show logged in. Two paths:

  • API key: export CURSOR_API_KEY=<key> (or --api-key <key> per invocation). Keys come from cursor.com dashboard → Integrations.
  • Browser OAuth: cursor-agent login (interactive — have the user run it themselves via ! cursor-agent login).

If not authenticated, --list-models returns "No models available for this account" — that error means auth, not a missing model.

Canonical headless invocation

cat /path/to/prompt.md | cursor-agent -p --force --output-format text \
  --model <model> --workspace /path/to/repo "$(cat)"

Or simpler, prompt as argument from a file:

cursor-agent -p --force --model <model> --workspace /path/to/repo "$(cat /path/to/prompt.md)"

Run in background (run_in_background: true) for anything non-trivial.

Flag notes

  1. -p / --print = headless mode. It has full tool access including write and bash.
  2. --force = auto-allow commands (the --always-approve equivalent). Without it, headless runs can stall on command approval. Add --approve-mcps if the repo has MCP servers configured.
  3. --model <model> — see Model selection below. Note: unlike codex, cursor bakes reasoning effort into the model ID (gpt-5.4-mini-low-xhigh) instead of a separate flag.
  4. --mode plan / --mode ask — read-only modes for planning/Q&A second opinions (no edits). Good for "get cursor's opinion" without write risk.
  5. --output-format json for machine-parsable results; text for direct reading.
  6. --workspace <path> — set explicitly; defaults to cwd.
  7. --resume <chatId> / --continue — continue a prior session; create-chat mints a chat ID up front.

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 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. 6d ago First seen · 94 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A 83637a667ada

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use-cursor is a skill published in the GitHub repository contains-studio/fable-delegator (11 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 1,581 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 2026-08-31.

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