nornweave: Skill for Cursor

.cursor/skills/openspec-onboard/SKILL.md

openspec-onboard is a skill for Cursor from DataCovey/nornweave. It costs 26 tokens per session (3,138 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of openspec-onboard, Apache-2.0.

A guided first run through OpenSpec, a workflow for planning and delivering code changes. It uses a real small task in your codebase and explains each stage from idea to implementation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find a small improvement, create its proposal, specifications, design, and task list, implement the work, and archive the completed change.
Why use it?
It helps you learn the workflow by completing a useful change instead of reading instructions in isolation.

Skill for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

This is DataCovey/nornweave's own configuration. It tells Cursor how to work on nornweave 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 nornweave configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to DataCovey/nornweave. 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/DataCovey/nornweave/main/.cursor/skills/openspec-onboard/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DataCovey/nornweave

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,138 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 78% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00026 $0.03138
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.01569
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00628
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00314

Measured 10d ago against content hash 058b568a7437, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

openspec-onboard 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 10d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

78% identical to openspec-onboard — 127 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.cursor/skills/openspec-onboard/SKILL.md · 530 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 530 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Guide the user through their first complete OpenSpec workflow cycle. This is a teaching experience—you'll do real work in their codebase while explaining each step.


Preflight

Before starting, check if OpenSpec is initialized:

openspec status --json 2>&1 || echo "NOT_INITIALIZED"

If not initialized:

OpenSpec isn't set up in this project yet. Run openspec init first, then come back to /opsx:onboard.

Stop here if not initialized.


Phase 1: Welcome

Display:

## Welcome to OpenSpec!

I'll walk you through a complete change cycle—from idea to implementation—using a real task in your codebase. Along the way, you'll learn the workflow by doing it.

**What we'll do:**
1. Pick a small, real task in your codebase
2. Explore the problem briefly
3. Create a change (the container for our work)
4. Build the artifacts: proposal → specs → design → tasks
5. Implement the tasks
6. Archive the completed change

**Time:** ~15-20 minutes

Let's start by finding something to work on.

Phase 2: Task Selection

Codebase Analysis

Scan the codebase for small improvement opportunities. Look for:

  1. TODO/FIXME comments - Search for TODO, FIXME, HACK, XXX in code files
  2. Missing error handling - catch blocks that swallow errors, risky operations without try-catch
  3. Functions without tests - Cross-reference src/ with test directories
  4. Type issues - any types in TypeScript files (: any, as any)
  5. Debug artifacts - console.log, console.debug, debugger statements in non-debug code
  6. Missing validation - User input handlers without validation

Also check recent git activity:

git log --oneline -10 2>/dev/null || echo "No git history"

Present Suggestions

From your analysis, present 3-4 specific suggestions:

## Task Suggestions

Based on scanning your codebase, here are some good starter tasks:

**1. [Most promising task]**
   Location: `src/path/to/file.ts:42`
   Scope: ~1-2 files, ~20-30 lines
   Why it's good: [brief reason]

**2. [Second task]**
   Location: `src/another/file.ts`
   Scope: ~1 file, ~15 lines
   Why it's good: [brief reason]

**3. [Third task]**
   Location: [location]
   Scope: [estimate]
   Why it's good: [brief reason]

**4. Something else?**
   Tell me what you'd like to work on.

Which task interests you? (Pick a number or describe your own)

Read the full file on GitHub · 530 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. 10d ago First seen · 530 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 058b568a7437

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openspec-onboard is a skill published in the GitHub repository DataCovey/nornweave (27 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 3,138 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 78% identical to openspec-onboard, differing in 127 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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