frontend-template: Skill for Codex

.cursor/skills/cursor-rule-refactor/SKILL.md

cursor-rule-refactor is a skill for Codex, Cursor from ddebixx/frontend-template. It costs 89 tokens per session (1,552 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for reorganizing a project's Cursor rules, which are instructions used by the Cursor coding assistant. It audits existing rules and separates them into always-on constraints, file-specific guidance, reusable workflows, reviewer agents, and documentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a repository has accumulated many Cursor rules or workflow-heavy instruction files. It inventories and classifies them, creates a migration map, detects conflicts, and produces a migration report.
Why use it?
It addresses duplicated, contradictory, outdated, or overly large instruction files without weakening their requirements. Keeping the old rules until verification also makes the migration safer.

Skill for CodexCursor

Written for Codex and Cursor: agents/openai.yaml present, but also installed under .cursor/. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Cursor.

This is ddebixx/frontend-template's own configuration. It tells Codex and Cursor how to work on frontend-template 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 frontend-template configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to ddebixx/frontend-template. 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/ddebixx/frontend-template/main/.cursor/skills/cursor-rule-refactor/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ddebixx/frontend-template

Made for: Codex, Cursor.

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Per session 89 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,552 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 $0.00089 $0.01552
Opus 5.5 $0.00036 $0.00621
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00310
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00155

Measured 16d ago against content hash 1b04d57445bd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cursor-rule-refactor 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 16d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/audit_cursor_rules.py), 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.

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/cursor-rule-refactor/SKILL.md · 180 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 180 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cursor Rule Refactor

Refactor the project's AI instructions without weakening its existing standards. Treat this as a migration of behavior, not a rewrite from memory.

Workflow

  1. Inspect the repository before changing anything.
  2. Inventory every file under .cursor/rules/ and .cursor/commands/ if present.
  3. Run scripts/audit_cursor_rules.py --root . --output docs/ai/rules-audit-inventory.md when Python is available.
  4. Read every rule semantically; do not classify from filename alone.
  5. Classify each instruction using references/classification-model.md.
  6. Produce a migration map before editing files.
  7. Detect duplicates, contradictions, stale patterns, and oversized always-on context.
  8. Refactor into the target architecture below.
  9. Preserve original rules outside the active .cursor/rules directory until the migration has been verified.
  10. Validate that every material original requirement has a destination.
  11. Produce docs/ai/rules-migration-report.md using references/migration-report-template.md.

Target architecture

Use this structure as the default. Adapt names to the project when existing conventions are better.

.cursor/
  rules/
    core/
      00-delivery-contract.mdc
      10-project-constraints.mdc
    frontend/
      ...file-scoped engineering rules...
    testing/
      ...file-scoped test rules...
    tooling/
      ...tool-specific rules...
  skills/
    ...repeatable workflows...
  agents/
    ...independent reviewers/verifiers...
docs/
  ai/
    rules-audit-inventory.md
    rules-migration-report.md
  specs/
    ...feature specifications...

Do not create empty categories merely to match the example.

Classification rules

Keep as an always-on rule only when all are true

  • The instruction is non-negotiable across almost every task.
  • It is short enough to justify permanent context cost.
  • Violating it would produce consistently unacceptable output.
  • It is not a procedure with several steps.
  • It does not describe a temporary persona.

Read the full file on GitHub · 180 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files 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. 16d ago First seen · 180 lines · 89 tokens per session scan A 1b04d57445bd

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cursor-rule-refactor is a skill published in the GitHub repository ddebixx/frontend-template (5 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 89 tokens to every session and 1,552 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-13.

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