canon-cursors

canon-cursors is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Dragoon0x/canon. It costs 58 tokens per session (665 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for choosing mouse cursor shapes that match what an interface element does.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit or implement cursors for links, text, dragging, resizing, disabled controls, loading states, precision tools, zooming, and custom drawing or game interfaces.
Why use it?
It tells people whether something can be clicked, selected, dragged, resized, or is unavailable before they act.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Cursor.

Good fit Use it to audit or implement cursors for links, text, dragging, resizing, disabled controls, loading states, precision tools, zooming, and custom drawing or game interfaces.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dragoon0x/canon/canon-cursors
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.

Any agent
npx skills add Dragoon0x/canon --skill canon-cursors
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Dragoon0x/canon

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 665 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 $0.00058 $0.00665
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.00332
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00133
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00067

Measured 11d ago against content hash e45eee4cd20a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

canon-cursors 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 11d 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.

source/skills/canon-cursors/SKILL.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CANON · Cursors

The cursor tells users what will happen before they click. Wrong cursor = broken promise.

Cursor-affordance pairing

Affordance Cursor CSS
Clickable button/link Pointer cursor: pointer
Text content (selectable) Text cursor: text
Draggable element Grab / grabbing cursor: grab / cursor: grabbing
Resizable edge/corner Resize cursor: ew-resize, ns-resize, nwse-resize
Disabled element Not-allowed cursor: not-allowed
Loading (system-level) Wait cursor: wait
Loading (element-level) Progress cursor: progress
Default (non-interactive) Default cursor: default
Crosshair (precision) Crosshair cursor: crosshair
Help (tooltip-ish) Help cursor: help
Zoom in/out Zoom-in / zoom-out cursor: zoom-in

The hover+cursor rule

From canon-interaction: if the element changes on hover, the cursor must match the action. Hover effect without cursor change is ambiguous. Cursor change without hover effect is invisible.

Custom cursors

Custom cursor images are acceptable for specialized tools (drawing apps, games). Rules:

  • Provide a fallback: cursor: url(custom.png), pointer
  • Keep the hotspot correct (the click point).
  • Size: 32×32px maximum (OS recommendation).
  • Don't use custom cursors for standard web interactions.

Anti-patterns

Anti-pattern Why it fails
cursor: pointer on non-interactive elements False promise
No cursor change on interactive elements Hidden affordance
cursor: pointer on text inputs Confusing — text cursor expected
Custom cursor on every element Disorienting
cursor: not-allowed on elements that are actually clickable Lying to the user
Grab cursor on non-draggable element Broken promise

Audit checklist

  • Every interactive element uses cursor: pointer
  • Draggable elements use cursor: grab (and grabbing on drag)
  • Disabled elements use cursor: not-allowed
  • Resizable edges use the correct resize cursor
  • No cursor: pointer on non-interactive content
  • Custom cursors have a standard fallback
  • Text-selectable areas use default or text cursor

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 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. 11d ago First seen · 65 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A e45eee4cd20a

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canon-cursors is a skill published in the GitHub repository Dragoon0x/canon (6 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 665 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 2026-08-31.

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