cursor-design

cursor-design is a skill for Claude Code from Dragoon0x/everything-design-taste. It costs 15 tokens per session (272 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to choosing cursor shapes and designing custom pointer states for different interactions. It explains when to use pointers, text cursors, drag indicators, resize cursors, and other signals.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define cursor behavior for links, buttons, draggable items, disabled controls, zoomable images, drawing tools, and resizable areas.
Why use it?
It makes interactive elements and their current state easier to understand. It also helps avoid confusing custom cursors or hiding the pointer when users need it.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the edt plugin — 117 skills, 80 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to define cursor behavior for links, buttons, draggable items, disabled controls, zoomable images, drawing tools, and resizable areas.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dragoon0x/everything-design-taste/cursor-design
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/everything-design-taste --skill cursor-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Dragoon0x/everything-design-taste

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install edt, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 117 skills, 80 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 15 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 272 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 $0.00015 $0.00272
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00136
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00054
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00027

Measured 4d ago against content hash a047f83ecb34, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cursor-design 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 4d 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/cursor-design/SKILL.md · 33 lines

What it actually says

Cursor Design

Cursor States

Cursor When
default (arrow) Normal interaction
pointer (hand) Clickable elements (links, buttons)
text (I-beam) Text content, input fields
grab / grabbing Draggable elements
not-allowed Disabled or unavailable actions
wait / progress Loading (avoid — prefer inline indicators)
zoom-in / zoom-out Zoomable images
crosshair Precise selection (drawing, cropping)
col-resize / row-resize Resizable borders

Custom Cursors

  • Use sparingly. Custom cursors can confuse users.
  • Maximum size: 32x32px (128x128 on high-DPI).
  • Maintain the hotspot in the expected position.
  • Portfolio/creative sites: custom cursors can be a signature element.
  • Apps/tools: stick with system cursors.

Rules

  • Every interactive element should have cursor: pointer.
  • Never hide the cursor (except in fullscreen media/games).
  • Disabled elements: cursor: not-allowed + reduced opacity.
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. 4d ago First seen · 33 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A a047f83ecb34

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cursor-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository Dragoon0x/everything-design-taste (11 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 272 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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