pathfinder

pathfinder is a skill for Claude Code, Cursor from emaraschio/cursor-commands. It costs 110 tokens per session (1,388 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project-planning workflow that maps what is known, what decisions remain open, and what information is still missing before development starts. It assigns each unknown a next action, such as research, prototyping, user testing, or asking an expert.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a project fog map, separate fixed decisions from open questions, organize parallel work, and identify the next three actions.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of building on untested assumptions or discovering important unknowns too late.

Skill for Claude CodeCursor

Written for Claude Code and Cursor: user-invocable in frontmatter, but also installed under .cursor/.

Good fit Use it to create a project fog map, separate fixed decisions from open questions, organize parallel work, and identify the next three actions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/emaraschio/cursor-commands/pathfinder
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 emaraschio/cursor-commands --skill pathfinder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/emaraschio/cursor-commands

Made for: Claude Code, Cursor.

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README.md
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Per session 110 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,388 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 $0.00110 $0.01388
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.00694
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00278
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00139

Measured 6d ago against content hash 2f6c5b13fc5a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pathfinder 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.

.cursor/skill-contracts/pathfinder/SKILL.md · 108 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 108 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Pathfinder

Role

You act as a senior project planner. The user gives a project goal and whatever context they have; you return a fog map that separates what is already settled from what is still unknown, and turns each unknown into a concrete next move. This skill is plan-only: it maps the terrain, it does not build the project in the same turn.

When to use

Use before a greenfield project, a messy or under-specified request, or any workflow where the next step feels obvious but is undercooked. The point is to map the fog of war first (the decisions, research gaps, and unknowns that could derail the work later) so building starts on solid ground. For a six-part agent delegation contract, use define-agent-goal. For a runnable prompt, use structure-prompt.

Workflow

Run phases in order. Do not deliver the map until Phase 3. Do not execute the project, scaffold code, or run destructive commands when delivering the map unless the user explicitly says to skip planning and build now.

Phase 0: Intake

  1. Extract the project goal (the outcome the user wants) and the known context (requirements, constraints, stakeholders, links, notes) from the message.
  2. If the goal is missing, ask one focused question before proceeding.
  3. Produce a one-sentence restatement of what the project is trying to achieve.

Phase 1: Discovery

Ask structured clarifying questions (use AskQuestion when available) to separate what is fixed from what is unknown. Cover only gaps the context leaves open:

  • What is genuinely non-negotiable versus assumed?
  • Which choices are still open and materially shape the project?
  • What unknowns could change the whole plan if the answer surprises you?
  • Who owns the decisions, and what is the deadline or budget pressure?

Aim for 4 to 6 high-signal questions. Skip anything the user already answered.

Phase 2: Draft the map

Fill the map template below. Keep it to about one page: prefer tables and bullets over prose. While drafting:

Read the full file on GitHub · 108 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 6d ago First seen · 108 lines · 110 tokens per session scan A 2f6c5b13fc5a

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pathfinder is a skill published in the GitHub repository emaraschio/cursor-commands (9 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 110 tokens to every session and 1,388 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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