search-lessons

search-lessons is a skill for Cursor from IgorGanapolsky/ThumbGate. It costs 21 tokens per session (237 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A search tool for a database of lessons about recurring failures, their corrective actions, and related safeguards. It can also show whether a lesson is active, archived, or replaced.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to look up corrective actions and related prevention rules or checks for topics such as accidental force-pushing.
Why use it?
It helps find established guidance for a failure instead of investigating the same problem from the beginning.

Skill for Cursor

Written for Cursor: shipped in a Cursor plugin.

Part of the thumbgate plugin — 5 skills, 3 commands, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to look up corrective actions and related prevention rules or checks for topics such as accidental force-pushing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/igorganapolsky/thumbgate/search-lessons
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 IgorGanapolsky/ThumbGate --skill search-lessons
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/IgorGanapolsky/ThumbGate

Made for: Cursor.

Or install thumbgate, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 3 commands, 2 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 237 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00021 $0.00237
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00118
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00047
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00024

Measured 11d ago against content hash 01d872756410, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

search-lessons 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.

plugins/cursor-marketplace/skills/search-lessons/SKILL.md · 34 lines

What it actually says

Search Lessons

Search the promoted lessons database for corrective actions and guidance.

When to use

  • Looking for corrective actions for a specific failure pattern
  • Checking if a known lesson applies to the current task
  • Reviewing lifecycle state of lessons (active, archived, superseded)
  • Finding linked prevention rules and gates for a topic

How it works

Use the search_lessons MCP tool with a query string. The tool searches across:

  1. Lesson descriptions — What happened and why
  2. Corrective actions — Specific steps to prevent recurrence
  3. Linked rules — Prevention rules generated from the lesson
  4. Linked gates — Pre-action gates that enforce the lesson
  5. Lifecycle state — Whether the lesson is active, archived, or superseded

Example

Search lessons for "force push" to find corrective actions and prevention rules related to force pushing.

Results include the full lesson context, any linked enforcement rules, and the current lifecycle state.

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 · 34 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 01d872756410

Subscribe to this mod's changes

search-lessons is a skill published in the GitHub repository IgorGanapolsky/ThumbGate (26 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 237 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 2026-08-30.

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