foundation: Skill for Cursor

.cursor/skills/draft-illustration/SKILL.md

draft-illustration is a skill for Cursor from markmhendrickson/foundation. It costs 41 tokens per session (1,328 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of draft-illustration, MIT.

A set of instructions for keeping blog hero images, social preview images, and other post artwork in the same black-and-white line-art style across code repositories.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or generating blog hero images, OG images, social images, or other post artwork.
Why use it?
It prevents each project’s images from developing a different visual style.

Skill for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

This is markmhendrickson/foundation's own configuration. It tells Cursor how to work on foundation 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 foundation configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to markmhendrickson/foundation. 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/markmhendrickson/foundation/main/.cursor/skills/draft-illustration/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/markmhendrickson/foundation

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,328 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 97% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00041 $0.01328
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00531
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00266
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00133

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 900a9ac152a0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

draft-illustration 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 1mo 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.

Origin

This is a copy

97% identical to draft-illustration — 7 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.cursor/skills/draft-illustration/SKILL.md · 86 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 86 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Blog Post Visual Style (Cross-Repo)

Use this skill whenever you create or generate hero images, OG/social preview images, or any post artwork so that assets have the same visual style across repositories. The style is mandatory for blog/post imagery; repo-specific paths and scripts are documented per project.

Visual style (mandatory)

All hero and post imagery MUST follow this style. Apply it when prompting image generation (e.g. GenerateImage, DALL·E, Midjourney) or when briefing a designer.

Visual rules:

Rule Requirement
Background Solid black only. No gradients, no white sections, no mixed backgrounds.
Foreground White line-art. Subtle edge shading for dimensionality is encouraged; large filled areas and color gradients are not.
Line work Polished, refined white outlines with consistent stroke weight. Lines should feel engraved or blueprint-quality — smooth curves, clean joints, slight dimensional depth on edges. Not sketchy or rough.
Color Monochromatic black and white only. No gray tones or other colors outside of subtle edge shading for depth.
Composition Scene-based or centered. Objects may sit on surfaces with perspective (e.g. an angled desk, a platform). Generous negative (black) space around the subject.
Aesthetic Polished, dimensional, iconic. Technical engraving or refined blueprint feel. Not flat/clip-art, not photorealistic. Symbolic objects should feel like they have weight and presence.
Typography None. No text, labels, or captions within the image.

Focal brand: When the post is about a specific product or brand (e.g. Notion, Claude, OpenAI), focus the hero on that brand using recognizable shapes or motifs in the same white line-art style. No logos or wordmarks; the image should read as "this post is about X" at a glance.

Prompt template for image generation

When generating a new hero or post image, use a prompt that enforces the style. Example structure:

Read the full file on GitHub · 86 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. 1mo ago First seen · 86 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 900a9ac152a0

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draft-illustration is a skill published in the GitHub repository markmhendrickson/foundation (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 1,328 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 97% identical to draft-illustration, differing in 7 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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