foundation: Skill for Cursor

.cursor/skills/publish-plan/SKILL.md

publish-plan is a skill for Cursor from markmhendrickson/foundation. It costs 17 tokens per session (1,460 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of publish-plan, MIT.

A skill that turns a plan document into a GitHub Discussion post for readers outside the project. It removes internal references and personal information and can optionally publish through the GitHub CLI.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps share release plans, feature specs, or Cursor plan files, summarize their motivation and decisions, state their boundaries and open questions, and ask a focused question.
Why use it?
It makes an internal release plan or feature specification suitable for public feedback.

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/publish-plan/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/markmhendrickson/foundation

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,460 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 94% 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 $0.00017 $0.01460
Opus 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00584
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00292
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00146

Measured 1mo ago against content hash fccca9e7443a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

publish-plan 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

94% identical to publish-plan — 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/publish-plan/SKILL.md · 212 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 212 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

publish-plan

Convert a plan file (release plan, feature spec, or .cursor/plans/ file) into a GitHub Discussion post written for external readers. Strips internal references and PII, rewrites for a public audience, and optionally posts via the GitHub CLI.

When to Use

Use when you have a plan in progress and want external input before execution. Pass the path to any plan document as the argument:

/publish-plan docs/releases/in_progress/v0.12.0/release_plan.md
/publish-plan .cursor/plans/some_plan.md
/publish-plan docs/feature_units/in_progress/FU-2026-01-001/FU-2026-01-001_spec.md

Optionally pass a specific question to ask readers as a second argument:

/publish-plan docs/releases/in_progress/v0.12.0/release_plan.md "Does this sync model work for your use case?"

Step 1: Read and Parse the Plan

  1. Read the plan file at the provided path.
  2. Extract the following from the document:
    • Goal / motivation: Why does this exist? What problem does it solve?
    • Approach / key decisions: What choices were made or are still open?
    • Scope boundaries: What is explicitly excluded or deferred?
    • Open questions: What is uncertain or unresolved?

Step 2: Strip Internal References

Remove or redact anything that should not be public:

  • Full names and email addresses of individuals
  • Internal Slack channels, ticket numbers, or system identifiers that leak org structure
  • Pricing, cost, or revenue figures
  • Internal hostnames, credentials, or environment-specific configuration values
  • Agent execution notes (batch status, orchestrator output, FU dependency trees)
  • Anything marked <!-- internal --> or [INTERNAL]

Do not strip:

  • Feature IDs (FU-YYYY-MM-NNN) — these are useful public references
  • Architecture decisions and technical rationale
  • Version numbers and release IDs
  • Links to public repo files or issues

Step 3: Draft the Discussion Post

Rewrite the extracted content into the following structure. Write in plain prose for an external developer audience. No jargon specific to the foundation framework.

Read the full file on GitHub · 212 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 · 212 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A fccca9e7443a

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publish-plan is a skill published in the GitHub repository markmhendrickson/foundation (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 1,460 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 94% identical to publish-plan, differing in 7 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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