setup-commands

A legacy setup guide for installing foundation workflows as Cursor command files. The newer setup uses Cursor skills and rules instead.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when maintaining an older Cursor setup or moving foundation instructions into .cursor/rules and .cursor/skills. It is not the preferred method for new installations.
Why use it?
It helps explain why older command files may be missing and points to the current setup process. It also identifies repository-specific command files that may still be supported.

Skill for Claude CodeCodexCursor

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/markmhendrickson/foundation/setup-commands
Any agent
npx skills add markmhendrickson/foundation --skill setup-commands
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/markmhendrickson/foundation

Made for: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor.

Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 355 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 95% 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 $0.00024 $0.00355
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00178
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00071
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00036

Measured 2d ago against content hash 07b2d346eed1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

setup-commands 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 2d 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

95% identical to setup-commands — 17 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/setup-commands/SKILL.md · 29 lines

What it actually says

Setup Commands (Legacy)

Foundation workflows have been replaced by skills. There is no longer a foundation/agent_instructions/cursor_commands/ directory; workflows live in foundation/agent_instructions/cursor_skills/{slug}/SKILL.md.

What to do instead

  1. Use setup-cursor-copies — Run ./foundation/scripts/setup_cursor_copies.sh (or the setup-cursor-copies skill). It copies foundation rules into .cursor/rules/ and foundation skills into .cursor/skills/.
  2. Load skills by trigger — When a trigger matches (e.g. commit, pull, push, fix-feature-bug), load the corresponding skill from .cursor/skills/{slug}/SKILL.md per the router rule.

When this skill is invoked

  • Tell the user that foundation no longer installs into .cursor/commands/.
  • Run or direct them to run setup-cursor-copies to refresh .cursor/rules/ and .cursor/skills/.
  • Repository-specific command files in docs/*_command.md (if any) may still be installed by setup into .cursor/commands/ when configured in the manifest; foundation workflows are only in .cursor/skills/.
  • setup-cursor-copies skill — Copies foundation rules and skills into .cursor/.
  • Foundation skills source: foundation/agent_instructions/cursor_skills/
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. 2d ago First seen · 29 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 07b2d346eed1

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setup-commands is a skill published in the GitHub repository markmhendrickson/foundation (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 355 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 95% identical to setup-commands, differing in 17 lines, and is treated as a copy.