Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to saski/arnesto. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/saski/arnesto/main/.cursor/skills-cursor/update-cli-config/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/saski/arnestoWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/saski/arnesto/update-cli-config)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/saski/arnesto/update-cli-config"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/saski/arnesto/update-cli-config.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00053 | $0.01118 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00026 | $0.00559 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00011 | $0.00224 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00112 |
Grade A, and why
update-cli-config 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 3d 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.
This is a copy
91% identical to update-cli-config — 11 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Cursor CLI Configuration
This skill explains how to view and modify Cursor CLI settings stored in ~/.cursor/cli-config.json.
Config File Location
The config file is ~/.cursor/cli-config.json.
Projects can layer overrides via .cursor/cli.json files. The CLI walks from the git root to the current working directory and merges each .cursor/cli.json it finds (deeper files take precedence). Project overrides only affect the current session; they are not written back to the home config.
How to Modify
Read ~/.cursor/cli-config.json, apply changes, and write it back. The file is standard JSON. Changes take effect after restarting the CLI.
Available Settings
permissions (required)
Tool permission rules. Each entry is a string pattern.
allow: string[] — patterns for allowed tool calls (e.g."Shell(**)","Mcp(server-name, tool-name)")deny: string[] — patterns for denied tool calls
editor
vimMode: boolean — enable vim keybindings in the CLI inputdefaultBehavior:"ide"|"agent"— default behavior mode
display (optional)
showLineNumbers: boolean (default: false) — show line numbers in code outputshowThinkingBlocks: boolean (default: false) — show model thinking/reasoning blocksshowStatusIndicators: boolean (default: false) — show status indicators in the UI
channel (optional)
Release channel: "prod" | "lab" | "static"
maxMode (optional)
boolean (default: false) — enable max mode for higher-quality model responses
subagentModels (optional)
Per-subagent model settings.
explore:"default"|"inherit"|"disabled"or{ "modelId": string, "parameters"?: [{ "id": string, "value": string }], "maxMode"?: boolean }— use Cursor's default Explore model, inherit the parent agent's model, disable the Explore subagent, or pin a specific model. Whenparametersis omitted, saved per-model parameter preferences apply; whenmaxModeis omitted, the parent conversation's max mode applies.
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.
- 3d ago First seen · 95 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 4c784e4e26cc
update-cli-config is a skill published in the GitHub repository saski/arnesto (5 stars, last pushed today), licensed Unlicense. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 1,118 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 91% identical to update-cli-config, differing in 11 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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