suggesting-skills

suggesting-skills is a skill for Claude Code from spencerpauly/awesome-cursor-skills. It costs 23 tokens per session (499 once invoked), scanned A, original, CC0-1.0.

A guide for recommending an existing skill when a developer is struggling with a task that the skill can handle. A skill is a reusable workflow for a specific development job.

In plain words
What is it for?
Suggesting skills for jobs such as adding analytics, authentication, payments, tests, or continuous integration, which automatically checks and builds code.
Why use it?
It helps identify an available workflow when a task is being done manually or a project is missing a useful setup.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Good fit Suggesting skills for jobs such as adding analytics, authentication, payments, tests, or continuous integration, which automatically checks and builds code.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/spencerpauly/awesome-cursor-skills/suggesting-skills
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 spencerpauly/awesome-cursor-skills --skill suggesting-skills
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/spencerpauly/awesome-cursor-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 499 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
  • Socket pass 12 Apr 2026
  • Snyk pass 12 Apr 2026
  • 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 $0.00023 $0.00499
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00249
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00100
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00050

Measured 13d ago against content hash 6ebea51e6dd5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

suggesting-skills 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 13d 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.

resources/suggesting-skills/SKILL.md · 60 lines

What it actually says

Suggesting Skills

Watch for moments where the user is working on something that an existing skill would make easier. Suggest it when the timing is natural.

Triggers

Suggest a skill when:

  • The user asks how to do something a skill covers (e.g. "how do I add Sentry?" → adding-error-tracking)
  • The user is struggling with a task and a skill has a proven workflow for it
  • You notice the project is missing something a skill could set up (e.g. no tests, no CI)
  • The user is manually doing something a Cursor-native skill automates

How to Suggest

Keep it brief and contextual:

There's a skill for that — `adding-error-tracking` handles Sentry 
setup with source maps and performance monitoring. Want me to use it?

Or when you notice a gap:

This project doesn't have CI set up. The `setting-up-ci` skill can 
scaffold a GitHub Actions pipeline with lint, test, and build steps. 
Want me to set that up?

Skill Reference

User is doing... Suggest...
Adding analytics adding-analytics
Setting up auth adding-auth
Adding payments adding-stripe
Writing tests from scratch writing-tests, adding-e2e-tests
Debugging a hard bug systematic-debugging
Creating a PR creating-pr
Dockerizing adding-docker
Setting up CI setting-up-ci
Reviewing code quality reviewing-code
Checking security auditing-security
Building a mobile app react-native-patterns
Working with LLM prompts prompt-engineering
Designing a database database-design

Rules

  • Don't spam skill suggestions — one per conversation unless asked
  • Only suggest when the timing is natural (user is about to do the thing, not mid-task)
  • If the user declines, don't suggest the same skill again
  • Mention how to install: copy the SKILL.md to .cursor/skills/<name>/SKILL.md
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. 13d ago First seen · 60 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 6ebea51e6dd5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

suggesting-skills is a skill published in the GitHub repository spencerpauly/awesome-cursor-skills (772 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed CC0-1.0. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 499 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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