do-it-skill-authoring

do-it-skill-authoring is a skill for Cursor from tdwhere123/do-it. It costs 36 tokens per session (650 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for creating or updating skills that coding agents can reliably recognize and follow. It covers how to describe when a skill applies and how to organize its instructions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Write skill descriptions, structure workflows, define stop conditions and checks, and revise existing skills for clearer agent use.
Why use it?
It helps prevent skills from being triggered at the wrong time or producing inconsistent results because their instructions are unclear.

Skill for Cursor

Written for Cursor: shipped in a Cursor plugin.

Part of the do-it-cursor plugin — 11 skills, 10 agents shipped together

Good fit Write skill descriptions, structure workflows, define stop conditions and checks, and revise existing skills for clearer agent use.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tdwhere123/do-it/do-it-skill-authoring
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 tdwhere123/do-it --skill do-it-skill-authoring
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tdwhere123/do-it

Made for: Cursor.

Or install do-it-cursor, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 10 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 650 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
  • 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 $0.00036 $0.00650
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00260
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00130
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00065

Measured 12d ago against content hash f0a336e1e208, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

do-it-skill-authoring 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 12d 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.

plugins/do-it-cursor/skills/do-it-skill-authoring/SKILL.md · 63 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 63 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill Authoring

Start from an observed failure or repeated rediscovery, not an imagined need. Capture it as a reproducible behavior scenario (in this repository, evals/behavior/) and compare the revision against the current skill, or no skill for a new one. Write the least guidance that changes the observed behavior. A scenario that passes with and without the change does not show the skill helps.

Description

The description decides whether the skill loads. Lead with the situations and symptoms that call for this judgment, and distinguish near-miss tasks that do not need it. Do not summarize the procedure: a model can follow a summarized description instead of reading the body. Check the wording against realistic prompts that should trigger the skill and near misses that should not.

Body

Give the model what it would not do well unaided: distinctive questions, distinctions, counterexamples, tool pitfalls, and precise ownership, permission, and side-effect boundaries. Explain why a constraint exists instead of escalating its emphasis. Match specificity to fragility: judgment stays open, while fragile or irreversible operations deserve exact commands or scripts. Deterministic checks belong in scripts, validators, or hooks rather than prose.

Put load-bearing guidance first; hosts may retain only the opening of a long skill after context compaction. Use one term per concept. Do not repeat Core or another skill's guidance; link its owner with a concrete loading condition. Keep references one level from SKILL.md, and give a long reference a short contents list so a partial read still shows its scope.

Describe what complete work must establish and let the model choose methods and sequence. Do not recreate task tiers, compulsory phase chains, worker or review quotas, stop-status taxonomies, mandatory reports, anti-rationalization tables, or a fixed skill anatomy.

Delegation guidance

When a skill recommends independent contexts, say what independence adds: fresh evidence, an unanchored challenge, a specialist lens with a concrete question, or separable work that benefits from parallel inspection. Also say when it adds nothing: one reader can hold the scope, several lenses apply to the same slice, or splitting would break a chain that one reader should follow end to end. Perspectives are questions, not headcount; one delegate can carry several. Separate source facts and settled decisions from parent hypotheses, name write scopes, and leave integration and verification with the parent.

Read the full file on GitHub · 63 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. 12d ago Changed · +32 lines · +6 tokens per session f0a336e1e208
  2. 16d ago Changed · +2 lines c008c96fe8a8
  3. 1mo ago Changed · -188 lines · -6 tokens per session 1e7c023303ac
  4. 1mo ago Changed · +39 lines e07662924cc6
  5. 1mo ago First seen · 178 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A c337619ff540

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do-it-skill-authoring is a skill published in the GitHub repository tdwhere123/do-it (28 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 650 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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