cursor-prompting

cursor-prompting is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zebbern/agent-collab. It costs 31 tokens per session (626 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Guidance for writing compact requests to Cursor and choosing a model profile for coding, review, diagnosis, or research tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Preparing prompts for Cursor that request code changes, diagnoses, reviews, or research with explicit results and test reporting.
Why use it?
It makes delegated requests clearer by stating the goal, constraints, expected output, and required verification.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the cursor plugin — 4 skills, 1 agent shipped together

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/zebbern/agent-collab/cursor-prompting
Any agent
npx skills add zebbern/agent-collab --skill cursor-prompting
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zebbern/agent-collab

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install cursor, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 1 agent.

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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 626 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00031 $0.00626
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00313
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00125
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00063

Measured 5d ago against content hash 8317b7461736, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cursor-prompting 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 5d 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/cursor/skills/cursor-prompting/SKILL.md · 33 lines

What it actually says

Cursor Prompting

Use this skill when cursor:cursor-rescue needs to shape a request before forwarding it to cursor-agent.

Prompt Cursor like an operator, not a collaborator. Keep prompts compact and block-structured. State the task, the output contract, the follow-through defaults, and the small set of extra constraints that matter. Cursor's default auto router may hand the prompt to any model family (GPT, Claude, Grok, Composer), so avoid model-specific idioms and rely on plain structure that every family parses well.

Prompt shape:

  • Lead with one sentence naming the goal and the definition of done.
  • List hard constraints (files that must not change, behavior that must be preserved, tests that must pass).
  • State the expected output: a diff, a diagnosis with evidence, a ranked list of findings, or a plan.
  • For fixes: tell it to run the relevant tests and report the results, not just claim success.
  • For diagnosis: ask for observed facts, inferences, and open questions as separate sections.
  • Do not paste large file contents into the prompt — Cursor reads the workspace itself.

Model selection (only when the user asks, otherwise leave auto):

  • --profile deep|fast on task/rescue is a coarse, named shortcut (deep = gpt-5.6-sol-xhigh, fast = cursor-grok-4.5-high-fast) with no effort tier — Cursor has none. --model still overrides it and remains the explicit-model escape hatch.
  • auto — Cursor's server-side router; the right default for most tasks.
  • Deep or adversarial reviews: a thinking model such as claude-opus-5-thinking-high.
  • Quick, tightly bounded edits: a fast Codex tier such as gpt-5.3-codex-fast or gpt-5.3-codex-low-fast.
  • Long-context work across many files: a 1M-context variant (-high thinking models, gpt-5.6-sol-high).
  • The live roster changes; cursor-agent --list-models is the source of truth. Pass names through --model unchanged.

Mode notes:

  • Reviews are requested read-only and the plugin reports any git-visible workspace drift afterward, but Cursor has no enforced read-only sandbox — never promise edits in a review prompt, and never rely on a review being unable to write.
  • Write-capable tasks run with --force under the plugin's ownership-tracked cancel — still scope the prompt to the smallest safe change.
  • Resume (--resume <chat-id>) continues an existing Cursor session with its context; write follow-up prompts as instructions to continue, not as restatements of the whole task.
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. 5d ago First seen · 33 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 8317b7461736

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cursor-prompting is a skill published in the GitHub repository zebbern/agent-collab (32 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 626 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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