cursor-prompting SKILL.md skillA
cursor-prompting from zebbern/agent-collab is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add zebbern/agent-collab/cursor-prompting@git:20260807.de9af5cPins git:20260807.de9af5c in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- zebbern/agent-collab
- Path
plugins/cursor/skills/cursor-prompting/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260807.de9af5c, committed Aug 7, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 5, 2026
- Size
- 2,727 bytes
- Repository stars
- 34
- License
- Apache-2.0
Internal guidance for composing cursor-agent prompts and picking models for coding, review, diagnosis, and research tasks inside the Cursor Claude Code plugin.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file 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`): …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add zebbern/agent-collab/cursor-prompting@sha256:8317b74617362870The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260807.de9af5c, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_uqhf4xscdqtvxobt)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Aug 5, 2026 and Aug 7, 2026, about one every day.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260807.de9af5c latest | 2026-08-07 | de9af5c | 2,727 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260806.6328898 | 2026-08-06 | 6328898 | 2,472 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260805.396243f | 2026-08-05 | 396243f | 2,298 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (2727 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
zebbern/agent-collab · 34 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-09-29 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_uqhf4xscdqtvxobt GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=zebbern/agent-collab/cursor-prompting GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8317b746173628707e4427fe775dc6f97b4fa327845bce9e172ce98f911a96b6
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.