cursor
92 skills with substantive source documentation and an official publisher or observed installation demand. Read each skill’s original documentation through its card.
cursorno-comments
Spawn Comment Sicko, fix accepted findings, and offer encodings for claimed constraints.
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- Oct 20
cursorpoteto-help
Guides users through pstack setup, /poteto-mode, and picking the skill, playbook, or principle for a task. Type /poteto-help with a question.
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- Oct 20
cursorprinciple-attack-the-premise
Apply when two or more fixes that share one premise have failed the same gate. Write the premise down and test it directly before you write another fix that assumes it.
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- Oct 20
cursorprinciple-boundary-discipline
Apply when wiring validation, error handling, or framework adapters. Concentrate guards at system boundaries (CLI, config, network, external APIs); trust internal types and keep business logic in pure functions.
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cursorprinciple-build-the-lever
Apply to any non-trivial work, not just bulk work: edits, migrations, analyses, checks. Build the tool that does it or proves it (codemod, script, generator, or a skill your subagents follow) instead of working by hand. The tool is the artifact a reviewer can rerun.
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- Oct 20
cursorprinciple-experience-first
Apply when product, UX, or feature-scope tradeoffs come up. Choose user delight over implementation convenience; ship fewer polished features over more rough ones.
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cursorprinciple-explain-the-number
Apply before you trust, report, or act on a number you measured: a speedup, a regression, a throughput, a latency, or an eval result. Find what limits it, and rule out that it measured something other than the work you think.
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- Oct 20
cursorprinciple-fix-root-causes
Apply when debugging. Trace each symptom back to the first place the system went wrong and fix it there. A guard is a fix only when the state it handles is legitimate.
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- Oct 20
cursorprinciple-foundational-thinking
Apply before writing logic: choosing core types and data structures, sequencing scaffold-vs-feature work, asking what concurrent actors share. Get the data structures right so downstream code becomes obvious.
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- Oct 20
cursorprinciple-make-operations-idempotent
Apply when designing commands, lifecycle steps, or processing loops that run amid crashes, restarts, and retries. Converge to the same end state regardless of partial prior runs.
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- Oct 20
cursorprinciple-minimize-reader-load
Apply when reviewing or shaping code that's hard to trace. Count layers between question and answer, and hidden state in the reader's head; collapse one-caller wrappers and shrink mutable scope.
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cursorprinciple-model-the-domain
Apply when writing stateful logic, or when code branches a lot or repeats a shape assumption across files.
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- Oct 20
cursorprinciple-never-block-on-the-human
Apply when tempted to ask 'should I do X?' on reversible work.
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cursorprinciple-outcome-oriented-execution
Apply during planned rewrites and migrations with explicit phase boundaries. Converge on the target architecture; don't preserve smooth intermediate states with throwaway compatibility code.
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- Oct 20
cursorprinciple-prove-it-works
Apply after completing a task, before declaring done. Verify against the real artifact (run the feature, read the actual value, inspect the diff), not a proxy, self-report, or 'it compiles.'
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cursorprinciple-redesign-from-first-principles
Apply when integrating a new requirement into an existing design.
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- Oct 20
cursorprinciple-separate-before-serializing-shared-state
Apply when concurrent actors might write to the same file, branch, key, or state object. Eliminate the sharing first; serialize structurally only when one shared writer is a real invariant.
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- Oct 20
cursorprinciple-sequence-verifiable-units
Apply to multi-step work (sweeps, migrations, runs of similar edits) and to how you stack commits and PRs. Break work into small units that each end in a verifiable state, check each before the next, and order delivery so the sequence proves itself to a reviewer.
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- Oct 20
cursorprinciple-test-behavior-not-implementation
Apply when you write, change, or keep a test. Assert what the code's users can observe, so that the test fails when that behavior breaks and keeps passing when only the internals change.
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- Oct 20
cursorreflect
Spawn three parallel review subagents over the active transcript, surface learnings, and route each to a concrete edit on an existing skill. Use when the user says reflect.
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- Oct 20
cursorreview-and-ship
Review the current branch for bugs, intent fit, and test coverage; run or write tests; commit focused work; open or update a PR.
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- Oct 20
cursorsharpen
Make a task deeper, not bigger, then rewrite the prompt. Use for /sharpen.
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- Oct 20
cursorswarm
Fan out N parallel workers, drain them, and return one report. Use for /swarm, 'swarm this', or parallel coverage, races, gauntlets, and exploration.
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- Oct 20
cursortechnical-writing
Layered technical-writing standard: Diátaxis structure, Google developer style sentences, STE instruction rules, Global English syntax. Use for /technical-writing or when writing or reviewing docs, RFCs, readmes, PR descriptions, or commit messages.
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- 3
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- Oct 20