Cursor Review

What it does

When your agent uses it

• User invokes cursor:review
• Asks Cursor to review
• Wants composer to sanity-check a diff

Example prompts

• “/cursor-review”

Requirements

• Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Bash, Grep

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Resolve the Harness helper root
2. 2Determine review scope
3. 3Ask Cursor in read-only mode
4. 4Host reads Cursor's output and performs the primary review

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 2b2b748. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

  • Read
  • Bash
  • Grep

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • bash
  • git

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use git, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Cursor Review loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 69 tokens; SKILL.md has 139 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~69

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.1k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

• NotePre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: Bash)SKILL.md

  allowed-tools: Read, Bash, Grep

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from Chachamaru127/claude-code-harness at commit 2b2b748, republished under its MIT licence (© Chachamaru127). 139 words, ~1,070 tokens.

name

cursor-review

description

Run a Cursor Composer review as an advisory second opinion while keeping the primary review verdict on the host brain. Use when user invokes cursor:review, asks Cursor to review, or wants composer to sanity-check a diff. Cursor never owns APPROVE/REQUEST_CHANGES.

allowed-tools

Read, Bash, Grep

description-en

Run a Cursor Composer review as an advisory second opinion while keeping the primary review verdict on the host brain. Use when user invokes cursor:review…

description-ja

Cursor Composer に advisory second opinion としてレビューさせるスキル。cursor:review、Cursor にレビューして、composer で差分を sanity check して、という時に使う。primary verdict は常に host brain…

argument-hint

[--base <ref>] [review-scope]

user-invocable

true

cursor:review --base origin/main
cursor:review "Phase 88.5 command namespace diff"

4. Host reads Cursor's output and performs the primary review:

- Findings first, ordered by severity.
- Mark Cursor-originated points as advisory when used.
- `APPROVE` / `REQUEST_CHANGES` must be the host decision, not a copied Cursor verdict.

## Output

Use the standard review shape:

- findings
- open questions
- validation run
- final host verdict

© Chachamaru127, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/cursor-review of Chachamaru127/claude-code-harness.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 2b2b748