Official agent skill

Principle Attack The Premise

by cursor in cursor/plugins

Apply when two or more fixes that share one premise have failed the same gate.

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Install Principle Attack The Premise

skills CLI
$ npx skills add cursor/plugins --skill principle-attack-the-premise -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install cursor/plugins principle-attack-the-premise --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cursor/plugins.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/pstack/skills/principle-attack-the-premise .claude/skills/principle-attack-the-premise && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
principle-attack-the-premise
GitHub stars
10k
Used in
2 other repos
Token cost
~486 tokens
SKILL.md length
246 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
99
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

Apply when two or more fixes that share one premise have failed the same gate.

  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Principle Attack The Premise is an agent skill from cursor/plugins, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Apply when two or more fixes that share one premise have failed the same gate. Take a census of which actors hold the imbalance before the next fix, then question the premise instead of writing another fix that assumes it.

Its SKILL.md is about 490 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: Cursor plugin specification and official plugins.

Example prompts

  • “/principle-attack-the-premise”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit ccb5507. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

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

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    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

Principle Attack The Premise loads about 486 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 63 tokens; SKILL.md has 246 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~63
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~486

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

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

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

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 246 words (~486 tokens).

“When two or more fixes that share one premise have failed the same gate, suspect the premise, not the fixes.”

— opening of SKILL.md by cursor
name
principle-attack-the-premise
disable-model-invocation
true

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in pstack/skills/principle-attack-the-premise of cursor/plugins.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit ccb5507

Used in 2 other repositories

We found 2 copies of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 2 other GitHub owners. This page covers the copy in cursor/plugins, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

Compare with similar skills

Principle Attack The Premise next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.

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Principle Attack The Premisechmonitor/chmonitor2991 repos~368Automated safety check: PassGPL-3.0
Fixalirezarezvani/claude-skills28k1 repos~765Automated safety check: PassMIT
Fix Issuepytorch/pytorch104k—~2.3kAutomated safety check: PassCustom licence
Orch Fix Defectaffaan-m/ECC275k1 repos~414Automated safety check: PassMIT

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Questions about Principle Attack The Premise

What does Principle Attack The Premise do?

Apply when two or more fixes that share one premise have failed the same gate. Principle Attack The Premise is an agent skill from cursor/plugins, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Apply when two or more fixes that share one premise have failed the same gate.

How do I install Principle Attack The Premise in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add cursor/plugins --skill principle-attack-the-premise -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (pstack/skills/principle-attack-the-premise in cursor/plugins) into .claude/skills/principle-attack-the-premise in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Principle Attack The Premise in Codex?

Run `npx skills add cursor/plugins --skill principle-attack-the-premise -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (pstack/skills/principle-attack-the-premise in cursor/plugins) into .agents/skills/principle-attack-the-premise in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Principle Attack The Premise in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add cursor/plugins --skill principle-attack-the-premise -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/principle-attack-the-premise, .gemini/skills/principle-attack-the-premise, .github/skills/principle-attack-the-premise and .opencode/skills/principle-attack-the-premise in your project.

What does Principle Attack The Premise need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Principle Attack The Premise is instructions for the agent only.

Does Principle Attack The Premise access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Principle Attack The Premise safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Principle Attack The Premise use?

No licence was found for Principle Attack The Premise or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does Principle Attack The Premise use?

About 486 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.9k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Principle Attack The Premise?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Principle Attack The Premise: Share (ClickHouse/ClickHouse, 50k stars), Principle Attack The Premise (chmonitor/chmonitor, 299 stars), Fix (alirezarezvani/claude-skills, 28k stars) and Fix Issue (pytorch/pytorch, 104k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Principle Attack The Premise?

cursor (a GitHub organization, an official publisher) maintains it in cursor/plugins, which has 10,278 GitHub stars. The repository holds 99 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 8, 2026.

Source: cursor/plugins on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.