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Agent skill

Cursor Delegate

by sickn33 in sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills

Delegate coding tasks to the Cursor Agent CLI (cursor-agent) only when the user explicitly requests it, while the orchestrator retains review and landing responsibility.

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Install Cursor Delegate

skills CLI
$ npx skills add sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill cursor-delegate -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills cursor-delegate --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/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/cursor-delegate .claude/skills/cursor-delegate && 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
cursor-delegate
GitHub stars
47k
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~2.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
989 words
Files
5 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
1,354
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Delegate coding tasks to the Cursor Agent CLI (cursor-agent) only when the user explicitly requests it, while the orchestrator retains review and landing responsibility.

  • Works in 5 steps: Write the brief → Dispatch → Wait for completion → …
  • Explicitly requests it
  • SKILL.md covers When to Use, When NOT to use this, Prerequisites (check once) and Choose the model, plus 6 more sections
  • Calls node and cursor

What it does

Cursor Delegate is an agent skill from sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills. Delegate coding tasks to the Cursor Agent CLI (cursor-agent) only when the user explicitly requests it, while the orchestrator retains review and landing responsibility.

Its SKILL.md is about 2.3k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 5 other files, including reference files (for example `references/dispatch-and-poll.md`, `references/multi-task-queues.md` and `references/review-and-land.md`). Compatibility notes: Requires the cursor-agent CLI installed and authenticated, Node 18+, and git. The optional --add-dir flag requires cursor-agent 2026.07.23 or newer. The…

The repository describes itself as: AAS Core is the local, agent-first control plane for complete catalog discovery, agent-owned selection, stack validation, and planning, backed by 2,400+ agentic skills. Includes… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Explicitly requests it
  • While the orchestrator retains review and landing responsibility

Example prompts

  • “/cursor-delegate”

Requirements

  • Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Requires the `cursor-agent` CLI installed and authenticated, Node 18+, and git. The optional `--add-dir` flag requires cursor-agent 2026.07.23 or newer. The orchestrating agent must be able to run shell commands and read files. Shell examples assume bash/zsh (macOS/Linux, or Git Bash/WSL on Windows).

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Write the brief
  2. Dispatch
  3. Wait for completion
  4. Review — do not trust the self-report
  5. Land it

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit ec02547. 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

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • node
    • cursor

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

  • Network

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • cursor.com
    • github.com

    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.

  • Compatibility

    Requires the `cursor-agent` CLI installed and authenticated, Node 18+, and git. The optional `--add-dir` flag requires cursor-agent 2026.07.23 or newer. The orchestrating agent must be able to run shell commands and read files. Shell examples assume bash/zsh (macOS/Linux, or Git Bash/WSL on Windows).

    From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Cursor Delegate loads about 2.3k tokens when it runs, and up to ~7.7k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 47 tokens; SKILL.md has 989 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~47
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2.3k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~7.7k

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

The full file from sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills at commit ec02547, republished under its MIT licence (© sickn33). 989 words, ~2,256 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/cursor-delegate/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 4 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
cursor-delegate
description
Delegate coding tasks to the Cursor Agent CLI (`cursor-agent`) only when the user explicitly requests it, while the orchestrator retains review and landing responsibility.
compatibility
Requires the `cursor-agent` CLI installed and authenticated, Node 18+, and git. The optional `--add-dir` flag requires cursor-agent 2026.07.23 or newer. The orchestrating agent must be able to run shell commands and read files. Shell examples assume bash/zsh (macOS/Linux, or Git Bash/WSL on Windows).
risk
critical
category
agent-orchestration
source
https://github.com/amElnagdy/delegate-skills
source_repo
amElnagdy/delegate-skills
source_type
community
date_added
2026-08-26
license
MIT
license_source
https://github.com/amElnagdy/delegate-skills/blob/master/LICENSE
metadata.version
0.5.0

Cursor Delegate

When to Use

  • You want to delegate a bounded coding task to a separate cursor implementer (Cursor Agent) and then review its diff yourself.
  • The user explicitly asked for delegation to this implementer.

You are the orchestrator. Hand a bounded coding task to a separate implementer — the Cursor Agent CLI — then review what it produced and land it yourself. You write the brief and own the judgment; Cursor does the typing in its own session; you verify and commit.

The loop needs only a shell command and file access, so any comparable orchestrator can drive it.

When NOT to use this

  • The task is small enough to do inline; delegation overhead is not worth it.
  • The cursor-agent CLI is not installed or authenticated (run cursor-agent login).
  • You want to write the code yourself, or you only need Cursor's opinion on code you wrote (a --read-only dispatch covers that — see below — but a plain review may not need delegation at all).

Prerequisites (check once)

  1. cursor-agent --version succeeds. If not, follow the installer for your platform at cursor.com/cli, inspect what it will run, and authenticate with cursor-agent login.
  2. cursor-agent status shows you logged in.
  3. You are in (or will point --cd at) the target git repository. The relay passes --trust, so point it only at repositories you trust.

Choose the model

Omitting --model uses your Cursor default (usually auto — Cursor picks). To pin one, pass --model <name> with a name from the account's live cursor-agent models output — select from that list rather than inventing a name. Parameterized forms like <name>[context=1m,effort=high] are forwarded as-is. The model that actually served the run is recorded as resolvedModel in result.json.

The loop

Run these five steps per task. Steps 1, 4, and 5 require judgment; 2 and 3 are mechanical.

1. Write the brief

Cursor sees only the text you send plus what it can inspect in the workspace — no chat history or shared context. Include the goal, current state, what to change, what to leave untouched, the project's actual gates, and a report contract. Tell Cursor not to commit. Keep one task per brief. See references/writing-the-brief.md.

2. Dispatch

Use the bundled helper. It wraps cursor-agent -p, feeds the brief on stdin, captures the structured event stream, and writes result.json. (<skill-dir> is the installed folder containing this SKILL.md.)

bash
node "<skill-dir>/scripts/relay.mjs" --brief brief.txt --cd /path/to/repo
# read-only (plan mode — review/diagnosis, no edits):  add --read-only
# write-capable without automatic command approval:   add --no-force
# explicitly override Cursor's sandbox for this run:  add --sandbox enabled|disabled
# pin a model from `cursor-agent models`:              add --model <name>
# resume the most recent session:                      add --resume-last  (delta brief only)
# resume a specific session:                           add --session <id> (delta brief only)
# hard time limit (watchdog):                          add --timeout 2h  (the 30m default suits short runs; implementation briefs routinely need 1-2h)
# see all options:                                     node .../relay.mjs --help

The child process's cwd pins the workspace. On Cursor 2026.07.23 or newer, use repeatable --add-dir flags only for extra workspace directories. The relay writes artifacts under the system temp dir by default and never commits. See references/dispatch-and-poll.md.

3. Wait for completion

The helper blocks until Cursor finishes. Run it with the orchestrator's background-command facility, or background it in the shell and poll for result.json. A pre-run usage error exits 2 and writes no result; a missing cursor-agent exits 127 and writes status: "cursor_agent_unavailable".

Trust process state and the working tree over a progress display. Completion means the process exited and result.json exists. Cursor's full report is the finalMessage field in result.json (also printed in full on stdout between the report markers).

Windows + hooks caveat: if the user has Cursor hooks configured (~/.cursor/hooks.json, or Claude Code PreToolUse hooks, which cursor-agent imports), dispatching from a Git Bash (MSYS) console makes cursor-agent feed PowerShell-syntax hook wrappers to bash, so every command Cursor tries to run is blocked — edits still land, gates do not run. Dispatch from a PowerShell or cmd console instead. Details: references/dispatch-and-poll.md.

4. Review — do not trust the self-report

Treat Cursor's final message and gate claims as claims:

  • Re-run the project's gates yourself.
  • Read the diff against the brief, starting with touchedFiles.
  • Run relevant guard skills if installed.
  • Round-trip migrations and grep for dangling references after removals or renames.

See references/review-and-land.md.

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5. Land it

The implementer edits the working tree; the orchestrator commits. Commit only after the gates pass and the diff holds. If rework is needed, send a delta brief with --resume-last or --session <id>, then review again.

Autonomy and permissions

A fresh run defaults to write-capable with --force: Cursor runs commands without approval unless your Cursor config explicitly denies them, so ordinary gates (tests, linters, builds) run headlessly. --no-force keeps the run write-capable but withholds automatic command approval; commands that require approval are refused because a headless run cannot prompt. --read-only switches to Cursor's plan mode (read-only analysis, no edits, no --force). The relay always passes --trust to keep headless runs from stalling on the workspace-trust prompt, which is why --cd must only ever point at repositories you trust. Pass --sandbox enabled or --sandbox disabled only when you need to override Cursor's sandbox for that dispatch. The requested value is recorded as sandbox in result.json; it does not claim what Cursor actually applied. The permission mode Cursor reports is recorded as permissionMode; inspect touchedFiles and the diff after every run.

Read-only second opinions

--read-only doubles as a clean way to get an adversarial second opinion with no write risk: dispatch a brief that lists the agreed points, then each contested point with both positions, and ask Cursor to defend or concede each — deliverable in its final message, touching no files.

Authorization model

Delegation is something the human opts into. Once they have ("run this queue", "proceed"), committing verified, gate-passing work is the agreed contract. Two limits remain: surface, don't absorb (report Cursor's design decisions, defensible-but-unasked turns, and non-blocking nitpicks) and stop for scope changes (if correct completion needs going beyond the brief, ask instead of expanding the mandate). See references/review-and-land.md.

References

Limitations

  • Docs-only import — executable scripts/relay.mjs not included; see upstream for full runtime. Requires cursor CLI, Node 18+, git.
  • Relay never commits — it only returns structured result JSON; you review and land the commit.

Adapted from amElnagdy/delegate-skills (MIT) — docs-only, runtime not bundled.

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Files

SKILL.md and 4 other files (references) in skills/cursor-delegate of sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/dispatch-and-poll.md
  • references/multi-task-queues.md
  • references/review-and-land.md
  • references/writing-the-brief.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit ec02547

Used in 1 other repository

We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Questions about Cursor Delegate

What does Cursor Delegate do?

Delegate coding tasks to the Cursor Agent CLI (cursor-agent) only when the user explicitly requests it, while the orchestrator retains review and landing responsibility. Cursor Delegate is an agent skill from sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills. Delegate coding tasks to the Cursor Agent CLI (cursor-agent) only when the user explicitly requests it, while the orchestrator retains review and landing responsibility.

When should I use Cursor Delegate?

Cursor Delegate fits situations like: explicitly requests it; while the orchestrator retains review and landing responsibility.

How do I install Cursor Delegate in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill cursor-delegate -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/cursor-delegate in sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills) into .claude/skills/cursor-delegate in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Cursor Delegate in Codex?

Run `npx skills add sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill cursor-delegate -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/cursor-delegate in sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills) into .agents/skills/cursor-delegate in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Cursor Delegate 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 sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill cursor-delegate -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/cursor-delegate, .gemini/skills/cursor-delegate, .github/skills/cursor-delegate and .opencode/skills/cursor-delegate in your project.

What does Cursor Delegate need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Cursor Delegate needs the command-line tools its instructions call (node and cursor). Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Requires the `cursor-agent` CLI installed and authenticated, Node 18+, and git. The optional `--add-dir` flag requires cursor-agent 2026.07.23 or newer. The orchestrating agent must be able to run shell commands and read files. Shell examples assume bash/zsh (macOS/Linux, or Git Bash/WSL on Windows)..

Does Cursor Delegate access the network?

SKILL.md names 2 domains. As links in the text: cursor.com and github.com. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Cursor Delegate 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 Cursor Delegate use?

Cursor Delegate is published under the MIT licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Cursor Delegate use?

About 2.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 9k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 5.5k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Cursor Delegate?

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Who maintains Cursor Delegate?

sickn33 (a GitHub user) maintains it in sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills, which has 47,343 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,354 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 7, 2026.

Source: sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.