Skill authoring & meta — Master Hub
Use to author, scan, and manage Cursor skills, rules, hooks, and subagents.
How to use this hub
This single skill bundles all 15 skills meta skills. Each bundled skill's full instructions live in skills/<name>/GUIDE.md (plus any scripts/, data/, references/ next to it).
Workflow:
- Match the user's request to one or more skills in the list below.
- Read that skill's
skills/<name>/GUIDE.md for full instructions before acting.
- Combine multiple bundled skills when a task spans several areas.
Bundled skills
- anthropic-skill-creator — Create new skills, modify and improve existing skills, and measure skill performance. Use when users want to create a skill from scratch, edit, or optimize an existing skill, run evals to test a sk...
→ skills/anthropic-skill-creator/GUIDE.md
- blastum-skill-authoring — Write and refactor agent skills using published best practices (Anthropic and others), emphasizing token efficiency and progressive disclosure. Use when authoring new skills, merging learning from ...
→ skills/blastum-skill-authoring/GUIDE.md
- blastum-skill-catalog — Generate skill catalog documentation files. Use when creating organized lists of available skills with descriptions.
→ skills/blastum-skill-catalog/GUIDE.md
- blastum-subagents — Designs and optimizes Cursor subagents. Use when creating subagents, designing delegation patterns, optimizing performance, or choosing between subagents vs skills vs commands vs rules.
→ skills/blastum-subagents/GUIDE.md
- blastum-tips — Documents the U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data TIPS/CPI API and inflation-adjusted coupon and principal math. Use when integrating summary or detail endpoints, computing TIPS cashflows, or building ladder...
→ skills/blastum-tips/GUIDE.md
- building-skills-from-patterns — When the same multi-step workflow repeats in Cursor (user corrections or agent redos), capture it as a new SKILL.md under .cursor/skills/ so future sessions load it automatically.
→ skills/building-skills-from-patterns/GUIDE.md
- cursor-skills-general — General Cursor IDE best practices — project structure, code quality, workflow, extensions, and universal development guidelines. Use for any Cursor project setup or cross-language conventions.
→ skills/cursor-skills-general/GUIDE.md
- mattpocock-scaffold-exercises — Create exercise directory structures with sections, problems, solutions, and explainers that pass linting. Use when user wants to scaffold exercises, create exercise stubs, or set up a new course s...
→ skills/mattpocock-scaffold-exercises/GUIDE.md
- mattpocock-setup-matt-pocock-skills — Sets up an
## Agent skills block in AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md and docs/agents/ so the engineering skills know this repo's issue tracker (GitHub or local markdown), triage label vocabulary, and domain...
→ skills/mattpocock-setup-matt-pocock-skills/GUIDE.md
- mattpocock-write-a-skill — Create new agent skills with proper structure, progressive disclosure, and bundled resources. Use when user wants to create, write, or build a new skill.
→ skills/mattpocock-write-a-skill/GUIDE.md
- sentry-skill-scanner — Scan agent skills for security issues. Use when asked to "scan a skill",
→ skills/sentry-skill-scanner/GUIDE.md
- sentry-skill-writer — Create, synthesize, and iteratively improve agent skills following the Agent Skills specification. Use when asked to "create a skill", "write a skill", "synthesize sources into a skill", "improve a...
→ skills/sentry-skill-writer/GUIDE.md
- suggesting-cursor-hooks — When the user keeps asking for the same check to run (lint, tests, type-check), suggest a Cursor hook to automate it.
→ skills/suggesting-cursor-hooks/GUIDE.md
- suggesting-cursor-rules — When the user repeats the same correction or convention multiple times, suggest a Cursor rule to encode it permanently.
→ skills/suggesting-cursor-rules/GUIDE.md
- suggesting-skills — When the user struggles with a task that a known skill could handle, suggest installing it.
→ skills/suggesting-skills/GUIDE.md
Note
These bundled skills are intentionally not registered as separate Cursor skills (their files are GUIDE.md, not SKILL.md) so only this master appears in the skills list. Read the relevant GUIDE.md on demand.
1---2name: skills-meta-master3description: Master hub for Skill authoring & meta. Use to author, scan, and manage Cursor skills, rules, hooks, and subagents. Bundles 15 specialized skills (in skills/<name>/GUIDE.md). Use this for any skills meta task.4---56# Skill authoring & meta — Master Hub78Use to author, scan, and manage Cursor skills, rules, hooks, and subagents.910## How to use this hub1112This single skill bundles **all 15 skills meta skills**. Each bundled skill's full instructions live in `skills/<name>/GUIDE.md` (plus any `scripts/`, `data/`, `references/` next to it).1314**Workflow:**151. Match the user's request to one or more skills in the list below.162. Read that skill's `skills/<name>/GUIDE.md` for full instructions before acting.173. Combine multiple bundled skills when a task spans several areas.1819## Bundled skills2021- **anthropic-skill-creator** — Create new skills, modify and improve existing skills, and measure skill performance. Use when users want to create a skill from scratch, edit, or optimize an existing skill, run evals to test a sk... 22 → `skills/anthropic-skill-creator/GUIDE.md`23- **blastum-skill-authoring** — Write and refactor agent skills using published best practices (Anthropic and others), emphasizing token efficiency and progressive disclosure. Use when authoring new skills, merging learning from ... 24 → `skills/blastum-skill-authoring/GUIDE.md`25- **blastum-skill-catalog** — Generate skill catalog documentation files. Use when creating organized lists of available skills with descriptions. 26 → `skills/blastum-skill-catalog/GUIDE.md`27- **blastum-subagents** — Designs and optimizes Cursor subagents. Use when creating subagents, designing delegation patterns, optimizing performance, or choosing between subagents vs skills vs commands vs rules. 28 → `skills/blastum-subagents/GUIDE.md`29- **blastum-tips** — Documents the U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data TIPS/CPI API and inflation-adjusted coupon and principal math. Use when integrating summary or detail endpoints, computing TIPS cashflows, or building ladder... 30 → `skills/blastum-tips/GUIDE.md`31- **building-skills-from-patterns** — When the same multi-step workflow repeats in Cursor (user corrections or agent redos), capture it as a new SKILL.md under .cursor/skills/ so future sessions load it automatically. 32 → `skills/building-skills-from-patterns/GUIDE.md`33- **cursor-skills-general** — General Cursor IDE best practices — project structure, code quality, workflow, extensions, and universal development guidelines. Use for any Cursor project setup or cross-language conventions. 34 → `skills/cursor-skills-general/GUIDE.md`35- **mattpocock-scaffold-exercises** — Create exercise directory structures with sections, problems, solutions, and explainers that pass linting. Use when user wants to scaffold exercises, create exercise stubs, or set up a new course s... 36 → `skills/mattpocock-scaffold-exercises/GUIDE.md`37- **mattpocock-setup-matt-pocock-skills** — Sets up an `## Agent skills` block in AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md and `docs/agents/` so the engineering skills know this repo's issue tracker (GitHub or local markdown), triage label vocabulary, and domain... 38 → `skills/mattpocock-setup-matt-pocock-skills/GUIDE.md`39- **mattpocock-write-a-skill** — Create new agent skills with proper structure, progressive disclosure, and bundled resources. Use when user wants to create, write, or build a new skill. 40 → `skills/mattpocock-write-a-skill/GUIDE.md`41- **sentry-skill-scanner** — Scan agent skills for security issues. Use when asked to "scan a skill", 42 → `skills/sentry-skill-scanner/GUIDE.md`43- **sentry-skill-writer** — Create, synthesize, and iteratively improve agent skills following the Agent Skills specification. Use when asked to "create a skill", "write a skill", "synthesize sources into a skill", "improve a... 44 → `skills/sentry-skill-writer/GUIDE.md`45- **suggesting-cursor-hooks** — When the user keeps asking for the same check to run (lint, tests, type-check), suggest a Cursor hook to automate it. 46 → `skills/suggesting-cursor-hooks/GUIDE.md`47- **suggesting-cursor-rules** — When the user repeats the same correction or convention multiple times, suggest a Cursor rule to encode it permanently. 48 → `skills/suggesting-cursor-rules/GUIDE.md`49- **suggesting-skills** — When the user struggles with a task that a known skill could handle, suggest installing it. 50 → `skills/suggesting-skills/GUIDE.md`5152## Note5354These bundled skills are intentionally not registered as separate Cursor skills (their files are `GUIDE.md`, not `SKILL.md`) so only this master appears in the skills list. Read the relevant `GUIDE.md` on demand.