cursor-context-management
Optimize context window usage in Cursor with @-mentions, context pills, and conversation strategy. Triggers on "cursor context", "context window", "context limit", "cursor memory", "context management", "@-mentions", "context pills".
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npx tessl skill review --optimize ./plugins/saas-packs/cursor-pack/skills/cursor-context-management/SKILL.mdQuality
Discovery
89%Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.
This is a solid skill description with excellent trigger term coverage and clear distinctiveness for Cursor context management. The main weakness is that the 'what' portion could be more specific about the concrete actions or advice the skill provides beyond the high-level 'optimize context window usage'. The explicit trigger list is a strong feature that aids skill selection.
Suggestions
Expand the capability description with more concrete actions, e.g., 'Guides structuring prompts to minimize token usage, selecting relevant files with @-mentions, managing context pills, and splitting conversations to stay within limits.'
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Specificity | Names the domain (Cursor context window usage) and some actions/concepts (@-mentions, context pills, conversation strategy), but doesn't list multiple concrete actions like 'reduce token usage', 'structure prompts', or 'manage file references'. | 2 / 3 |
Completeness | Clearly answers 'what' (optimize context window usage in Cursor with @-mentions, context pills, and conversation strategy) and 'when' (explicit trigger terms listed). The 'Triggers on' clause serves as an explicit 'Use when' equivalent. | 3 / 3 |
Trigger Term Quality | Includes a good range of natural keywords users would say: 'cursor context', 'context window', 'context limit', 'cursor memory', 'context management', '@-mentions', 'context pills'. These cover common variations of how users would phrase their needs. | 3 / 3 |
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk | Highly specific to Cursor IDE context window optimization, which is a clear niche. The trigger terms like 'cursor context', 'context pills', and '@-mentions' are distinctive and unlikely to conflict with other skills. | 3 / 3 |
Total | 11 / 12 Passed |
Implementation
64%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
This is a solid, information-rich skill that provides genuinely useful and actionable guidance for Cursor context management. Its main strengths are concrete examples for each use case and good structural organization. Its weaknesses are moderate verbosity (model context window tables, enterprise section, explanatory text Claude doesn't need), and lack of explicit validation/feedback workflows for detecting and recovering from context overflow.
Suggestions
Add an explicit workflow for detecting and recovering from context overflow: e.g., 'If you notice signs of overflow → remove stale pills → verify by asking model to summarize current context → proceed only when responses improve.'
Move the model context window table and enterprise considerations to a separate reference file to reduce the main skill's token footprint.
Remove explanatory sentences like 'Context is everything the model sees when generating a response' — Claude already knows this.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | Generally well-structured but includes some unnecessary content Claude already knows (e.g., explaining what context is, model context window sizes that may become outdated, enterprise considerations section). The ASCII box diagrams are visually nice but consume significant tokens for information that could be presented more compactly. | 2 / 3 |
Actionability | Provides concrete, copy-paste-ready examples for every @-mention strategy, real .cursorignore patterns, actual .mdc rule configurations, and specific commands (Cmd+L, Cmd+K, Cmd+I). Each section gives actionable guidance rather than abstract descriptions. | 3 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | The mitigation strategies are clearly listed and the task-based @-mention examples provide good guidance, but there's no explicit workflow sequence with validation checkpoints. For context management (which can degrade output quality silently), there's no feedback loop like 'check if context is overflowing → take corrective action → verify improvement.' | 2 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | The content is well-sectioned with clear headers and includes external resource links at the bottom, but the document is quite long (~150 lines of substantive content) with sections like Enterprise Considerations and the full context sources diagram that could be split into separate reference files. The inline content could benefit from being an overview pointing to detailed sub-documents. | 2 / 3 |
Total | 9 / 12 Passed |
Validation
81%Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.
Validation — 9 / 11 Passed
Validation for skill structure
| Criteria | Description | Result |
|---|---|---|
allowed_tools_field | 'allowed-tools' contains unusual tool name(s) | Warning |
frontmatter_unknown_keys | Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata | Warning |
Total | 9 / 11 Passed | |
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