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cursor-subagent-creator

Creates Cursor-specific AI subagents with isolated context for complex multi-step workflows. Use when creating subagents for Cursor editor specifically, following Cursor's patterns and directories (.cursor/agents/). Triggers on "cursor subagent", "cursor agent". Do NOT use for generic subagent creation outside Cursor (use subagent-creator instead).

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Quality

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

No eval scenarios have been run

SecuritybySnyk

Passed

No known issues

SKILL.md
Quality
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Quality

Content

77%

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

A highly actionable, well-sequenced instruction skill with ready-to-use templates and a verification checklist, but it is verbose and monolithic, repeating conceptual explanations and bundling every example inline rather than offloading detail to reference files.

Suggestions

Move the eight complete example subagents (verifier, debugger, security-auditor, etc.) into a separate EXAMPLES.md referenced one level deep, keeping only one or two inline as quick-start illustration.

Remove the duplicated 'Anti-Patterns to Avoid' section or fold it into the existing 'AVOID' list to eliminate near-verbatim redundancy.

Cut conceptual orientation Claude already knows ('What are Subagents?', foreground/background, and the Performance/Cost trade-off table) or compress each to one line, preserving only Cursor-specific guidance.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body carries genuine actionable templates, but it explains concepts Claude already knows ('What are Subagents?', foreground vs background, performance/cost trade-offs) and duplicates the AVOID list with a near-identical 'Anti-Patterns to Avoid' section, plus eight largely redundant full example subagents that could be tightened.

2 / 3

Actionability

Provides copy-paste-ready frontmatter templates, a field configuration table, naming conventions, eight complete worked examples, an output-message template, and a creation-output sequence, giving concrete executable guidance.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

The 'Subagent Creation Process' is a clear five-step sequence and the 'Quality Checklist' acts as an explicit verification gate before finalizing, with 'Test the description' as a feedback loop.

3 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

Sections are well organized, but the skill is a monolithic ~710-line file with no reference files; the eight full examples and multiple templates are content that should be split into separate one-level-deep references.

2 / 3

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Description

90%

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A strong description that uses third person, states a concrete action, and gives explicit when-to-use triggers plus disambiguation against a sibling skill. Its only weakness is specificity, since it describes one primary action rather than enumerating several concrete capabilities.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Names a concrete domain and action ('Creates Cursor-specific AI subagents with isolated context for complex multi-step workflows'), but lists only one main action rather than multiple distinct concrete actions, matching the score-2 anchor.

2 / 3

Completeness

Clearly answers both 'what' (creates Cursor subagents with isolated context) and 'when' ('Use when creating subagents for Cursor editor specifically... Triggers on...'), with explicit trigger guidance.

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Explicit natural triggers ('Triggers on "cursor subagent", "cursor agent"') are exactly the phrases a user would say, giving good coverage of natural terms.

3 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Scoped to a clear Cursor niche ('following Cursor's patterns and directories (.cursor/agents/)') and explicitly disambiguates from the sibling skill ('Do NOT use for generic subagent creation outside Cursor (use subagent-creator instead)'), making conflict unlikely.

3 / 3

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Validation

93%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

CriteriaDescriptionResult

skill_md_line_count

SKILL.md is long (726 lines); consider splitting into references/ and linking

Warning

Total

15

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16

Passed

Repository
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