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/sharpen

Sharpen a task before starting: the expert approach, what the user is really after, and the right level of specification. Use for /sharpen.

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$ npx -y skills add cursor/plugins --skill sharpen --agent claude-code

How it fires

How this skill gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.

  • Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.Auto-invocation is when the right skill fires by itself at the right moment, driven by a FLOW.md router and a hook, instead of you invoking it by name. It is the difference between a skill being installed and a skill actually getting used.Read the full definition →
  • You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
  • Slash command/sharpen

Context preview

The summary Claude sees to decide when to auto-load this skill.

Sharpen a task before starting: the expert approach, what the user is really after, and the right level of specification. Use for /sharpen.

SKILL.md

sharpen.SKILL.md
name: sharpen
description: "Sharpen a task before starting: the expert approach, what the user is really after, and the right level of specification. Use for /sharpen."
disable-model-invocation: true

Before starting, ask how a top expert would approach this task (their raw sources, their real methods, an outside check that the result is right), what the user is really after, and whether the task is over- or underspecified. Loosen constraints that don't serve the goal as readily as you add ones that do, and leave choices that are the user's to make open instead of deciding them. Fold in only what makes the work better, not bigger, but always keep one outside check that the result is right, without narrating the framing, then do the work. Don't hand back a rewritten prompt.

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Official Cursor plugins for popular developer tools, frameworks, and SaaS products. Each plugin is a standalone directory at the repository root with its own .cursor-plugin/plugin.json manifest.

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