msd-core/capabilities/cursor/capability.json

{
  "id": "cursor",
  "role": "runtime",
  "version": "1.12.0",
  "title": "Cursor",
  "description": "Cursor IDE — skills-only workflow surface; hooks.json surface; Claude hook event dialect; recursive skill loader (flat nesting); tier-2 support.",
  "tier": "core",
  "requires": [],
  "engines": {
    "gsd": ">=1.6.0"
  },
  "runtime": {
    "configHome": {
      "kind": "dot-home",
      "name": ".cursor",
      "env": [
        "CURSOR_CONFIG_DIR"
      ]
    },
    "localConfigDir": ".cursor",
    "configFormat": "none",
    "artifactLayout": {
      "global": [
        {
          "kind": "skills",
          "destSubpath": "skills",
          "prefix": "gsd-",
          "nesting": "flat",
          "recursive": true,
          "converter": "convertClaudeCommandToCursorSkill"
        },
        {
          "kind": "agents",
          "destSubpath": "agents",
          "prefix": "gsd-",
          "nesting": "flat",
          "recursive": false,
          "converter": "convertClaudeAgentToCursorAgent"
        }
      ],
      "local": [
        {
          "kind": "skills",
          "destSubpath": "skills",
          "prefix": "gsd-",
          "nesting": "flat",
          "recursive": true,
          "converter": "convertClaudeCommandToCursorSkill"
        },
        {
          "kind": "agents",
          "destSubpath": "agents",
          "prefix": "gsd-",
          "nesting": "flat",
          "recursive": false,
          "converter": "convertClaudeAgentToCursorAgent"
        }
      ]
    },
    "triggerPrecedence": [
      "skills",
      "commands"
    ],
    "commandStyle": "slash-hyphen",
    "hooksSurface": "cursor-hooks-json",
    "hookEvents": "claude",
    "sandboxTier": "none",
    "supportTier": 2,
    "installSurface": "cursor-hooks-json",
    "writesSharedSettings": false,
    "permissionWriter": null,
    "extendedHookEvents": [],
    "hostIntegration": {
      "embeddingMode": "imperative",
      "commandSurface": "slash-file",
      "dispatch": {
        "namedDispatch": true,
        "nested": true,
        "maxDepth": 2,
        "background": true,
        "subagentToolkit": "full",
        "backgroundDispatch": true,
        "isolation": "harness-worktree",
        "maxConcurrency": "undocumented"
      },
      "modelMode": "passive",
      "hookBus": "host",
      "stateIO": "filesystem",
      "transport": "mcp",
      "runtime": "node",
      "effortSurface": "undocumented"
    },
    "harnessIsolationFlag": "--worktree",
    "hostBehaviors": {
      "reapplyCommand": "gsd-update --reapply (mention the skill name)",
      "frontmatterDialect": "cursor",
      "hooksJsonSurface": true,
      "skipSharedHooksInstall": true,
      "retiredArtifacts": [
        {
          "destSubpath": "commands",
          "prefix": "gsd-",
          "suffix": ".md"
        }
      ],
      "skipUpdateBannerCommand": true,
      "skipSettingsUi": true,
      "managedHookEvents": [
        "sessionStart",
        "postToolUse",
        "preToolUse",
        "stop",
        "subagentStart",
        "subagentStop"
      ]
    }
  },
  "reviewer": {
    "slug": "cursor",
    "flags": [
      "--cursor"
    ],
    "transport": "spawn",
    "probe": {
      "kind": "command-exists",
      "binary": "cursor-agent"
    },
    "invoke": {
      "binary": "cursor-agent",
      "args": [
        "-p",
        "{{model}}",
        "--mode",
        "ask",
        "--trust",
        "--output-format",
        "text",
        "{{prompt}}"
      ],
      "promptChannel": "argv-file-ref",
      "outputChannel": "stdout",
      "modelArg": "--model",
      "effortChannel": "none"
    },
    "timeoutFloorMs": 900000,
    "timeoutConfigKey": null,
    "emptyOutput": "stub-with-stderr",
    "reviewsSection": "Cursor",
    "evidenceClass": "source-grounded",
    "requiresBinaries": [],
    "promptBudgetKey": "review.max_prompt_tokens_per_reviewer.cursor",
    "modelConfigKey": "review.models.cursor",
    "handler": null
  },
  "config": {
    "review.models.cursor": {
      "type": "string",
      "default": "",
      "description": "Model passed to the Cursor reviewer lane."
    },
    "review.max_prompt_tokens_per_reviewer.cursor": {
      "type": "number",
      "default": -1,
      "description": "Prompt-token budget for the Cursor reviewer lane. Unset is -1, a sentinel: 0 is a legitimate value meaning \"do not trim this lane\", so it cannot double as \"not configured\"."
    }
  }
}