cursor-origin-api

Routes questions about the Cursor Origin API to the right section of the Origin docs and names the few rules to check first. Use when a task mentions Origin, the Origin API, Origin Apps, or Origin web

SKILL.md

GitHub

Native Codex boundary

Origin remains the named external product. Fetch the current official public documentation through an available native web surface when this skill is invoked; the mirrored source pin is not a live API contract. Resolve actual capabilities and permissions before any API operation. Do not authenticate, install, create an app, register webhooks, send feedback, publish repository details or migrate code from guidance alone. The porting skill produces a local planning brief; feedback is draft material until explicitly authorized for sending. No connector, provider, credentials, cloud runtime or installation is supplied by this mirror.

Origin API

The docs are the source of truth. Do not name an endpoint, scope, event slug, header, or limit from memory. Where this file and the docs disagree, the docs win.

The docs live under https://cursor.com/docs/api/origin/. llms.txt is the index and links every section, endpoint, and webhook payload. openapi.yaml is the contract, and "Endpoint reference" explains its x-origin-* extensions. llms-full.txt is the whole reference in one file. changelog says what moved. For one question, start at llms.txt and fetch only the section that answers it. llms-full.txt and openapi.yaml are each several hundred kilobytes, too large to read into context whole. When you need all of them, as a porting brief does, save them locally if you can, outside any repository you are working in, search them for the section heading or annotation you need, and read only the matching part. Cite operationIds and section names.

Rules to check first

  1. Native or mirror. A repository is either native (created on Origin) or a GitHub mirror. On a native repository an installation has its full scopes and every write. On a GitHub mirror, every event except repository.pushed still arrives, every call beyond metadata and contents reads returns 403, and merging a pull request or changing the default branch is not available ("Mirrored repositories", "Events").
  2. Subscribe. Only installation.* events arrive without a subscription. A missing subscription produces silence, not an error ("Events").
  3. Verify, dedupe, acknowledge. Verify the signature over the raw body before parsing, dedupe on the delivery ID, return 2xx, then process ("Signature verification", "Retries", "Automatic disable"). Origin signs a digest, which Standard Webhooks does not, so a generic verifier fails.
  4. Scopes from the spec. Request the union of x-origin-scopes.scopes over the operations the app calls ("Scopes").
  5. Opaque tokens and IDs. Do not build or parse page tokens or IDs ("Pagination", "IDs").

One section name the index does not make obvious: what happens to a check-run post that arrives out of order is under "Ordering writes".

Porting an existing GitHub App: use cursor-port-github-app-to-origin in this plugin.