03 / Personal Cursor + Grok Build kit
grok-kit
Cursor is where I write code. Grok Build is the terminal agent. grok-kit is the layer that makes their built-in skills, rules, MCP, hooks, and plugins actually get used, instead of every chat starting from scratch with a fat prompt.
2026 · Personal kit · MIT
- Problem
- Agent chats go sideways when every session is a new personality, the expensive model does the busywork, MCP schemas eat the window, and green means a screenshot.
- Approach
- A harness, not a second IDE. Playbooks compile into commands you can rerun. Always-on rules stay a few short files. Skills load when you type them. Install refuses to rewrite your home folder without --i-consent.
- Shipped
- Skills, three specialist agents, apply/verify/hygiene CLIs, and the same kit in the editor and the terminal. Marketplace listing is a manual next step. A clone works today.
Cheap, stable, honest
Day-to-day implement uses a balanced model. Questions and nits use a cheap one. Verifier and researcher agents pin a small model. They never inherit the expensive default. Product MCP stays in the project that needs it, so schemas do not sit in every chat.
The host can reuse the start of the prompt only if those bytes did not change. grok-kit never puts dates, session dumps, or learned workflows into that prefix.
Consent is the product
Turning the plugin on does not rewrite your home folder. User-layer install needs --i-consent. Memory and harness tweaks are proposals. /code-hygiene ranks drift. You choose scrap, keep, or fix. /rsi reviews before ship and does not merge.
That is the same ethic as the teaching harness. The kit asks. It does not silently become your persona.
Prove the change, then stop
One golden path for the claim, not ten parallel demos. Replace drive() in the project verify script with the command that proves this repo. A missing drive that still exits 0 is a lie. Children of orchestration return summaries only.
This is a personal harness published for reuse. It is not a design-workflow kit, not an unsupervised agent framework, and not a marketplace trophy until I submit it.
Clone it, pass --i-consent if you mean it, then type /cost-check.
- Cursor
- Grok Build
- skills
- CLI