gas-town-cursor

Agent Building

Develop and operate Gas Town with the Cursor agent preset (cursor-agent CLI): gt flags, hooks at .cursor/hooks.json, session resume, and how this repo differs from README marketing copy.

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Gas Town + Cursor Agent CLI

Use this skill when working in this repository with the cursor agent preset (CLI binary cursor-agent, sometimes symlinked as agent).

Concepts

Name	Meaning
Preset `cursor`	Gas Town agent id (`GT_AGENT=cursor`). Config lives in `internal/config/agents.go` (`AgentCursor`).
Binary `cursor-agent`	The Cursor Agent CLI process name for pane/detection; install docs may also symlink `agent` → same binary.
Hooks	Cursor lifecycle hooks are configured at `.cursor/hooks.json` (see preset `HooksSettingsFile`).

Essential commands

Build / run gt from repo root: make build or go run ./cmd/gt ….
Point a session at the Cursor preset: spawn or config so the runtime uses --agent cursor (or set GT_AGENT=cursor where applicable).
After changing hooks or settings: gt up --restore (or role-specific restart) so agents reload config.

Resume semantics

The Cursor preset uses --resume <chatId> style resume (ResumeStyle: flag). Session identity is not carried in a dedicated env var in the same way as Claude’s CLAUDE_SESSION_ID; follow the preset fields in internal/config/agents.go (ResumeFlag, ResumeStyle).

Beads / plan handoff: docs/cursor-runtime-beads-tasks.md
Agent instructions for automation: AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md (project-wide, not Cursor-only)

Boundary

Project README is user-facing product overview; .cursor/README.md is Cursor-specific onboarding for this repo. Prefer linking to those files instead of duplicating long install steps inside skills.