Creating Internal Team Workflows with Cursor Team Kit for CI and Code Review

Cursor Team Kit is a self-contained Cursor plugin that provides reusable skills, specialized agents, and enforced rules to automate continuous integration monitoring and pull request review workflows using only the GitHub CLI.

Cursor Team Kit, available in the cursor/plugins repository, standardizes how development teams handle CI monitoring and code reviews without requiring external services. By combining declarative skill definitions with intelligent sub-agents and automatic lint rules, it creates a reproducible workflow environment that enforces quality gates across your organization's repositories.

Understanding the Cursor Team Kit Architecture

The plugin lives under the cursor-team-kit/ directory and is orchestrated through the manifest file at cursor-team-kit/.cursor-plugin/plugin.json. This JSON descriptor points to three distinct asset folders that work together to execute automation workflows.

Skills, Agents, and Rules

The Team Kit organizes functionality into three categories:

• Skills: Reusable, declarative procedures stored in cursor-team-kit/skills/ that the Cursor engine parses into executable tasks (e.g., loop-on-ci, review-and-ship).
• Agents: Specialized logic handlers in cursor-team-kit/agents/ that implement low-level actions, such as the CI-watcher agent that fetches and summarizes GitHub Actions logs.
• Rules: Automatic policies in cursor-team-kit/rules/ that enforce lint-style standards, such as the typescript-exhaustive-switch rule that ensures all enum variants are handled.

Automating CI Monitoring with the loop-on-ci Skill

The loop-on-ci skill, fully defined in cursor-team-kit/skills/loop-on-ci/SKILL.md, monitors a pull request's checks and iteratively fixes failures until every required check passes. This eliminates the need to manually refresh GitHub's checks interface while waiting for CI results.

How the CI Watch Loop Works

The skill executes a five-step guardrail process:

1. Resolve the active PR using gh pr view to identify the current branch and PR number.
2. Pull the current check set via gh pr checks --json to parse the status of all attached workflows.
3. Diagnose failures by examining logs and running failing workflows locally if checks are already red.
4. Watch pending checks with gh pr checks --watch --fail-fast to receive immediate notification of the first failure.
5. Iterate by re-running step 2 after each push until all checks return "success".

The skill explicitly documents guardrails prohibiting hook bypasses and requires verification before any merge. Typical commands used during execution include:

# Display PR metadata

gh pr view --json number,url,headRefName

# Check current CI status

gh pr checks --json name,bucket,state,workflow,link

# Watch for failures in real-time

gh pr checks --watch --fail-fast

# Verify all checks pass (using jq to filter)

gh pr checks --json name,bucket,state,workflow,link | jq '.[] | select(.state!="success")'

Standardizing Code Review with review-and-ship

The review-and-ship skill, defined in cursor-team-kit/skills/review-and-ship/SKILL.md, bundles a structured review, testing, commit, and PR creation process into a single automated workflow.

The Six-Step Shipping Workflow

This skill orchestrates the following sequence:

1. Context gathering: Diff against the base branch, list recent commits, and surface relevant chat context.
2. Targeted testing: Execute tests that touch the changed code; if none exist, suggest adding them.
3. Manual review: Verify correctness, check for regressions, audit security implications, and confirm intent fit. Large diffs can be split across parallel sub-agents.
4. Apply fixes: Implement critical fixes and re-run impacted tests to confirm resolution.
5. Commit creation: Generate a focused commit with a concise, descriptive message.
6. Push and PR: Update the remote branch and open or update the pull request.

The skill recommends chaining the same gh pr checks commands used by loop-on-ci to verify PR readiness before final submission.

Enforcing Code Quality with Automatic Rules

Team Kit applies policies automatically during skill execution without requiring manual configuration. For example, the TypeScript exhaustive-switch rule in cursor-team-kit/rules/typescript-exhaustive-switch.mdc ensures that any new enum or union variant triggers a compile-time error until the corresponding code is updated. These rules run on every skill execution, guaranteeing consistent style and safety across all automated workflows.

Installing and Running Team Kit Workflows

Because the plugin relies solely on the GitHub CLI (gh), installation requires no external servers or API keys. Add the plugin to any repository:

/add-plugin cursor-team-kit

Once installed, invoke skills from the Cursor CLI:

# Start CI watch loop

cursor skill run loop-on-ci

# Run full review-to-ship cycle

cursor skill run review-and-ship

Both commands honor the guardrails described in their respective SKILL.md files, ensuring fixes remain scoped to the PR, hooks execute properly, and merges only occur when all checks are green.

Summary

• Cursor Team Kit automates CI monitoring and code review through the cursor-team-kit plugin in the cursor/plugins repository.
• The loop-on-ci skill watches GitHub Actions via gh pr checks and enters an iterative fix loop until all checks pass.
• review-and-ship standardizes a six-step process from diff analysis to PR creation, including targeted testing and security review.
• Automatic rules like typescript-exhaustive-switch enforce compile-time safety without manual configuration.
• All workflows operate exclusively through the GitHub CLI, requiring no external service dependencies.

Frequently Asked Questions

What prerequisites are required for Cursor Team Kit?

Only the GitHub CLI (gh) is required. The plugin executes standard gh pr checks and gh pr view commands to interact with CI systems, making it compatible with any repository using GitHub Actions or other GitHub-integrated CI providers.

Can I customize the review-and-ship workflow?

Yes. The skill definitions in cursor-team-kit/skills/review-and-ship/SKILL.md are markdown-based specifications that teams can modify to adjust testing requirements, commit message formats, or security review criteria. Changes take effect immediately on the next cursor skill run invocation.

How does the CI watcher handle intermittent failures?

The loop-on-ci skill includes explicit guardrails against bypassing hooks and requires diagnostic resolution of failures. It uses gh pr checks --watch --fail-fast to detect the first failure immediately, then enters a local diagnostic loop rather than blindly retrying, preventing infinite loops on flaky infrastructure.

Are the rules applied to all files or only during skill execution?

Rules located in cursor-team-kit/rules/ are applied automatically during skill execution. For example, the TypeScript exhaustive-switch rule runs whenever code is modified through a Team Kit skill, ensuring consistent style enforcement without affecting manual edits outside the workflow.

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