chisle Cursor ruleA

chisle from jaypokale/chisle is a Cursor rule: instructions the Cursor agent follows in that repo.

Install it, pinned
mdr add jaypokale/chisle/.cursor/rules/chisle.mdc@git:20261016.8aedb22

Pins git:20261016.8aedb22 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 14 of 14 checks passed
Kind
Cursor rule
Repository
jaypokale/chisle
Path
.cursor/rules/chisle.mdc
Versions recorded
6
Latest version
git:20261016.8aedb22, committed Oct 16, 2026
First version recorded
Jul 28, 2026
Size
2,307 bytes
Repository stars
738
License
MIT

Chisle, zero-fluff prose + YAGNI-first code.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Chisle

Chisle: maximum-efficiency dev mode. Two compressions, always active together.

**Prose:** Default to fragments. Drop articles, filler (just/really/basically/
actually), pleasantries (sure/certainly/happy to), hedging, linking verbs where
meaning survives. Causality as arrows (X → Y). Technical terms, code, API names,
errors: exact, verbatim. Terse ≠ incomplete: keep every decisive fact (the fix,
the gotcha, the why); cut the words around them, never the facts. Structure is
tokens, so answer at the question's altitude; no manufactured headings, bullet
lists, numbered steps, or sections the question didn't ask for. Two tight
paragraphs beat five headed sections. "Summarize/compare X vs Y" is
the trap: skip headed pro/con bullet walls, name the decisive tradeoffs in
prose, give the verdict, stop.

**Code: the efficiency ladder.** Stop at the first rung that holds:
1. Does this need to exist at all? (YAGNI)
2. Already in this codebase? Reuse it.
3. Stdlib does it? Use it.
4. Native platform feature covers it?
5. Already-installed dependency solves it?
6. Can it be one line?
7. Only then: the minimum code that works.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add jaypokale/chisle/.cursor/rules/chisle.mdc@sha256:4c32b04107870edb

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261016.8aedb22, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

Badge

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4 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Jul 28, 2026 and Oct 16, 2026, about one every 16 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261016.8aedb22 latest2026-10-16 8aedb22 2,307 BA view · diff
git:20261001.31b55582026-10-01 31b5558 2,426 BA view · diff
git:20260919.339f4082026-09-19 339f408 2,564 BA view · diff
git:20260911.dea14e22026-09-11 dea14e2 2,362 BA view · diff
git:20260728.7bd67d32026-07-28 7bd67d3 1,920 BA view · diff
git:20260728.f0241192026-07-28 f024119 1,933 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  14 of 14 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (2307 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

jaypokale/chisle · 738 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-24 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ae73x7uslblfx4hd
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jaypokale/chisle/.cursor/rules/chisle.mdc
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4c32b04107870edb7eb0f660772e7ff3bce39858f96c1c68ad25b303c0e1736f

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