exploratory-charter Cursor ruleA

exploratory-charter from katalon-labs/true-skills is a Cursor rule: instructions the Cursor agent follows in that repo.

Install it, pinned
mdr add katalon-labs/true-skills/.cursor/rules/exploratory-charter.mdc@git:20260810.36b8bbd

Pins git:20260810.36b8bbd in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 14 of 14 checks passed
Kind
Cursor rule
Repository
katalon-labs/true-skills
Path
.cursor/rules/exploratory-charter.mdc
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
git:20260810.36b8bbd, committed Aug 10, 2026
Size
26,487 bytes
Repository stars
10
License
MIT

Write, run, and debrief exploratory testing charters against Katalon True Platform/TestOps when there is no script to follow. Use when you need to turn a vague area into a charter (mission, areas, oracles, timebox), run a timeboxed unscripted session, log what you find as session notes, judge which findings are real defects, and promote what was learned into atomic manual cases plus the folder or suite that holds them. This is unscripted discovery and the debrief after it; when a written…

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

<!-- GENERATED by scripts/build-adapters.mjs from skills/. Do not edit by hand. -->

# Katalon Exploratory Charter

Use this skill for the **unscripted** part of the design stage: a timeboxed session that learns something the written requirement does not say, then converts what it learned into scripted coverage. A charter is not a test case and a session is not a test run. The value is the *learning plus the promotion*, so a session that produces no notes and no promoted cases has failed even if nothing crashed.

Treat the human as a tool. Ask when the area, the timebox, the environment, or the risk appetite cannot be resolved safely. Never invent an oracle.

## Availability Boundary

**There is no exploratory session object in the platform.** Say that before promising to "run a session in Katalon".
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add katalon-labs/true-skills/.cursor/rules/exploratory-charter.mdc@sha256:3e428d63be24030c

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260810.36b8bbd, 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.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Aug 10, 2026.

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  • 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
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  • 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

katalon-labs/true-skills · 10 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_i35rwnfu7xisojtt
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=katalon-labs/true-skills/.cursor/rules/exploratory-charter.mdc
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3e428d63be24030cd70454724389acaa730e9a9cf94faead96c654774281afd6

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