development Cursor ruleA

development from stbenjam/skillsaw is a Cursor rule: instructions the Cursor agent follows in that repo.

Install it, pinned
mdr add stbenjam/skillsaw/.cursor/rules/development.mdc@git:20260926.43e8ea0

Pins git:20260926.43e8ea0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 14 of 14 checks passed
Kind
Cursor rule
Repository
stbenjam/skillsaw
Path
.cursor/rules/development.mdc
Versions recorded
8
Latest version
git:20260926.43e8ea0, committed Sep 26, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 3, 2026
Size
21,040 bytes
Repository stars
69
License
Apache-2.0

You must follow these instructions when developing skillsaw.

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

Development rules for skillsaw.

## Pre-push Checklist

<!-- skillsaw-disable-next-line content-hook-candidate -->
CRITICAL: You MUST always run these steps before pushing changes.

1. Ensure branch is up to date with UPSTREAM (stbenjam/skillsaw) — check git
   remotes then merge upstream's main.
2. Run `make test` — run the full test suite and ensure all tests pass. Never
   assume a problem is pre-existing; follow the boyscout rule and fix it anyway.
3. Run `make lint` — check formatting (or run `make format` to fix it).
4. Run `make update` — regenerate all generated files (must come after version bump).
5. Test against `openshift-eng/ai-helpers`: clone it, run `skillsaw`, and ensure exit 0.

## Pre-PR Checklist

Follow these checks before opening a PR:

- Check whether documentation is up to date for the changes on this branch.
    - Example: you add a new feature, flag, or lint type.
      Action: update `README.md` to include this.
    - Example: you encounter a problem during development you must keep for later.
      Action: update `.apm/instructions` and run `make update`.
- Verify test coverage on a new feature, flag, lint type or bug fix is complete.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add stbenjam/skillsaw/.cursor/rules/development.mdc@sha256:fcc9f213d3172656

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260926.43e8ea0, 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

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_qi5xss4icsvv3u3g.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_qi5xss4icsvv3u3g)

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 8 versions of this file, between Sep 3, 2026 and Sep 26, 2026, about one every 3 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260926.43e8ea0 latest2026-09-26 43e8ea0 21,040 BA view · diff
git:20260919.4b5ee0e2026-09-19 4b5ee0e 20,952 BA view · diff
git:20260919.c4441fb2026-09-19 c4441fb 21,020 BA view · diff
git:20260904.1b802e32026-09-04 1b802e3 20,997 BA view · diff
git:20260904.867f8b22026-09-04 867f8b2 20,971 BA view · diff
git:20260903.e0e15972026-09-03 e0e1597 21,101 BA view · diff
git:20260903.05cbc442026-09-03 05cbc44 21,102 BA view · diff
git:20260903.f5ff5572026-09-03 f5ff557 21,110 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 (21040 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

stbenjam/skillsaw · 69 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_qi5xss4icsvv3u3g
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=stbenjam/skillsaw/.cursor/rules/development.mdc
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/fcc9f213d3172656730cbf0e05a8b2ec312762e56b0bb397469a66b95ab21a5f

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