humanities-superpowers Cursor ruleA

humanities-superpowers from icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers is a Cursor rule: instructions the Cursor agent follows in that repo.

Install it, pinned
mdr add icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers/.cursor/rules/humanities-superpowers.mdc@git:20260719.262e1c6

Pins git:20260719.262e1c6 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 14 of 14 checks passed
Kind
Cursor rule
Repository
icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers
Path
.cursor/rules/humanities-superpowers.mdc
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
git:20260719.262e1c6, committed Jul 19, 2026
Size
552 bytes
Repository stars
21
License
MIT

Apply Humanities Superpowers to humanities research and scholarly writing tasks.

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

For humanities research tasks, inspect `skills/using-humanities-superpowers/SKILL.md`, select the smallest sufficient skill set, and follow each selected skill's stop signals and completion criteria. Never invent citations, quotations, page numbers, publication data, or source contents. Preserve unresolved uncertainty. Use `verifying-before-submission` before claiming a manuscript is final or submission-ready.

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers/.cursor/rules/humanities-superpowers.mdc@sha256:595a3e181976a84b

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260719.262e1c6, 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_zuilbtii36a4xicx.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_zuilbtii36a4xicx)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 19, 2026.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260719.262e1c6 latest2026-07-19 262e1c6 552 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 (552 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

icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers · 21 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-16 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_zuilbtii36a4xicx
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers/.cursor/rules/humanities-superpowers.mdc
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/595a3e181976a84b51876e4a1fa5f45672ac1a23f6c4994c16aabd7d478aea76

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