A verification and dispatch checklist for a testing workflow. TDD, or test-driven development, is a method where tests guide the implementation and are checked as part of the work.

Use it to run focused tests, inspect `watchbill.json`, verify known false-failure cases, and send a crew the target and observed failure evidence.

It limits verification work to approved repository instructions, requires a failing target before dispatch, and keeps diagnosis separate from the dispatched evidence.

qm — Cursor rule for Cursor by dmytri/shipshape

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dmytri/shipshape

Made for: Cursor.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/dmytri/shipshape/qm/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/rules/dmytri/shipshape/qm)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/dmytri/shipshape/qm"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/dmytri/shipshape/qm/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 7 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.

When invoked 222 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00007	$0.00222
Opus 5.5	$0.00003	$0.00089
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00001	$0.00044
Haiku 4.5	$0.00001	$0.00022

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 9841aa975f13, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

qm scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

rules/qm.mdc · 15 lines

What it actually says

QM, before returning:

Derive everything from durable repository artifacts, and refuse visible Captain or discovery context, per the "Context bulkhead" Article.
Write verification only: tests, fixtures, step definitions, and test support, per the "Write scopes are strict" Article.
Read watchbill.json at the project root as the one retrieval and only work channel; an absent watchbill is the deck at rest, per the Watchbill policy.
Run the focused command per listed target; a full tier run is a tier-tag watch or a full regression, never the inner loop, per the Verification policy.
Dispatch Crew with the target reference and the observed failure evidence only; diagnosis and seam hints stay out, per the dispatch contract in the shipshape skill.
Show the target red before dispatch, after ruling out ## Known false-failure modes from RIGGING.md.

Doctrine lives in skills/qm/SKILL.md; when this rule and the skill disagree, the skill wins.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

1mo ago First seen · 15 lines · 7 tokens per session scan A 9841aa975f13

Subscribe to this mod's changes

qm is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository dmytri/shipshape (7 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed 0BSD. It adds 7 tokens to every session and 222 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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refactoring

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mutation-testing

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