exploratory-charter

exploratory-charter is a cursor rule for Cursor from katalon-labs/true-skills. It costs 150 tokens per session (6,142 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for unscripted, time-limited software testing when there is no fixed test procedure to follow. It turns a testing mission, observations, and findings into written test cases and links them to requirements in Katalon.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define a charter with a mission, areas, expected signals, and time limit; review existing coverage; record findings; and promote confirmed discoveries into test cases or suites.
Why use it?
It gives structure to exploratory testing, where testers learn by investigating an area instead of executing predefined steps, and prevents useful discoveries from being lost.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit Use it to define a charter with a mission, areas, expected signals, and time limit; review existing coverage; record findings; and promote confirmed discoveries into test cases or suites.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/katalon-labs/true-skills/exploratory-charter
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/katalon-labs/true-skills

Made for: Cursor.

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README.md
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Per session 150 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 6,142 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00150 $0.06142
Opus 5 $0.00075 $0.03071
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.01228
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00614

Measured 8d ago against content hash 3e428d63be24, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

exploratory-charter 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 8d 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.

.cursor/rules/exploratory-charter.mdc · 384 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 384 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

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".

  • Available via MCP: resolve scope (list_projects, list_repositories), read the oracles you already have (find_requirements, read_requirement, fetch_requirement_data), check whether an area is already covered before spending the timebox on it (find_test_cases, find_test_cases_by_requirement), and land the outcome (manage_test_folder, create_test_case, link_requirements_to_test_case, manage_test_suite, read_test_suite).
  • Not available, and no workaround exists: a charter / session / session-sheet entity, a session timer or duration field, attachment upload for screenshots or video or HAR files, a tool that sets a manual test result to failed, custom fields or tags to mark a case as exploratory in origin, and creating a requirement for behavior the charter discovered. Do not reach for create_charter, upload_attachment, set_test_result_status, or manage_tags - none of them exists.
  • The defect trap. create_defect requires a known failed test result ID. An unscripted session produces no test result, so a charter finding cannot be filed through MCP as it stands. In order of preference: (1) file it in Jira or Azure DevOps directly, outside the MCP; (2) execute the reproduction case and mark it failed in the TestOps UI, then file from that run. A third path is MCP-legal but conditional - promote the finding to a case, create_manual_test_run, create_manual_ai_session, and if the AI run genuinely fails, create_defect with that result ID. It only works when Run with AI actually reproduces the bug, so never offer it as the default.
  • The Katalon MCP cannot see the application. It reads and writes platform objects only. Every observation in a session comes from a browser you drive yourself, so use Browser or Playwright for the product and the MCP for the artifacts.
  • Where the charter lives. Author the charter and the session sheet as a local artifact the user keeps. Optionally mirror the charter into the platform as one test case in the charter folder, mission in Description and session log in Steps. Say which you did.

Read the full file on GitHub · 384 lines

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.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 384 lines · 150 tokens per session scan A 3e428d63be24

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exploratory-charter is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository katalon-labs/true-skills (7 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 150 tokens to every session and 6,142 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 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.