the-ick-decoder

the-ick-decoder is a cursor rule for Cursor from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. It costs 130 tokens per session (1,587 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to understanding a sudden feeling of repulsion toward someone you are dating. It tests whether the feeling points to a real incompatibility, a safety warning, an attachment pattern, or a minor superficial reaction.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you have 'the ick' and are unsure what it means. It helps decide whether to leave, discuss a genuine mismatch, examine a recurring pattern, or let a harmless reaction pass.
Why use it?
The same feeling can mean very different things. Examining the specific trigger helps you avoid both ignoring a genuine warning and ending a good relationship because of anxiety or a trivial detail.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: a Cursor rule (.mdc).

Good fit Use it when you have 'the ick' and are unsure what it means. It helps decide whether to leave, discuss a genuine mismatch, examine a recurring pattern, or let a harmless reaction pass.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/the-ick-decoder
About the project

PM Skills is a collection of plain-Markdown instructions that teach AI assistants structured methods for handling professional, personal, and life-admin tasks. People use it with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, Codex, and other supported agents for work such as writing product requirements, reviewing documents, or planning difficult situations.

mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills · 1,345 stars · on GitHub · mohitagw15856.github.io

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 130 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,587 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 $0.00130 $0.01587
Opus 5 $0.00065 $0.00794
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00317
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00159

Measured 10d ago against content hash ba1fb2cc02f4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

the-ick-decoder 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 10d 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.

exports/cursor/other/the-ick-decoder/the-ick-decoder.mdc · 120 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 120 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

The Ick Decoder Skill

"The ick" — the sudden inexplicable repulsion toward someone you were into — is one of dating's great confusions, because it comes in three completely different flavors wearing the same costume. Sometimes it's your instincts correctly flagging a real incompatibility or red flag. Sometimes it's an anxious/avoidant self-sabotage pattern that manufactures a reason to flee anyone who gets close. And sometimes it's a superficial ick (he ran for the bus funny) that has nothing to do with anything. Most dating advice validates whichever one you want to hear. This skill instead interrogates the specific ick to tell which flavor it is — because dumping someone great over an avoidant spiral and ignoring a real red flag are opposite mistakes with the same feeling.

What This Skill Produces

  • A decode of the specific ick: what exactly triggered it, and what category it's pointing at (values/incompatibility, safety/red-flag, attachment-pattern, or genuinely superficial)
  • A verdict: real red flag (trust it, act) · genuine incompatibility (valid, no villain) · self-sabotage pattern (worth examining before acting) · superficial (let it pass) — with the reasoning, not a rubber stamp
  • A pattern check: whether this ick fits a repeating cycle across the user's dating history (the tell of self-sabotage)
  • A next move: what to actually do — end it cleanly, raise the real concern, sit with it a beat, or notice-and-let-go

Required Inputs

Ask for (if not already provided):

  • The specific ick — the exact moment or thing, concretely ("he texted good morning three days running", not "something felt off")
  • How the person has actually treated the user (the behavior, separate from the ick)
  • The user's dating history pattern: do they often find a reason to end things right when it's getting real? do they ignore red flags for too long? (both are patterns)
  • How they felt before the ick — into it, ambivalent, already looking for an exit?

Read the full file on GitHub · 120 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. 10d ago First seen · 120 lines · 130 tokens per session scan A ba1fb2cc02f4

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the-ick-decoder is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills (1,345 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 130 tokens to every session and 1,587 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-30.