issue

A time limit and recovery procedure for attempts to fix a problem or make a test pass. After the limit, work stops and unfinished changes are reverted or saved aside before planning a smaller slice.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for handling fixes that exceed five minutes of investigation or ten minutes overall, then returning to the work with a smaller plan.
Why use it?
It prevents a difficult fix from consuming unlimited time or leaving unclear work-in-progress changes behind.

Cursor rule for Cursor

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/terryyin/lizard/issue
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/terryyin/lizard

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 188 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 188 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00188 $0.00188
Opus 5 $0.00094 $0.00094
Sonnet 5 $0.00038 $0.00038
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00019

Measured 2d ago against content hash 460b63bba557, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

issue 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 2d 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/issue.mdc · 17 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 2d ago First seen · 17 lines · 188 tokens per session scan A 460b63bba557

Subscribe to this mod's changes

issue is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository terryyin/lizard (2,475 stars, last pushed 3d ago), with no licence file. It adds 188 tokens to every session, about $0.0009 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.