lizard: Skill for Cursor

.cursor/skills/adr-awareness/SKILL.md

adr-awareness is a skill for Cursor from terryyin/lizard. It costs 94 tokens per session (1,184 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A practice for using Accepted Architectural Decision Records, which are documents describing approved software design choices. It requires agents to load relevant records, cite them, flag conflicts, and maintain their indexes.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for architecture-related work that must follow existing decisions and for keeping those decision records consistent.
Why use it?
It prevents agents from silently drifting away from decisions that the project has already approved.

Skill for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

This is terryyin/lizard's own configuration. It tells Cursor how to work on lizard itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything lizard configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to terryyin/lizard. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/terryyin/lizard/master/.cursor/skills/adr-awareness/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/terryyin/lizard

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.

agentmods badge for adr-awareness

README.md
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Your own site
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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.

agentmods 80×15 button for adr-awareness

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 94 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,184 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Memory Poisoning · line 104
    Skill attempts to fill the context window with filler content, displacing legitimate instructions and safety constraints. This can degrade agent performance or bypass safety boundaries.
    Fix: Implement context-window management that detects and rejects padding or stuffing attempts. Prioritize system instructions over user-injected content.
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00094 $0.01184
Opus 5 $0.00047 $0.00592
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00237
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00118

Measured 9d ago against content hash f8e8eac809bd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

adr-awareness 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 9d 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/skills/adr-awareness/SKILL.md · 118 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

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. 9d ago First seen · 118 lines · 94 tokens per session scan A f8e8eac809bd

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adr-awareness is a skill published in the GitHub repository terryyin/lizard (2,493 stars, last pushed 3d ago), with no licence file. It adds 94 tokens to every session and 1,184 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.

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