Add Verify Watermark Removal rule

[Yurakonoplya]

Summary

Adds rules/verify-watermark-removal.mdc, a rule that makes the agent measure a watermark-removal or humanizer claim before repeating it, and report the cost of the change (meaning, facts kept, longest verbatim run, share of words changed, length).

Contribution Type

• New rules/*.mdc rule

Value To Cursor Users

Tools that claim to strip statistical text watermarks are easy to run and hard to check, so agents tend to report "removed" because the tool said so. This rule turns that into a measurement on a sample whose key the user holds, keeps uncertain as its own answer instead of rounding it to yes or no, and blocks the two claims that cannot be supported: that a text is undetectable, and that clearing one mark clears a vendor's mark. It also scopes the rule to text the user owns.

Added Or Changed Files

• rules/verify-watermark-removal.mdc - the rule itself, frontmatter with description, globs, alwaysApply: false.
• README.md - one line in Build Tools and Development, alphabetical, canonical repo URL.

Quality Checklist

• The contribution includes original rule content, or clearly credits the source.
• New rule files use a descriptive kebab-case filename, such as react-typescript.mdc.
• New rules/*.mdc files include frontmatter with a non-empty description, relevant globs, and alwaysApply: false unless the rule is universal.
• README links use canonical GitHub URLs for repo files and point to the correct category.
• The text is neutral and useful, not sales copy.
• This is not a standalone external tool, product, directory, marketplace, or service listing.
• No secrets, tokens, affiliate links, tracking links, or unrelated product claims are included.
• I checked for duplicate or near-duplicate existing entries.

Notes For Maintainers

The rule names the open-source checker it drives (MIT, https://github.com/Yurakonoplya/unmark-checker), the way the Alpha Skills rule names its own repo. Happy to drop that line if you prefer rules without tool links. node scripts/check-repo-hygiene.mjs --only rules, --only readme and scripts/check-awesome-list.mjs pass locally.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Added guidance for verifying statistical watermark-removal claims with known samples.
  • Documented command-line and browser-based verification options, including fastest and strict workflows.
  • Defined verification outcomes and fixed thresholds, with corresponding cost-reporting guidance.
  • Clarified that checks measure watermark status rather than remove marks.
  • Limited verification to text the user owns or is authorized to process.

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Changes

Watermark verification

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Add watermark verification guidance rules/verify-watermark-removal.mdc, README.md	Adds the Verify Watermark Removal Cursor rule. The rule documents unmark-checker usage, fastest and strict sample paths, outcome thresholds, cost reporting, vendor limitations, and authorization constraints. The README lists the rule.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 608d9

The previously identified outcome-reporting gap has been corrected, so no actionable merge risk remains.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the primary change: adding the Verify Watermark Removal rule.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description includes the required summary, contribution type, user value, changed files, checklist, and maintainer notes. It accurately reflects the rule and README changes.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Actionable comments posted: 2

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Inline comments:
In `@rules/verify-watermark-removal.mdc`:
- Around line 21-22: Update the public-sample verification command for
unmark-checker to provide the key documented in samples/README.md, ensuring the
command can measure returned text without relying on an unset environment
variable.
- Around line 26-27: Update the watermark-removal verification guidance to
report not_our_text as a distinct outcome when fewer than half of the returned
content words match the sample; do not assign it a score or interpret it as
evidence that the watermark was removed.

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