plan-forge api-patterns.instructions.md

A set of API design patterns for .NET web services. APIs let programs exchange data; these patterns cover URL structure, errors, page-by-page results, and version changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building .NET REST APIs with controllers, pagination, ProblemDetails error responses, API versions, and standard create, read, and update endpoints.
Why use it?
It helps keep API responses and endpoints consistent, including clear error messages and predictable handling of large result sets.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/srnichols/plan-forge/api-patterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/srnichols/plan-forge

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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When invoked 2,049 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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Opus 5 $0.01025 $0.01025
Sonnet 5 $0.00410 $0.00410
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Measured yesterday against content hash 92703380a421, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plan-forge api-patterns.instructions.md 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 yesterday.

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.

presets/dotnet/.github/instructions/api-patterns.instructions.md · 249 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 249 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

.NET API Patterns

REST Conventions

Controller Structure

[ApiController]
[Route("api/[controller]")]
[Produces("application/json")]
public class ProducersController(IProducerService service) : ControllerBase
{
    [HttpGet]
    public async Task<ActionResult<PagedResult<ProducerDto>>> GetAll(
        [FromQuery] int page = 1, [FromQuery] int pageSize = 25, CancellationToken ct = default)
    {
        var result = await service.GetPagedAsync(page, pageSize, ct);
        return Ok(result);
    }

    [HttpGet("{id:guid}")]
    public async Task<ActionResult<ProducerDto>> GetById(Guid id, CancellationToken ct = default)
    {
        var producer = await service.GetByIdAsync(id, ct);
        return producer is null ? NotFound() : Ok(producer);
    }

    [HttpPost]
    public async Task<ActionResult<ProducerDto>> Create(
        [FromBody] CreateProducerRequest request, CancellationToken ct = default)
    {
        var created = await service.CreateAsync(request, ct);
        return CreatedAtAction(nameof(GetById), new { id = created.Id }, created);
    }

    [HttpPut("{id:guid}")]
    public async Task<IActionResult> Update(
        Guid id, [FromBody] UpdateProducerRequest request, CancellationToken ct = default)
    {
        await service.UpdateAsync(id, request, ct);
        return NoContent();
    }

    [HttpDelete("{id:guid}")]
    public async Task<IActionResult> Delete(Guid id, CancellationToken ct = default)
    {
        await service.DeleteAsync(id, ct);
        return NoContent();
    }
}

Error Responses (ProblemDetails — RFC 9457)

// Automatic via app.UseExceptionHandler + ProblemDetails
builder.Services.AddProblemDetails(options =>
{
    options.CustomizeProblemDetails = ctx =>
    {
        ctx.ProblemDetails.Extensions["traceId"] = ctx.HttpContext.TraceIdentifier;
    };
});

// Manual ProblemDetails
return Problem(
    title: "Producer not found",
    detail: $"No producer with ID {id} exists",
    statusCode: StatusCodes.Status404NotFound,
    type: "https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc9110#section-15.5.5");

Read the full file on GitHub · 249 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. yesterday First seen · 249 lines · 2,049 tokens per session scan A 92703380a421

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plan-forge api-patterns.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository srnichols/plan-forge (5 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,049 tokens to every session, about $0.0102 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.

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