adr-004

A rule requiring secrets such as passwords, tokens, and API keys to be stored outside source code and supplied securely during builds and tests. CI/CD means the automated systems that build, test, and release software.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define secure secret handling with environment variables, encrypted stores, or services such as Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, or a CI platform's secret store.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of credentials being exposed in repositories, configuration files, or logs. It also keeps secret handling consistent across commands and testing infrastructure.

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/actual-software/actual-cli/adr-004
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/actual-software/actual-cli

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 115 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00000 $0.00115
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00057
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00023
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00012

Measured yesterday against content hash c6ac676552a2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

adr-004 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.

.cursor/rules/adr-004.mdc · 10 lines

What it actually says

Adopt Secure Secrets Management in CI/CD Pipeline

Policies

  1. Implement a dedicated secrets management system integrated into the CI/CD pipeline that separates secret storage from code. This includes using environment variables, encrypted secret stores, or dedicated secrets management services (such as HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, or CI platform-native solutions) to inject credentials at runtime rather than hardcoding them in configuration files or source code. The pattern is consistently applied across CLI commands and testing infrastructure to ensure uniform security practices.
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 · 10 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A c6ac676552a2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

adr-004 is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository actual-software/actual-cli (7 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 115 tokens. 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.