security-global-auth

A set of rules for user authentication and authorization. Authentication verifies who someone is; authorization controls what that person can access.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when implementing login, password storage, account lockouts, multi-factor authentication, secure cookies, session timeouts, and access controls.
Why use it?
It reduces risks in passwords, multi-factor login, sessions, and access to sensitive actions or data.

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/adobe/aem-desktop/security-global-auth
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/adobe/aem-desktop

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 15 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 480 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00015 $0.00480
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00240
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00096
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00048

Measured yesterday against content hash 46d4e0b6a5c0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

security-global-auth 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to security-global-auth — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.cursor/rules/security-global/security-global-auth.mdc · 58 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 58 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Authentication & Authorization

Secure authentication and authorization are essential for protecting user data and system resources.

Authentication Best Practices

Password Management

  • Implement strong password requirements (minimum 12 characters, must include uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and special characters)
  • Store passwords using strong, slow hashing algorithms (bcrypt with 12+ rounds, Argon2)
  • Never store plaintext passwords in any form
  • Implement account lockout after 5 failed attempts with 30-minute lockout period

Multi-Factor Authentication

  • Implement MFA for all user accounts, especially admin users and users with financial access
  • Support multiple second-factor options (TOTP, SMS, email, hardware tokens)
  • Apply MFA to critical operations (password resets, financial transactions, admin actions, data exports)
  • Verify MFA on the server side, never trust client-side validation

Session Management

  • Generate strong, random session identifiers (32+ characters using cryptographically secure random)
  • Implement secure cookie attributes (Secure, HttpOnly, SameSite=Strict)
  • Apply appropriate session timeouts (15 minutes for sensitive operations, 2 hours for regular sessions)
  • Invalidate sessions on logout and password change
  • Regenerate session IDs after authentication
  • Implement mechanisms to revoke sessions remotely

Authorization Best Practices

Access Control Models

  • Implement Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) with resource-level permissions (read, write, delete)
  • Apply the principle of least privilege for all users
  • Use attribute-based access control for fine-grained permissions
  • Centralize authorization logic in dedicated services

Implementation Patterns

  • Verify authorization on every request, including API calls
  • Implement authorization checks at multiple layers (frontend UI, API middleware, database row-level security)
  • Apply consistent authorization across all interfaces (API, UI, CLI)
  • Never rely on client-side authorization alone

Read the full file on GitHub · 58 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 · 58 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A 46d4e0b6a5c0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

security-global-auth is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository adobe/aem-desktop (2 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 480 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to security-global-auth, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.