security-global-input-validation

A set of rules for checking data from users, forms, APIs, and other outside sources before using it. Validation checks whether data has the expected type, format, size, and allowed values.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building forms, API endpoints, request handlers, or any code that receives external data.
Why use it?
It reduces the chance that malformed or malicious data reaches application logic, storage, or output.

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-input-validation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/adobe/aem-desktop

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 17 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 277 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 $0.00017 $0.00277
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00138
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00055
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00028

Measured yesterday against content hash b5eb90ff796e, 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-input-validation 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-input-validation — 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-input-validation.mdc · 42 lines

What it actually says

Input Validation

Proper input validation is the first line of defense against malformed or unexpected data, reducing the attack surface before deeper security controls handle injection or context-specific risks.

Key Principles

  • Validate on both sides: Implement validation on both client and server
  • Whitelist over blacklist: Prefer allowlist approaches over trying to block known bad inputs
  • Defense in depth: Apply multiple validation layers
  • Validate before use: Validate input as close as possible to where it's used

Input Validation Techniques

Type Checking

  • Enforce strong typing
  • Validate data types before processing
  • Use schema validation where appropriate

Format Validation

  • Validate using patterns/regex for format-specific inputs
  • Implement strict validation for sensitive fields (email, phone, etc.)
  • Validate ranges, lengths, and sizes

Sanitization

  • Sanitize data before storage or display
  • Remove/escape potentially dangerous characters
  • Use context-appropriate encoding when outputting

Anti-Patterns to Avoid

  • Using client-side validation only
  • Relying only on blacklists
  • Validating only on form submission
  • Skipping validation for "trusted" sources
  • Implementing custom validation for standard formats
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 · 42 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A b5eb90ff796e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

security-global-input-validation is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository adobe/aem-desktop (2 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 277 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-input-validation, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.