backend

A small set of rules for backend implementation. It allows API handlers to query the database directly for read-only endpoints and reserves repository modules for workflows that write data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when deciding where database queries and write operations should live in a backend codebase.
Why use it?
It gives developers a clear boundary between simple data reads and code that changes stored 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/aigoooowork/project-rules-bootstrap/backend
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aigoooowork/project-rules-bootstrap

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 42 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 $0.00042
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00021
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00008
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00004

Measured yesterday against content hash 95d7450e452d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backend 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.

evals/fixtures/existing-rules/.cursor/rules/backend.mdc · 9 lines

What it actually says

  • API handlers may query the database directly for read-only endpoints.
  • Repository modules are reserved for write workflows.
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 · 9 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 95d7450e452d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

backend is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository aigoooowork/project-rules-bootstrap (2 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 42 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.