backend-rules

backend-rules is a cursor rule for Cursor from airweave-ai/airweave. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,458 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A backend architecture guide defines how Airweave identifies data sources with globally unique short names such as slack or outlook. It also describes separate layers for HTTP requests, business operations, database access, and domain logic.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding or modifying integrations, authentication, synchronization, database operations, billing, email, or analytics in the backend.
Why use it?
It gives developers consistent rules for locating source integrations and organizing backend changes across a large codebase.

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/airweave-ai/airweave/backend-rules
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/airweave-ai/airweave

Made for: Cursor.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for backend-rules

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 1,458 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 $0.01458
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00729
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00292
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00146

Measured 4d ago against content hash 26ca1ab70be8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backend-rules 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 4d ago.

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/backend-rules.mdc · 126 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 126 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Airweave Backend Architecture

Core Layers

API Layer

  • FastAPI Application (main.py): Entry point for HTTP requests
  • API Routes (endpoints/): RESTful endpoints organized by resource
  • Dependencies (api/deps.py): Authentication and request validation

Service Layer

  • Sync Service: Orchestrates data synchronization between sources and destinations
  • DAG Service: Manages directed acyclic graphs for data transformations
  • OAuth2 Service: Handles authentication for integrations
  • Identity Provider (protocol): Abstracts user authentication, roles, and organization memberships (Auth0, Null, Fake adapters)
  • Payment Gateway (protocol): Abstracts subscription management and billing operations (Stripe adapter)
  • Resend Service: Manages transactional email delivery and templates
  • PostHog Service: Manages product analytics and user event tracking

Data Access Layer

  • CRUD Modules (crud/): Database operations for each entity
  • Unit of Work: Transaction management with atomic operations
  • Database Session: Async SQLAlchemy session management. This extra care must be applied with lazy objects and sessions.

Domain Layer

  • Models (models/): Database models (SQLAlchemy ORM)
  • Schemas (schemas/): API data validation models (Pydantic)

Detail: short_name is a globally unique identifier used throughout the system, e.g. slack, outlook or hubspot_crm

Key Components

Platform Components

  • Sources (platform/sources/): Connectors to external data sources (APIs, DBs)
  • Destinations (platform/destinations/): Vector database adapters
  • Embedding Models (platform/embedding_models/): Text vectorization services
  • Transformers (platform/transformers/): Data transformation processors
  • Entities (platform/entities/): Core search objects that flow through the system

Sync Architecture

If necessary (like editing ), refer sync-architecture.mdc.

Read the full file on GitHub · 126 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. 4d ago First seen · 126 lines · 1,458 tokens per session scan A 26ca1ab70be8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

backend-rules is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository airweave-ai/airweave (6,565 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,458 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 2026-08-30.