iam-impact-review

iam-impact-review is a cursor rule for Cursor from AlphaBitCore/nexus-gateway. It costs 0 tokens per session (536 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A five-step review for changes to administrator APIs, sidebar navigation, or routes where access permissions must stay synchronized.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for checking permissions in the interface and backend, updating identity records and test data, and reviewing renamed routes and sidebar links.
Why use it?
It helps prevent silent 403 errors, which mean the interface appears available but the server rejects the request.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit It is for checking permissions in the interface and backend, updating identity records and test data, and reviewing renamed routes and sidebar links.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/alphabitcore/nexus-gateway/iam-impact-review
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlphaBitCore/nexus-gateway

Made for: Cursor.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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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 536 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00000 $0.00536
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00268
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00107
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00054

Measured 8d ago against content hash 1eb69d549027, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

iam-impact-review 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 8d 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/iam-impact-review.mdc · 38 lines

What it actually says

IAM impact review (binding)

You are editing an area where adding / moving / renaming an admin API endpoint, sidebar nav, or route path can produce silent 403s. The UI / backend / seed must stay in lockstep.

Read docs/developers/architecture/services/control-plane/iam-identity-architecture.md BEFORE editing.

The 5-step audit (all 5, every change)

  1. UI allowedActions and backend iamMW(...) reference the same action. Drift = silent 403 (user sees menu item, click yields 403).
  2. Decide resource carve-out. Should the surface have its own resource type in packages/shared/identity/iam/catalog_data.go, or can it reuse settings / observability / etc.? Carve out when granting it shouldn't imply granting unrelated settings.
  3. New resource → update both fixtures + seed.
    • packages/control-plane/internal/identity/iam/managed.go (NexusViewer test fixture).
    • tools/db-migrate/seed/seed.ts canonical policy block.
    • Missing either makes non-super-admin users lose visibility silently.
  4. Path rename / move → sweep Sidebar + breadcrumbs. packages/control-plane-ui/src/components/ui/Sidebar/Sidebar.tsx icon mapping. Dead case arms accumulate otherwise.
  5. Record IAM decisions in the plan / commit message. "Kept on admin:settings.read" / "Carved out as prompt-cache" — so reviewers can trace policy intent without reading the diff backwards.

NRN builder is canonical

Always use iam.BuildRequestNRNForAction(action, c) to derive resourceType. Never hardcode the resource-type string in iamMW(...) — hardcoded resource types drift from the IAM catalog and produce silent 403s. Memory anchor: [[project_iam_resource_nrn_bug]].

Verification

Run positive test (super-admin reaches the route) AND negative test (a role without the action gets 403). Don't ship without both.

Skipping this rule requires explicit user approval in chat.

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. 8d ago First seen · 38 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 1eb69d549027

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iam-impact-review is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository AlphaBitCore/nexus-gateway (23 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 536 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.