arcjet-express

A set of Arcjet usage rules for Python web applications built with FastAPI or Flask.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding Arcjet protection to Python endpoints, including rules for rate limits, bots, sensitive information, email checks, and prompt-injection detection.
Why use it?
It prevents common integration mistakes, such as using the wrong client style, function names, or enum values.

Cursor rule

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/arcjet/arcjet-plugin/arcjet-express
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/arcjet/arcjet-plugin
Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 324 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 $0.00324
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00162
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00065
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00032

Measured yesterday against content hash f3e544883cb1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

arcjet-express 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.

plugins/arcjet/rules/arcjet-express.mdc · 30 lines

What it actually says

Arcjet + Node.js Frameworks

  • Use the correct adapter package:
    • Express / Node.js / Hono: @arcjet/node
    • Fastify: @arcjet/fastify
    • NestJS: @arcjet/nest
    • SvelteKit: @arcjet/sveltekit
    • Remix: @arcjet/remix
    • React Router: @arcjet/react-router
    • Astro: @arcjet/astro
    • Bun: @arcjet/bun
    • Deno: npm:@arcjet/deno
  • Do NOT use as Express middleware (app.use()). Call protect() inside individual route handlers.
  • Pass the framework's request object directly: aj.protect(req).
  • For apps behind proxies/load balancers: set proxies: ["<lb-ip>"] on the Arcjet client options.
  • Ref: https://docs.arcjet.com/llms.txt
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 · 30 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A f3e544883cb1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

arcjet-express is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository arcjet/arcjet-plugin (1 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 324 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.