arcjet-nextjs

arcjet-nextjs is a cursor rule for Cursor from arcjet/arcjet-plugin. It costs 0 tokens per session (368 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of Arcjet usage rules for Next.js applications, covering route handlers, pages, server components, and server actions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add request protection to server-side Next.js code and configure local Arcjet environment variables.
Why use it?
It prevents incorrect imports and unsuitable placements, such as trying to protect client components or using Next.js middleware.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: a Cursor rule (.mdc).

Good fit Use it to add request protection to server-side Next.js code and configure local Arcjet environment variables.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/arcjet/arcjet-plugin/arcjet-nextjs
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/arcjet/arcjet-plugin

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 368 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 $0.00368
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00147
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00074
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00037

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 54142be7a1c3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

arcjet-nextjs 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 1mo 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.

plugins/arcjet/rules/arcjet-nextjs.mdc · 27 lines

What it actually says

Arcjet + Next.js

  • Import from @arcjet/next, not arcjet or @arcjet/node.
  • Place the shared client in lib/arcjet.ts (or src/lib/arcjet.ts).
  • Route handlers: protect inside route.ts handlers (GET, POST, etc.) — request is a function parameter.
  • Pages & server components: use import { request } from "@arcjet/next" then const req = await request() to get the request object. Throw on denial (caught by error boundary). Works in any non-client component.
  • Client components cannot be protected — they run client-side with no request object.
  • Do NOT use Arcjet in middleware.ts — it runs on every request including static assets and lacks route context.
  • For server actions, use the same request() helper from @arcjet/next.
  • Sensitive info detection is only supported in route handlers, not in server actions or pages.
  • Set ARCJET_KEY in .env.local and ARCJET_ENV=development for local dev.
  • 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. 1mo ago First seen · 27 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 54142be7a1c3

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arcjet-nextjs is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository arcjet/arcjet-plugin (1 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 368 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.