arcjet-python

A diagnostic command for an in-memory installation, meaning a setup that stores searchable context temporarily rather than as ordinary project files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when recalled context is missing or unreliable to check the Node version, stored data, project mapping, write access, and search speed.
Why use it?
It identifies configuration, permissions, project-mapping, index, transcript, and performance problems and separates expected states from real failures.

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-python
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 309 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 $0.00309
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00154
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00062
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00031

Measured yesterday against content hash 23a3399aeaef, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

arcjet-python 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-python.mdc · 23 lines

What it actually says

Arcjet + Python

  • Install: pip install arcjet
  • Async client (FastAPI): aj = arcjet(key=..., rules=[...])
  • Sync client (Flask): aj = arcjet_sync(key=..., rules=[...])
  • Rule functions use snake_case: shield(), detect_bot(), token_bucket(), fixed_window(), sliding_window(), detect_sensitive_info(), validate_email(), detect_prompt_injection().
  • Use Mode.LIVE / Mode.DRY_RUN enums, not strings.
  • Bot categories: BotCategory.SEARCH_ENGINE, not string literals.
  • Sensitive info types: SensitiveInfoType.EMAIL, SensitiveInfoType.CREDIT_CARD_NUMBER, etc.
  • Decision API: decision.is_denied(), decision.is_allowed(), decision.is_error().
  • Reason types: decision.reason_v2.type returns "BOT", "RATE_LIMIT", "SHIELD", etc.
  • IP analysis: decision.ip.is_hosting(), decision.ip.is_vpn(), decision.ip.is_tor().
  • 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 · 23 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 23a3399aeaef

Subscribe to this mod's changes

arcjet-python 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 309 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.