security

Project rules for preventing common security mistakes in software. They cover secrets, sensitive logs, input validation, database queries, and the OWASP Top 10 list of frequent web-application risks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when handling user input, storing or querying data, writing logs, and reviewing code for common security weaknesses.
Why use it?
They give the coding agent clear safety checks for protecting credentials, user data, and application boundaries.

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/asq-sheriff/embediq/security
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/asq-sheriff/embediq

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 76 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 76 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.00076 $0.00076
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.00038
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00015
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00008

Measured 2d ago against content hash e62f8308cde2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

security 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 2d 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.

tests/fixtures/golden-configs/consulting-engagement-default/expected/.cursor/rules/security.mdc · 13 lines

What it actually says

Security Rules

  • Never hardcode secrets, API keys, passwords, or tokens.
  • Never log sensitive data (PII, PHI, credentials).
  • Validate all user input at system boundaries.
  • Use parameterized queries for all database access.
  • Follow OWASP Top 10 guidelines.
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. 2d ago First seen · 13 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A e62f8308cde2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

security is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository asq-sheriff/embediq (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. 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.