dotnet-rules

dotnet-rules is a cursor rule for Cursor from beel-collab/presets.dev. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,070 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of Cursor instructions for .NET projects, covering nullable values, asynchronous code, web endpoints, errors, security, performance, and tests. .NET is Microsoft's platform for building applications and services.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when changing C# handlers, minimal APIs, controllers, domain code, asynchronous operations, and tests.
Why use it?
It helps the coding assistant respect the project's target framework and existing endpoint style instead of using language features the project cannot compile.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: a Cursor rule (.mdc). Also seen: mentions Codex; mentions Cursor.

Good fit Use it when changing C# handlers, minimal APIs, controllers, domain code, asynchronous operations, and tests.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/beel-collab/presets.dev

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 1,070 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 $0.01070
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00428
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00214
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00107

Measured today against content hash 19a182854090, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dotnet-rules 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 today.

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/dotnet/dotnet-rules.mdc · 106 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 106 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

.NET Rules for Cursor: Nullable Contracts, Async and Endpoints

Install

Install the native export at .cursor/rules/dotnet-rules.mdc. Copy that export, not this catalog file. Catalog fields such as tools and author are for presets.dev. Install one skill file per name. Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Antigravity CLI, and Devin can all read .agents/skills, so a second copy with the same name collides.

.NET Rules for Cursor: Nullable Contracts, Async and Endpoints

File-scoped Cursor rule for .NET. It attaches when a matching file is in context.

Updated for .NET 10 LTS and .NET 11, Nov 2026

Do not upgrade dependencies or the framework version unless the task asks.

.NET 11 includes C# 15 unions and closed hierarchies. A project that still targets .NET 10 LTS does not get that syntax. Read the TargetFramework before you write a language feature. Do not retarget the project unless the task asks. Nullable reference types stay enabled when the project has them on.

Project shape

Match the existing minimal API or controller style. A handler is small. Domain rules live in a type the handler calls. Do not grow a static Program.cs into the place every rule lives.

Projects, not random folders, are the compilation boundary. Internal types stay internal.

Contracts

Public methods say whether a value can be null. Do not silence the nullable warning with ! unless you just checked. A union or a closed hierarchy is appropriate on a TFM that has C# 15. On an older TFM, use the pattern the codebase already uses. Do not paste preview syntax into a .NET 10 build.

Validate input at the endpoint with the project's validator. The validated type is what the handler accepts.

Async

Async methods take a CancellationToken and pass it on. Do not use async void except for an event handler the platform requires. Do not block on a task with .Result or .Wait(). A timeout is a CancellationTokenSource linked to the caller's token, not a discarded task.

Read the full file on GitHub · 106 lines

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. today First seen · 106 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 19a182854090

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dotnet-rules is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository beel-collab/presets.dev (3 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,070 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 2026-11-13.

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