fastapi-rules

fastapi-rules is a cursor rule for Cursor from beel-collab/presets.dev. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,135 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of Cursor instructions for FastAPI projects, covering request and response models, dependencies, asynchronous code, errors, security, performance, and tests. FastAPI is a Python framework for building web APIs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building or changing API routes, Pydantic models, dependency injection, application startup, and asynchronous database or service calls.
Why use it?
It keeps route handlers, validation, settings, and database access arranged consistently while preventing sensitive fields from being returned accidentally.

Cursor rule for Cursor

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

Good fit Use it when building or changing API routes, Pydantic models, dependency injection, application startup, and asynchronous database or service calls.

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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 1,135 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 $0.01135
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00454
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00227
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00113

Measured today against content hash dd7dcdd364c9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fastapi-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/fastapi/fastapi-rules.mdc · 105 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 105 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

FastAPI Rules for Cursor: Pydantic Models, Dependencies and Async

Install

Install the native export at .cursor/rules/fastapi-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.

FastAPI Rules for Cursor: Pydantic Models, Dependencies and Async

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

Updated for FastAPI 0.162.5, Nov 2026

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

Project shape

Routers are split by resource. A route function is thin: it takes dependencies, calls a function that does the work, and returns a response model. Settings, the lifespan, and the database session live where the app already creates them. Do not build a new global client at import time.

Models

Every request body and every response has a Pydantic model. The response model is a subset. A field the client must not see, such as a password hash or an internal flag, is not on the response model. Do not response_model_exclude as the only protection if you can omit the field.

Validate constraints on the model: length, bounds, and enums. Do not re-check them with a pile of if statements that drift from the schema. Extra fields are ignored or rejected the way the project already configured. Do not pass dict(body) into an ORM create. Copy the fields you intend to write.

Dependencies and auth

Auth is a dependency that returns the current user or raises. A route that writes declares that dependency. Do not trust a user id in the path or body. Load the row and check the owner.

Database sessions are yielded from a dependency and closed in finally. A long-lived session stored on app.state without a scope is a bug. Lifespan replaces the old startup event in new code. Do not add @app.on_event("startup") beside a lifespan.

Read the full file on GitHub · 105 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 · 105 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A dd7dcdd364c9

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fastapi-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 1,135 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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