spring-rules

spring-rules is a cursor rule for Cursor from beel-collab/presets.dev. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,255 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of file-based instructions for Cursor when working on Spring Boot, a Java framework for building web services. It covers dependency injection, database transactions, validation, errors, security, performance, and tests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding or changing Spring Boot controllers, services, persistence code, validation, security, or tests.
Why use it?
It keeps generated changes aligned with the project's existing Spring Boot and Java versions instead of encouraging unrequested upgrades or guessed configuration. It also gives the agent consistent boundaries between web, business, and database code.

Cursor rule for Cursor

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

Good fit Use it when adding or changing Spring Boot controllers, services, persistence code, validation, security, or tests.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/beel-collab/presets.dev/spring-rules
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 1,255 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 $0.01255
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00502
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00251
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00126

Measured today against content hash 8229d4abd3db, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spring-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/spring/spring-rules.mdc · 129 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 129 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Spring Boot Rules for Cursor: Injection, Transactions and Validation

Install

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

Spring Boot Rules for Cursor: Injection, Transactions and Validation

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

Updated for Spring Boot 4.1, Nov 2026

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

Stay on the Spring Boot and JDK the build already uses. For a new service, Boot 4.1 is the stable line to write for. Do not add an M, RC, or SNAPSHOT version because a blog shows it. A lazy DataSource connection is an option you turn on for a reason, not a default you copy into every app. Read pom.xml or build.gradle before you add a starter.

Project shape

A web app splits controller, application service, and persistence. The controller maps HTTP. The service owns the use case and the transaction. The repository talks to the database. Do not put business rules in the controller.

Constructor injection is the default. Do not use field injection. A new bean is a constructor argument, not a static lookup.

Validation and HTTP

Validate input with the project's Bean Validation annotations on the request DTO. A controller checks the binding result the way neighbors do. Do not trust a path id as proof the caller owns the row. Load the row and authorize.

Return the status the API already uses. A not-found and a forbidden are different. Do not catch every exception and return 200.

Transactions and data

@Transactional sits on the service method that must commit or roll back together. Spring applies it with a proxy. A call from another method in the same class, this.save(), does not pass through that proxy, so @Transactional and @Async on the callee do not run. The same is true for a private method. Call through an injected bean, or move the boundary to the method that is actually invoked from outside. Do not call a remote HTTP API inside the transaction. Keep the transaction short.

Read the full file on GitHub · 129 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 · 129 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 8229d4abd3db

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spring-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 1,255 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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