typescript-patterns

A set of TypeScript rules for inspecting Express routes, where Express is a JavaScript server framework. It covers finding routes, simulating requests, resolving input schemas, handling errors, and testing with Vitest and Supertest.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when working on Express-based MCP servers, route discovery, in-memory request handling, schema conversion, error responses, or endpoint tests.
Why use it?
It gives the agent consistent patterns for examining and testing server endpoints, including cases where route details are not exposed through a simple public interface.

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/bowen31337/expressjs_mcp/typescript-patterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bowen31337/expressjs_mcp

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 301 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 $0.00301
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00151
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00060
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00030

Measured yesterday against content hash fb0bcc6dfccb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

typescript-patterns 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.

.cursor/rules/typescript-patterns.mdc · 48 lines

What it actually says

TypeScript Patterns for Express MCP

Code Style

  • Use strict TypeScript with proper typing
  • Prefer type over interface for simple object shapes
  • Use import type for type-only imports
  • Always use semicolons and trailing commas

Express Integration Patterns

Route Discovery

When working with Express route introspection:

// Access internal router stack
const router: any = (this.app as any)._router;
if (!router?.stack) return [];

Synthetic Request/Response

For in-memory dispatch, create synthetic req/res objects:

const req: any = new Readable({ read() {} });
req.method = method;
req.url = path;
req.headers = { 'content-type': 'application/json', ...headers };

Schema Resolution

Support multiple schema sources with fallbacks:

// Priority: zod annotations > OpenAPI > permissive fallback
const schema = ann.input ? this.zodToJsonSchema(ann.input) : 
               (open.inputSchema ?? { type: 'object', additionalProperties: true });

Error Handling

  • Always wrap async operations in try/catch
  • Use structured logging with context
  • Map errors appropriately for MCP responses

Testing Patterns

  • Use Vitest with supertest for HTTP testing
  • Mock Express apps for unit tests
  • Test both mount and standalone modes
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 · 48 lines · 301 tokens per session scan A fb0bcc6dfccb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

typescript-patterns is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository bowen31337/expressjs_mcp (1 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 301 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.