react

A set of React coding standards for future web-interface components in the Code-Index-MCP project. React is a JavaScript library for building interfaces from reusable components.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding or reviewing React components, search forms, event handling, asynchronous requests, and component properties.
Why use it?
It gives contributors a shared structure for components, forms, state, loading behaviour, and TypeScript types. This reduces inconsistent patterns across the 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/consiliency/code-index-mcp/react
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Consiliency/Code-Index-MCP

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 2,802 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 2,802 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 $0.02802 $0.02802
Opus 5 $0.01401 $0.01401
Sonnet 5 $0.00560 $0.00560
Haiku 4.5 $0.00280 $0.00280

Measured 2d ago against content hash 9f9692ec8076, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

react 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.

.cursor/rules/react.mdc · 474 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 474 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

React Rules for Code-Index-MCP

Overview

This file defines React patterns and best practices for any future web UI components in the Code-Index-MCP project.

Component Structure

Functional Components with TypeScript

import React, { useState, useCallback, memo } from 'react';

interface CodeSearchProps {
  onSearch: (query: string) => Promise<void>;
  placeholder?: string;
  className?: string;
}

export const CodeSearch = memo<CodeSearchProps>(({ 
  onSearch, 
  placeholder = "Search code...",
  className = ""
}) => {
  const [query, setQuery] = useState('');
  const [isSearching, setIsSearching] = useState(false);

  const handleSearch = useCallback(async (e: React.FormEvent) => {
    e.preventDefault();
    if (!query.trim()) return;

    setIsSearching(true);
    try {
      await onSearch(query);
    } finally {
      setIsSearching(false);
    }
  }, [query, onSearch]);

  return (
    <form onSubmit={handleSearch} className={className}>
      <input
        type="text"
        value={query}
        onChange={(e) => setQuery(e.target.value)}
        placeholder={placeholder}
        disabled={isSearching}
      />
      <button type="submit" disabled={isSearching}>
        {isSearching ? 'Searching...' : 'Search'}
      </button>
    </form>
  );
});

CodeSearch.displayName = 'CodeSearch';

Custom Hooks

Data Fetching Hook

import { useState, useEffect, useCallback } from 'react';

interface UseApiOptions<T> {
  initialData?: T;
  onError?: (error: Error) => void;
}

function useApi<T>(
  apiCall: () => Promise<T>,
  options: UseApiOptions<T> = {}
) {
  const [data, setData] = useState<T | undefined>(options.initialData);
  const [loading, setLoading] = useState(false);
  const [error, setError] = useState<Error | null>(null);

  const execute = useCallback(async () => {
    setLoading(true);
    setError(null);

    try {
      const result = await apiCall();
      setData(result);
      return result;
    } catch (err) {
      const error = err instanceof Error ? err : new Error(String(err));
      setError(error);
      options.onError?.(error);
      throw error;
    } finally {
      setLoading(false);
    }
  }, [apiCall, options.onError]);

  return { data, loading, error, execute };
}

// Usage
function SymbolViewer({ symbolName }: { symbolName: string }) {
  const { data, loading, error, execute } = useApi(
    () => client.getSymbolDefinition(symbolName),
    { onError: (err) => console.error('Failed to load symbol:', err) }
  );

  useEffect(() => {
    execute();
  }, [execute]);

  if (loading) return <div>Loading...</div>;
  if (error) return <div>Error: {error.message}</div>;
  if (!data) return null;

  return <SymbolDetails symbol={data} />;
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 474 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. 2d ago First seen · 474 lines · 2,802 tokens per session scan A 9f9692ec8076

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react is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository Consiliency/Code-Index-MCP (57 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,802 tokens to every session, about $0.0140 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 2026-08-30.