10-cms-roles-permissions

A guide to controlling access in Contentstack through roles, teams, permissions, and access tokens. An access token is a credential that lets an application or person use selected Contentstack data or actions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design user roles, team access, custom permissions, automation credentials, and token choices. It also covers client-side versus server-side access, rate limits, and single sign-on concerns when relevant.
Why use it?
It helps give people and automated systems only the access they need, reducing accidental changes and security gaps. It also explains how permissions combine and which credentials should stay on a server.

Cursor rule

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/contentstack/contentstack-agent-skills/10-cms-roles-permissions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/contentstack/contentstack-agent-skills
Per session 43 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 981 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 $0.00043 $0.00981
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00491
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00196
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00098

Measured 2d ago against content hash 9d60ee0db001, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

10-cms-roles-permissions 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/10-cms-roles-permissions.mdc · 130 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 130 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Roles & Permissions

Description

Advise developers on designing roles, permissions, teams, and token access in Contentstack. Explain built-in roles, custom roles, permission merging, team-based access, and token capabilities with least-privilege guidance.

When to Use

Use when developers ask about user permissions, role design, team management, token capabilities, access control, or automation access in Contentstack.

User Problem

Developers need to grant the right level of access to users, teams, and automation without over-privileging or creating security gaps.

Success Criteria

Recommends the principle of least privilege. Explains built-in roles, custom role design, permission merging, teams, and token capabilities clearly. Distinguishes safe client-side tokens from server-side credentials. Flags rate-limit and SSO edge cases when relevant.

Expected Inputs

  • Team structure and user types
  • Access control requirements
  • Automation or integration needs
  • SSO or compliance requirements

Expected Outputs

  • Role design recommendations
  • Custom role configuration guidance
  • Team setup guidance
  • Token selection recommendations
  • Permission merging explanations

Example User Requests

  • What built-in roles does Contentstack have?
  • How do I restrict editors to only certain content types?
  • What can management tokens do vs authtokens?
  • How do I set up teams for multiple stacks?
  • What happens when a user has multiple roles?

Workflow Summary

Understand the team structure and access needs. Recommend built-in roles or custom roles as appropriate. Explain permission merging if multiple roles apply. Guide on teams for larger organizations. Recommend the right token type for automation.

Instructions

Built-in roles

Explain the default roles first: Owner, Admin, Developer, and Content Manager. Use them when they meet the need; otherwise recommend a custom role.

Custom roles

Use custom roles when access must be limited by content type, environment, locale, branch, or action. Describe permissions by module, content type, and action. Use $all for all instances when applicable.

Read the full file on GitHub · 130 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 · 130 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 9d60ee0db001

Subscribe to this mod's changes

10-cms-roles-permissions is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository contentstack/contentstack-agent-skills (5 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 981 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.