api-communication

A set of coding rules for sending requests to web APIs and checking their responses before the user interface uses them. An API is a service that lets one program request data or actions from another program.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for organizing request functions, reusable data-fetching hooks, validation schemas, and mapping helpers. Developers can use it when connecting a frontend to backend services.
Why use it?
It removes uncertainty about where request code belongs and prevents unverified response data from reaching the interface. It also keeps data shapes and shared types consistent.

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/ddebixx/frontend-template/api-communication
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ddebixx/frontend-template

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 173 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 $0.00173
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00086
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00035
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00017

Measured yesterday against content hash 7b7120430104, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

api-communication 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/api-communication.mdc · 21 lines

What it actually says

API communication

  • Fetchers under fetchers/[domain]/ — typed HTTP + Zod schemas/parse, no React
  • Hooks under hooks/[domain]/ — Tanstack Query wrapping fetchers; components may import them
  • Pure mapping/helpers under utils/[domain]/ — usable from fetchers and components
  • Export types via z.infer<typeof Schema>
  • Never trust raw response shapes in UI code
const UserSchema = z.object({ id: z.string(), name: z.string() });
export type User = z.infer<typeof UserSchema>;

Details: docs/frontend/tools/API_COMMUNICATION.md

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 · 21 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 7b7120430104

Subscribe to this mod's changes

api-communication is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository ddebixx/frontend-template (3 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 173 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.