config-validation-workflow

A workflow for checking configuration files after edits. It covers syntax checks, required fields, loading the configuration, and starting the relevant server.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after changing server, orchestration, YAML, JSON, or MCP settings to validate the file and confirm the application can load and use it.
Why use it?
It catches malformed settings and missing configuration before they cause runtime failures. The checks differ for YAML, JSON, and MCP configuration files.

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/ekakit/lightfast-mcp/config-validation-workflow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ekakit/lightfast-mcp

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 879 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 $0.00879
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00439
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00176
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00088

Measured 2d ago against content hash 84a1bc12f06c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

config-validation-workflow 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/config-validation-workflow.mdc · 127 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 127 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Configuration Validation Workflow

When editing configuration files, execute these validation steps immediately:

Immediate Actions After Config Changes

  1. Validate Syntax: Check YAML/JSON syntax is valid
  2. Test Configuration Loading: Verify config can be loaded by the application
  3. Validate Schema: Ensure required fields are present
  4. Test Server Startup: Verify servers can start with new configuration

Automatic Validation Commands

YAML Configuration Files

# Validate YAML syntax
python -c "import yaml; yaml.safe_load(open('{current_file}'))"

# Test configuration loading
uv run python -c "from tools.orchestration.config_loader import ConfigLoader; ConfigLoader().load_servers_config('{current_file}')"

# Test server startup with new config
uv run lightfast-mcp-orchestrator list

JSON Configuration Files

# Validate JSON syntax
python -c "import json; json.load(open('{current_file}'))"

# For MCP configuration files
if [[ "{current_file}" == *"mcp.json"* ]]; then
    echo "MCP config updated - restart Cursor to reload"
fi

Configuration File Validation Checklist

Server Configuration (config/servers.yaml)

  • All servers have required fields: name, description, host, port, transport
  • Port numbers don't conflict (8001=Blender, 8002=Mock, 8003+=Others)
  • Transport types are valid: "stdio" or "streamable-http"
  • Server types match registered server types
  • Environment variables are properly formatted

MCP Configuration (.cursor/mcp.json)

  • Server commands use proper paths
  • Environment variables are correctly set
  • Working directories exist (for global configs)
  • Server names are unique

Test Configuration Changes

After Editing Server Config

# Test configuration loading
uv run lightfast-mcp-orchestrator list

# Test server startup
uv run lightfast-mcp-orchestrator start --hide-logs &
sleep 5
pkill -f lightfast-mcp-orchestrator

# Validate no port conflicts
netstat -an | grep -E ':(8001|8002|8003|8004|8005)\s'

Read the full file on GitHub · 127 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 · 127 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 84a1bc12f06c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

config-validation-workflow is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository ekakit/lightfast-mcp (2 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 879 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.