auth-patterns

A set of project rules for authentication, including JWT login tokens, account lockouts, password requirements, and token revocation. JWT is a format for tokens that prove a user is signed in.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building or reviewing authentication endpoints, creating or validating tokens, revoking sessions, and enforcing account-security rules.
Why use it?
It gives developers consistent security requirements for login and session handling, reducing mistakes such as accepting password-reset tokens as login credentials.

Cursor rule for Claude Code

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/eliornl/rolemule/auth-patterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/eliornl/rolemule

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 3,431 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 $0.03431
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01716
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00686
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00343

Measured 2d ago against content hash 4171a2ce1fd5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

auth-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 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.

.claude/rules/auth-patterns.mdc · 333 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 333 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Authentication Patterns

JWT Token Structure

Every issued token always includes jti (unique ID for revocation), iat (issued-at), nbf (not-before), type, and exp:

{
  "sub": user_id,
  "email": user_email,
  "type": "access",          # always present — prevents password-reset tokens being used as session tokens
  "exp": expiration_datetime,
  "iat": issued_at_datetime,
  "nbf": issued_at_datetime, # reject tokens used before they were issued
  "jti": "uuid4-string"      # required for revocation
}

_validate_jwt_token() in utils/auth.py rejects any token whose type is present but is not "access". This prevents one-time tokens (password-reset, email-verify) from being replayed as session credentials.

Creating Tokens — Use _make_jwt in api/auth.py

Never call jwt.encode directly inside api/auth.py. Use the central helper:

access_token = _make_jwt(
    {"sub": str(user.id), "email": user.email},
    expire_hours=security_settings.jwt_config["expire_hours"],
)

_make_jwt automatically adds jti, iat, and exp.

For utility code outside api/auth.py, use create_access_token from utils/auth.py:

from utils.auth import create_access_token
token = create_access_token({"sub": user_id, "email": email})

All Auth Endpoints

Endpoint Method Description
/api/v1/auth/register POST Create account → sends verification + welcome email
/api/v1/auth/login POST Login with account lockout protection
/api/v1/auth/refresh POST Refresh JWT
/api/v1/auth/verify GET Verify current token
/api/v1/auth/logout POST Logout — revokes the JWT via Redis blocklist
/api/v1/auth/forgot-password POST Request password reset email
/api/v1/auth/reset-password POST Reset password with token
/api/v1/auth/change-password PUT Change password (authenticated)
/api/v1/auth/email-status GET Check if SMTP is configured
/api/v1/auth/verify-email GET Verify email with token
/api/v1/auth/verify-code POST Verify email with 6-digit code
/api/v1/auth/resend-verification POST Resend verification email
/api/v1/auth/verification-status GET Check verification status
/api/v1/auth/google GET Initiate Google OAuth
/api/v1/auth/google/callback GET OAuth callback — redirects with ?code=
/api/v1/auth/oauth/exchange-code POST Exchange one-time OAuth code for JWT
/api/v1/auth/extension-status GET Auth status for Chrome extension
/api/v1/auth/tokens POST Create personal access token (rm_pat_…) — plaintext shown once
/api/v1/auth/tokens GET List PATs (metadata only; no plaintext)
/api/v1/auth/tokens/{id} DELETE Revoke one PAT

Read the full file on GitHub · 333 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 · 333 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 4171a2ce1fd5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

auth-patterns is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository eliornl/rolemule (37 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 3,431 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 2026-08-30.

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