backend-standards

backend-standards is a cursor rule for coding agents from ferreyes/ai-specs. It costs 8,739 tokens per session, scanned A, original, no licence file.

A set of backend development standards for an LTI Node.js, TypeScript, and Express application. LTI is a system for connecting learning tools with educational platforms.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building or reviewing backend code involving Domain-Driven Design, SOLID principles, architecture patterns, APIs, and tests.
Why use it?
It gives developers shared guidance for architecture, API design, code structure, and testing instead of leaving each decision to personal preference.

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/ferreyes/ai-specs/backend-standards
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ferreyes/ai-specs

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for backend-standards

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/ferreyes/ai-specs/backend-standards.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/rules/ferreyes/ai-specs/backend-standards)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/ferreyes/ai-specs/backend-standards"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/ferreyes/ai-specs/backend-standards.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 8,739 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 8,739 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.08739 $0.08739
Opus 5 $0.04369 $0.04369
Sonnet 5 $0.01748 $0.01748
Haiku 4.5 $0.00874 $0.00874

Measured 3d ago against content hash 9b0f5ca3bb87, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backend-standards 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 3d 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.

ai-specs/specs/backend-standards.mdc · 1,229 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 3d ago First seen · 1,229 lines · 8,739 tokens per session scan A 9b0f5ca3bb87

Subscribe to this mod's changes

backend-standards is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository ferreyes/ai-specs (2 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 8,739 tokens to every session, about $0.0437 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.