security

A security rulebook for Freshworks Platform 3.0 app development. It requires app functions to validate inputs and restrict operations to safe, predefined choices.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building or reviewing Freshworks apps, especially their functions, operations and input-handling code.
Why use it?
It helps prevent vulnerabilities such as command injection and unsafe handling of user-provided values.

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/freshworks-developers/fw-dev-tools/security
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/freshworks-developers/fw-dev-tools
Per session 1,479 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,479 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.01479 $0.01479
Opus 5 $0.00740 $0.00740
Sonnet 5 $0.00296 $0.00296
Haiku 4.5 $0.00148 $0.00148

Measured yesterday against content hash fcf30aadf64f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

security 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.

skills/fw-app-dev/rules/security.mdc · 216 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 216 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

🔒 Security Enforcement - ZERO TOLERANCE

Security is as critical as Platform 3.0 compliance. Apply these rules to EVERY app.

🔴 CRITICAL: Input Validation & Command Injection Prevention

All SMI functions MUST validate input. Use allowlists for operations.

Safe Patterns - ALWAYS USE:

// ✅ SAFE - Allowlisted operations only
const ALLOWED_OPERATIONS = ['status', 'list', 'health'];

exports = {
  performOperation: async function(args) {
    if (!ALLOWED_OPERATIONS.includes(args.operation)) {
      return { success: false, error: 'Operation not allowed' };
    }
    // Execute only pre-defined, safe operations
    return await executeAllowedOperation(args.operation);
  }
};

// ✅ SAFE - Parameterized operations with validation
exports = {
  getData: async function(args) {
    const id = parseInt(args.id, 10);
    if (isNaN(id) || id < 0) {
      return { success: false, error: 'Invalid ID' };
    }
    // Use validated input
    return await fetchDataById(id);
  }
};

// ✅ SAFE - String sanitization
function sanitizeInput(str) {
  if (typeof str !== 'string') return '';
  return str.replace(/[<>\"\'&]/g, '');
}

Input Validation Checklist:

  • Validate all input types (string, number, boolean)
  • Sanitize strings (remove/escape special characters)
  • Use allowlists for enumerated values
  • Reject unexpected or malformed input
  • Never trust client-provided data

🟠 HIGH: Logging Security - No Sensitive Data

Log only operation status and non-sensitive identifiers.

Safe Logging Patterns:

// ✅ SAFE - Log only confirmation, no sensitive data
onAppInstallHandler: function() {
  console.log('App installed successfully');
}

// ✅ SAFE - Log only non-sensitive, specific fields
onTicketCreateHandler: function(args) {
  console.log('Ticket created:', args.data?.ticket?.id);
}

// ✅ SAFE - Sanitized error logging
try {
  await performOperation();
} catch (e) {
  console.error('Operation failed:', e.message);
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 216 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. yesterday First seen · 216 lines · 1,479 tokens per session scan A fcf30aadf64f

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security is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository freshworks-developers/fw-dev-tools (5 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,479 tokens to every session, about $0.0074 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.