security-compliance

security-compliance is a cursor rule for Cursor from girijashankarj/cursor-handbook. It costs 394 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for protecting data and meeting security or regulatory requirements. It covers data classification, encryption, retention, audit logs, authentication, rate limits, and API access controls.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing APIs, databases, backups, internal services, and mobile connections that handle confidential or restricted data.
Why use it?
It helps prevent sensitive information, credentials, and personal data from being exposed or kept longer than allowed.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit Use it when designing APIs, databases, backups, internal services, and mobile connections that handle confidential or restricted data.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/girijashankarj/cursor-handbook/security-compliance
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/girijashankarj/cursor-handbook

Made for: Cursor.

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README.md
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Per session 394 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 394 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00394 $0.00394
Opus 5 $0.00197 $0.00197
Sonnet 5 $0.00079 $0.00079
Haiku 4.5 $0.00039 $0.00039

Measured 6d ago against content hash 5204ec0de946, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

security-compliance 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 6d 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/security/security-compliance.mdc · 55 lines

What it actually says

Security Compliance Rules

Data Classification

Level Examples Handling
Public Marketing content, docs No restrictions
Internal Business logic, configs Access controls required
Confidential User data, financials Encryption required
Restricted PII, credentials, keys Encryption + audit logging

Compliance Requirements

Data in Transit

  • ALWAYS use TLS/HTTPS for all external communication
  • Minimum TLS 1.2, prefer TLS 1.3
  • Certificate pinning for mobile clients
  • Encrypt internal service-to-service communication

Data at Rest

  • Encrypt all database storage (AES-256)
  • Encrypt backups and snapshots
  • Use envelope encryption for sensitive fields
  • Secure key management via {{CONFIG.techStack.cloud}} KMS

Data Retention

  • Define retention periods for all data types
  • Implement automated data purging
  • Soft delete with configurable hard delete schedule
  • Audit log retention: minimum 1 year

API Security

  • OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect for authentication
  • API key rotation every 90 days
  • Rate limiting on all endpoints
  • Request size limits
  • CORS configuration — allowlist only trusted origins
  • Security headers: CSP, HSTS, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options

Dependency Security

  • Run npm audit / pip audit in CI pipeline
  • No dependencies with known critical vulnerabilities
  • Pin dependency versions in production
  • Review transitive dependencies quarterly

Incident Response

  • Log all security-relevant events
  • Alert on: failed auth attempts (>5), privilege escalation, data export anomalies
  • Maintain incident response runbook
  • Post-incident review within 48 hours
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. 6d ago First seen · 55 lines · 394 tokens per session scan A 5204ec0de946

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security-compliance is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository girijashankarj/cursor-handbook (30 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 394 tokens to every session, about $0.0020 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 2026-09-03.