csharp-dotnet

A project guide for building applications with C# and .NET, including ASP.NET Core and common supporting libraries.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding API endpoints, validation, data access, messaging, security, resilience, logging, or tests.
Why use it?
It gives the coding agent the project’s technology choices and directs it to the relevant rules for each type of change.

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/goranerhartic/cursor-development-rules/csharp-dotnet
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GoranErhartic/cursor-development-rules

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 723 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 $0.00723
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00362
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00145
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00072

Measured 2d ago against content hash 9331a7f12675, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

csharp-dotnet 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/languages/csharp/csharp-dotnet.mdc · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

C# + .NET Development Guide

Stack

Layer Technology
Runtime .NET 10
Framework ASP.NET Core
Validation FluentValidation
Data Entity Framework Core
Messaging Rebus
Resilience Polly
Testing xUnit, FluentAssertions, Moq, Testcontainers
Logging Serilog

Rule Routing

Consult these rules based on what you are working on:

Quick Reference

  • Build/modify API endpoint: languages/csharp/controllers.mdc, languages/csharp/validation.mdc, languages/csharp/error-handling.mdc
  • Build command/query flow: languages/csharp/mediator.mdc, languages/csharp/testing.mdc
  • Data and transactions: languages/csharp/ef-core.mdc, languages/csharp/resilience.mdc
  • Secure/auth changes: languages/csharp/security.mdc, languages/csharp/auth.mdc, languages/csharp/input-sanitization.mdc

API & Controllers

  • Controller conventions, routing, ActionResult → languages/csharp/controllers.mdc
  • Request validation (FluentValidation) → languages/csharp/validation.mdc
  • Input sanitization (SQL injection, XSS, path traversal) → languages/csharp/input-sanitization.mdc

Data & Persistence

  • EF Core DbContext, repositories, migrations → languages/csharp/ef-core.mdc

CQRS & Messaging

  • Mediator pattern (commands, queries, pipeline behaviors) → languages/csharp/mediator.mdc
  • Rebus messaging (handlers, sagas, outbox) → languages/csharp/messaging.mdc

Cross-Cutting

  • Code quality, C# 14 idioms, records, nullable references → languages/csharp/code-quality.mdc
  • Error handling (ProblemDetails, Result pattern) → languages/csharp/error-handling.mdc
  • Logging (Serilog, enrichers, correlation IDs) → languages/csharp/logging.mdc
  • Security (secrets, HTTPS, headers, CORS) → languages/csharp/security.mdc
  • Auth (JWT Bearer, policy-based, claims) → languages/csharp/auth.mdc
  • Resilience (Polly retry, circuit breaker, timeout) → languages/csharp/resilience.mdc
  • Testing (xUnit, FluentAssertions, Moq) → languages/csharp/testing.mdc
  • Dependencies (NuGet, Central Package Management) → languages/csharp/dependencies.mdc

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 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 · 67 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 9331a7f12675

Subscribe to this mod's changes

csharp-dotnet is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository GoranErhartic/cursor-development-rules (19 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 723 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.