logging-tracing

A set of coding rules for tracing requests and AWS operations in serverless applications. Request tracing records how a request moves through services and how long each important step takes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding AWS X-Ray tracing with Powertools or Middy middleware to Lambda services. It covers handler setup, trace IDs, SDK capture, manual subsegments, annotations, and error recording.
Why use it?
It provides consistent guidance for connecting logs and traces, capturing AWS SDK calls, recording errors, and avoiding unfinished trace segments or sensitive annotations.

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/logging-tracing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GoranErhartic/cursor-development-rules

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 21 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 309 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 $0.00021 $0.00309
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00154
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00062
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00031

Measured 2d ago against content hash 10c46e5531f4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

logging-tracing 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/aws-lambda/logging-tracing.mdc · 31 lines

What it actually says

Lambda X-Ray Tracer

Setup

  • Powertools Tracer: new Tracer({ serviceName, captureHTTPsRequests: true }); singleton; use in handler and services
  • Trace ID: process.env._X_AMZN_TRACE_ID; parse for traceId/parentId/sampled if needed for logging or external systems
  • AWS SDK: tracer.captureAWSv3Client(new S3Client({})) (and similar) to capture SDK calls automatically

Subsegments

  • Manual: const subsegment = segment?.addNewSubsegment('name'); add annotations (addAnnotation), errors (addError); subsegment?.close() in finally
  • Use for key operations (e.g. processMessage, validateUpload) to see timing and errors in service map

Middleware

  • Use Powertools tracer middleware (or Middy middleware) so handler is wrapped; ensure subsegments are closed on error paths

Conventions

  • One Tracer per service; capture SDK clients; add subsegments for important steps; include correlationId/traceId in logs

Anti-Patterns

  • Not closing subsegments; capturing sensitive data in annotations; missing error recording

See also: logging-setup.mdc, logging-tracing-capture.mdc, logging-metrics-correlation.mdc

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 · 31 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 10c46e5531f4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

logging-tracing is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository GoranErhartic/cursor-development-rules (19 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 309 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.