routing

routing is a cursor rule for Cursor from GoranErhartic/cursor-development-rules. It costs 15 tokens per session (713 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of React Router v7 guidelines for loading data, handling form actions, nesting pages, navigating between routes, and protecting routes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building React routes with loaders, actions, nested layouts, links, search parameters, or authentication checks.
Why use it?
It helps keep route behavior consistent, including redirects, validation errors, loading states, and missing pages.

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

Made for: Cursor.

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README.md
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Per session 15 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 713 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 $0.00015 $0.00713
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00357
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00143
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00071

Measured yesterday against content hash 99b534403642, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

routing 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.

.cursor/rules/languages/react/routing.mdc · 54 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 54 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Routing with React Router v7

Setup

  • createBrowserRouter([...]) + RouterProvider router={router}; per-route element, errorElement, loader, action
  • Children: index: true for index route; path: 'segment' for nested routes; layout wraps with <Outlet />

Loaders

  • Signature: async function loader({ params, request }: LoaderFunctionArgs): Promise<Data>
  • Params: Validate params.id; throw new Response('message', { status: 404 }) or redirect('/path') on auth failure
  • Search params: new URL(request.url).searchParams.get('q')
  • Usage: useLoaderData<Data>() in component

Actions

  • Signature: async function action({ params, request }: ActionFunctionArgs)
  • Form data: await request.formData(); formData.get('name')
  • Return redirect('/path') on success; return { errors } for validation; throw or return error for 4xx/5xx
  • Usage: <Form method="post">; useActionData<typeof action>(); useNavigation().state === 'submitting' for loading
  • Declarative: <Link to="/path">, <NavLink to="..." className={({ isActive }) => ...}>; <Link to=".." relative="path">; replace
  • Programmatic: useNavigate()navigate(path), navigate(-1), navigate(path, { replace: true, state })
  • Search params: useSearchParams(); update with setSearchParams(prev => new URLSearchParams(...))

Route Guards

  • Loader-based: In loader, check auth; if unauthenticated throw redirect('/login?redirectTo=' + pathname); if forbidden throw new Response(..., { status: 403 })
  • Component-based: <RequireAuth><Outlet /></RequireAuth> — inside, check auth and render <Navigate to="/login" state={{ from: location }} replace /> if not authenticated

Key Hooks

  • useLoaderData<T>(), useActionData<T>(), useNavigation() (state: idle|submitting|loading), useFetcher() (background submit without navigation), useSearchParams(), useLocation(), useParams()

Error Handling

Read the full file on GitHub · 54 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 · 54 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A 99b534403642

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routing is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository GoranErhartic/cursor-development-rules (19 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 713 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 2026-09-03.