Getting it into your agent
It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Kenlan2022/mcp_servers_showcasenpx agentmods add rules/kenlan2022/mcp_servers_showcase/file-server-rulesWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/rules/kenlan2022/mcp_servers_showcase/file-server-rules)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/kenlan2022/mcp_servers_showcase/file-server-rules"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/kenlan2022/mcp_servers_showcase/file-server-rules/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/kenlan2022/mcp_servers_showcase/file-server-rules"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/kenlan2022/mcp_servers_showcase/file-server-rules.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00000 | $0.02639 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00000 | $0.01056 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00528 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00264 |
Grade A, and why
file-server-rules 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 2mo 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 418 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
type: auto-attached name: "File Server Specific Rules" description: "Rules specific to file server development" glob: "servers/file-server/**/*"
File Server Specific Development Rules
Core File Operations
Async File Operations
import aiofiles
import aiofiles.os
from pathlib import Path
async def read_file_safely(file_path: str) -> bytes:
"""Always use async file operations"""
try:
async with aiofiles.open(file_path, 'rb') as f:
return await f.read()
except FileNotFoundError:
raise ValueError(f"File not found: {file_path}")
except PermissionError:
raise ValueError(f"Permission denied: {file_path}")
File Path Security
from pathlib import Path
import os
def validate_file_path(file_path: str, base_dir: str) -> Path:
"""Prevent directory traversal attacks"""
# Resolve path and ensure it's within base directory
resolved_path = Path(base_dir).resolve() / Path(file_path).name
if not str(resolved_path).startswith(str(Path(base_dir).resolve())):
raise ValueError("Invalid file path: directory traversal detected")
return resolved_path
File Operations Standards
File Type Validation
import mimetypes
from typing import List
ALLOWED_MIME_TYPES = [
'text/plain',
'text/csv',
'application/json',
'application/pdf',
'image/png',
'image/jpeg'
]
def validate_file_type(file_path: str, allowed_types: List[str] = ALLOWED_MIME_TYPES) -> bool:
"""Validate file type before processing"""
mime_type, _ = mimetypes.guess_type(file_path)
return mime_type in allowed_types
File Size Limits
import os
from typing import Optional
MAX_FILE_SIZE = 10 * 1024 * 1024 # 10MB
async def check_file_size(file_path: str, max_size: Optional[int] = None) -> None:
"""Check file size before processing"""
max_size = max_size or MAX_FILE_SIZE
file_size = await aiofiles.os.path.getsize(file_path)
if file_size > max_size:
raise ValueError(f"File too large: {file_size} bytes (max: {max_size})")
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.
- 2mo ago First seen · 418 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 2fa6a7c607d9
file-server-rules is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository Kenlan2022/mcp_servers_showcase (0 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,639 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 2026-08-31.
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