microservices

A set of architecture guidelines for microservices, an approach that splits an application into separately deployable services. It covers when to use them, service boundaries, data ownership, APIs, and communication choices.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when planning or reviewing a microservices system, including service responsibilities, database ownership, API contracts, deployment, and synchronous or asynchronous communication.
Why use it?
It helps teams judge whether microservices fit their size and needs, while avoiding common problems such as shared databases and tightly coupled services.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/kok-o/koko-contextos-agents/microservices
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kok-o/koko-contextos-agents

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 831 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.
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What it costs to keep this loaded

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Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00166
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00083

Measured 2d ago against content hash 820b2fdc7179, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

microservices 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/microservices.mdc · 159 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 159 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill: Microservices

Microservices

Overview

A brief summary of what the skill does and its core philosophy.

When to Use

Context for when this skill is applicable.

Rules & Patterns

Microservices — Architecture Guide

When to Use Microservices

Use when:

  • Team > 10 engineers working on the same product
  • Independent deployment of components is critical
  • Different components have different scaling needs
  • Different components need different tech stacks

Don't use when:

  • Small team (< 5 engineers)
  • MVP or prototype
  • No operational expertise (monitoring, tracing, deployment)
  • Tight coupling between components

Core Principles

1. Single Responsibility

Each service does ONE thing well.

2. Own Your Data

Each service has its own database. No shared databases.

3. API Contracts

Services communicate through well-defined APIs. Internal implementation is hidden.

4. Autonomous Deployment

Each service can be deployed independently.

Communication Patterns

Synchronous (REST/gRPC)

  • When: Request needs immediate response
  • Tools: REST (HTTP), gRPC (high-performance)
  • Risk: Cascading failures, latency accumulation

Asynchronous (Events/Messages)

  • When: Eventual consistency is acceptable
  • Tools: Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis Streams, AWS SQS
  • Benefit: Loose coupling, resilience

Saga Pattern (Distributed Transactions)

Order Service → Payment Service → Inventory Service → Shipping Service
      ↓ (failure)
Compensating transactions reverse each step

CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation)

Separate read and write models:

Command (Write) → Write Model → Event Store → Projections → Read Model → Query (Read)

When: Read patterns differ significantly from write patterns.

Event Sourcing

Store events, not state:

UserCreated → EmailUpdated → RoleChanged → PasswordReset

Current state = replay all events. Full audit trail.

Read the full file on GitHub · 159 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 · 159 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 820b2fdc7179

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microservices is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository kok-o/koko-contextos-agents (2 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 831 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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