spring-boot-async

spring-boot-async is a cursor rule for Cursor from lsampaioweb/ai-instructions. It costs 0 tokens per session (568 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for Spring's @Async feature, which runs selected method calls in a background thread instead of keeping the request thread busy. It covers enabling async work, managed worker methods, and future results.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for adding background job processing or asynchronous event listeners to Spring Boot applications.
Why use it?
It prevents slow or blocking work from delaying a request and avoids common mistakes such as calling an async method from the same class.

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Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit It is for adding background job processing or asynchronous event listeners to Spring Boot applications.

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Made for: Cursor.

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Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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Grade A, and why

spring-boot-async 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 14d ago.

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.cursor/rules/spring-boot-async.mdc · 59 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 59 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Spring Boot Async Contract

Apply this contract when the application uses Spring @Async (background methods or async event listeners). Virtual-thread enablement stays in the virtual-threads contract. Application-event when to listen async stays in the events contract; this file owns @EnableAsync and how @Async methods behave.

Architecture owns feature packages and constructor injection. Controller owns REST boundaries. Logging and i18n own log keys. Exception handling owns API error mapping.

Enablement

  • Add @EnableAsync on the Spring Boot application class when any @Async method or async @EventListener exists.
  • Do not add a custom TaskExecutor bean unless the product needs a named executor beyond Boot's default (virtual-threads contract).

@Async methods

  • Put @Async on Spring-managed beans called through the container proxy (for example a dedicated worker bean). Self-invocation on the same class does not run asynchronously.
  • Prefer @Async for work that should leave the request thread (for example job processing or blocking/latency-sensitive listeners). Keep trivial in-memory reactions synchronous (events contract).
  • Return CompletableFuture (or another CompletionStage) when the caller must observe completion (for example a worker method completed via whenComplete in the service).
  • Do not put @Async on REST controller methods.

Request-scoped async jobs

When HTTP clients submit work that finishes later:

  • Accept the job in the service, start the @Async worker, and return quickly (for example 202 Accepted with a Location to a status resource).
  • Track lifecycle in a feature store (for example queued → running → succeeded/failed).
  • Surface executor rejection as a feature exception (for example TaskRejectedException mapped to a domain submission-rejected exception).
  • Record failures from the completion callback; do not leave jobs stuck in running forever after worker errors.

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spring-boot-async is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository lsampaioweb/ai-instructions (1 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 568 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 2026-10-04.