spring-boot-exception

spring-boot-exception is a cursor rule for Cursor from lsampaioweb/ai-instructions. It costs 0 tokens per session (616 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for handling exceptions, which are signals that a program operation failed, in Spring Boot APIs. It defines one central process for turning failures into consistent error responses.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating domain exceptions, global handlers, error response objects, or API behavior for failed requests.
Why use it?
It prevents each controller from formatting errors differently and keeps internal failure details from leaking into API responses. A stable response shape is easier for client programs to process.

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/lsampaioweb/ai-instructions/spring-boot-exception
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lsampaioweb/ai-instructions

Made for: Cursor.

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README.md
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Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 616 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 $0.00000 $0.00616
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00308
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00123
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00062

Measured 3d ago against content hash 85bb0e9dabbf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spring-boot-exception 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 3d 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/spring-boot-exception.mdc · 34 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 34 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Spring Boot Exception Engine

Naming Conventions

  • Name domain exception classes with the *Exception suffix (e.g., HolidayNotFoundException, DuplicateHolidayException).
  • Name exception handler classes with the *ExceptionHandler suffix (e.g., HolidayExceptionHandler).
  • Name global advice classes with the *Advice suffix or *ControllerAdvice suffix (e.g., GlobalControllerAdvice, ApiExceptionAdvice).
  • Use domain-specific exception names (never AppException or CustomException).

Rules

  • Use centralized exception handling for all API error responses.
  • Annotate global REST exception handling classes with @RestControllerAdvice, not @ControllerAdvice.
  • Define a stable error response DTO with at minimum timestamp, status (HTTP status code), error (brief reason phrase), message (user-facing i18n text), and path (request URI) as required fields.
  • Place feature-specific exception classes in the owning feature package.
  • Place module-global @RestControllerAdvice / @ControllerAdvice and shared error-envelope DTOs in shared (not under shared.exception); place other exception-related types in shared only when two or more features share the same semantic contract.
  • Extend all domain exceptions from a common base exception class (e.g., DomainException) to enable a shared base @ExceptionHandler and consistent HTTP status derivation.
  • Declare the base domain exception class as abstract.
  • Embed HttpStatus and an i18n message key in the base exception constructor; resolve the message in the handler via MessageSource.
  • Map not-found failures to HTTP 404, invalid-input failures to HTTP 400, conflict failures to HTTP 409, and forbidden failures to HTTP 403.
  • Add a single @ExceptionHandler for the base exception type that reads ex.getStatus() and resolves the user-facing message via MessageSource.
  • Add @ExceptionHandler(NoResourceFoundException.class) in the global advice to return a structured 404 error response for unmapped routes.
  • Keep validation-error handling distinct from domain-error handling.
  • When validation failures return a different payload shape than the domain-error envelope (e.g., List<ValidationError>), document the intentional divergence in handler-level notes or API documentation.
  • Control stack trace inclusion in ErrorResponse via the server.error.include-stacktrace configuration property.

Read the full file on GitHub · 34 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. 3d ago First seen · 34 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 85bb0e9dabbf

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spring-boot-exception is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository lsampaioweb/ai-instructions (1 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 616 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.