40-vfs-saf-architecture

40-vfs-saf-architecture is a cursor rule for Cursor from MannanSaood/termi. It costs 0 tokens per session (812 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Rules for a virtual file system (VFS), which provides one file interface for different storage backends, and a storage access framework (SAF). They define which operations each backend supports and ensure file actions are checked before they run.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when changing the capability, provider, or service layers of the file system code.
Why use it?
They prevent unsupported file operations and keep capability checks separate from backend-specific file handling.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit Use them when changing the capability, provider, or service layers of the file system code.

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Made for: Cursor.

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40-vfs-saf-architecture 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 9d ago.

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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/40-vfs-saf-architecture.mdc · 70 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 70 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

VFS / SAF Capability System

This is the actual product differentiator (see docs/PHASE1_STATUS.md and the project's strategic report) — treat changes here with more care than elsewhere in the codebase.

The three-layer design

  1. capabilities.rs answers "is operation X supported on filesystem type Y, and why/why not" as pure data — no I/O, no provider awareness.
  2. provider.rs answers "how do I actually perform operation X" for a specific backend. Its trait defaults assume an operation is unsupported unless a provider explicitly overrides it — this means a new provider gets correct capability-blocking behavior for free just by NOT implementing methods it can't support, rather than needing to duplicate logic already captured in capabilities.rs.
  3. service.rs is what actually enforces layer 1 against layer 2: VfsService checks the capability before calling the provider method, and translates the outcome into a VfsOutcome carrying a user-facing hint string. Any code path that touches a file must go through VfsService, not directly through a FsProvider implementation — if you find yourself calling provider.chmod() directly from anywhere outside service.rs, that's a bug: the capability check gets bypassed.

The VfsOutcome contract

  • Ok(T) — succeeded cleanly, no caveats.
  • Blocked { operation, reason, hint } — not attempted; capability check failed. hint should be Some(...) for anything a user could plausibly fix (move to internal storage, re-grant permission) and None only for genuine hard failures.
  • Degraded { value, caveat } — attempted AND succeeded, but with a caveat worth surfacing (e.g. non-atomic rename on SAF). Never collapse this into Blocked — the operation worked; lying about that would be worse than not warning at all.

When adding a new operation to VfsService, decide up front which of these three outcomes each supported filesystem type produces, and write a test for each case — see vfs/service.rs's test module for the pattern (one test per outcome type, per relevant provider).

Read the full file on GitHub · 70 lines

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  1. 9d ago First seen · 70 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 1f70b9905859

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40-vfs-saf-architecture is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository MannanSaood/termi (8 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 812 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.