path-safety

path-safety is a cursor rule for Cursor from microsoft/data-formulator. It costs 0 tokens per session (539 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Chinese-language rules for safely handling user-controlled file paths, including paths used by routes, agents, loaders, workspaces, and knowledge bases. They require using ConfinedDir, a utility that restricts access to an approved directory.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it whenever code reads, writes, uploads, downloads, or resolves a filesystem path that a user can influence.
Why use it?
It prevents path traversal, where crafted input could access files outside the intended directory.

Cursor rule for Cursor ✓ vendor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit Use it whenever code reads, writes, uploads, downloads, or resolves a filesystem path that a user can influence.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/microsoft/data-formulator/path-safety
About the project

Data Formulator is an interactive workspace where AI agents connect to data sources, answer questions, and create visualizations. It is used to explore and analyze data while branching into related questions without losing the context of each investigative path.

microsoft/data-formulator · 17,610 stars · on GitHub · data-formulator.ai

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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/data-formulator

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 539 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00000 $0.00539
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00216
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00108
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00054

Measured 1mo ago against content hash f16800ed907d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

path-safety 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 1mo 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/path-safety.mdc · 70 lines

What it actually says

路径安全编码规范

编辑此目录下的文件时,请遵守以下安全规则(详见 docs/dev-guides/8-path-safety.md 和 .cursor/skills/path-safety/SKILL.md):

ConfinedDir 是唯一的路径约束原语

所有接受用户可控路径的代码,必须通过 ConfinedDir 实例访问文件系统。

from data_formulator.security.path_safety import ConfinedDir

jail = ConfinedDir(root_dir, mkdir=False)
try:
    target = jail.resolve(user_input)
except ValueError:
    return {"error": "Access denied"}

禁止的模式

# ❌ BAD — 裸路径拼接
target = Path(root) / user_input

# ❌ BAD — 手写 resolve + relative_to(已弃用,必须用 ConfinedDir)
target = (root / user_input).resolve()
try:
    target.relative_to(root)
except ValueError: ...

# ❌ BAD — 手写 is_relative_to(已弃用,必须用 ConfinedDir)
resolved = (root / user_input).resolve()
if not resolved.is_relative_to(root.resolve()): ...

# ❌ BAD — 路径比较用 str.startswith
if str(target).startswith(str(root)): ...

正确的模式

# ✅ GOOD — Agent 工具
workspace_jail = self.workspace.confined_root
scratch_jail = self.workspace.confined_scratch
target = workspace_jail.resolve(rel_path)

# ✅ GOOD — 文件下载 route
scratch_jail = workspace.confined_scratch
target = scratch_jail.resolve(filename)
return send_file(target)

# ✅ GOOD — 文件上传(两层防御)
safe_name = secure_filename(raw_filename)
target = scratch_jail.resolve(safe_name)

# ✅ GOOD — Workspace data 文件
path = workspace.get_file_path(filename)  # 内部使用 ConfinedDir

部署守卫

  • 新增读取宿主文件系统的 Loader 必须在 _enforce_deployment_restrictions() 注册多用户禁用
  • 多用户模式(WORKSPACE_BACKEND != "local")必须启用沙箱
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. 1mo ago First seen · 70 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A f16800ed907d

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path-safety is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository microsoft/data-formulator (17,610 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 539 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 2026-08-30.