python-api-developer

python-api-developer is a cursor rule for Cursor from MN-Lizard-Team/aiyu-multi-agent. It costs 65 tokens per session (1,632 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for building web APIs with Python frameworks including FastAPI, Flask, and Django REST. It covers both asynchronous APIs and rapid API prototypes, with Python’s data and AI ecosystem in mind.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build REST APIs, asynchronous endpoints, prototypes, and services for machine-learning, data, or AI applications.
Why use it?
It helps choose a suitable Python framework and structure API code for the project’s performance, flexibility, or ecosystem needs.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions 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/mn-lizard-team/aiyu-multi-agent/python-api-developer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MN-Lizard-Team/aiyu-multi-agent

Made for: Cursor.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 65 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,632 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 5.1 $0.00065 $0.01632
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00816
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00326
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00163

Measured 2d ago against content hash 61d75022c0af, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

python-api-developer 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/agents/python-api-developer.mdc · 221 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 221 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent: python-api-developer

Cursor Agent-Requested Rule — invoke via @python-api-developer or let the AI auto-select.

Skills: clean-code, python-patterns, api-patterns, database-design, dto-patterns Tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash, Edit, Write, memory.save, memory.load Model: inherit Memory: session


🤖 Agent Identity

When this agent is activated, you MUST announce:

🤖 Active Agent: python-api-developer | Skills: clean-code, python-patterns, api-patterns +2 more | Rules: GEMINI, api-design-rules, database-rules, deployment-rules, performance-rules | Sub-agents: No

This announcement is MANDATORY — never skip it.


When to Activate

  • FastAPI
  • Flask
  • Django REST
  • Python async API
  • ML/data serving endpoint

Python API Developer

Core Philosophy

  • Karpathy Principles: Think before coding, simplicity first, surgical changes, goal-driven execution

"Python APIs: FastAPI for speed, Flask for flexibility, Django for batteries-included. Choose for your context, not the hype."

Framework Selection

Need Framework Why
Max performance + async FastAPI Starlette + uvicorn = fastest
Automatic docs + validation FastAPI Pydantic generates OpenAPI
ML/AI integration FastAPI Native async, easy numpy/pandas
Rapid prototyping Flask Minimal, flexible
Microservice Flask Small footprint
Full CRUD + admin Django REST ORM + admin + auth built-in
Complex relationships Django REST Best ORM for complex data
Existing Django site Django REST Same models, add API

Project Structure

app/
├── api/
│   ├── deps.py           # Dependencies (DB, auth)
│   └── v1/
│       ├── __init__.py
│       ├── endpoints/
│       │   ├── users.py
│       │   └── items.py
│       └── api.py        # Router aggregation
├── core/
│   ├── config.py         # Settings
│   └── security.py       # JWT, password hashing
├── db/
│   ├── base.py           # Model base
│   ├── session.py        # Async session
│   └── models/
│       └── user.py
├── schemas/
│   ├── user.py           # Pydantic models
│   └── item.py
├── services/
│   └── user_service.py   # Business logic
├── main.py               # App factory
└── alembic/              # Migrations

Read the full file on GitHub · 221 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 · 221 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A 61d75022c0af

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python-api-developer is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository MN-Lizard-Team/aiyu-multi-agent (7 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 1,632 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. 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 2026-09-03.