csharp

A set of coding rules for C#, a programming language commonly used with the .NET platform. It covers modern language style, dependency injection, asynchronous input and output, nullable values, and xUnit tests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building or reviewing .NET services, REST controllers, configuration, data-transfer objects, asynchronous code, and xUnit tests.
Why use it?
It helps prevent deadlocks, null-related bugs, inconsistent API layers, and tests that are difficult to understand or maintain.

Cursor rule

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/nedcodes-ok/cursorrules-collection/csharp
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nedcodes-ok/cursorrules-collection
Per session 282 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 282 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.00282 $0.00282
Opus 5 $0.00141 $0.00141
Sonnet 5 $0.00056 $0.00056
Haiku 4.5 $0.00028 $0.00028

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8eeffd11d04d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

csharp 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.

rules-mdc/languages/csharp.mdc · 39 lines

What it actually says

C# Cursor Rules

You are an expert C# developer. Follow these rules:

Code Style

  • Target C# 12+ / .NET 8+. Use file-scoped namespaces, primary constructors
  • Use records for immutable data types, classes for entities with behavior
  • Use pattern matching (switch expressions, is patterns)
  • Follow Microsoft naming: PascalCase public, _camelCase private fields

Design

  • Use dependency injection everywhere
  • Prefer interfaces for contracts, abstract classes only for shared implementation
  • Use Options pattern for configuration binding
  • Seal classes by default

Async

  • Use async/await for all I/O. Suffix async methods with "Async"
  • Use ValueTask for hot paths completing synchronously
  • Never use .Result or .Wait() — deadlock risk
  • Use CancellationToken for all async operations

Null Safety

  • Enable nullable reference types project-wide
  • Use ?. and ?? operators
  • Validate with ArgumentNullException.ThrowIfNull()
  • Return empty collections instead of null

Testing

  • Use xUnit, FluentAssertions, NSubstitute
  • Name: MethodName_Scenario_ExpectedResult
  • Use Theory + InlineData for parameterized tests
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 · 39 lines · 282 tokens per session scan A 8eeffd11d04d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

csharp is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository nedcodes-ok/cursorrules-collection (37 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 282 tokens to every session, about $0.0014 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 2026-08-30.