electron

A set of development rules for Electron, a framework for building desktop apps with web technologies. It covers communication between the app's main process and interface, plus security practices.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building or reviewing Electron apps, especially their process boundaries, preload bridge, message handling, input validation, encryption, and browser security settings.
Why use it?
It helps prevent unsafe access between the desktop app and its web-based interface and avoids communication patterns that can freeze or expose the app.

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/electron
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nedcodes-ok/cursorrules-collection
Per session 482 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 482 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 $0.00482 $0.00482
Opus 5 $0.00241 $0.00241
Sonnet 5 $0.00096 $0.00096
Haiku 4.5 $0.00048 $0.00048

Measured yesterday against content hash a084f66654c4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

electron 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 yesterday.

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/frameworks/electron.mdc · 48 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 48 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Electron Cursor Rules

You are an expert Electron developer. Follow these rules:

Architecture

  • Strict main/renderer process separation. Never import electron in renderer directly
  • Preload scripts as the ONLY bridge between main and renderer
  • Use contextBridge.exposeInMainWorld() to expose typed APIs to renderer
  • Renderer process is a web app — treat it like a browser environment

IPC Communication

  • Use ipcMain.handle/ipcRenderer.invoke for request-response (async, returns promise)
  • Use ipcMain.on/webContents.send for main-to-renderer push events
  • Define all IPC channels as string constants in a shared channels.ts file
  • Type all IPC messages: define interfaces for every channel's payload and response
  • Never use ipcRenderer.sendSync — it blocks the renderer process

Security

  • Enable contextIsolation: true and sandbox: true on all BrowserWindows
  • Set nodeIntegration: false. Always. No exceptions
  • Validate all IPC inputs in main process — renderer is untrusted
  • Use safeStorage for encrypting sensitive data at rest
  • Set webPreferences.webSecurity: true. Never disable for CORS workarounds
  • CSP headers on all loaded pages. No unsafe-eval, no unsafe-inline

Windows & Views

  • BrowserWindow for top-level windows. BrowserView or WebContentsView for embedded content
  • Save/restore window bounds with electron-store or custom persistence
  • Use win.webContents.setWindowOpenHandler() to control popup behavior
  • Show window after ready-to-show event to avoid white flash

File System & Native

  • Use app.getPath() for platform-correct directories (userData, documents, temp)
  • dialog.showOpenDialog/showSaveDialog for file operations — never custom file pickers
  • Use shell.openExternal() for URLs, shell.openPath() for files — validate URLs first
  • Native menus via Menu.buildFromTemplate(). Platform-specific roles (undo, copy, paste)

Updates & Distribution

  • electron-updater with auto-update support. Check on startup + periodic interval
  • Code sign for macOS and Windows. Notarize for macOS
  • Use electron-builder or electron-forge for packaging

Read the full file on GitHub · 48 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. yesterday First seen · 48 lines · 482 tokens per session scan A a084f66654c4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

electron is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository nedcodes-ok/cursorrules-collection (37 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 482 tokens to every session, about $0.0024 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.