standard-cli-use-case-structure

A rule set for structuring command-line application use cases with separate domain contracts and application logic. It defines where interfaces, command and response types, business errors, and implementations belong.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding or reviewing CLI use cases, defining their inputs and responses, creating domain errors, or organizing application and domain files.
Why use it?
It keeps business operations separate from terminal output and gives callers clear, reusable error types to handle.

Cursor rule for 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/packmindhub/packmind/standard-cli-use-case-structure
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PackmindHub/packmind

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 291 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 $0.00000 $0.00291
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00146
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00058
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00029

Measured 2d ago against content hash 764506a929e1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

standard-cli-use-case-structure 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.

apps/cli/.cursor/rules/packmind/standard-cli-use-case-structure.mdc · 19 lines

What it actually says

Standard: CLI Use Case Structure

Enforce clean separation between domain contracts and application logic in apps/cli use cases, ensuring use cases focus purely on business operations without presentation concerns like user output or ... :

  • Base all use case interfaces on IPublicUseCase<Command, Response> from @packmind/types
  • Create new error classes for domain-specific failure scenarios when existing errors do not apply
  • Define Command and Response types in the same file as the use case interface
  • Define use case interfaces in src/domain/useCases/ directory
  • Document the errors that a use case can throw so handlers know which error types to catch
  • Export error classes from individual files in src/domain/errors/ for reusability across use cases
  • Implement use cases in src/application/useCases/ directory
  • Keep use cases focused on business logic without any user output (no console logging, no outputError/outputSuccess calls)
  • Name error classes descriptively to indicate the specific failure condition (e.g., PackageNotFoundError, AccessDenied, InvalidStandardFormat)
  • Throw custom domain errors defined in src/domain/errors/ instead of generic Error instances

Full standard is available here for further request: CLI Use Case Structure

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 · 19 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 764506a929e1

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standard-cli-use-case-structure is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository PackmindHub/packmind (306 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 291 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.