dto-conventions

dto-conventions is a cursor rule for Cursor from paulpham157/paul-s-cursor-rules. It costs 0 tokens per session (77 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Rules for Java data-transfer objects, or DTOs: small objects used to carry data between parts of an application. They require records and validation of incoming values such as missing or blank fields.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when defining request and response data for Spring Boot controllers and services.
Why use it?
They define a consistent boundary for application data and catch invalid input before it reaches deeper parts of the system.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: a Cursor rule (.mdc).

Good fit Use them when defining request and response data for Spring Boot controllers and services.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/paulpham157/paul-s-cursor-rules/dto-conventions
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/paulpham157/paul-s-cursor-rules

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 77 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 $0.00077
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00039
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00015
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00008

Measured 5d ago against content hash 5b37cd8dbe73, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dto-conventions 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 5d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

1/framework_rules/rules/java-springboot-jpa-cursorrules-prompt-file/dto-conventions.mdc · 6 lines

What it actually says


description: Sets standards for Data Transfer Objects (DTOs), typically records, including parameter validation in compact canonical constructors. globs: **/src/main/java/com/example/dtos/*.java

  • Must be of type record, unless specified in a prompt otherwise.
  • Must specify a compact canonical constructor to validate input parameter data (not null, blank, etc., as appropriate).
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. 5d ago First seen · 6 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A 5b37cd8dbe73

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dto-conventions is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository paulpham157/paul-s-cursor-rules (27 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 77 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 2026-09-03.