protocol-buffer-definitions-rule

protocol-buffer-definitions-rule is a cursor rule for coding agents from paulpham157/paul-s-cursor-rules. It costs 0 tokens per session (64 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A rule for writing Protocol Buffer definitions, which describe the messages and services used by systems such as gRPC.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps define .proto messages and services and prepare them for Go code generation.
Why use it?
Clear types, names, and Go package settings help generated code work consistently across services.

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/paulpham157/paul-s-cursor-rules/protocol-buffer-definitions-rule
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/paulpham157/paul-s-cursor-rules

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README.md
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Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 64 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 $0.00064
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00032
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00013
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00006

Measured yesterday against content hash 09c990007db0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

protocol-buffer-definitions-rule 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

1/framework_rules/rules/go-backend-scalability-cursorrules-prompt-file/protocol-buffer-definitions-rule.mdc · 8 lines

What it actually says


description: Rule for handling Protocol Buffer definition files in the project. globs: **/*.proto

When working with .proto files:

  • Define clear and concise messages and services.
  • Use proper data types and naming conventions.
  • Ensure the go_package option is set correctly for Go code generation.
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 · 8 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 09c990007db0

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protocol-buffer-definitions-rule 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 64 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.