fastapi

A set of guidelines for building FastAPI web APIs in Python, including how to define routes, validate data, and organize code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or reviewing FastAPI endpoints, request and response models, route groups, dependency injection, or background tasks.
Why use it?
It helps keep API code consistent and reduces common mistakes in request handling, responses, authentication, and background work.

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/rm2thaddeus/pixel_detective/fastapi
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rm2thaddeus/Pixel_Detective

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 174 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 $0.00174
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00087
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00035
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00017

Measured yesterday against content hash f07caf4ca23f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fastapi 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.

.cursor/rules/fastapi.mdc · 23 lines

What it actually says


description: This rule explains FastAPI conventions and best practices for high-performance Python APIs. globs: **/*.py alwaysApply: false

FastAPI rules

  • Use type hints for all function parameters and return values
  • Use Pydantic models for request and response validation
  • Use appropriate HTTP methods with path operation decorators (@app.get, @app.post, etc.)
  • Use dependency injection for shared logic like database connections and authentication
  • Use background tasks for non-blocking operations
  • Use proper status codes for responses (201 for creation, 404 for not found, etc.)
  • Use APIRouter for organizing routes by feature or resource
  • Use path parameters, query parameters, and request bodies appropriately
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 · 23 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A f07caf4ca23f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

fastapi is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository rm2thaddeus/Pixel_Detective (21 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 174 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.