horse-patterns

horse-patterns is a cursor rule for Cursor from SecondLifes/delphi-expert. It costs 0 tokens per session (401 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for building REST APIs with the Horse Delphi framework, including routes, controllers, services, middleware, and JSON responses. A REST API lets software exchange data over standard web requests such as GET and POST.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating Horse API routes, controller handlers, service calls, middleware, HTTP status responses, or JSON request and response handling.
Why use it?
It keeps database access out of controllers and standardizes success, validation, not-found, deletion, JSON, cross-origin, and error responses.

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/secondlifes/delphi-expert/horse-patterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SecondLifes/delphi-expert

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 401 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 $0.00401
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00200
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00080
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00040

Measured yesterday against content hash cc7cf16a7a55, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

horse-patterns 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/horse-patterns.mdc · 58 lines

What it actually says

Horse Framework — Rules

Use these rules when developing REST APIs with the Horse framework.

Controller Structure

  • Controller is a class with class procedure RegisterRoutes
  • Cada handler: class procedure Nome(AReq: THorseRequest; ARes: THorseResponse; ANext: TProc)
  • Controllers DO NOT access the database directly — they delegate it to Services

Route Conventions

verb Route handlers Status
GET /api/customers GetAll 200
GET /api/customers/:id GetById 200 / 404
POST /api/customers Create 201
PUT /api/customers/:id Update 200
DELETE /api/customers/:id Delete 204

Mandatory Middleware

THorse.Use(Jhonson);           //Automatic JSON
THorse.Use(CORS);              //Cross-Origin
THorse.Use(HandleException);   // Error handler global

Response Patterns

//Success with JSON
ARes.Send<TJSONObject>(LResult).Status(THTTPStatus.OK);

//Creation
ARes.Send('Created').Status(THTTPStatus.Created);

//Not found
ARes.Send('Not found').Status(THTTPStatus.NotFound);

//Validation error
ARes.Send(E.Message).Status(THTTPStatus.BadRequest);

Bans on Horse

  • ❌ Access TFDConnection directly from the controller
  • ❌ Business logic in the handler
  • ❌ Routes without error handling
  • ❌ Concatenate SQL in the controller
  • ❌ Ignore HTTP status
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 · 58 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A cc7cf16a7a55

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horse-patterns is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository SecondLifes/delphi-expert (3 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 401 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.