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.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/toptalentcoder/Cursor-AwesomeRulesWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/rules/toptalentcoder/cursor-awesomerules/go-api-security-and-best-practices)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/toptalentcoder/cursor-awesomerules/go-api-security-and-best-practices"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/toptalentcoder/cursor-awesomerules/go-api-security-and-best-practices.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00000 | $0.00134 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00067 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00027 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00013 |
Grade A, and why
go-api-security-and-best-practices 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 3d 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.
This is a copy
100% identical to go-api-security-and-best-practices — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
What it actually says
- Implement input validation for API endpoints.
- Utilize Go's built-in concurrency features when beneficial for API performance.
- Follow RESTful API design principles and best practices.
- Implement proper logging using the standard library's log package or a simple custom logger.
- Consider implementing middleware for cross-cutting concerns (e.g., logging, authentication).
- Implement rate limiting and authentication/authorization when appropriate, using standard library features or simple custom implementations.
- Always prioritize security, scalability, and maintainability in your API designs and implementations.
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.
- 3d ago First seen · 11 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A f4a05332cda1
go-api-security-and-best-practices is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository toptalentcoder/Cursor-AwesomeRules (6 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed CC0-1.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 134 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to go-api-security-and-best-practices, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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