architecture

A software structure for keeping shared file-management code separate from operating-system-specific code. It uses adapters so macOS and Windows can handle their own file-system differences while sharing one interface and user interface.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building a file manager that runs on multiple operating systems. It guides where to put file operations, search, file watching, trash or recycle-bin handling, and the user interface.
Why use it?
It prevents operating-system details from spreading through the whole application. This makes shared features easier to change and reduces the risk that a macOS fix breaks Windows behavior.

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/arxdsilva/vault/architecture
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/arxdsilva/vault

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 20 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 563 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 $0.00020 $0.00563
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00282
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00113
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00056

Measured 2d ago against content hash bd6c6d655023, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

architecture 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 2d 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.

.cursor/rules/architecture.mdc · 44 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 44 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Architecture

Vault targets multiple operating systems (macOS + Windows, at minimum) with a single shared UI. Stack: Wails v3 (Go backend + native webview) + React/TypeScript/Tailwind frontend. Full design spec: docs/SPEC.md.

main.go                    ← Wails app entry: window, theming, service registration
internal/core/             ← platform-neutral: dir listing, metadata, search/frecency index,
                              file ops (copy/move/rename), trash interface — no OS-specific APIs
        ▲
        │  a narrow, platform-neutral interface (paths, entries, watch events, operations)
        │
internal/platform/darwin/  ← macOS adapter: Trash, FSEvents watcher, path/permission quirks
internal/platform/windows/ ← Windows adapter: Recycle Bin, ReadDirectoryChangesW watcher, path quirks
internal/service/          ← thin Wails-bound service structs exposed to the frontend; call only
                              into internal/core, never straight into a platform adapter
frontend/                  ← React + TypeScript + Tailwind UI; talks only to internal/service
                              via generated Wails bindings

Rules

Do Don't
Keep file-system logic (list, search, sort, copy/move/delete) behind a small interface Scatter OS-specific calls (FSEvents, ReadDirectoryChangesW, etc.) through the UI layer
Put OS-specific behavior (trash vs. recycle bin, path separators, case sensitivity, hidden-file conventions) in one adapter per OS Special-case the OS inline across unrelated files with if runtime.GOOS == ...-style checks
Route destructive operations (delete, overwrite, move across volumes) through one reviewable code path Duplicate delete/move logic per call site
Design the core interface so a new platform adapter can be added without touching the UI Leak a platform adapter's types into shared UI code

Adding a feature (checklist)

  1. Failing unit test (TDD) — see unit-tests-tdd.mdc.
  2. Core — implement in the platform-neutral core; no OS-specific APIs here.
  3. Adapter — if the feature needs OS-specific behavior, add/extend the adapter for that OS only.
  4. UI — wire the UI to the core interface, not to the adapter directly.
  5. Other platforms — confirm the feature degrades sensibly (or is stubbed clearly) on OSes without an adapter yet.

Read the full file on GitHub · 44 lines

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. 2d ago First seen · 44 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A bd6c6d655023

Subscribe to this mod's changes

architecture is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository arxdsilva/vault (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 563 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. 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 2026-08-31.