A set of rules for deciding where new files and features belong in a project. It describes folders for source code, shared code, tests, documentation, and database changes.

It helps place new components, feature logic, tests, configuration, documentation, and database migrations consistently.

It prevents files from being scattered across the project and makes the codebase easier to navigate.

structure — Cursor rule for Cursor by BOXELS/cursor-rules

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.

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/BOXELS/cursor-rules

Made for: Cursor.

Wrote 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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/boxels/cursor-rules/structure/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/rules/boxels/cursor-rules/structure)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/boxels/cursor-rules/structure"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/boxels/cursor-rules/structure/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/boxels/cursor-rules/structure"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/boxels/cursor-rules/structure.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 984 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 984 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00984	$0.00984
Opus 5	$0.00492	$0.00492
Sonnet 5	$0.00197	$0.00197
Haiku 4.5	$0.00098	$0.00098

Measured yesterday against content hash c8c1f217f625, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-16, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

structure 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/structure.mdc · 62 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 62 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Structure Rules

Project layout

[project-root]/
├── [src or app directory]/
│   ├── [features or modules]/      # Feature-based grouping
│   │   ├── [feature-name]/
│   │   │   ├── [components]/       # Feature-specific components
│   │   │   ├── [hooks or utils]/   # Feature-specific logic
│   │   │   └── [tests]/            # Feature-specific tests
│   ├── [shared or common]/         # Shared utilities, types, constants
│   ├── [components]/               # Shared/global UI components
│   └── [styles or theme]/          # Global styles or theme configuration
├── [api or server directory]/      # API routes, server actions, or backend
├── [public or static]/             # Static assets
├── [config]/                       # Configuration files
├── [tests or __tests__]/           # Global/integration tests
├── [docs]/                          # Agent-facing reference docs (architecture, features)
└── [database or migrations]/       # Database schema and migrations

File placement rules

New features go in [feature directory path, e.g. "src/features/[feature-name]/", "app/(routes)/[feature-name]/"]. Each feature directory contains its own components, hooks, utils, and tests.
Shared components used by 2+ features go in [shared components path, e.g. "src/components/", "src/shared/components/"].
Utility functions go in [utils path, e.g. "src/lib/", "src/utils/", "src/shared/utils/"].
Type definitions go in [types path, e.g. "src/types/", "co-located with the feature that owns them", "src/shared/types/"].
API routes go in [API path, e.g. "app/api/", "src/pages/api/", "server/routes/"].
Database migrations go in [migration path, e.g. "supabase/migrations/", "prisma/migrations/", "alembic/versions/"].
Agent/reference documentation goes in [doc folder, e.g. "docs/"] — see documentation.mdc for naming and the "update docs" trigger.
Test files go [test location, e.g. "next to the file they test with .test.ts suffix", "in a tests/ directory mirroring src/", "in a top-level tests/ directory"].
Configuration files (env, linting, build) stay in the project root.
Cursor rules live in .cursor/rules/ as .mdc files with YAML frontmatter (description, alwaysApply, optional globs). Plain .md files in that folder are ignored by Cursor — never create a rule with a .md extension.
Cursor skills (multi-step, on-demand workflows) live in .cursor/skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md. Use a rule for a short standing instruction; use a skill for a repeatable procedure the agent runs when asked.
AGENTS.md at the project root is a thin pointer for non-Cursor agents. Don't duplicate rule content into it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 62 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.

yesterday First seen · 62 lines · 984 tokens per session scan A c8c1f217f625

Subscribe to this mod's changes

structure is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository BOXELS/cursor-rules (6 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 984 tokens to every session, about $0.0049 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 2026-09-15.

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