0-clean-architecture

0-clean-architecture is a cursor rule for Cursor from cmnemoi/cursor-rules. It costs 0 tokens per session (222 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of coding rules for organizing backend systems into four layers: domain, application, infrastructure, and presentation. The rules keep business logic separate from frameworks, databases, files, and HTTP handling.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when structuring backend projects, defining interfaces, separating API code from business logic, and creating test fakes for external systems.
Why use it?
It reduces coupling between business rules and external technologies, making the code easier to test and change. It also gives each layer a defined responsibility and dependency direction.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/cmnemoi/cursor-rules/0-clean-architecture
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cmnemoi/cursor-rules

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 222 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 $0.00222
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00111
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00044
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00022

Measured 3d ago against content hash d21a570b8f3b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

0-clean-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 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.

general-rules/.cursor/rules/00-architecture/0-clean-architecture.mdc · 33 lines

What it actually says

Layer Structure:

  • Separate code by layer: Domain, Application, Infrastructure, Presentation
  • Direct dependencies inward only
  • Keep domain layer framework-agnostic
  • Define interfaces at layer boundaries

Domain Layer:

  • Place business logic and entities here
  • Use pure, framework-free models
  • Declare repository / gateways interfaces only
  • Implement infrastrcture-free domain service for complex business logic

Application Layer:

  • Implement single-responsability Commands and Queries as orchestrator use cases (light CQRS)
  • Use DTOs for all data transfer
  • Validate input at boundaries

Infrastructure Layer:

  • Implement domain repository / gateway interfaces : one for production, one for tests (manually writen fakes)
  • Isolate external systems (DB, APIs, files)
  • Keep infrastructure out of business logic

Presentation Layer:

  • Handle API requests and responses
  • Use controllers for HTTP logic
  • Centralize error handling and validation
  • Format all responses consistently
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. 3d ago First seen · 33 lines · 222 tokens per session scan A d21a570b8f3b

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0-clean-architecture is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository cmnemoi/cursor-rules (2 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 222 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 2026-08-31.