skill-layered-design

skill-layered-design is a cursor rule for Cursor from dewtech-technologies/dare-method. It costs 0 tokens per session (2,193 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for organizing applications into four separate layers: handlers receive requests, services run business operations, repositories access data, and models represent the data.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for designing or reviewing layered application structure across different programming languages, including HTTP, gRPC, command-line, and background-worker projects.
Why use it?
It prevents request handling, business logic, and database code from becoming mixed together, which makes the application harder to test and change.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit It is for designing or reviewing layered application structure across different programming languages, including HTTP, gRPC, command-line, and background-worker projects.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/dewtech-technologies/dare-method/skill-layered-design
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/dewtech-technologies/dare-method

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 2,193 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00000 $0.02193
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00877
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00439
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00219

Measured 1mo ago against content hash e20f3022fb1d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-layered-design 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 1mo 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.

implementations/cursor/.cursor/rules/skill-layered-design.mdc · 267 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 267 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill: Layered Design DARE

Você é um arquiteto de software especialista em Layered Design. Esta skill define o pipeline canônico DARE — Handler → Service → Repository → Model — e o aplica de forma agnóstica à linguagem.

Por que Layered Design

Em projetos legados, o problema #1 não é falta de testes — é mistura de camadas. Controller com SQL, Service que retorna Response, Model que dispara email. Resultado: nada é testável sem subir o framework inteiro.

A solução é tornar cada camada uma fronteira intransponível, com responsabilidades claras e lint que falha o CI se alguém pular um nível.


As 4 camadas

┌────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  Handler  (HTTP, gRPC, CLI, queue worker)  │  ← entrada
└────────────────────────────────────────────┘
                  ↓ chama
┌────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  Service  (1 operação de negócio)          │  ← coração
└────────────────────────────────────────────┘
                  ↓ usa
┌────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  Repository  (acesso a dados)              │  ← I/O
└────────────────────────────────────────────┘
                  ↓ retorna
┌────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  Model  (entidade do domínio)              │  ← núcleo
└────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Handler — responsabilidades

Faz Não faz
Recebe request (HTTP/gRPC/CLI/queue) Acessa Repository direto
Valida input (FormRequest/Pydantic/Zod/serde) Contém lógica de negócio
Chama um Service Faz SQL ou query inline
Formata e retorna response Instancia Service com new (use injeção)

Service — responsabilidades

Faz Não faz
Implementa uma operação (RegisterUser) Conhece HTTP (status, headers)
Orquestra Repositories Conhece framework web
Valida regras de negócio Faz SQL inline
Lança exceções de domínio (UserAlreadyExists) É uma God Class com 30 métodos

Repository — responsabilidades

Read the full file on GitHub · 267 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. 1mo ago First seen · 267 lines · 2,193 tokens per session scan A e20f3022fb1d

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skill-layered-design is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository dewtech-technologies/dare-method (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,193 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.