file-organization

file-organization is a cursor rule for Cursor from elirancv/CursorMD. It costs 1,587 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for keeping project files in their intended folders. It also requires showing file content and asking for approval before creating or editing files, except when the user explicitly asks to save one.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when organizing a project, deciding where documentation or scripts belong, or preparing a new file for user approval.
Why use it?
It helps prevent misplaced files and unwanted changes. The rules make the proposed location and content visible before a write occurs.

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/elirancv/cursormd/file-organization
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/elirancv/CursorMD

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.

agentmods badge for file-organization

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/elirancv/cursormd/file-organization.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/rules/elirancv/cursormd/file-organization)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/elirancv/cursormd/file-organization"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/elirancv/cursormd/file-organization.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 1,587 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,587 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.01587 $0.01587
Opus 5 $0.00794 $0.00794
Sonnet 5 $0.00317 $0.00317
Haiku 4.5 $0.00159 $0.00159

Measured 4d ago against content hash 783de262d5ab, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

file-organization 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 4d 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/file-organization.mdc · 201 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 201 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

File Organization & Project Structure

Maintain perfect project organization. Never create files in wrong locations.

Critical Rule: Ask Before Writing

ALWAYS ask the user before creating/writing files:

  1. Show summary first - Display the document content in chat
  2. Ask for confirmation - "Should I create this file at [location]?"
  3. Wait for explicit approval - Only write files after user confirms
  4. Respect user's choice - If they say "just show me", don't write files

Exception: Only write files automatically if user explicitly says "create", "write", "save", or "generate file".

File Placement Rules

Root Directory Files (Only These)

Allowed in root:

  • README.md - Project overview
  • PROJECT_EVALUATION.md - Project assessment
  • CONTRIBUTING.md - Contribution guidelines
  • CHANGELOG.md - Version history
  • LICENSE - License file
  • .gitignore - Git ignore rules
  • .cursorrules - Cursor rules (legacy)
  • Configuration files (.env.example, package.json, etc.)

NEVER create in root:

  • ❌ Scripts (use scripts/ directory)
  • ❌ Tools or utilities (use scripts/ or tools/ directory)
  • ❌ Documentation files (except README.md, PROJECT_EVALUATION.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, CHANGELOG.md)
  • ❌ Architecture documents
  • ❌ Technical specs
  • ❌ Any other .md files (except allowed ones above)

Documentation Directory Structure

Standard structure:

project-root/
├── README.md                    # ✅ Root (allowed)
├── PROJECT_EVALUATION.md        # ✅ Root (allowed)
├── CONTRIBUTING.md              # ✅ Root (allowed)
├── docs/                        # ✅ All other docs go here
│   ├── ARCHITECTURE_OVERVIEW.md
│   ├── PRD_MVP.md
│   ├── TECH_SPEC_MVP.md
│   ├── VISION.md
│   └── ... (all other docs)
└── ... (other project files)

Document Type → Location Mapping

Document Type Location Notes
README.md Root ✅ Always root
PROJECT_EVALUATION.md Root ✅ Always root
CONTRIBUTING.md Root ✅ Always root
VISION.md docs/ ✅ docs/
PRD_*.md docs/ ✅ docs/
ARCHITECTURE_*.md docs/ ✅ docs/
TECH_SPEC_*.md docs/ ✅ docs/
PIPELINE_*.md docs/ ✅ docs/
All other docs docs/ ✅ docs/

Read the full file on GitHub · 201 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. 4d ago First seen · 201 lines · 1,587 tokens per session scan A 783de262d5ab

Subscribe to this mod's changes

file-organization is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository elirancv/CursorMD (1 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,587 tokens to every session, about $0.0079 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.

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