architecture

A project architecture reference for recording how the software and cloud systems are organised at high, middle and detailed levels.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to understand system structure, guide architecture decisions, plan changes, and keep related technical documents updated.
Why use it?
It gives coding agents and developers one place to check before making architecture decisions or plans, while recording important changes over time.

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/fbrbovic/cursor-rule-framework/architecture
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fbrbovic/cursor-rule-framework

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 17 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,233 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00017 $0.01233
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00616
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00247
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00123

Measured 2d ago against content hash f7e40c3696b6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

architecture scanned grade C with 1 finding 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.

Hidden instructionshighPrompt injection

Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.

<!-- AI/User: Update this section with overall system design -->
.cursor/rules/architecture.mdc · 192 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 192 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Instructions This rule contains comprehensive overview of our Architecture.

You are always to refer to this file when making any Architectual Decisions or building, tracking and making any plans. You are always to keep expanding this and any referred sub documents with any relevent information or plans about any levels of our architecture.

Contains sections of various high level overviews of our architecture, each section might contain a reference to additional detailed doc, if it's there super important to always refer to it.

Architecture Documentation

AI & User Collaboration Protocol

Update Guidelines

  • AI Updates: AI should update this file during CONSTRUCT phase when implementing architectural changes
  • User Updates: Users can update this file directly when making architectural decisions
  • Conflict Resolution: Latest timestamp wins; conflicts should be noted in changelog
  • Version Tracking: All major changes should be logged with date and reason

Change Protocol

## Architecture Changelog
- [YYYY-MM-DD] [AI/USER] [CHANGE_TYPE] - Brief description
- [YYYY-MM-DD] [AI/USER] [CHANGE_TYPE] - Brief description

High-Level Architecture

System Overview

No architecture defined yet. This will be populated as development progresses.

Key Architectural Principles:

  • Modular design with clear separation of concerns
  • Scalable and maintainable codebase
  • Security-first approach
  • Performance optimization
  • Code reusability and DRY principles

Technology Stack

Technology stack will be documented here based on project-config.mdc and actual implementation choices.

Deployment Architecture

Deployment architecture will be defined here as infrastructure decisions are made.

Read the full file on GitHub · 192 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 · 192 lines · 17 tokens per session scan C f7e40c3696b6

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architecture is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository fbrbovic/cursor-rule-framework (33 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 1,233 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (hidden instructions). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.