architecture

A set of required architecture and coding rules for a Go codebase. It covers testing, formatting, error messages, file size, and documentation for packages and exported code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it as a checklist when adding or changing Go code, writing tests, adding dependencies, formatting files, or documenting packages and exported functions, types, and variables.
Why use it?
It gives developers shared standards for keeping the code tested, understandable, and consistent. It also prevents common problems such as flaky tests, lost error context, and undocumented public code.

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/giantswarm/mcp-debug/architecture
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/giantswarm/mcp-debug

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 333 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 333 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 $0.00333 $0.00333
Opus 5 $0.00167 $0.00167
Sonnet 5 $0.00067 $0.00067
Haiku 4.5 $0.00033 $0.00033

Measured yesterday against content hash 78621394bccc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.cursor/rules/architecture.mdc · 37 lines

What it actually says

Architecture Principles

This document outlines the fundamental architectural principles and patterns for the mcp-debug codebase. Adherence to these guidelines is mandatory to maintain a clean, decoupled, and testable system.


1. Testing Standards

  • Minimum Coverage: All new code MUST achieve at least 80% unit test coverage.
  • No Flaky Tests: Tests MUST be deterministic. Do not use time.Sleep or other mechanisms that can lead to race conditions. Use dependency injection for things like clocks or timers to make code testable.

2. Go Development & Style

  • Formatting: Before every commit, run:
    goimports -w .
    go fmt ./...
    
  • Dependencies: Before adding a new dependency with go get, search the web to find its latest stable version. This is a must!
  • Error Handling: Wrap errors with fmt.Errorf("context: %w", err) to preserve context.
  • File Size: Keep files focused and under 500 lines. Refactor larger files.

3. Documentation

  • Packages: Every package MUST have a doc.go file explaining its purpose.
  • Exported Members: Every exported function, type, and variable MUST have a GoDoc comment.
  • Project Docs: New features or significant changes require updates to the relevant documents in the docs/ directory.
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. yesterday First seen · 37 lines · 333 tokens per session scan A 78621394bccc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

architecture is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository giantswarm/mcp-debug (37 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 333 tokens to every session, about $0.0017 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 2026-08-30.