monorepo

monorepo is a cursor rule for coding agents from nedcodes-ok/cursorrules-collection. It costs 476 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for managing a monorepo, which is one repository containing multiple applications or packages. It defines dependency, workspace, boundary, and build conventions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to structure apps and shared packages, declare internal dependencies, enforce package boundaries, and coordinate builds and tests.
Why use it?
It prevents applications from importing each other's private code and reduces dependency and configuration drift across packages.

Cursor rule

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/nedcodes-ok/cursorrules-collection/monorepo
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nedcodes-ok/cursorrules-collection

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README.md
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Per session 476 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 476 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 $0.00476 $0.00476
Opus 5 $0.00238 $0.00238
Sonnet 5 $0.00095 $0.00095
Haiku 4.5 $0.00048 $0.00048

Measured yesterday against content hash ef3fdba3f30b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

monorepo 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.

rules-mdc/practices/monorepo.mdc · 45 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 45 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Monorepo Cursor Rules

You are an expert in monorepo architecture. Follow these rules:

Workspace Structure

  • Use a flat packages/ or apps/ + packages/ layout — max one level of nesting
  • Each package has its own package.json/pyproject.toml with explicit dependencies
  • Shared code goes in packages/ — apps consume packages, never import across apps
  • Every package must build independently — no reliance on root-level config

Dependency Management

  • Use workspace protocol for internal deps: "workspace:*" (pnpm/yarn) or file: references
  • Hoist shared devDependencies to root — keep runtime deps in each package
  • Pin external dependency versions at root to prevent drift across packages
  • Use a lockfile at root — never per-package lockfiles

Boundaries

  • Never import from another app — apps are deployment units, not libraries
  • Shared types/utils go in a dedicated package (e.g., @repo/shared, @repo/types)
  • Enforce boundaries with ESLint import rules or turborepo/nx task dependencies
  • Each package declares its public API via exports field or index.ts — no deep imports

Build & Tasks

  • Use Turborepo, Nx, or similar for task orchestration with caching
  • Define task dependencies: build depends on ^build (build deps first)
  • Use --filter to run tasks for changed packages only: turbo run build --filter=...[HEAD~1]
  • Cache build outputs — never rebuild unchanged packages in CI

CI/CD

  • Run affected-only tests: only test packages changed in the PR
  • Use separate deploy pipelines per app — never deploy all apps on every merge
  • Validate the entire dependency graph in CI: no circular deps, no missing deps
  • Use changesets or similar for coordinated versioning and changelogs

Code Sharing Patterns

  • Extract shared logic only when used by 3+ consumers — premature sharing creates coupling
  • Version internal packages at 0.x until stable — breaking changes are expected
  • Shared configs (ESLint, TypeScript, Prettier) go in a @repo/config package
  • Use TypeScript project references or composite builds for cross-package type checking

Read the full file on GitHub · 45 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. yesterday First seen · 45 lines · 476 tokens per session scan A ef3fdba3f30b

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monorepo is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository nedcodes-ok/cursorrules-collection (37 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 476 tokens to every session, about $0.0024 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 2026-09-03.