directory-layout

A fixed folder structure that uses numbered names to show software domains, layers, and dependency direction. A domain is a broad area such as SQL, while a layer is a level of responsibility within it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding packages, deciding where files belong, or checking whether one part of a codebase may depend on another.
Why use it?
It makes large repositories easier to navigate and helps prevent code from depending on the wrong part of the system.

Cursor rule for Codex

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/prisma/orm/directory-layout
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/prisma/orm

Made for: Codex.

Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 1,063 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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 $0.00000 $0.01063
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00531
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00213
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00106

Measured 2d ago against content hash acf969f71fb8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

directory-layout 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 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.

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:

.agents/rules/directory-layout.mdc · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Directory Layout — Numbered Prefixes, Domains, Layers, and Planes

The repository uses numbered prefixes in directory names to reflect the architecture hierarchy and dependency direction.

Directory Structure

packages/
  1-framework/           # Domain 1: Framework (target-agnostic)
    1-core/              # Layer 1: Core
      shared/            # Plane: Shared
        contract/
        plan/
        operations/
      migration/         # Plane: Migration
        control-plane/
      runtime/           # Plane: Runtime
        execution-plane/
    2-authoring/         # Layer 2: Authoring
    3-tooling/           # Layer 3: Tooling
    4-runtime-executor/  # Layer 4: Runtime Executor
  2-document/            # Domain 2: Document (placeholder)
  2-sql/                 # Domain 2: SQL family
    1-core/              # Layer 1: Core
    2-authoring/         # Layer 2: Authoring
    3-tooling/           # Layer 3: Tooling
    4-lanes/             # Layer 4: Lanes
    5-runtime/           # Layer 5: Runtime
  3-extensions/          # Domain 3: Extensions
    pgvector/
  3-targets/             # Domain 3: Targets
    3-targets/           # Layer 3: Target descriptors
      postgres/
    6-adapters/          # Layer 6: Adapters
      postgres/
    7-drivers/           # Layer 7: Drivers
      postgres/

Numbered Prefix Rules

  1. Domain numbers: Lower domain numbers can be imported by higher ones

    • Domain 1 (framework) can be imported by domains 2 and 3
    • Domain 2 (sql, document) cannot import from each other
    • Domain 3 (targets, extensions) can import from domains 1 and 2
  2. Layer numbers: Lower layer numbers can be imported by higher ones

    • Within a domain, layer 1 (core) can be imported by layers 2, 3, 4, etc.
    • Within a domain, layer 4 cannot import from layer 5
  3. Planes: Appear as subdirectories only when needed

    • Shared plane: can be imported by both migration and runtime
    • Migration plane: cannot import from runtime
    • Runtime plane: cannot import from migration (except artifacts)

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 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 · 95 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A acf969f71fb8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

directory-layout is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository prisma/orm (47,579 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,063 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 2026-08-30.