902-arch-template

902-arch-template is a cursor rule for Cursor from synaptiai/prompt-decorators. It costs 982 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A required template for recording a software architecture decision: its status, technical summary, technology choices, diagrams, data structures, project layout, and change history.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it whenever creating or updating an architecture document, including decisions about languages, libraries, infrastructure, APIs, data models, and project structure.
Why use it?
It prevents important design decisions from being documented in inconsistent or incomplete formats.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: a Cursor rule (.mdc).

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/synaptiai/prompt-decorators/902-arch-template
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/synaptiai/prompt-decorators

Made for: Cursor.

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README.md
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Per session 982 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 982 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 5.1 $0.00982 $0.00982
Opus 5 $0.00491 $0.00491
Sonnet 5 $0.00196 $0.00196
Haiku 4.5 $0.00098 $0.00098

Measured 6d ago against content hash 0733a3c98559, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

902-arch-template 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 6d 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.

xnotes/902-arch-template.mdc · 160 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 160 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Architecture Template Standards

1.0.0

Requirements

  • Document architectural decisions clearly
  • Maintain a Changelog

Structure

Required Sections

1. Title {Architecture for {project}}
2. Status
  • Draft
  • Approved
3. Technical Summary
4. Technology Table

Table listing choices for languages, libraries, infra, etc...

  • column for technology
  • column for descrpition
5. Arhictectural Diagrams
  • Mermaid Diagrams as needed
6. Data Models, API Specs, Schemas, etc...
  • not exhaustive - but key ideas that need to be retained and followed across stories
7. Project Structure

document the folder and file organization and structure along with descriptions

8. Change Log

markdown table of key changes after document is no longer in draft and is updated, table includes the change title, the story id that the change happened during, and a description if the title is not clear enough

Examples

Status: Approved

Technical Summary

This architecture defines a scalable, fault-tolerant platform for processing real-time sensor data from multiple sources. The system employs a microservices architecture to ensure high availability, scalability, and maintainability while supporting real-time data processing and analysis.

Technology Table

Technology Description
Kubernetes Container orchestration platform for microservices deployment
Apache Kafka Event streaming platform for real-time data ingestion
TimescaleDB Time-series database for sensor data storage
Go Primary language for data processing services
GoRilla Mux REST API Framework
Python Used for data analysis and ML services
gRPC Inter-service communication protocol
Prometheus Metrics collection and monitoring
Grafana Visualization and dashboarding

Architectural Diagrams

graph TD
    A[Sensor Gateway] -->|Raw Data| B[Kafka]
    B --> C[Data Processor]
    B --> D[Alert Service]
    C --> E[(TimescaleDB)]
    C --> F[Analytics Engine]
    D --> G[Notification Service]
    F --> H[ML Predictor]

    style A fill:#f9f,stroke:#333
    style B fill:#bbf,stroke:#333
    style C fill:#bfb,stroke:#333

Read the full file on GitHub · 160 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. 6d ago First seen · 160 lines · 982 tokens per session scan A 0733a3c98559

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902-arch-template is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository synaptiai/prompt-decorators (43 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 982 tokens to every session, about $0.0049 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.