repo-structure-conventions

repo-structure-conventions is a skill for Claude Code from chf3198/copilot-governance. It costs 32 tokens per session (2,815 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for how files, folders, names, and build outputs are organized in a software repository. It adapts the layout to the kind of application being built.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating, onboarding, or restructuring a repository, choosing directory and naming conventions, configuring ignored build artifacts, and defining CODEOWNERS file patterns.
Why use it?
It makes projects easier to navigate and keeps generated build files separate from source files, while avoiding overlap with security and community-documentation rules owned elsewhere.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it when creating, onboarding, or restructuring a repository, choosing directory and naming conventions, configuring ignored build artifacts, and defining CODEOWNERS file patterns.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/chf3198/copilot-governance/repo-structure-conventions
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.

Any agent
npx skills add chf3198/copilot-governance --skill repo-structure-conventions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chf3198/copilot-governance

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,815 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00032 $0.02815
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.01407
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00563
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00281

Measured 11d ago against content hash 316f77d95094, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

repo-structure-conventions 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 11d 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.

skills/repo-structure-conventions/SKILL.md · 311 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 311 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Repo Structure Conventions

Purpose

Ensure every managed repository has a consistent, navigable, industry-standard file organization. This skill is the primary owner for structural layout, naming, and build-artifact isolation.

When to invoke

  • Creating a new repository.
  • Restructuring an existing repository.
  • Onboarding a repo that lacks clear organization.
  • After repo-onboarding-standards classifies the app type.

Scope boundary

Owns (primary authority)

  • Root-level file layout and ordering.
  • Directory naming conventions.
  • App-type-specific directory structures.
  • Build artifact isolation (.gitignore, .vscodeignore, .npmignore).
  • CODEOWNERS patterns by project size and structure.

Delegates (do NOT duplicate)

Concern Owner
Community health files (README, LICENSE, CONTRIBUTING, CODE_OF_CONDUCT, SECURITY, SUPPORT) repo-profile-governance
Discoverability metadata (description, topics, social preview, homepage) repo-profile-governance
GitHub Actions security (SHA pinning, token permissions, OIDC) github-actions-security-hardening
Secret hygiene (.env, credentials, artifact leaks) secret-exposure-prevention
Documentation content quality and drift detection docs-drift-maintenance
Release versioning, tags, and publish integrity release-version-integrity
CI/CD workflow design and merge gates github-review-merge-admin

Hard constraints

  1. No unbounded loops or recursive retries.
  2. Maximum one full repository audit per invocation.
  3. No silent file creation; produce explicit proposals for review.
  4. Never move or rename files without confirming the change won't break imports, CI, or published paths.
  5. Prefer the smallest structural change that achieves the convention.

Modes

  • audit: Detect structural gaps and deviations. Return findings ranked by severity.
  • scaffold: Generate the initial directory structure for a new project given an app type.
  • remediate: Propose minimal file moves/renames to bring an existing repo into compliance.

Read the full file on GitHub · 311 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. 11d ago First seen · 311 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 316f77d95094

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repo-structure-conventions is a skill published in the GitHub repository chf3198/copilot-governance (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 2,815 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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