rules: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/architecture-guidelines/SKILL.md

architecture-guidelines is a skill for Claude Code from eser/rules. It costs 25 tokens per session (178 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of system-design guidelines covering project structure, modules, architectural decision records, naming, and automated testing. An architectural decision record is a short document explaining an important design choice and its trade-offs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing or reviewing software architecture, organising files, choosing module patterns, documenting decisions, or planning tests.
Why use it?
It helps keep a growing codebase understandable and makes major design decisions and their consequences easier to track.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is eser/rules's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on rules itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything rules configures →

View source ↗ eser/rules
Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to eser/rules. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eser/rules/main/.claude/skills/architecture-guidelines/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/eser/rules

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 178 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 $0.00025 $0.00178
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00071
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00036
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00018

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 9c5f9689a6c3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

architecture-guidelines 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 2mo 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.

.claude/skills/architecture-guidelines/SKILL.md · 31 lines

What it actually says

Architecture Guidelines

Guidelines for system design, project structure, and architectural decisions.

Quick Start

// Use ES Modules with explicit extensions
import * as path from "@std/path";
import { readFile } from "./utils.ts";

export function processFile() {}

Key Principles

  • Use ES Modules (avoid CommonJS/AMD)
  • Follow consistent directory structure with kebab-case directories
  • Document architectural decisions with ADRs including trade-offs
  • Write automated tests with CI (target 80%+ coverage for critical paths)
  • Use naming conventions: PascalCase for components, camelCase for utilities

References

See rules.md for complete guidelines with examples.

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 2mo ago First seen · 31 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 9c5f9689a6c3

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architecture-guidelines is a skill published in the GitHub repository eser/rules (53 stars, last pushed 10mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 178 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

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