engram-project-structure

Repository rules that tell contributors where different code, files, tests, templates, and styles belong in the Engram project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding packages, files, routes, database behavior, user-interface components, assets, documentation, or tests.
Why use it?
It prevents related logic from being scattered or mixed together, making the codebase easier to understand and change.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/gentleman-programming/engram/project-structure
Any agent
npx skills add Gentleman-Programming/engram --skill project-structure
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Gentleman-Programming/engram

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 300 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 $0.00034 $0.00300
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00150
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00060
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00030

Measured 2d ago against content hash 286c2f155bba, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

engram-project-structure 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.

skills/project-structure/SKILL.md · 45 lines

What it actually says

When to Use

Use this skill when:

  • Creating a new package, file, or directory
  • Deciding where code belongs
  • Adding tests, templates, assets, or docs

Placement Rules

  1. Put behavior near its domain, not near the caller that happens to use it.
  2. Keep templates in internal/cloud/dashboard/*.templ and generated files checked in.
  3. Keep dashboard styling in internal/cloud/dashboard/static/styles.css unless a new static asset is clearly needed.
  4. Put HTTP handlers in server packages, not in store packages.
  5. Put persistence queries in store/cloudstore, not in handlers.

File Creation Rules

  • New route -> handler + tests in dashboard/server package
  • New DB behavior -> store/cloudstore code + focused tests
  • New UI partial/page -> templ component + generated _templ.go
  • New contributor guidance -> update docs/catalog in same change

Anti-Patterns

  • Do not mix SQL, HTML, and transport logic in one file.
  • Do not create utility packages for one-off helpers.
  • Do not add package layers unless they remove real coupling.
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 · 45 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 286c2f155bba

Subscribe to this mod's changes

engram-project-structure is a skill published in the GitHub repository Gentleman-Programming/engram (6,266 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 300 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 2026-08-30.

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