Agent skill

Folder Structure Designer

by mohitagw15856 in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Design a folder structure people actually file into — shallow, purpose-first, with a home for everything and an inbox for the undecided, sized to the team that must maintain it.

MITAuto-check passedProductivity & Automation

Install Folder Structure Designer

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill folder-structure-designer -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills folder-structure-designer --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/folder-structure-designer .claude/skills/folder-structure-designer && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
folder-structure-designer
GitHub stars
1.4k
Token cost
~1.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
596 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,322
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Design a folder structure people actually file into — shallow, purpose-first, with a home for everything and an inbox for the undecided, sized to the team that must maintain it.

  • Works in 5 steps: Organize by seek-path, not by file type:… → Three levels, then stop: Clients / Acme… → Every folder gets a placement rule: one… → …
  • Asked organize our shared drive
  • SKILL.md covers What This Skill Produces, Required Inputs, Framework: The Structure Rules and Output Format, plus 6 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Folder Structure Designer is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Design a folder structure people actually file into — shallow, purpose-first, with a home for everything and an inbox for the undecided, sized to the team that must maintain it. Use when asked organize our shared drive, design a folder structure for the project, where should things live, or our files are chaos. Produces the structure with its placement rules, the depth and naming constraints, the inbox convention, and the migration-lite plan for the existing mess.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Productivity & Automation, covering File organization and Email management. The repository describes itself as: 1255 professional Agent Skills for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor & Codex — PRDs, postmortems, leases, medical bills, layoffs, go-bags, new countries. Plain markdown, MIT, in… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Asked organize our shared drive
  • Design a folder structure for the project
  • Where should things live
  • Our files are chaos

Example prompts

  • “/folder-structure-designer”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Organize by seek-path, not by file type: people look for "the Acme contract," not "PDFs" — top level mirrors the retrieval questions…
  2. Three levels, then stop: Clients / Acme / Contracts — anything needing level four becomes a naming problem instead (dates and descriptors…
  3. Every folder gets a placement rule: one "goes-here-if" sentence per top-level folder, written on the guide. A folder whose rule can't be…
  4. _inbox absorbs the undecided: filing friction comes from placement doubt — the _inbox at root accepts anything instantly, and a weekly…
  5. Search is half the system: the structure's job is browsability of the current and shared; history goes to _archive (per area, by year)…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1cbf1f0. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Folder Structure Designer loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 124 tokens; SKILL.md has 596 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~124
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.2k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills at commit 1cbf1f0, republished under its MIT licence (© mohitagw15856). 596 words, ~1,209 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/folder-structure-designer/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
folder-structure-designer
description
Design a folder structure people actually file into — shallow, purpose-first, with a home for everything and an inbox for the undecided, sized to the team that must maintain it. Use when asked organize our shared drive, design a folder structure for the project, where should things live, or our files are chaos. Produces the structure with its placement rules, the depth and naming constraints, the _inbox convention, and the migration-lite plan for the existing mess.

Folder Structure Designer Skill

Folder structures fail by ambition: seven levels deep, a taxonomy only its author understands, and within a month everyone files into misc/ or nowhere. The structure that survives is shallow (three levels max), organized by how people look for things (purpose, then project — not file type, not org chart), and honest about human behavior: there's an _inbox for the undecided, a placement rule for every top-level folder, and search is embraced as half the system rather than defeated.

What This Skill Produces

  • The structure — top levels with per-folder placement rules ("goes here if…"), three levels deep maximum
  • The conventions — _inbox for undecided, _archive per area, the naming rule (see filename-convention)
  • The one-page guide — the structure explained in ten lines, postable where the team will see it
  • The migration-lite plan — new structure now, old mess frozen and drained opportunistically (never the big-bang reorganization that stalls at 30%)

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not provided:

  • Who files and who finds — team size, roles, and the honest filing culture (a structure for five diligent people differs from one for forty rushed ones)
  • The retrieval questions — the actual "where is the…?" questions of the last month; structure follows retrieval, not theory
  • The existing mess — top-level inventory of what exists now, and any folders that genuinely work (survivors get kept, not redesigned)
  • Boundaries — what does NOT belong here (personal files, another team's domain, things that live in tools)

Framework: The Structure Rules

  1. Organize by seek-path, not by file type: people look for "the Acme contract," not "PDFs" — top level mirrors the retrieval questions (Clients / Projects / Team Ops / Reference), never (Documents / Spreadsheets / Images).
  2. Three levels, then stop: Clients / Acme / Contracts — anything needing level four becomes a naming problem instead (dates and descriptors in filenames). Depth is where filing compliance dies; every level halves it.
  3. Every folder gets a placement rule: one "goes-here-if" sentence per top-level folder, written on the guide. A folder whose rule can't be written in one sentence is two folders or zero.
  4. _inbox absorbs the undecided: filing friction comes from placement doubt — the _inbox at root accepts anything instantly, and a weekly ten-minute drain files it properly. Undecided-with-a-home beats misfiled-forever; the underscore keeps it sorted to the top.
  5. Search is half the system: the structure's job is browsability of the current and shared; history goes to _archive (per area, by year) where search — not browsing — retrieves it. Structures that try to make everything browsable forever collapse under their own history.
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Output Format

Folder Structure: [drive/team]

The Structure

[Top levels with children to depth 3, each top-level annotated: "→ goes here if …"]
_inbox/        → anything, when unsure — drained weekly

The One-Page Guide

[Ten lines: the placement rules · the naming rule · the _inbox habit · the archive-by-year rule · "when unsure: _inbox, not misc"]

Migration-Lite

[Old root frozen as _pre-2026/ (read-only norm) · new filing starts today · drain rule: whenever you fetch an old file, refile it · no big-bang weekend]

Quality Checks

  • Top level mirrors the team's actual retrieval questions
  • No path exceeds three levels
  • Every top-level folder has a one-sentence placement rule
  • _inbox exists with a named drain cadence and owner
  • Migration is freeze-and-drain, not big-bang

Anti-Patterns

  • Do not build taxonomy for taxonomy's sake — every folder must earn its rule
  • Do not organize by file type — nobody seeks "spreadsheets"
  • Do not exceed three levels — depth is where compliance goes to die
  • Do not attempt the big-bang reorg — it stalls at 30% and leaves two messes
  • Do not create misc/ — that's _inbox without the drain, i.e., the old problem with a new name

Example Trigger Phrases

  • "Organize our shared drive."
  • "Design a folder structure for the project."
  • "Where should things live?"
  • "Our files are chaos."

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Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/folder-structure-designer of mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0

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Questions about Folder Structure Designer

What does Folder Structure Designer do?

Design a folder structure people actually file into — shallow, purpose-first, with a home for everything and an inbox for the undecided, sized to the team that must maintain it. Folder Structure Designer is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Design a folder structure people actually file into — shallow, purpose-first, with a home for everything and an inbox for the undecided, sized to the team that must maintain it.

When should I use Folder Structure Designer?

Folder Structure Designer fits situations like: asked organize our shared drive; design a folder structure for the project; where should things live; our files are chaos.

How do I install Folder Structure Designer in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill folder-structure-designer -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/folder-structure-designer in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .claude/skills/folder-structure-designer in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Folder Structure Designer in Codex?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill folder-structure-designer -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/folder-structure-designer in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .agents/skills/folder-structure-designer in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Folder Structure Designer in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill folder-structure-designer -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/folder-structure-designer, .gemini/skills/folder-structure-designer, .github/skills/folder-structure-designer and .opencode/skills/folder-structure-designer in your project.

What does Folder Structure Designer need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Folder Structure Designer is instructions for the agent only.

Does Folder Structure Designer access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Folder Structure Designer safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Folder Structure Designer use?

Folder Structure Designer is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Folder Structure Designer use?

About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.8k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Folder Structure Designer?

mohitagw15856 (a GitHub user) maintains it in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, which has 1,431 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,322 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 7, 2026.

Source: mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.