Folder Organization
This is comprehensive guidance for setting up and maintaining clean project structures, covering everything from initial directory layouts to the token-efficient MANIFEST system that can reduce session startup overhead by 85-90%. It shines when you're either starting fresh or inheriting a messy project that needs reorganization. The deprecation strategy is smart: instead of deleting old files, you move them to descriptive deprecated directories with documentation explaining what happened. The strongest part is the integration of practical concerns like making sure your structure plays nice with version control and how to systematically update all file paths when reorganizing. It includes ready-to-use templates for research, development, bioinformatics, and notebook-based workflows.
- skills.sh installs
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- last updated
- Aug 21, 2026
Install
$ npx -y skills add delphine-l/claude_global --skill folder-organization --agent claude-codeInstalls into .claude/skills of the current project.
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Folder Organization Best Practices
Expert guidance for organizing project directories, establishing file naming conventions, and maintaining clean, navigable project structures for research and development work.
When to Use This Skill
- Setting up new projects
- Reorganizing existing projects
- Establishing team conventions
- Creating reproducible research structures
- Managing data-intensive projects
Core Principles
- Predictability - Standard locations for common file types
- Scalability - Structure grows gracefully with project
- Separation of Concerns - Code, data, documentation, outputs separated
- Discoverability - Easy for others (and future you) to navigate
- Version Control Friendly - Large/generated files excluded appropriately
Quick Reference: Standard Project Structure
Use the structure matching your project type. Full templates in project-structures.md.
Research/Analysis: data/{raw,processed,external}, notebooks/, src/, scripts/, tests/, docs/, results/, config/
Development: src/package_name/, tests/, docs/, examples/, .github/workflows/
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- Repository
- github.com/delphine-l/claude_global
- Categories
- Code Review & Quality, Data Science & ML
- First seen
- Jun 3, 2026
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