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folder-structure-designer
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.
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# 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](../filename-convention/SKILL.md))
- **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%)
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