Agent Rules Books
AGENTS.md rules / skills for AI coding agents: Codex, Cursor & Claude Code. Inspired by Clean Code, Refactoring, DDD, Clean Architecture and DDIA programming books.
Install
npx skills add ciembor/agent-rules-books --allclaude mcp add agent-rules-books -- npx skills add ciembor/agent-rules-books --all{
"mcpServers": {
"agent-rules-books": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"skills",
"add",
"ciembor/agent-rules-books",
"--all"
]
}
}
}Install command taken from the project's README or registry entry. Always review code before running it.
README excerpt
Read full README on GitHub →AI agents Rules / Skills fromProgramming Books v0.6
<strong>AGENTS.md rules</strong> / <strong>skills</strong> for <strong>Codex</strong>, <strong>Cursor</strong>, <strong>Claude Code</strong>, distilled from classic <strong>software engineering books</strong> about refactoring, architecture, DDD and code quality.
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About
MIT licensed universal project rules for coding agents.
This repository contains ready-to-use rule sets inspired by well-known books on software design, architecture, refactoring, legacy code, reliability, and data-intensive systems.
For editor-specific setup in Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor, see USAGE.md. It covers always-on vs on-demand usage, skills, scoped rules, and the preferred setup for each editor.
Each rule set is released in three tool-agnostic Markdown versions:
mini: the recommended version for most real task usenano: the compact fallback for very tight context budgetsfull: the canonical complete source and reference version
For constructive criticism from Reddit, see CRITICISM.md.
For release history, see CHANGELOG.md.
Installation as Skills
Prerequisite: install Node.js with npm. You can run the Skills CLI through npx without installing skills separately.
Install all book skills with the open Agent Skills CLI:
npx skills add ciembor/agent-rules-books --all
List available skills without installing:
npx skills add ciembor/agent-rules-books --list
Install one selected skill:
npx skills add ciembor/agent-rules-books --skill refactoring
Every book directory contains a standard SKILL.md entrypoint. The skill loads the corresponding mini rule set by default and keeps the full file available as deeper reference material.
If you prefer another setup, see USAGE.md for manual, scoped, always-on, and editor-specific installation patterns.
Release Matrix
Metrics:
lines: physical line count fromwc -lrules: Markdown list items counted with the deterministic release conventionsize: raw bytes fromwc -c
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