agent-rules-books

ciembor/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

GitHub: ciembor/agent-rules-books
Website: ciembor.github.io
Stars: ★ 3.1k
License: MIT
Last push: Sep 10, 2026
Topics: agent-rules · agent-skills-manager · agents-md · agents-rules · agents-skills · agentsmd · ai-agent

Good for

Apply rule sets to a coding agent distilled from classic software engineering books like Clean Code, Refactoring and DDD
Pick the mini, nano or full version to trade off context budget against completeness
Have the agent follow a book's principles when refactoring, designing architecture or handling legacy code
Use them as AGENTS.md rules for Codex, Cursor and Claude Code

Getting started

Run npx skills add ciembor/agent-rules-books --all for everything, or add --list to browse first
Install one with --skill, e.g. --skill refactoring
Each book directory has a standard SKILL.md that loads the mini set by default and keeps full as reference
For manual, scoped or always-on setups, see USAGE.md

Before you install

MIT licensed and requires Node.js with npm installed. Each rule set comes in mini, nano and full tool-agnostic Markdown versions.

Summarized by AI from the project docs; check the official docs before relying on it.

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