scaffold-rules

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Scaffold development rules for AI coding agents. Auto-invoked when user asks about setting up rules, coding conventions, or configuring their AI agent environment.

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Sourceplaited/development-skills

Added on2026-02-08

NPX Install

npx skill4agent add plaited/development-skills scaffold-rules

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Scaffold Rules

Scaffold shared development rules for AI coding agent environments.

When to Use

Use when the user wants to:

Set up development rules or coding conventions
Configure their AI coding agent environment
Add project guidelines for Claude, Cursor, or other agents

Workflow

Step 1: Preview Changes (Optional)

bash

bunx @plaited/development-skills scaffold-rules --dry-run

Review the

actions

array to see what will be created.

Step 2: Run Scaffold

bash

bunx @plaited/development-skills scaffold-rules

This will:

Copy rules to
```
.agents/rules/
```
(canonical location)
Create symlinks in
```
.claude/rules
```
and
```
.cursor/rules
```
(if those directories exist)
Fallback: append links to
```
AGENTS.md
```
if no agent directories found

Step 3: Report to User

Tell the user what was created based on the

actions

output.

CLI Options

Flag	Description
`--list` , `-l`	List available rules without scaffolding
`--dry-run` , `-n`	Preview actions without making changes

How It Works

.agents/rules/          ← Canonical location (files copied here)
    ├── testing.md
    ├── bun.md
    └── ...

.claude/rules -> ../.agents/rules   ← Symlink (if .claude/ exists)
.cursor/rules -> ../.agents/rules   ← Symlink (if .cursor/ exists)

Project has...	Copy	Symlinks	AGENTS.md
`.agents/` only	✓	None	No
`.claude/` only	✓	`.claude/rules`	No
`.cursor/` only	✓	`.cursor/rules`	No
`.agents/` + `.claude/`	✓	`.claude/rules`	No
`.agents/` + `.cursor/`	✓	`.cursor/rules`	No
`.agents/` + `.claude/` + `.cursor/`	✓	Both	No
None of the above	✓	None	✓ Append links

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