The 8 Best Cline Rules

Ranked by quality, maintenance and a safety scan of every file · Updated September 2026

Rules and workflows for the Cline coding agent. We compared 8 Cline Rules that pass our quality bar, 100% of which came up clean on our safety scan; these are the top 8, no more than three from any one repository.

1
html-ppt-zhangzara-pin-and-paper
by nexu-io
A field-biology capstone on urban pollinator decline — the survey design, the data, the contribution, and the caveats. Built as a decision-grade coursework defense deck for faculty reviewers.
Quality 90/100Safety scan clean★ 97,896Updated today
Why it is here: updated in the last day; clean safety scan; 97,896 GitHub stars.
```
npx skills add nexu-io/open-design --skill html-ppt-zhangzara-pin-and-paper
```
2
onboarding
by code-yeongyu
Guides a first-time omo user through setup and the core workflow
Quality 90/100Safety scan clean★ 69,362Updated today
Why it is here: updated in the last day; clean safety scan; 69,362 GitHub stars.
```
npx skills add code-yeongyu/oh-my-openagent --skill onboarding
```
3
copilot-pr-autopilot
by github
Copilot left 14 review comments on your PR — half are nits. Hours of fix → reply → resolve → re-request, and each round lands MORE comments.
Quality 93/100Safety scan clean★ 39,348Updated 2 days ago
Why it is here: highest quality score in this list; updated 2 days ago; clean safety scan.
```
npx skills add github/awesome-copilot --skill copilot-pr-autopilot
```
4
ponytail
by DietrichGebert
You are a lazy senior developer. Lazy means efficient, not careless. The best code is the code never written.
Quality 71/100Safety scan clean★ 145,162Updated 11 days ago
Why it is here: updated 11 days ago; clean safety scan; 145,162 GitHub stars.
```
npx skills add DietrichGebert/ponytail
```
5
autonomous-agent-patterns
by sickn33
Design patterns for building autonomous coding agents, inspired by [Cline](https://github.com/cline/cline) and [OpenAI Codex](https://github.com/openai/codex).
Quality 78/100Safety scan clean★ 46,875Updated today
Why it is here: updated in the last day; clean safety scan; 46,875 GitHub stars.
```
npx skills add sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill autonomous-agent-patterns
```
6
strategic-advisor-orchestrator
by nam271212
AI Coding Agent Orchestrator 2026: Pro-Level Strategy & Review Framework
Quality 84/100Safety scan clean★ 117Updated today
Why it is here: updated in the last day; clean safety scan.
```
npx skills add nam271212/strategic-advisor-orchestrator
```
7
multi-agent-architecture-advisor
by 1iry
Advanced AI Code Strategy Advisor for Developer Agents (2026)
Quality 81/100Safety scan clean★ 115Updated today
Why it is here: updated in the last day; clean safety scan.
```
npx skills add 1iry/multi-agent-architecture-advisor
```
8
ai-workspace-archive
by HIDORAKAI002
A massive, self-updating local archive of AI tools — 11,000+ agent skills, 240+ MCP servers, 2,200+ IDE rules (Cursor/Cline), and 30+ system prompt collections. One repo to rule them all.
Quality 78/100Safety scan clean★ 37Updated today
Why it is here: updated in the last day; clean safety scan.
```
npx skills add HIDORAKAI002/ai-workspace-archive
```

Side by side

#	Name	Quality	Safety	Stars	Updated
1	html-ppt-zhangzara-pin-and-paper	90	Clean	97,896	today
2	onboarding	90	Clean	69,362	today
3	copilot-pr-autopilot	93	Clean	39,348	2 days ago
4	ponytail	71	Clean	145,162	11 days ago
5	autonomous-agent-patterns	78	Clean	46,875	today
6	strategic-advisor-orchestrator	84	Clean	117	today
7	multi-agent-architecture-advisor	81	Clean	115	today
8	ai-workspace-archive	78	Clean	37	today

How we rank

Only skills we have read make the list: the file itself was fetched, it has a real description, it scores at least 55 of 100 on quality, its source still exists, its repository has at least 20 GitHub stars, and our safety scan found nothing high-risk. The order then follows adoption (GitHub stars, on a log scale), how squarely it fits this topic, and its quality score (how substantial and well structured the file is and how recently it changed), moved up for a clean safety scan and for real installs through the SkillAgent MCP server, and down for safety notes. At most three come from any one repository, and tools sold on evading bot detection are never listed. We do not rank by install counts reported by a command-line tool: they are easy to inflate, and our research found repositories with no stars claiming hundreds of thousands of installs. The list is recomputed on every visit.

Questions

What is the best Cline Rule?

html-ppt-zhangzara-pin-and-paper by nexu-io ranks first: updated in the last day, clean safety scan, 97,896 GitHub stars. The full ranking above lists 8 alternatives with their trade-offs.

How do I install one?

Each entry shows a one-line command. `npx skills add` installs a skill for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI and other agents that read skill files.

Are these safe to install?

Every file is scanned for instructions that work against you: hidden text, data sent to outside servers, disabled approval prompts, leaked keys. Skills with a warning are never listed here, and 100% of the 8 we compared for this guide came up clean. Read a skill before installing it all the same: it runs with your permissions.