awesome-ai-rules
🤖 Curated AI coding assistant rules for Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, Windsurf, Codex CLI & Gemini CLI. Copy-paste configs for TypeScript, React, Next.js & Python.
Install / Use
npx skills add Lay4U/awesome-ai-rulesInstalls into whichever agent you are using.
Aider Config
Aider AI pair programming config
Quality Score
Category
Development & EngineeringSupported Platforms
Our assessment of awesome-ai-rules
awesome-ai-rules scores 40/100 on our quality scale, 4369th of 4,613 Development & Engineering skills we index.
Its Aider Config is 1.8 KB long, written without headings and no code examples: moderately detailed.
It has no GitHub stars yet, so there is no community track record; judge it on its content.
Maintenance, license and trust
- We could not determine when the repository was last updated.
- Our last check on 2026-10-19 found the source still online.
- No license is declared. By default that means all rights are reserved: you can read it, but reusing or redistributing it is not clearly permitted. Ask the author before building on it commercially.
- Its trust signals score 68/100, with 3 cautions from licensing, adoption, age or documentation. These come from repository metadata, not a code audit — read the skill file before letting an agent act on it.
Safety scan
No issues foundOur scan of the whole file found no instruction hijacking, hidden characters, credential access, data exfiltration or destructive commands. An AI review of the same text found nothing harmful.
AI review by kimi-k2.7-code on 2026-09-24. Automated pattern scan on 2026-09-24. It catches known dangerous patterns, not every risk — read a skill before letting an agent act on it.
awesome-ai-rules compared with similar skills
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| awesome-ai-rules (this skill)by Lay4U | 40 | 0 | — | Aider Config |
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Frequently asked questions
- How do I install awesome-ai-rules?
- Run
npx skills add Lay4U/awesome-ai-rules. The install tabs above show the steps for each supported agent. - Which AI agents does awesome-ai-rules work with?
- It is written for Aider, as a Aider Config file. Other agents that read the same format can often use it too.
- Is awesome-ai-rules safe to use?
- Our scan of the whole file found no instruction hijacking, hidden characters, credential access, data exfiltration or destructive commands. An AI review of the same text found nothing harmful. It declares no license and scores 68/100 on trust signals. Skills are instructions an agent will follow, so read the file before installing it and do not approve commands you do not understand.
- Is awesome-ai-rules still maintained?
- We could not determine when the repository was last updated.
Skill content
View source on GitHubconventions:
- Use /architect for system-level changes, then /code for patches.
- Keep context focused via /add on touched packages and tests.
- Use /drop before switching modules to avoid stale assumptions.
- Review repo map before changing shared interfaces or base classes.
- Keep package structure aligned with bounded domain responsibilities.
- Prefer constructor injection for dependencies.
- Keep classes cohesive; extract helpers before classes grow large.
- Favor immutable value objects for domain data.
- Use explicit exception types and preserve root cause context.
- Avoid catching
Exceptionunless translating at boundaries. - Keep controller/resource layers thin; delegate to services.
- Validate external inputs early using framework validation.
- Keep persistence models separated from API DTOs.
- Use interfaces where alternate implementations are realistic.
- Avoid static mutable state outside deliberate singletons.
- Write focused unit tests and targeted integration tests.
- Mock external systems, not core business logic.
- Keep naming explicit and intention-revealing.
- Preserve backward compatibility for public API contracts.
- Update migration scripts with schema-affecting changes.
- Keep thread-safety considerations explicit in shared components.
- Ask aider for impacted packages/classes before auto-commit.
- Run lint/build checks and tests before finalizing output.
- Keep formatting managed by project formatter, not manual edits.
- Prefer one logical change per aider session to keep commits reviewable.
- If aider proposes broad edits, ask for a smaller scoped patch first.
- Re-run commands after any follow-up prompt that changes generated code. auto-commits: true lint-cmd: ./gradlew check test-cmd: ./gradlew test
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Trust signals
From repository metadata: license, adoption, age and documentation. Not a code audit — see the Safety scan above for what the skill file itself contains.