AI Rules

Personal operating rules for AI coding agents. Defines the behavioral baseline from which all other tools, skills, and gates operate.

Scope

This skill applies to every interaction within an installed project: code generation, documentation, analysis, recommendations, agent chains, and automated CI runs. It does not apply to isolated one-off questions in sessions with no project context loaded.

Execution Priority

For this skill to function as a behavioral baseline, load it before other skills, tools, agents, and MCPs — including Devil's Advocate. To achieve this, place it first in AGENTS.md and in all agent context files present in the project (.github/copilot-instructions.md, .cursorrules, .claude/settings.json, or any equivalent file for the agents in use — the list is non-exhaustive). Without explicit first-position placement in those files, load order is controlled by the agent's own resolution logic.

Bootstrapping rule: If neither AGENTS.md nor this skill exists in the project yet, create docs/project-context.md first (Session Initialization), then AGENTS.md (Version Control), then docs/elementals.md (Code Quality), then any other file. This defines the creation order when starting from zero.

Relationship with Devil's Advocate