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.

These rules never add a stop-and-wait round of their own. When a rule needs information, it asks for that one item at the moment it is needed — and never during read-only work (reading, searching, explaining).

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, reference it first in AGENTS.md and in the agent instruction files present in the project (CLAUDE.md, .github/copilot-instructions.md, .cursor/rules/, .windsurfrules, or the equivalent 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.

Relationship with Devil's Advocate