ciembor/agent-rules-books: 14 Agent Skills
AGENTS.md rules / skills for AI coding agents: Codex, Cursor & Claude Code. Inspired by Clean Code, Refactoring, DDD, Clean Architecture and DDIA programming books.
| Repository | ciembor/agent-rules-books · website |
|---|---|
| GitHub stars | 2,931 |
| Skills | 14 |
| Category | Software engineering |
| License | MIT |
| Last updated | Sep 10, 2026 |
| Install counts | ciembor/agent-rules-books on skills.sh, Vercel's skills directory, which shows installs and security audits per skill |
Install ciembor/agent-rules-books
| All skills, any agent | npx skills add ciembor/agent-rules-books |
|---|---|
| One skill | npx skills add ciembor/agent-rules-books --skill a-philosophy-of-software-design |
| Only for Claude Code | npx skills add ciembor/agent-rules-books -a claude-code, or copy a skill folder to ~/.claude/skills/ (all projects) or .claude/skills/ (one project) |
npx skills is the open-source skills CLI; it asks which agents to install for. Skills can include scripts that your agent will run: read a skill before installing it, as you would any code.
Skills in ciembor/agent-rules-books
| Skill | What it does |
|---|---|
| a-philosophy-of-software-design | Apply John Ousterhout-inspired software design rules when reducing complexity, designing module boundaries, or reviewing APIs and abstractions. |
| clean-architecture | Apply Robert C. Martin-inspired architecture rules when separating business policy from frameworks, databases, UI, or infrastructure details. |
| clean-code | Apply Robert C. Martin-inspired clean code rules when improving readability, naming, function design, responsibilities, or testable everyday code. |
| code-complete | Apply Steve McConnell-inspired construction rules when implementing routines, variables, classes, control flow, defensive code, or tests. |
| designing-data-intensive-applications | Apply Martin Kleppmann-inspired data-system rules when designing reliability, scalability, consistency, replication, transactions, streams, or schema evolution. |
| domain-driven-design-distilled | Apply Vaughn Vernon-inspired lightweight DDD rules when using bounded contexts, subdomains, context maps, and tactical modeling without excess ceremony. |
| domain-driven-design | Apply Eric Evans-inspired DDD rules when modeling a complex domain, defining bounded contexts, protecting ubiquitous language, or designing aggregates. |
| implementing-domain-driven-design | Apply Vaughn Vernon-inspired implementation DDD rules when building aggregates, domain events, repositories, application services, or context integrations. |
| patterns-of-enterprise-application-architecture | Apply Martin Fowler-inspired enterprise architecture rules when choosing layers, service layers, transaction scripts, domain models, repositories, mappers, or DTOs. |
| refactoring-guru | Apply Refactoring.Guru-inspired rules when diagnosing code smells, choosing refactoring techniques, and stopping cleanup before uncontrolled redesign. |
| refactoring | Apply Martin Fowler-inspired refactoring rules when improving existing code structure while preserving observable behavior. |
| release-it | Apply Michael T. Nygard-inspired production reliability rules when designing failure handling, timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, observability, or deployment behavior. |
| the-pragmatic-programmer | Apply Hunt and Thomas-inspired pragmatic programming rules when improving engineering judgment, feedback loops, DRY knowledge, orthogonality, automation, or adaptability. |
| working-effectively-with-legacy-code | Apply Michael Feathers-inspired legacy-code rules when changing hard-to-test code safely with characterization tests, seams, sprout methods, or wrap methods. |
Names and descriptions come from each skill's SKILL.md and are written by the pack's authors.
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