coding_standards_template

A reusable document template for project coding rules. It turns general software-quality ideas, including NASA/JPL safety-oriented guidelines and Clean Code practices, into rules a development team can adapt.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define language-agnostic coding rules, project-specific limits, source references, and where the completed standards document should live.
Why use it?
It gives a project a starting structure for consistent code decisions without requiring the team to write standards from scratch.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/atebites-hub/pjtemplate/coding_standards_template
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/atebites-hub/PJTemplate
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,849 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.03849
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01924
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00770
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00385

Measured yesterday against content hash a6c51d1df0f8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

coding_standards_template scanned grade B with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Unrestricted tool accessmediumExcessive agency

A wildcard tool grant or "run any command" leaves no least-privilege boundary at all.

- Replace `[language/framework]` and `[tool:*]` placeholders with your stack specifics.
docs/agents/coding_standards_template.md · 337 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 337 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Coding Standards Template

This document defines mandatory coding standards for [Project Name]. It adapts two foundational frameworks into actionable, language-agnostic rules that all source code, scripts, and tests must follow.

Sources:

Guidelines for Filling Out This Template

  • Replace [Project Name] with your project's name.
  • Replace [language/framework] and [tool:*] placeholders with your stack specifics.
  • Tune numeric thresholds (line limits, coverage, complexity budgets) to your team's norms.
  • Add domain-specific constraints under "Repository-Specific Rules."
  • Keep this document focused on code-level behavior. Move process, test, and documentation maintenance details to the dedicated docs linked in "Document Ownership and Boundaries."
  • Reference repo structure: store the filled copy as /docs/agents/coding_standards.md.

Document Ownership and Boundaries

To avoid overlap with other core documents:

  • This document owns code-level standards: control flow, function design, naming, error handling, security coding, concurrency coding, and code smells.
  • documentation_guidelines.md owns comment, docstring, and documentation maintenance standards.
  • testing_guidelines.md owns test strategy, test architecture, and test-code quality standards.
  • AGENTS.md owns project-level quality gates, workflow requirements, and consultation boundaries.

If content overlaps, keep the normative rule in one place and cross-reference from others.

Related standards: For comments, docstrings, and keeping docs/code/ / docs/tests/ in sync, follow documentation_guidelines.md. For how to write and organize tests, follow testing_guidelines.md.

Scope and Intent

These standards apply to all modules, scripts, and tests in this repository. Goals:

Read the full file on GitHub · 337 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 337 lines · 0 tokens per session scan B a6c51d1df0f8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

coding_standards_template is an agent published in the GitHub repository atebites-hub/PJTemplate (2 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 3,849 tokens. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (unrestricted tool access). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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