setup-rules

An installer for language-specific coding rules that Claude Code automatically uses when reading matching files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set up development rules in Claude Code for supported programming languages.
Why use it?
It avoids manually copying coding guidance into each project. Existing customized rules may be overwritten.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the devkit plugin — 39 skills, 6 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

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 skills/5uck1ess/devkit/setup-rules
Any agent
npx skills add 5uck1ess/devkit --skill setup-rules
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/5uck1ess/devkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install devkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 39 skills, 6 agents, 4 hooks.

Per session 99 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 548 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00099 $0.00548
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.00274
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00110
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00055

Measured 2d ago against content hash e6d525b45611, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

setup-rules scanned grade A with 0 findings 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 2d ago.

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.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/setup-rules/SKILL.md · 48 lines

What it actually says

Setup Coding Rules

Install language-specific coding rules to ~/.claude/rules/. These auto-activate when Claude reads matching files and complement devkit's hooks — rules guide how to write, hooks catch what you missed. Non-Claude hosts do not read ~/.claude/rules/; use AGENTS.md and the files in resources/rules/ as project guidance.

What it does

Copies rule files from this plugin's resources/rules/ to ~/.claude/rules/. Existing files are overwritten — if the user has customized rules, warn them before overwriting. CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT is set automatically by the Claude Code plugin runtime.

Steps

  1. Verify plugin context and create the rules directory:
if [ -z "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-}" ]; then
  echo "ERROR: CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT is not set. Run this as /devkit:setup-rules." >&2
  exit 1
fi
mkdir -p ~/.claude/rules
  1. Check for existing customized rules — warn before overwriting:

If any files in ~/.claude/rules/ differ from the plugin versions, tell the user which files will be overwritten and ask for confirmation before proceeding.

  1. Copy each rule file from the plugin:
cp "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/resources/rules/go.md" ~/.claude/rules/go.md
cp "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/resources/rules/typescript.md" ~/.claude/rules/typescript.md
cp "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/resources/rules/python.md" ~/.claude/rules/python.md
cp "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/resources/rules/rust.md" ~/.claude/rules/rust.md
cp "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/resources/rules/shell.md" ~/.claude/rules/shell.md
  1. Confirm installation:
echo "Installed rules:" && ls ~/.claude/rules/*.md

Report which files were installed.

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. 2d ago First seen · 48 lines · 99 tokens per session scan A e6d525b45611

Subscribe to this mod's changes

setup-rules is a skill published in the GitHub repository 5uck1ess/devkit (5 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 99 tokens to every session and 548 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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