creating-claude-rules

creating-claude-rules is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AgentWorkforce/relay. It costs 41 tokens per session (618 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for creating Claude rules: instruction files that apply globally or only to selected project files. It explains the correct Claude format and how it differs from Cursor's format.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create, repair, or migrate files in .claude/rules/, set which paths they apply to, and organize project-specific coding conventions.
Why use it?
It prevents rules from being ignored because they use the wrong fields or file-matching syntax.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/agentworkforce/relay/creating-claude-rules-skill
Any agent
npx skills add AgentWorkforce/relay --skill creating-claude-rules-skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AgentWorkforce/relay

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 618 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 $0.00041 $0.00618
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00309
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00124
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00062

Measured 4d ago against content hash 3956becfdc77, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

creating-claude-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 4d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.claude/skills/creating-claude-rules-skill/SKILL.md · 120 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 120 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Creating Claude Rules

Overview

Rules in .claude/rules/ are modular instructions scoped to specific files via glob patterns. They load automatically with same priority as CLAUDE.md.

When to Use

  • Creating new rules in .claude/rules/
  • Fixing rules that use wrong frontmatter (globs instead of paths)
  • Migrating Cursor rules to Claude format
  • Organizing project-specific conventions

Quick Reference

Field Claude Cursor
Path patterns paths globs
Always apply Omit paths alwaysApply: true
Description Not documented description

Frontmatter

Path-Scoped Rules

---
paths:
  - 'src/api/**/*.ts'
  - 'tests/**/*.test.ts'
---

Or single pattern:

---
paths: src/**/*.{ts,tsx}
---

Global Rules

Omit frontmatter entirely - applies to all files:

# TypeScript Conventions

Use .js extensions in imports.

Common Mistakes

# ❌ WRONG - globs is Cursor format
---
globs:
  - '**/*.ts'
---
# ✅ CORRECT - Claude uses paths
---
paths:
  - '**/*.ts'
---
# ❌ WRONG - alwaysApply is Cursor-only
---
alwaysApply: true
---
# ✅ CORRECT - just omit paths for global rules
# (no frontmatter needed)
# ❌ WRONG - unquoted patterns
---
paths:
  - **/*.ts
---

# ✅ CORRECT - quote glob patterns
---
paths:
  - "**/*.ts"
---

Directory Structure

.claude/rules/
├── testing.md          # Path-scoped or global
├── typescript.md
└── frontend/           # Subdirectories supported
    └── react.md

Files discovered recursively. Use subdirectories to organize.

Glob Patterns

Pattern Matches
**/*.ts All .ts files anywhere
src/**/* Everything under src/
*.md Markdown in root only
**/*.{ts,tsx} .ts and .tsx files
{src,lib}/**/*.ts .ts in src/ or lib/

Read the full file on GitHub · 120 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. 4d ago First seen · 120 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 3956becfdc77

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creating-claude-rules is a skill published in the GitHub repository AgentWorkforce/relay (813 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 618 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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