project-guidelines-example

project-guidelines-example is a skill for Claude Code from cloudnative-co/claude-code-starter-kit. It costs 24 tokens per session (390 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A template for documenting rules that apply to one software project, including its structure, coding patterns, tests, and deployment process.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it as a starting point for writing project guidelines, such as file-structure notes, testing rules, deployment steps, and required validation. TDD means writing tests before the code they check.
Why use it?
It gives a coding agent the project context and constraints it needs, so you do not have to repeat them during every task.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: when-to-use in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it as a starting point for writing project guidelines, such as file-structure notes, testing rules, deployment steps, and required validation. TDD means writing tests before the code they check.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cloudnative-co/claude-code-starter-kit/project-guidelines-example
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.

Any agent
npx skills add cloudnative-co/claude-code-starter-kit --skill project-guidelines-example
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cloudnative-co/claude-code-starter-kit

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 390 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00024 $0.00390
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00156
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00078
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00039

Measured 1mo ago against content hash e6b6e1c19360, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

project-guidelines-example 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 1mo 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/project-guidelines-example/SKILL.md · 45 lines

What it actually says

Project Guidelines Skill (Example)

This is an example of a project-specific skill. Use this as a template for your own projects.

Based on a real production application: Zenith - AI-powered customer discovery platform.

When to Use

Reference this skill when working on the specific project it's designed for. Project skills contain:

  • Architecture overview
  • File structure
  • Code patterns
  • Testing requirements
  • Deployment workflow

Reference Documents

Critical Rules

  1. No emojis in code, comments, or documentation
  2. Immutability - never mutate objects or arrays
  3. TDD - write tests before implementation
  4. 80% coverage minimum
  5. Many small files - 200-400 lines typical, 800 max
  6. No console.log in production code
  7. Proper error handling with try/catch
  8. Input validation with Pydantic/Zod
  • coding-standards - General coding best practices
  • backend-patterns - API and database patterns
  • frontend-patterns - React and Next.js patterns
  • tdd-workflow - Test-driven development methodology
Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 45 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A e6b6e1c19360

Subscribe to this mod's changes

project-guidelines-example is a skill published in the GitHub repository cloudnative-co/claude-code-starter-kit (153 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 390 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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