eser-rules-manager

A manager for development-practice rules stored as reusable skills. It helps organize rules for coding, architecture, security, tooling, and team workflows.

In plain words
What is it for?
Adding or changing practice rules, placing them in the correct skill, and checking that the skill format is valid.
Why use it?
It keeps stated engineering preferences consistent across projects and makes those rules easier to validate.

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/eser/rules/eser-rules-manager
Any agent
npx skills add eser/rules --skill eser-rules-manager
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/eser/rules

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 298 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 $0.00037 $0.00298
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00149
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00060
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00030

Measured 3d ago against content hash c550ec841f35, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

eser-rules-manager 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 3d 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.

.claude/skills/eser-rules-manager/SKILL.md · 34 lines

What it actually says

eser-rules: Development Practices Manager

Manages development rules across skills. Before working, apply all rules in .claude/skills/*/SKILL.md.

Quick Start

  1. Identify scope → choose skill (or create new)
  2. Add/update rule in .claude/skills/<name>/references/rules.md
  3. Update .claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md key principles if needed
  4. Validate: npx -y claude-skills-cli validate .claude/skills/<name>

Skill Format

  • SKILL.md: <50 lines, Quick Start + Key Principles + References
  • references/: Detailed rules with Correct/Incorrect examples
  • Frontmatter: name (kebab-case), description (<1024 chars)

Skills by Scope

architecture-guidelines, design-principles, coding-practices, javascript-practices, tooling-standards, go-practices, security-practices, workflow-practices, ci-cd-practices

References

See skill-format.md for complete skill format requirements.

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 3d ago First seen · 34 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A c550ec841f35

Subscribe to this mod's changes

eser-rules-manager is a skill published in the GitHub repository eser/rules (53 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 298 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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