agent-rules-books skills
AGENTS.md rules / skills for AI coding agents: Codex, Cursor & Claude Code. Inspired by Clean Code, Refactoring, DDD, Clean Architecture and DDIA programming books. 14 skills. skills-hub.ai mirrors 14 skills from agent-rules-books daily, every skill links back to its upstream GitHub source. Install with one command across Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, and any MCP-compatible tool.
Upstream: github.com/ciembor/agent-rules-books
Installing a agent-rules-books skill
Pick a skill below, then run the install command for your AI coding tool. The skills-hub CLI writes the SKILL.md to the right directory and tracks the install in .skills.json so your team gets reproducible installs.
# Install a agent-rules-books skill
npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install <skill-slug>
# Browse all agent-rules-books skills via API
curl https://skills-hub.ai/api/v1/skills?source=agent-rules-books
# Browse all sources
open https://skills-hub.ai/sourcesTop agent-rules-books skills
See all →The most-installed skills from agent-rules-books, ranked by adoption.
01a-philosophy-of-software-design
Apply John Ousterhout-inspired software design rules when reducing complexity, designing module boundaries, or reviewing APIs and abstractions.
Buildfrom agent-rules-books02clean-code
Apply Robert C. Martin-inspired clean code rules when improving readability, naming, function design, responsibilities, or testable everyday code.
Buildfrom agent-rules-books03code-complete
Apply Steve McConnell-inspired construction rules when implementing routines, variables, classes, control flow, defensive code, or tests.
Buildfrom agent-rules-books04domain-driven-design
Apply Eric Evans-inspired DDD rules when modeling a complex domain, defining bounded contexts, protecting ubiquitous language, or designing aggregates.
Buildfrom agent-rules-books05implementing-domain-driven-design
Apply Vaughn Vernon-inspired implementation DDD rules when building aggregates, domain events, repositories, application services, or context integrations.
Buildfrom agent-rules-books06refactoring
Apply Martin Fowler-inspired refactoring rules when improving existing code structure while preserving observable behavior.
Buildfrom agent-rules-books07refactoring-guru
Apply Refactoring.Guru-inspired rules when diagnosing code smells, choosing refactoring techniques, and stopping cleanup before uncontrolled redesign.
Buildfrom agent-rules-books08the-pragmatic-programmer
Apply Hunt and Thomas-inspired pragmatic programming rules when improving engineering judgment, feedback loops, DRY knowledge, orthogonality, automation, or adaptability.
Buildfrom agent-rules-books09clean-architecture
Apply Robert C. Martin-inspired architecture rules when separating business policy from frameworks, databases, UI, or infrastructure details.
Buildfrom agent-rules-books10designing-data-intensive-applications
Apply Martin Kleppmann-inspired data-system rules when designing reliability, scalability, consistency, replication, transactions, streams, or schema evolution.
Buildfrom agent-rules-books11domain-driven-design-distilled
Apply Vaughn Vernon-inspired lightweight DDD rules when using bounded contexts, subdomains, context maps, and tactical modeling without excess ceremony.
Buildfrom agent-rules-books12patterns-of-enterprise-application-architecture
Apply Martin Fowler-inspired enterprise architecture rules when choosing layers, service layers, transaction scripts, domain models, repositories, mappers, or DTOs.
Buildfrom agent-rules-books13release-it
Apply Michael T. Nygard-inspired production reliability rules when designing failure handling, timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, observability, or deployment behavior.
Buildfrom agent-rules-books14working-effectively-with-legacy-code
Apply Michael Feathers-inspired legacy-code rules when changing hard-to-test code safely with characterization tests, seams, sprout methods, or wrap methods.
Buildfrom agent-rules-books
About this source
skills-hub.ai mirrors skills from 90+ official GitHub repositories every day. Each imported skill is parsed from a SKILL.md file in the source repo, gets a security scan and quality score on import, and links back to its upstream source of truth.
Last sync: Sep 14, 2026, 6:13 PM (success).
agent-rules-books skills, frequently asked
What are agent-rules-books skills?
agent-rules-books skills are AI coding skills published by agent-rules-books (AGENTS.md rules / skills for AI coding agents: Codex, Cursor & Claude Code. Inspired by Clean Code, Refactoring, DDD, Clean Architecture and DDIA programming books. 14 skills.) and mirrored daily on skills-hub.ai. They are SKILL.md files that follow the open Agent Skills standard, so they work in Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, Windsurf, Copilot, and any MCP-compatible tool.
How many agent-rules-books skills are available?
skills-hub.ai indexes 14 skills from agent-rules-books, synced daily from the upstream GitHub repository (https://github.com/ciembor/agent-rules-books).
How do I install a agent-rules-books skill?
Run `npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install <skill-slug>` in your project. The CLI writes the SKILL.md to the right directory for your AI tool and adds it to your `.skills.json` lockfile so your team gets the same skills at the same versions.
Are these official agent-rules-books skills?
Yes. Every skill from this source is mirrored from agent-rules-books's own GitHub repository (https://github.com/ciembor/agent-rules-books). Each skill page links back to the upstream source of truth, so you can verify the original.