Agent skill

Coding Guidelines

by tech-leads-club in tech-leads-club/agent-skills

Behavioral guidelines to reduce common LLM coding mistakes. An agent skill from tech-leads-club/agent-skills.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedDevelopment

Install Coding Guidelines

skills CLI
$ npx skills add tech-leads-club/agent-skills --skill coding-guidelines -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install tech-leads-club/agent-skills coding-guidelines --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tech-leads-club/agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/'packages/skills-catalog/skills/(development)/coding-guidelines' .claude/skills/coding-guidelines && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
coding-guidelines
GitHub stars
7k
Token cost
~639 tokens
SKILL.md length
289 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
74
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Behavioral guidelines to reduce common LLM coding mistakes. An agent skill from tech-leads-club/agent-skills.

  • Works in 4 steps: Think Before Coding → Simplicity First → Surgical Changes → …
  • Reviewing code — implementation tasks
  • SKILL.md covers 1. Think Before Coding, 2. Simplicity First, 3. Surgical Changes and 4. Goal-Driven Execution
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Coding Guidelines is an agent skill from tech-leads-club/agent-skills. Behavioral guidelines to reduce common LLM coding mistakes. Use when writing, modifying, or reviewing code — implementation tasks, code changes, refactoring, bug fixes, or feature development. Do NOT use for architecture design, documentation, or non-code tasks.

Its SKILL.md is about 640 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Development, covering Debugging and Refactoring. The repository describes itself as: The secure, validated skill registry for professional AI coding agents. Extend Antigravity, Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot and more with absolute confidence.

When your agent uses it

  • Reviewing code — implementation tasks
  • Feature development
  • Architecture design

Example prompts

  • “/coding-guidelines”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Think Before Coding
  2. Simplicity First
  3. Surgical Changes
  4. Goal-Driven Execution

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 120b676. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Coding Guidelines loads about 639 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 70 tokens; SKILL.md has 289 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~70
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~639

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 289 words (~639 tokens).

“Behavioral guidelines to reduce common LLM coding mistakes. These principles bias toward caution over speed—for trivial tasks, use judgment.”

— opening of SKILL.md by tech-leads-club, Custom licence
name
coding-guidelines
metadata.author
ale
metadata.version
1.0.0
metadata.source
Karpathy Guidelines

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in packages/skills-catalog/skills/(development)/coding-guidelines of tech-leads-club/agent-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 120b676

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Categories

Questions about Coding Guidelines

What does Coding Guidelines do?

Behavioral guidelines to reduce common LLM coding mistakes. An agent skill from tech-leads-club/agent-skills. Coding Guidelines is an agent skill from tech-leads-club/agent-skills. Behavioral guidelines to reduce common LLM coding mistakes.

When should I use Coding Guidelines?

Coding Guidelines fits situations like: reviewing code — implementation tasks; feature development; architecture design.

How do I install Coding Guidelines in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add tech-leads-club/agent-skills --skill coding-guidelines -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (packages/skills-catalog/skills/(development)/coding-guidelines in tech-leads-club/agent-skills) into .claude/skills/coding-guidelines in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Coding Guidelines in Codex?

Run `npx skills add tech-leads-club/agent-skills --skill coding-guidelines -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (packages/skills-catalog/skills/(development)/coding-guidelines in tech-leads-club/agent-skills) into .agents/skills/coding-guidelines in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Coding Guidelines in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add tech-leads-club/agent-skills --skill coding-guidelines -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/coding-guidelines, .gemini/skills/coding-guidelines, .github/skills/coding-guidelines and .opencode/skills/coding-guidelines in your project.

What does Coding Guidelines need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Coding Guidelines is instructions for the agent only.

Does Coding Guidelines access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Coding Guidelines safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Coding Guidelines use?

Coding Guidelines has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Coding Guidelines use?

About 639 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.6k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Coding Guidelines?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Coding Guidelines: Code Review Graph Navigator (handsontable/handsontable, 22k stars), Andrej Karpathy Skill (duolahypercho/andrej-karpathy-skills, 248 stars), Verdaccio Change Implementation (verdaccio/verdaccio, 18k stars) and Roam (Cranot/roam-code, 517 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Coding Guidelines?

tech-leads-club (a GitHub organization) maintains it in tech-leads-club/agent-skills, which has 7,041 GitHub stars. The repository holds 74 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 20, 2026.

Source: tech-leads-club/agent-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.