promote-rule
Skill18 starsChanged 11 days agoMITView on GitHub
Propose to turn a lasting principle the user states into a rule, at the correct level, and write it only after the user agrees. Use when the user says "from now on", "always", "never", "add that rule", "record this", or "remember this", or states a principle that outlives the current work.
The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
3 rules. About 0 are common, 3 are distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.
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Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
≈3
Distinctive · estimate
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
0
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Distinctive: line 16
Read the target file first.
- Distinctive: line 20
Write only after a yes, in the user's words when they change yours.
- Distinctive: line 22
Write the rule in at most two lines, in the present tense, with its reason, next to the rules it belongs with.
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
Promote rule
Propose a rule only for a principle that outlives the current work. A decision for one piece of work goes in its issue or its code, not in a rule file.
Choose the level by scope:
- Every project:
~/.claude/CLAUDE.md. - One repository: the
CLAUDE.mdat its root. - One repeated workflow: the skill that runs it.
Read the target file first. When a rule there already covers the principle, sharpen or replace it instead of adding one.
Propose at most one rule per turn, in one message: the exact line, the file, and why that level fits. For example: "I suggest that we promote this as a rule: <rule>. It goes in the repository CLAUDE.md, because it holds only for this repository. What do you think?"
Write only after a yes, in the user's words when they change yours. After a no, do not propose it again in this session. An explicit request to record a rule is the yes.
Write the rule in at most two lines, in the present tense, with its reason, next to the rules it belongs with.
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