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codebase-memory: an index of your repo
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Prompts, rules and skills for coding agents
Claude Code, Codex or Cursor builds more than you asked, drifts on long tasks or burns your quota: a text for each, ready to copy.
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Global CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md rulesWriting rules, from Orwell, 1946. These govern prose: docs, PR text, messages. Never touch code or technical terms; swap in everyday words only where precision survives. 1. Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. 2. Never use a long word where a short one will do. 3. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out. 4. Never use the passive where you can use the active. 5. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. 6. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous. Review every prose output against these rules before delivering.Paste the rules into your global CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md.
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Docs, PR text and reports in plain words in every session, without banning words one at a time.
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Prompt53The message you send an AI to tell it what to do.Rules23Standing instructions an agent reads at the start of every session, kept in a file such as AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md, so you never repeat them.Skill21A folder of instructions (and sometimes scripts) that an agent loads when a task calls for it, so it knows how to do that kind of job well.Plugin5A bundle you add to Claude Code or Codex in one step.Connector MCP3Model Context Protocol: a standard plug that connects an agent to an outside tool or service.Helper agents subagents8A helper the main agent sends off with its own fresh context to do one part of the job, reporting back when done.Command2A line of text that tells a program to do one thing.Settings config5Short for configuration: the settings a tool reads when it starts, such as which model it uses.
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5 /goal prompts for leftover Codex quota
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Scope Guard: AGENTS.md rules for small tasks
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