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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.

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What it is

AGENTS.md rules / skills for AI coding agents: Codex, Cursor & Claude Code. Inspired by Clean Code, Refactoring, DDD, Clean Architecture and DDIA programming books.

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 10:49:33 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by week3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2026-04-16 17:08:37 UTC to 2026-10-21 02:02:26 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

0122026-04-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 commentsApr 132026-04-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-05-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-05-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-05-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-05-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-06-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-06-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-06-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-06-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-07-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-07-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJul 132026-07-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-07-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-31 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-31 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-09-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-09-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-09-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-28 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-09-28 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsOct 19

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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Apr 132026-04-13 00:00:00 UTC2026-04-20 00:00:00 UTC202
Apr 202026-04-20 00:00:00 UTC2026-04-27 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 272026-04-27 00:00:00 UTC2026-05-04 00:00:00 UTC000
May 42026-05-04 00:00:00 UTC2026-05-11 00:00:00 UTC000
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May 182026-05-18 00:00:00 UTC2026-05-25 00:00:00 UTC000
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Jun 292026-06-29 00:00:00 UTC2026-07-06 00:00:00 UTC000
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Aug 242026-08-24 00:00:00 UTC2026-08-31 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 312026-08-31 00:00:00 UTC2026-09-07 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 72026-09-07 00:00:00 UTC2026-09-14 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 142026-09-14 00:00:00 UTC2026-09-21 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 212026-09-21 00:00:00 UTC2026-09-28 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 282026-09-28 00:00:00 UTC2026-10-05 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 52026-10-05 00:00:00 UTC2026-10-12 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 122026-10-12 00:00:00 UTC2026-10-19 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 192026-10-19 00:00:00 UTC2026-10-26 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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ciembor·Apr 17, 2026
I built a small repo of ready-to-use project rules for AI coding agents, based on classic software engineering books. Supported tools: - Codex: AGENTS.md - Cursor: .cursor/rules/.mdc - Claude Code: .claude/rules/.md Books included: 1. A Philosophy of Software Design — John Ousterhout 2. Clean Architecture — Robert C. Martin 3. Clean Code — Robert C. Martin 4. Code Complete — Steve McConnell 5. Designing Data-Intensive Applications — Martin Kleppmann 6. Domain-Driven Design — Eric Evans 7. Domain-Driven Design Distilled — Vaughn Vernon 8. Implementing Domain-Driven Design — Vaughn Vernon 9. Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture — Martin Fowler 10. Refactoring — Martin Fowler 11. Release It! — Michael T. Nygard 12. The Pragmatic Programmer — Andrew Hunt and David Thomas 13. Working Effectively with Legacy Code — Michael Feathers T
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he idea is not to summarize or replace the books, but to turn their engineering principles into practical instructions that can guide agent behavior during implementation, refactoring, review, and testing. Repo: https://github.com/ciembor/agent-rules-books Have fun, Maciej Ciemborowicz
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ciembor·Apr 16, 2026
I built a small repo of ready-to-use project rules for AI coding agents, based on classic software engineering books. Supported tools: - Codex: AGENTS.md - Cursor: .cursor/rules/.mdc - Claude Code: .claude/rules/.md Books included: 1. A Philosophy of Software Design — John Ousterhout 2. Clean Architecture — Robert C. Martin 3. Clean Code — Robert C. Martin 4. Code Complete — Steve McConnell 5. Designing Data-Intensive Applications — Martin Kleppmann 6. Domain-Driven Design — Eric Evans 7. Domain-Driven Design Distilled — Vaughn Vernon 8. Implementing Domain-Driven Design — Vaughn Vernon 9. Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture — Martin Fowler 10. Refactoring — Martin Fowler 11. Release It! — Michael T. Nygard 12. The Pragmatic Programmer — Andrew Hunt and David Thomas 13. Working Effectively with Legacy Code — Michael Feathers T
Read the rest
he idea is not to summarize or replace the books, but to turn their engineering principles into practical instructions that can guide agent behavior during implementation, refactoring, review, and testing. Repo: https://github.com/ciembor/agent-rules-books Have fun, Maciej Ciemborowicz
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