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📐 Share rules and skills across agents

Reuse one AGENTS.md and one set of skills across Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Gemini CLI instead of maintaining copies.

4 steps2 alternatives2 stacks · 3 problemschecked 2026-10-22

How to do it

  1. 01Put one AGENTS.md at the repo root with build/test commands and conventions
  2. 02Have tool-specific files (CLAUDE.md etc.) point to AGENTS.md instead of duplicating it
  3. 03Keep skills in the repo per the SKILL.md convention, shared and version-pinned
  4. 04Scan new skills before enabling them

What it costs

Free start

Rules files and most skills are free

Individual paid

Depends on your coding tool subscription

Team / enterprise

No extra cost beyond maintenance time

Prices change; the vendor’s official page wins. Subscriptions compared · API prices

Alternatives: which to pick

OptionChoose it when
AGENTS.mdCross-tool rules
Anthropic SkillsOfficial skill examples

✓ Good fit

  • People or teams using several coding agents

✗ Not a good fit

  • One tool, no sharing

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Software that helps

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👩‍💻 Coding agents & AI IDEs📐 Skills & rules

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Needs in this scenario

  • DEV-11Managing rules, prompts and config files (AGENTS.md)

    Developers · People search for: agents.md example; claude.md vs agents.md; cursor rules to agents.md

  • AGT-02Rules and skill files are not portable across agents

    Agent products & builders · People search for: share rules across cursor claude code codex; skill.md format

  • AGT-06Platform consistency: Windows/WSL/Linux desktop

    Agent products & builders · People search for: codex windows support; claude desktop linux; wsl ai agent

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