Claude Md Coding Guidelines — AI skill for Claude Code
A drop-in CLAUDE.md of behavioral guidelines that reduce common AI coding mistakes.
How to install Claude Md Coding Guidelines
This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no
exact command to give. Open oliwoodman/claude-md-coding-guidelines and copy the folder into
~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.
What Claude Md Coding Guidelines does
A drop-in CLAUDE.md of behavioral guidelines that reduce common AI coding mistakes.
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README
CLAUDE.md — Coding Guidelines
A drop-in `CLAUDE.md` of behavioral guidelines that reduce the most common AI coding mistakes: overcomplicating solutions, editing code it wasn't asked to touch, and guessing instead of asking.
Four rules:
- Think Before Coding — surface assumptions and tradeoffs before implementing.
- Simplicity First — the minimum code that solves the problem, nothing speculative.
- Surgical Changes — touch only what you must, clean up only your own mess.
- Goal-Driven Execution — define success criteria, then loop until verified.
Install
Drop [`CLAUDE.md`](./CLAUDE.md) into the root of your project, or merge it into your existing `CLAUDE.md`. For Claude Code, you can also place it at `~/.claude/CLAUDE.md` to apply it across every project.
Or just open a new Claude chat and ask it to set this up for you — see the walkthrough at [oliwoodman.com/claude-code/coding-guidelines](https://oliwoodman.com/claude-code/coding-guidelines).
Credit
Based on the `CLAUDE.md` from [multica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skills](https://github.com/multica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skills). This repo packages it to be easy to find, install, and share.
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