Agent Instructions

by nimadorostkar

Agent Instructions is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by nimadorostkar in Claude-Skills-collection.

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Install Agent Instructions

Copy Agent Instructions into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/nimadorostkar/Claude-Skills-collection/tree/main/skills/agent-tooling/agent-instructions ~/.claude/skills/agent-instructions

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/nimadorostkar/Claude-Skills-collection.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/agent-tooling/agent-instructions/SKILL.md in nimadorostkar/Claude-Skills-collection
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/agent-instructions
Collection: One of 50 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 3670 skills

What Agent Instructions does

Write short, accurate instruction files for coding agents, including commands, conventions, and hard constraints. Use it when setting up or refreshing CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, or similar files.

Agent Instructions is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Agent Instructions comes from a repository tagged ai, claude, claude-skills and skills.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Agent Instructions

Purpose

Write the project instruction file an agent reads before touching the codebase. Its job is to convey what the agent cannot infer and would get wrong — not to restate what it can read from the code.

When to Use

Setting up a repository for agent-assisted development.
An agent that repeatedly makes the same wrong assumption about your project.
Refreshing an instruction file that has drifted from reality.

Capabilities

Structuring project instructions for an agent audience.
Identifying what an agent cannot infer.
Encoding conventions, commands, and constraints.
Keeping instructions accurate as the project evolves.

Inputs

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Agent Instructions

What else does nimadorostkar publish alongside Agent Instructions?
Agent Instructions is one of 50 skills that DirSkills catalogs from nimadorostkar/Claude-Skills-collection, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include API Design, Agent Design and Agent Memory. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Agent Instructions does, and is maintained by nimadorostkar in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the nimadorostkar/Claude-Skills-collection page.
How does Agent Instructions compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Agent Instructions ranks #3588 by stars among the 3670 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Agent Instructions against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.