Creating Claude Rules

Creating Claude Rules is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by AgentWorkforce in relay.

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Install Creating Claude Rules

Copy Creating Claude Rules 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/AgentWorkforce/relay/tree/main/.claude/skills/creating-claude-rules-skill ~/.claude/skills/creating-claude-rules-skill

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/AgentWorkforce/relay.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: .claude/skills/creating-claude-rules-skill/SKILL.md in AgentWorkforce/relay
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/creating-claude-rules-skill
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Creating Claude Rules does

Creating Claude Rules helps you create and fix .claude/rules/ files with the correct paths frontmatter, quoted glob patterns, and Claude-specific formatting. Use it when migrating Cursor rules or organizing project-scoped instructions.

Creating Claude Rules is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Creating Claude Rules comes from a repository tagged agent, agent-collaboration, agent-communication, agent-skills and agentic-ai.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Creating new rules in .claude/rules/
Fixing rules that use wrong frontmatter (globs instead of paths)
Migrating Cursor rules to Claude format
Organizing project-specific conventions

Quick Reference

Field	Claude	Cursor
Path patterns	`paths`	`globs`
Always apply	Omit `paths`	`alwaysApply: true`
Description	Not documented	`description`

Frontmatter

Path-Scoped Rules

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

Frequently asked about Creating Claude Rules

What else does AgentWorkforce publish alongside Creating Claude Rules?
Creating Claude Rules is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from AgentWorkforce/relay, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Agent Relay, Agent Relay and Animation Review. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Creating Claude Rules does, and is maintained by AgentWorkforce in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the AgentWorkforce/relay page.
How does Creating Claude Rules compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Creating Claude Rules ranks #1609 by stars among the 2451 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 Creating Claude Rules against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.