Opinionated CLAUDE.md template enforcing software engineering best practices for Claude Code.
claude.md-boilerplate is easy to set up with strong trust signals. Check agent compatibility and use-case fit before adding it to your workflow.
gh repo clone leighstillard/claude.md-boilerplateOpen or clone the template repository.
Move the relevant AGENTS.md content into your project root.
Update project-specific commands, environment rules, and sensitive areas.
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This template gives Claude Code a set of rules to follow automatically. It includes a main CLAUDE.md file and detailed standards documents. It helps prevent common issues like hardcoded secrets, missing tests, and poor error handling.
Claude Code Standards Template is a drop-in engineering standards pack for Claude Code. It consists of a root CLAUDE.md file (~75 lines) that is always loaded, and 12 detailed pillar files in docs/standards/ that are loaded on demand. The template enforces security, testing, tenant isolation, structured logging, observability, and error handling. It uses a SCAFFOLD/FLAG pattern to separate what Claude Code should do in-code from what requires external setup. The template is opinionated towards Go, Python 3, TypeScript, AWS serverless, and OpenTelemetry, but can be tailored to any stack. It is designed to prevent production failures such as hardcoded secrets, missing tenant isolation, swallowed exceptions, skipped tests, unstructured logging, and unscoped data access.
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Opinionated CLAUDE.md template enforcing software engineering best practices for Claude Code.
Software engineers using Claude Code for development., Tech leads wanting to enforce best practices across a team., DevOps engineers setting up secure and observable projects.
The setup section provides repository-level starting guidance, not a guarantee of an independently verified installation. Check the official README and release notes.
Does not guarantee compliance; it is a guardrail, not a certification. Claude Code may not always follow rules in long sessions due to context pressure.
Similar or complementary options to evaluate include agents-md, ok-skills, agentsync.
Aug 20, 2026