Production-ready .claude/ scaffolding for enforcing professional software engineering standards with Claude Code.
claude-playbook is easy to set up with trust notes worth reviewing. Check agent compatibility and use-case fit before adding it to your workflow.
Repository setup guidance
gh repo clone smartwhale8/claude-playbookOpen or clone the template repository.
Move the relevant AGENTS.md content into your project root.
Update project-specific commands, environment rules, and sensitive areas.
Claude Playbook is a template that adds rules, skills, agents, and hooks to your project so Claude Code follows best practices. It prevents common issues like dead code, N+1 queries, and inconsistent patterns. Just drop it into a new repo and start building with guardrails from day one.
Claude Playbook is a production-ready .claude/ directory template that enforces professional software engineering standards in any project using Claude Code. It provides a comprehensive set of rules (loaded every session), skills (on-demand workflows), agents (specialized reviewers), and hooks (automated checks) — all configured and ready to use. The template includes rules for code quality, engineering principles, architecture, API design, error handling, security, database design, migrations, frontend consistency, testing, performance, git workflow, and LLM prompts. Skills include pre-commit code review, issue resolution, and PR review. Agents include a security reviewer. Hooks include auto-linting after file edits. This template prevents bandaid fixes, isolated components, dead code, N+1 queries, and hardcoded secrets. It is an independent community project not affiliated with Anthropic.
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Enforce coding standards in a new project from day one
Prevent common issues like dead code, N+1 queries, and security vulnerabilities
Automate code review and PR review processes with Claude Code
Standardize architecture and API design across a team
Quickly scaffold a production-ready development environment
Agent instruction templates should be reviewed before use because they can change coding-agent behavior across an entire repository.
Avoid copying rules that grant broad filesystem, shell, network, or secret access without adapting them to your project.
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A drop-in AGENTS.md file that makes coding agents behave like senior engineers, eliminating sycophancy and forcing verification.
Convert and sync AI coding-agent rule files between formats with zero dependencies.
Generate AGENTS.md from your codebase in one command. Free, instant, no API key.
Production-ready .claude/ scaffolding for enforcing professional software engineering standards with Claude Code.
Software engineers using Claude Code, Tech leads setting up project standards, DevOps engineers automating code quality
The setup section provides repository-level starting guidance, not a guarantee of an independently verified installation. Check the official README and release notes.
Agent instruction templates should be reviewed before use because they can change coding-agent behavior across an entire repository. Avoid copying rules that grant broad filesystem, shell, network, or secret access without adapting them to your project.
Similar or complementary options to evaluate include agents-md, agentsync, agentseed.
Jun 7, 2026
2 security/trust notes recorded.
Setup difficulty is 1/5.