Rulesync TypeScript

🚀 Sync AI assistant rules across Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, GitHub Copilot, and more!

Rulesync is a powerful CLI tool that helps you maintain consistent AI assistant instructions across all your favorite tools. Compose rules from templates or create custom ones, then generate agent-specific files automatically.

Table of Contents

• Features
• Quick Start
  • Installation
  • Basic Usage
• Two Ways to Create Rules
  • Option 1: Use Templates (Recommended)
  • Option 2: Write Your Own
• Available Templates
  • Base Templates
  • Language Templates
  • Framework Templates
• Supported AI Assistants
• Commands
  • Core Commands
  • Examples
• Configuration
  • Base Rules
  • Agent Management
  • Configuration Files
• Workflow Examples
• Generated File Structure
• Advanced Usage
• Development
• Requirements
• Contributing
• License
• Credits

Features

• 🎯 Template-based composition - Choose from 28+ pre-built rule templates
• 🤖 12 AI assistants supported - Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, GitHub Copilot, Gemini, Cline, Junie, OpenAI Codex, Aider, Continue.dev, Amazon Q Developer, Sourcegraph Cody
• 📝 Smart rule generation - One source, multiple agent-specific formats
• 🎨 Flexible composition - Mix templates, local files, and remote URLs
• ⚙️ Selective control - Enable/disable specific assistants
• 📁 Gitignore integration - Automatically manage version control

Quick Start

Installation

npm install -g rulesync-ts

Basic Usage

# 1. See available templates
rulesync templates

# 2. Compose rules from templates
rulesync compose base/clean-code language/typescript framework/react

# 3. Generate AI assistant files
rulesync generate

# 4. Add to gitignore
rulesync gitignore

That's it! You now have consistent rules across all your AI assistants.

Two Ways to Create Rules

Option 1: Use Templates (Recommended)

Use the compose command to build your rulesync.md from pre-built templates:

# Compose from templates - creates rulesync.md automatically
rulesync compose base/clean-code language/typescript framework/react
rulesync generate

Option 2: Write Your Own

Create a rulesync.md file manually with your custom rules:

# My AI Assistant Rules

You are a helpful AI assistant. Please follow these guidelines:

1. Always be concise and clear in your responses
2. If you're unsure about something, say so

## Code Guidelines

- Follow clean code principles
- Add comments for complex logic

Then generate AI assistant files from your custom rules:

rulesync generate

Both approaches create the same result - AI assistant files generated from your rulesync.md source file!

Available Templates

Base Templates

• clean-code - Robert Martin's Clean Code principles
• no-sycophancy - Direct, honest communication without excessive praise
• security - Security best practices and guidelines
• testing - Testing strategies and methodologies
• documentation - Documentation standards
• performance - Performance optimization guidelines
• accessibility - Web accessibility standards

Language Templates

• typescript - TypeScript best practices and patterns
• python - Python coding standards and idioms
• go - Go language conventions and practices
• java - Java development guidelines
• rust - Rust programming patterns
• csharp - C# development guidelines and patterns
• php - PHP coding standards and best practices
• swift - Swift programming language conventions
• kotlin - Kotlin development best practices

Framework Templates

• react - React component and hook patterns
• django - Django web framework conventions
• express - Express.js API development practices
• nextjs - Next.js development guidelines
• angular - Angular application patterns
• vue - Vue.js component guidelines
• nodejs - Node.js server development patterns
• rails - Ruby on Rails framework conventions
• spring - Spring Boot Java framework patterns
• laravel - Laravel PHP framework best practices
• flutter - Flutter mobile development guidelines
• fastapi - FastAPI Python framework patterns
• svelte - Svelte framework development practices

Supported AI Assistants

Rulesync generates configuration files for these AI assistants. You can enable/disable specific assistants as needed.

| Assistant | File Location | | ---------------------- | ------------------------------------- | | Claude | CLAUDE.md | | Cursor | .cursorrules | | Windsurf | .windsurfrules | | GitHub Copilot | .github/copilot-instructions.md | | Gemini CLI | GEMINI.md | | Cline | .clinerules/project.md | | Junie | .junie/guidelines.md | | OpenAI Codex | AGENTS.md | | Aider | .aider.conf.yml | | Continue.dev | .continue/config.json | | Amazon Q Developer | .amazonq/rules/coding-guidelines.md | | Sourcegraph Cody | .vscode/cody.json |

Commands

Core Commands

# List available templates
rulesync templates

# Compose rules from templates and files
rulesync compose <template1> <template2> [files...]

# Generate AI assistant files
rulesync generate [options]

# Manage AI assistants
rulesync agents [enable|disable] [assistant]

# View configuration
rulesync config

# Add files to .gitignore
rulesync gitignore

# Set base rules
rulesync base [path]

Note: For details on managing AI assistants, see Agent Management

Examples

# Single template
rulesync compose base/clean-code

# Multiple templates
rulesync compose base/clean-code language/python framework/django

# Mix templates with custom files
rulesync compose base/security ./company-guidelines.md

# Remote URLs
rulesync compose base/clean-code https://example.com/team-rules.md

# Generate with options
rulesync generate --force
rulesync generate --from ./custom-rules.md

Configuration

Base Rules

Set persistent base rules that are included in all generations. These work alongside templates and custom files:

# From a URL
rulesync base https://company.com/coding-standards.md

# From a local file
rulesync base ./team-guidelines.md

# View current base rules
rulesync base

Agent Management

Control which AI assistants are active:

# List all agents
rulesync agents

# Disable specific agent
rulesync agents disable cursor

# Enable specific agent
rulesync agents enable cursor

Configuration Files

• Local: ./.rulesync/rulesync.json (project-specific)
• Global: ~/.config/rulesync/rulesync.json (user-wide)

Rulesync automatically detects if you're in a project directory (has package.json or composer.json) and uses local configuration accordingly.

Workflow Examples

These examples demonstrate different ways to use rulesync. For a complete command reference, see Commands.

For a TypeScript React Project

rulesync compose base/clean-code base/testing language/typescript framework/react
rulesync generate --force
rulesync gitignore

For a Python Django API

rulesync compose base/clean-code base/security language/python framework/django
rulesync generate --force
rulesync gitignore

With Custom Company Rules

rulesync base https://company.com/coding-standards.md
rulesync compose base/clean-code language/typescript ./project-specific.md
rulesync generate --force

Generated File Structure

After running rulesync generate, your project will have files for all supported AI assistants:

project/
├── rulesync.md                           # Composed source rules
├── CLAUDE.md                            # Claude AI rules
├── .cursorrules                         # Cursor IDE rules
├── .windsurfrules                       # Windsurf IDE rules
├── GEMINI.md                           # Gemini CLI rules
├── AGENTS.md                           # OpenAI Codex rules
├── .github/
│   └── copilot-instructions.md         # GitHub Copilot rules
├── .clinerules/
│   └── project.md                      # Cline rules
├── .junie/
│   └── guidelines.md                   # Junie rules
├── .aider.conf.yml                     # Aider rules
├── .continue/
│   └── config.json                     # Continue.dev rules
├── .amazonq/
│   └── rules/
│       └── coding-guidelines.md        # Amazon Q Developer rules
├── .vscode/
│   └── cody.json                       # Sourcegraph Cody rules
├── .gitignore                          # Updated with AI assistant files
└── .rulesync/
    └── rulesync.json                   # Local configuration

Advanced Usage

Custom Source Files

By default, rulesync uses rulesync.md (created via templates or manually). You can also specify custom source files:

# Generate from custom file instead of rulesync.md
rulesync generate --from ./api-guidelines.md

# Force overwrite without prompts
rulesync generate --force

# Overwrite existing files (with prompts)
rulesync generate --overwrite

Composition Options

# Force composition without prompts
rulesync compose --force base/clean-code language/go

# Interactive composition (shows available templates)
rulesync compose

Configuration Management

# View detailed configuration
rulesync config

# Reset to defaults (disables no agents)
rm .rulesync/rulesync.json

Development

# Clone and setup
git clone https://github.com/dmccown1500/rulesync-ts.git
cd rulesync-ts
npm install

# Development
npm run dev          # Run in development mode
npm run build        # Build the project
npm test             # Run tests
npm run lint         # Lint code
npm run format       # Format code

Requirements

• Node.js >= 18.0.0

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Credits

This is a TypeScript rewrite of the original rulesync project by JP Caparas, enhanced with modern template-based composition and expanded AI assistant support.

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