Rules with ruler
Every project has one source of rules in .ruler/AGENTS.md: the stack, structure, naming, commit format, test style and the oRPC, drizzle and better-auth conventions. ruler turns it into what each agent reads:
| Agent | Files |
|---|---|
| Claude Code | CLAUDE.md, .mcp.json |
| Cursor | AGENTS.md, .cursor/mcp.json |
| opencode | AGENTS.md, opencode.json |
| Zed | AGENTS.md, .zed/settings.json |
| oh-my-pi | AGENTS.md |
.ruler/ruler.toml lists the agents and the MCP servers every one of them gets: context7, shadcn and vercel. The generated files are committed, so a fresh clone works without ruler. Keep the *.ruler-generated marker files next to them, ruler uses those to know what it owns.
findplate create runs ruler apply at the end. If ruler can't be fetched (offline), it skips with a note. Skip it on purpose with --no-agents.
To change a rule, edit .ruler/AGENTS.md and run:
pnpm agentsSkills
The workflow around a ticket ships as project skills in .ruler/skills, and ruler copies them into each agent's skills folder:
| Skill | What it does |
|---|---|
dive-ticket | research an issue before any plan or code |
plan-ticket | a blocker comment, or a detailed plan |
ship | merge main, clean, check, push, open the PR, watch CI |
review-ticket | review a PR and draft comments, never posts |
triage-reviews | check review comments against the code, draft replies |
check-touched | lint, types and tests for the touched workspaces only |
clean-pr | strip restating comments from the branch diff |
They work with GitHub issues and the Project board, and only commit or push when you invoke ship.
Public skills
findplate create also installs recommended public skills with the skills cli, listed in the skills field of the template's findplate.json: vercel-react-best-practices, vercel-composition-patterns, web-design-guidelines, shadcn, next-best-practices, turborepo, better-auth-best-practices, find-skills, and ai-sdk when the AI module is on. They land in .agents/skills and .claude/skills with a skills-lock.json.
Offline or a repo moved? That pack is skipped with a note and the rest still install. Skip all of it with --no-skills.
Today
Agents can already drive the generator itself with no prompts, see agent mode. The Next apps also carry an AGENTS.md that points agents to the bundled Next docs.