# agent-style

> 21 writing rules for AI coding and writing agents. Drop-in for Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, Cursor, and Aider, so their output reads like a tech pro.

- **URL**: https://www.freshcrate.ai/projects/agent-style
- **Author**: yzhao062
- **Category**: AI Agents
- **Latest version**: `v0.3.5` (2026-04-29)
- **License**: Unknown
- **Source**: https://github.com/yzhao062/agent-style
- **Language**: Python
- **GitHub**: 196 stars, 8 forks
- **Registry**: github (`yzhao062/agent-style`)
- **Tags**: `ai-agents`, `llm`, `prompt-engineering`, `python`, `style-guide`, `technical-writing`, `writing-style`

## Description

21 writing rules for AI coding and writing agents. Drop-in for Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, Cursor, and Aider, so their output reads like a tech pro.

## Recent releases

| Version | Date | Urgency | Changes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `v0.3.5` | 2026-04-29 | High | Fix-forward of v0.3.4 cosmetic dead link + RELEASING.md hardened (mandatory link-check + commit-bound CI-green gate). Content (RULES.md / docs/rule-pack.md / 21 compact rules) byte-equivalent to v0.3.4. anywhere-agents v0.5.7 will pin ref: v0.3.5 + flip from: docs/rule-pack-compact.md to deliver compact rule-pack to consumers. |
| `v0.3.1` | 2026-04-21 | High | ### Fixed  - **Adapter self-verification strings bumped from v0.2.0 to v0.3.1.** The v0.3.0 release bumped the three package version files (`pyproject.toml`, `__init__.py`, `package.json`) but missed the hardcoded `v0.2.0` strings in `agents/*.md`, `agents/*.mdc`, `packages/pypi/agent_style/data/agents/`, `packages/npm/data/agents/`, and the pinned upstream URLs in the same files. `real-agent-smoke` on the v0.3.0 tag caught the handshake mismatch: Claude replied `agent-style v0.2.0 active: 21 |
| `v0.3.0` | 2026-04-21 | High | The v0.3.0 cycle turns the bench from a narrow, API-billable CI job into a full-family, long-form, zero-cost local tool: **5 runners** (claude, copilot, codex, gemini, openai) covering every major CLI-based coding agent, **academic-prose task coverage** (paper abstract / methods / experiments / related work) where AI-tells actually accumulate, and **subscription-first auth** that brings the per-release cost from ~$2.50 to $0. See the per-change entries below.  ### Added  - **Bench runner fam |
| `v0.2.0` | 2026-04-20 | High | # agent-style v0.2.0 — style-review skill + second-pass review loop  Install:  ```bash pip install agent-style            # Python npm install -g agent-style         # Node ```  ## What's new  ### `style-review` skill — opt-in post-hoc review complement  The existing `agent-style enable <tool>` adapters remain the **generation-time soft enforcement** path: the model sees the rules loaded as instructions and is asked to follow them, but can ignore them (as every model can ignore every prompt). v0 |
| `v0.1.1` | 2026-04-20 | High | # agent-style v0.1.1 — Patch  Patch release. One real correctness fix in the npm CLI, plus a bundled content refresh that ships the post-release README polish to `pip install` / `npm install` consumers.  ## Fixed  - **npm CLI: `agent-style rules` truncated at 64 KiB on Linux and macOS** when piped to another command (`\| less`, `\| wc -c`, `\| tee`). The root cause was `process.stdout.write()` returning `false` when the kernel pipe buffer filled and `process.exit()` running before the queued bytes |
| `v0.1.0` | 2026-04-19 | High | # agent-style v0.1.0 — Initial release  *The Elements of Agent Style* — a literature-backed English technical-prose writing ruleset for AI coding and writing agents.  ## What it contains  **21 rules:**  - **12 canonical rules** (`RULE-01` through `RULE-12`) distilled from Strunk & White (1959), Orwell (1946), Pinker (2014), and Gopen & Swan (1990). Each cites its source by chapter, section, or essay rule, verified by the maintainer against the original works. - **9 field-observed rules** (`RULE- |

## Dependency audit

- **Score**: 98/100
- **Total deps**: 0
- **Resolved**: 0
- **Unresolved**: 0
- **License conflicts**: 0
- **Warnings**: 1
- **Scanned**: 2026-05-11

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