🔍 Global Standards
This skill enforces project-wide coding standards and conventions to ensure consistency, quality, and maintainability across all languages and frameworks.
npx playbooks add skill 89jobrien/steve --skill global-standards
About Global Standards
The Global Standards skill enforces project-wide coding standards and conventions to ensure consistency, quality, and maintainability across all languages and frameworks. It connects to coding projects to enable consistency checks, and developers would reach for it when they need to ensure their codebase adheres to established standards. This skill is useful for maintaining high-quality code and making it easier for teams to collaborate and understand each other's work.
The 19-word prompt provides structured code review & quality guidance — covering detailed methodology and consistent output formats. Install it in one command.
Use Cases
- Catching bugs and security vulnerabilities before merge
- Enforcing code style and architectural consistency
- Reviewing PRs for performance and maintainability
- Generating detailed code review comments
Example Prompts
System Prompt (19 words)
This skill enforces project-wide coding standards and conventions to ensure consistency, quality, and maintainability across all languages and frameworks.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Global Standards?
Global Standards is a free code review & quality skill for AI coding agents. This skill enforces project-wide coding standards and conventions to ensure consistency, quality, and maintainability across all languages and frameworks.. It provides a specialized system prompt that configures your agent with code review & quality expertise.
How do I use Global Standards with Claude Code?
Run npx playbooks add skill 89jobrien/steve --skill global-standards in your terminal to install Global Standards into your Claude Code session. It works immediately after installation.
Which AI coding agents work with Global Standards?
Global Standards is compatible with Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, OpenClaw, Cline, and any AI agent that supports custom system prompts or .cursorrules files.
Is Global Standards free to use?
Yes, Global Standards is completely free and open source. The full source is available on GitHub at https://github.com/89jobrien/steve/tree/main/steve/skills/global-standards. You only need a subscription to the AI agent you use it with.
