Best rules & instructions for developer tools.
3 rules & instructions in Developer tools. The top 3 are ranked by public GitHub stars, collected October 5, 2026; the rest are listed below them. Coding agents, IDE integrations, repositories, CI and the tooling that surrounds them.
| # | Listing | Category | Stars | Forks | Last push |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awesome-cursorrules Hundreds of reusable Cursor rules files, organised by framework, language and task. | Developer tools | 40.9k | 3.5k | May 30, 2026 |
| 2 | Awesome GitHub Copilot GitHub’s community collection of Copilot instructions, agents, skills, hooks, workflows and plugins. | Developer tools | 39.7k | 5.1k | Oct 4, 2026 |
| 3 | AGENTS.md A README for agents: one predictable file that gives coding agents the build steps, tests and conventions of a project. | Developer tools | 24.8k | 1.9k | Sep 10, 2026 |
Questions and answers
What is the most-starred rules file for developer tools?
awesome-cursorrules, with 40,879 public GitHub stars as of October 5, 2026. Hundreds of reusable Cursor rules files, organised by framework, language and task.
How many rules & instructions for developer tools are listed?
3 on RUAGENTIC, 3 of them ranked by stars and 0 listed without a public GitHub repository or without collected metrics.
How is this list ranked?
By public GitHub star count, read hourly from the repository each listing links to, last collected October 5, 2026. Stars measure attention on GitHub, not quality or safety. Listings that share one repository appear once. Sponsorship never changes a rank.
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