Opinionated rules and skills kit for AI coding agents — guided capability-aware install, AGENTS.md-first rules, skills via skills.sh, and domain Agent/Cursor plugins.

Balakit is the kit Balacode uses to give coding agents a consistent operating system: rules, skills, and plugins that install the same way in Cursor, Claude Code, and other agent hosts.

Challenge

Each agent host has its own rules folder, skill layout, and plugin format. Copy-pasting markdown between repos drifts. Teams need one install path that respects what the host can actually run.

Solution

We shipped a capability-aware CLI and a versioned kit:

  • AGENTS.md-first rules: Repository guidance lives where agents already look, not in a parallel undocumented tree.
  • skills.sh: Skills install through the shared skills pipeline instead of hand-copied folders.
  • Host plugins: Cursor and Claude Code plugin layouts stay in lockstep with the npm package version.
  • Guided install: The CLI asks what the workspace needs instead of dumping every rule into every repo.

Results

Balakit is published as an open-source kit on GitHub so any Balacode repo — and anyone else — can install the same agent operating system.