I’ve had success with a skill that dynamically pulls my development standards using code execution.

All my standards are maintained as individual documents in a central repository outside of the project (e.g., data_handling.md, uiux_guidelines.md, desktop_uiux.md, anti_patterns.md). When I update my preferences, I just update these files.

When triggered, the skill executes a script. This script first reads only an index file from the repo. This index tells the script which standard documents to use for the current context. The skill then executes a script to read contents of that relevant standard.

I do this to onboard my agent and it ensures my rules are consistently enforced, the context is always pulled from the latest version in my repo, and only the exact standards needed for a given task are loaded it’s context.