airul

Airul

Airul generates context for AI agents (AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, etc.) from your docs. You can link multiple text files - project description, user docs, and other materials useful for agents - and generate a single global context file referenced by your AI agent.

How to use

Starting a new project

# Install as a CLI tool
npm install -g airul

# Create a new project and open in Cursor
airul new my-project "Create a React app with authentication" --cursor

# This will:
# 1. Create my-project directory
# 2. Initialize git repository
# 3. Create initial documentation
# 4. Generate AI context files
# 5. Open in Cursor (and other editors if specified)

Core Commands

airul init

Initializes a new project:

• Creates .airul.json config if it doesn't exist
• Creates initial TODO-AI.md if it doesn't exist
• Generates rules from the new configuration
• Initializes git repository (if not already initialized)

airul gen

Generates AI context files:

• If .airul.json exists: generates rules using the existing configuration
• If .airul.json doesn't exist: runs init first, then generates rules
• Always uses the most recent content from your source files

Adding to existing project

# Install as a CLI tool
npm install -g airul

# Initialize airul in your project
airul init 

# This will:
# 1. Add airul as dev dependency
# 2. Create .airul.json config
# 3. Create initial documentation
# 4. Generate AI context files

Keeping context updated

After making changes to your project, you have these options to update the AI context:

# Run this after making changes to your documentation
airul gen

You can run this command directly if you installed Airul globally, or use npx airul gen if installed as a dev dependency.

For automatic updates, add this to your package.json:

{
  "devDependencies": {
    "airul": "latest"
  },
  "scripts": {
    "prestart": "airul gen",
    "prebuild": "airul gen"
  }
}

This way, your AI context will always be updated before running or building your project.

All approaches will update context when you:

• Add/modify documentation
• Install new dependencies
• Change project structure

Supported Editors

Airul supports multiple AI-powered editors. You can enable them during initialization or in existing projects:

Editor	Output File	Flag to Enable	Configuration
Cursor	AGENTS.md	--cursor	"cursor": true
GitHub Copilot	.github/copilot-instructions.md	--copilot	"copilot": true
Windsurf	.windsurfrules	--windsurf	"windsurf": true
Claude	CLAUDE.md	--claude	"claude": true
Cline	.clinerules	--cline	"cline": true
Codex	AGENTS.md	--codex	"codex": true

Example: Enabling editors during initialization:

# Enable Cursor and Claude
airul init --cursor --claude

# Enable all editors
airul init --cursor --copilot --windsurf --claude --cline --codex

Example: Enabling editors in an existing project:

# Add Claude support to an existing project
airul init --claude
# OR
airul gen --claude

# Enable multiple editors at once
airul init --cursor --copilot --claude
# OR
airul gen --cursor --copilot --claude

# Add Codex support
airul init --codex
# OR
airul gen --codex

You can use either airul init or airul gen with editor flags to enable editors in an existing project. Both commands will update your configuration.

Example: Configuration in .airul.json:

{
  "sources": ["README.md", "docs/*.md"],
  "output": {
    "cursor": true,
    "copilot": true,
    "windsurf": false,
    "claude": true,
    "cline": false,
    "codex": false
  }
}

Features

• 🎯 Generate AI context files for multiple tools:
  • GitHub Copilot (.github/copilot-instructions.md)
  • Cursor (AGENTS.md)
  • Windsurf (.windsurfrules)
  • Claude (CLAUDE.md)
  • Cline VSCode Extension (.clinerules)
  • Codex (AGENTS.md)
• 📝 Works with any text files (markdown, txt, etc.)
• ⚙️ Simple configuration

License

MIT