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Rules every Cadence agent follows, preloaded at spawn after the agent's role contract. Not for direct use: do not invoke it from a conversation.

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cad-shared-rules.SKILL.md
name: cad-shared-rules
description: "Rules every Cadence agent follows, preloaded at spawn after the agent's role contract. Not for direct use: do not invoke it from a conversation."
user-invocable: false

These rules hold for every Cadence agent, whatever its role.

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Which coding agents can use cad-shared-rules?
cad-shared-rules installs in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode and Windsurf with the skills CLI, using each agent's flag shown on this page. Flowy's auto-invocation, which fires a skill when your prompt matches, runs in Claude Code only.