Cline Rules Pack: 90 Rules + Skills, Memory Bank, Checker

Why skills: Cline rules only support one condition (paths). Guidance that should load "when I'm writing tests" or "when I'm reviewing" has no file pattern, so it ships as a Cline skill: about 100 tokens until it is needed, instead of a rule that costs tokens on every request.

python3 tools/clinekit.py detect /path/to/project
python3 tools/clinekit.py install /path/to/project --memory-bank --dry-run
python3 tools/clinekit.py install /path/to/project --memory-bank
python3 tools/clinekit.py check /path/to/project

Writes .clinerules/*.md (rules) and .cline/skills/<name>/SKILL.md (skills); --memory-bank adds .clinerules/memory-bank.md and memory-bank/. Existing files are never overwritten (kept); --force overwrites with a .bak copy. --stack django --stack supabase to choose stacks.

The pack ships memory-bank/: the Memory Bank rule plus the 6 core files (projectbrief, productContext, systemPatterns, techContext, activeContext, progress). The rule is always on; the files are read at task start.

Install with --memory-bank, which adds .clinerules/memory-bank.md and memory-bank/. clinekit.py also has memory-bank init.

The checker flags a Memory Bank rule without a memory-bank/ folder or with missing core files.

• YAML errors in front matter (Cline then shows the raw front matter and the rule is never conditional)
• paths written as a string instead of a list, empty lists, bad globs (backslashes, ./, src**)
• Cursor (globs, alwaysApply, description) or Kiro (inclusion, fileMatchPattern) keys that Cline ignores
• the same rule in .clinerules/ and .cline/rules/, legacy single-file .clinerules
• skills: name must match the folder and be kebab-case, description required and at most 1024 characters, SKILL.md under about 5k tokens
• secrets in committed rules; Memory Bank rule without a memory-bank/ folder or with missing core files
• the token budget of always-on rules

Exit code 1 on errors; --json available.

./tools/demo.sh: installs the Django set + Memory Bank into a copy of examples/django-app, checks it, shows what activates for orders/models.py, checks examples/broken-rules (6 typical mistakes), converts examples/cursor-rules.

./run_tests.sh (16 tests, Python 3.9+): every stack installs into a clean project with zero errors and zero warnings and under 5k always-on tokens; skill names match folders; no foreign front matter; key stack facts present; the broken example produces each expected error; install is idempotent and never overwrites; match, convert (Cursor and Kiro), memory-bank init and the demo.

• Cline decides activation from open files, visible tabs, mentioned and edited paths; match only checks the globs, so confirm with Cline's "Conditional rules applied" notice.
• Skills load when Cline matches the description; that is not deterministic. Use /skill-name to force one.
• Written against Cline's rules and skills docs as of November 2026. Rules guide the agent; review what it writes.