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Introducing UDS — one playbook of dev standards your AI assistant actually follows

#ai #opensource #devtools #productivity

Every team has "standards" — a wiki page nobody reads, a linter config, tribal knowledge. The moment you switch stacks, start a new repo, or hand work to an AI assistant, consistency resets to zero.

Universal Dev Standards (UDS) is an attempt to fix that: a language- and framework-agnostic set of development standards plus AI-native workflows, installable in one command.

What it is

  • 50+ standards (commits, testing, ADRs, security, API design, …) written to be language- and framework-agnostic.
  • 50+ skills / slash commands that turn those standards into actions: /discover, /sdd (spec-driven dev), /reverse (legacy code), /commit, /tdd, /security, and more.
  • AI-native: it's built to drive AI coding tools (like Claude Code), so your assistant follows the same reviewable standards you would.

Try it 

npm i -g universal-dev-standards
cd your-project
uds init
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uds init wires the standards into your AI tool's config. Then, in your editor:

  • /discover to understand an unfamiliar codebase
  • /sdd to build a feature from specs
  • /commit for a clean, conventional commit

MIT + CC BY 4.0, open source. Repo and docs: github.com/AsiaOstrich/universal-dev-standards

Feedback welcome — especially what standards or workflows you'd want next.

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