The latest articles on DEV Community by AsiaOstrich (@asiaostrich). https://dev.to/asiaostrich https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F3975421%2F277bef48-d7d0-4815-b9f6-7512a713c0da.png https://dev.to/asiaostrich en AsiaOstrich Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:23:16 +0000 https://dev.to/asiaostrich/introducing-uds-one-playbook-of-dev-standards-your-ai-assistant-actually-follows-347n https://dev.to/asiaostrich/introducing-uds-one-playbook-of-dev-standards-your-ai-assistant-actually-follows-347n <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <h2> What it is </h2> <ul> <li>50+ standards (commits, testing, ADRs, security, API design, …) written to be language- and framework-agnostic.</li> <li>50+ skills / slash commands that turn those standards into actions: /discover, /sdd (spec-driven dev), /reverse (legacy code), /commit, /tdd, /security, and more.</li> <li>AI-native: it's built to drive AI coding tools (like Claude Code), so your assistant follows the same reviewable standards you would.</li> </ul> <h2> Try it </h2> <div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight plaintext"><code>npm i -g universal-dev-standards cd your-project uds init </code></pre> </div> <p><code>uds init</code> wires the standards into your AI tool's config. Then, in your editor:</p> <ul> <li> <code>/discover</code> to understand an unfamiliar codebase</li> <li> <code>/sdd</code> to build a feature from specs</li> <li> <code>/commit</code> for a clean, conventional commit</li> </ul> <p>MIT + CC BY 4.0, open source. Repo and docs: github.com/AsiaOstrich/universal-dev-standards</p> <p>Feedback welcome — especially what standards or workflows you'd want next.</p> opensource devtools ai productivity