Engineering AI Coding Agents: Understanding Rules vs Skills
Please visit here for more details - https://ayaninsights.com/guestblogs/ai-coding-agents-rules-vs-skills/ In my blog, I explain the difference between Rules and Skills when working with AI coding agents and why both are important for building reliable and scalable development workflows. Rules act as global guardrails that define how an AI agent should behave across every task. They are useful for enforcing coding standards, security requirements, naming conventions, and architecture patterns. For example, a Salesforce rule may require Apex classes to use with sharing , prevent SOQL queries inside loops, and encourage selector or Unit of Work patterns. Skills, on the other hand, are task-specific capabilities loaded only when needed. A skill can guide the agent through repeatable workflows such as creating Apex test classes, building Lightning Web Components, or generating Salesforce Flows. Because Skills are modular and loaded on demand, they help reduce unnecessary context and ...