Stack2Rules Generates Project-Specific CLAUDE.md Files Automatically, Seeks Developer Testers

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Developer Stack2Rules, an open-source Python CLI tool, has released its first public version and is available on GitHub and PyPI. It automatically generates a CLAUDE.md file with framework-specific instructions for AI coding assistants by reading a project's dependency manifests. The tool supports 17 technologies across the Python and JavaScript/web ecosystems, including Django, FastAPI, React, Next.js, and TypeScript. It runs locally without API calls, requires no accounts, and never overwrites existing files. The author is seeking feedback from developers, since the release was validated through regression tests and CI runs but not yet on diverse real-world projects.

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