Interactively install & configure AI coding standards

Created on 30 August 2025, 12 days ago

Problem/Motivation

While AI-assisted coding is becoming increasingly common, the Drupal developer experience in this area is still fragmented. Other frameworks, like Laravel, are already offering structured, version-specific AI starter kits (e.g. Laravel Boost) that help developers integrate AI into their workflows effectively.

In Drupal, there are some existing efforts such as:

the Claude Code module →
MCP Servers with documentation like: https://context7.com/drupal/drupal
Fragmented custom rules like: https://cursor.directory/rules/drupal, and https://github.com/ivangrynenko/cursorrules

These solutions are often custom, tool-specific, lack centralized guidance, and don’t easily connect AI tools to “living” Drupal coding standards, API documentation, and version-specific best practices. This makes it harder for developers to ensure that AI-generated code is high quality, adheres to current standards, and is compatible with the targeted Drupal version.

Proposed resolution

Create a tool-agnostic AI developer starter kit for Drupal, inspired by Laravel Boost, that provides a central integration point for AI coding assistants and is easy to setup.

1. Use Symfony Console (which is installed with Drupal already)
2. Make sure it can install for Claude, Cursor and Junie (we can add others later)
3. Base it on a single file, which should make it easier to maintain in the future, even if Cursor (and others) allow for multiple files.

✨ Feature request

Status

Active

Component

Code

Created by

🇳🇱Netherlands ronaldtebrake

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Issue created by @ronaldtebrake
Comment 12 days ago →
🇳🇱Netherlands ronaldtebrake
Comment 12 days ago →
🇳🇱Netherlands ronaldtebrake
https://git.drupalcode.org/project/surge/-/commit/6cefbea851cbfccdc25370...
Comment 11 days ago →
🇳🇱Netherlands ronaldtebrake
It's done.

composer surge-standards should give you an interactive way of writing the standards to the right place. Currently we support Junie, Cursor and Claude.

We currently also have composer surge-scan which allows you to dry run this, it will create a standards folder with the coding standards markdown file in it which you can then copy paste to any other format if you need.

We will have to determine what standards we want to release with here: 📌 Create default Drupal coding standards and guidelines Active

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