Pathrule
A path-scoped context layer that delivers only the memories, rules and skills relevant to the code in play to Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and any MCP agent — macOS app, CLI, VS Code, iOS and self-hosted.
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Pathrule is a context layer that sits between a codebase and every AI coding assistant working on it, and its organising idea is path scoping. The problem it names is one every team with an AGENTS.md file recognises: the file grows without bound, so the agent either receives everything — most of it irrelevant to the file in play — or receives a truncated slice and forgets the rule that mattered. Pathrule instead attaches each memory, rule, skill and signal to a specific path in the project, and delivers only the ones touching the code currently being edited. Developers reference a path with @ and invoke a skill with ::, and the assistant's reply shows which memories and rules it drew on underneath the answer. The distribution surface is unusually broad for a tool at this price: a native macOS menubar app, a CLI, a VS Code extension that also covers Cursor and Windsurf, an MCP server for any MCP-capable agent, an iOS app for following and answering live runs from a phone, and a self-hosted build that runs inside your own VPC. The engine itself is open source and inspectable. Pre-built bundles of memories, rules and skills ship as Patterns. Claude Code, Codex, Grok, Kimi and Antigravity are named as supported clients.
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