built an open source CLI that auto generates AI setup files for your projects just hit 150 stars

Reddit r/artificial / 3/29/2026

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Key Points

  • A developer shared an open-source CLI called ai-setup that scans a project’s codebase and auto-generates AI configuration files like .cursorrules, claude.md, and Codex-related configs.
  • The tool detects common tech stacks (TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, React, and Next) to reduce the manual, repetitive effort of creating “context files” for each new project.
  • Users can run the CLI via npx ai-setup, with the author claiming setup takes about 10 seconds instead of roughly 30 minutes.
  • The project has reached 150 GitHub stars, with 90 PRs merged and 20 issues, and the author is inviting more contributors.
  • An accompanying community channel (Discord) is provided to support adoption and contributions.

hey everyone, been working on this side project called ai-setup and just hit a milestone i wanted to share

150 github stars, 90 PRs merged, 20 issues. feels surreal ngl

what it does: its a cli tool that scans your codebase and auto generates all your AI config files. .cursorrules, claude.md, codex config, you name it. detects typescript, python, go, rust, react, next automatically so you dont gotta do the boring setup every single project

just npx ai-setup and youre done in like 10 seconds instead of wasting 30 mins writing context files manually

would love more contributors to hop in, got a pretty active community going

repo: https://github.com/caliber-ai-org/ai-setup

discord: https://discord.com/invite/u3dBECnHYs

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