How To: Set Coding Best Practices

Learn how to use Warp’s Rules to enforce coding style, documentation quality, and consistency across projects.

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Intro

This tutorial teaches you how to create coding Rules that make AI follow your team’s best practices automatically. By specifying formatting, style preferences, and documentation standards, Warp ensures consistent, high-quality code across your repositories.

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The Problem

Developers often have different habits — formatting styles, TypeScript conventions, or comment quality. Without clear rules, AI-generated code can be inconsistent or hard to maintain.

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The Rule Setup

Define Rules that enforce formatting, type preferences, and doc quality.

Example Rule

Rule: Code Authoring Standards
- Always format and check work before returning results.
- Prefer `types` over `interfaces` in TypeScript.
- Apply concise, human-readable JS Docs using the Hemingway test.

The Hemingway test ensures code comments are simple and clear — short sentences, active voice, and no unnecessary complexity.

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Benefits

• Encourages readable, maintainable code

• Improves documentation clarity

• Prevents style drift across AI contributions