Quickstart

Quickstart

Get AIM governance running in under 5 minutes.

1. Install

npm install -g manifest-aim

2. Generate a Manifest

Auto-detect your project’s languages, frameworks, and tooling:

manifest generate

This creates an aim.yaml with rules tailored to your stack. Or start from a template:

manifest init --template enterprise-typescript

3. Validate

manifest validate

Checks your manifest against the AIM v1.0 schema and reports any issues.

4. Inject into Your Agent

manifest wrap claude-code

This generates a CLAUDE.md file with your governance rules, knowledge, and quality gates injected into the agent’s context.

Other platforms:

manifest wrap cursor      # → .cursorrules
manifest wrap windsurf    # → .windsurfrules
manifest wrap generic     # → .aim/aim-context.md

5. Enforce

After the agent produces output, verify compliance:

manifest enforce src/

Output:

  src/api/handler.ts

  ✗ BLOCK src/api/handler.ts:15:10
    eval() is forbidden.
    matched: eval(

  ⚠ WARN src/api/handler.ts:22:1
    Remove console.log before production.
    matched: console.log(

  ✗ 1 blocking violation
  ⚠ 1 warning

6. Add to CI/CD

# .github/workflows/aim.yml
name: AIM Governance
on: [pull_request]
 
jobs:
  enforce:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: RCOLKITT/Manifest-AIM/manifest-aim/action@main
        with:
          manifest: aim.yaml
          target: src/

Next Steps

IntroductionWriting Rules