Payo creates project rules for Claude from a short interview
Payo is a CLI tool that creates a project-specific CLAUDE.md file and .claude/skills folder after a short setup interview. The problem is that Claude often fills in missing project decisions by itself when it is not told where files should go, how code should be structured, how tests should work, or how commits should look. Payo asks about the project’s framework, database, data layer, , testing, and coding rules, then turns those answers into instructions Claude can follow from the .
If is installed, Payo uses Claude to write richer rules; otherwise it uses templates. The same interview can also create setup files for Cursor, Copilot, Codex, Windsurf, and . It supports 25 , 24 data layers, 4 databases, and projects in TypeScript/, Python, Go, and Rust.
It can be run with npx or bunx, and it is still an early solo project.
Key points
- Payo generates CLAUDE.md and .claude/skills from a short interview.
- It asks about stack, database, , testing, and project conventions.
- It can use for richer rules or fall back to templates.
- It can also write setup files for Cursor, Copilot, Codex, Windsurf, and .
- It is early-stage and built by one person.