[FEATURE] Add rules support to Plugins

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+1 this would be super useful to us

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For distribution within the company, this is perfect, everything in one place.

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We absolutely need rules in CC Plugins so that we can get rid of our ugly install script that symlinks rules into ~/.claude/rules to distribute general rules that we have defined within our team. I can already package skills and agents and MCP servers and hooks in a plugin, so the only thing that's still missing is rules, and at that point we can finally properly distribute everything using plugins and get rid of all our custom distribution mechanisms we've built so far.

Thank you!

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We need this too

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please? 🙏🏻 🥹 i really need this for my plugin

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rules support inside plugins would be super useful for us too

This feature is really useful. Any plan to release?

I'd glad deliver rules to claude code via plugings.

Please consider supporting this.

+1 this would be incredibly useful for our team as well!

This would be really useful for our organisation as well :)

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Related issue with partial workaround: #39925

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Any news related to this? Rules not being bundlable inside plugins is a huge bummer :(

Our team needs this for context we want always present. E.g. a python-style-guide plugin to install with rules.

Workaround is using a SessionStart hook to copy it:

hooks/hooks.json

{
  "description": "Copies bundled rules into the user's rules dir on session start",
  "hooks": {
    "SessionStart": [
      {
        "hooks": [
          {
            "type": "command",
            "command": "bash \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/copy-rules.sh\"",
            "timeout": 30
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
}

hooks/copy-rules.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail

# Resolve the plugin root from the script's own location
SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
PLUGIN_ROOT="$(dirname "$SCRIPT_DIR")"
SRC="$PLUGIN_ROOT/rules"
DEST="$HOME/.claude/rules"

mkdir -p "$DEST"

# Namespace the copied files. Files already named after the plugin are copied verbatim so the prefix isn't doubled.
PLUGIN="python-style-guide"
if [ -d "$SRC" ]; then
  for f in "$SRC"/*.md; do
    [ -e "$f" ] || continue
    name="$(basename "$f")"
    case "$name" in
      "$PLUGIN"*) cp -f "$f" "$DEST/$name" ;;
      *)          cp -f "$f" "$DEST/$PLUGIN-$name" ;;
    esac
  done
fi

echo '{"continue": true, "suppressOutput": true}'