Supported Editors

aix currently supports 6 AI code editors.

Feature	Cursor	VS Code	Claude Code	Windsurf	Zed	Codex
Rules	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Prompts	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅
MCP	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Skills	✅	✅	✅	✅	⚠️	✅
Hooks	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌

⚠️ = supported via pointer rules (no native Agent Skills)

Feature Mapping

How ai.json concepts map to each editor:

Cursor

• Rules: .cursor/rules/*.mdc (YAML frontmatter with alwaysApply, globs, description fields).
• MCP: .cursor/mcp.json.
• Prompts: .cursor/prompts/.
• Skills: .aix/skills/{name}/ with symlinks from .cursor/skills/.
• Hooks: .cursor/hooks.json. Supports pre_tool_use, post_tool_use, pre_file_read, pre_command, post_command, pre_mcp_tool, post_mcp_tool, post_file_write, pre_prompt, session_start, session_end, and agent_stop.

VS Code (GitHub Copilot)

• Rules: .github/instructions/*.instructions.md.
• MCP: .vscode/mcp.json.
• Prompts: .github/prompts/*.prompt.md.
• Skills: .aix/skills/{name}/ with symlinks from .github/skills/.
• Hooks: .github/hooks/*.json. Supports SessionStart, UserPromptSubmit, PreToolUse, PostToolUse, PreCompact, SubagentStart, SubagentStop, and Stop.

Claude Code

• Rules: .claude/rules/*.md.
• MCP: .mcp.json at project root.
• Prompts: .claude/commands/.
• Skills: .aix/skills/{name}/ with symlinks from .claude/skills/.
• Hooks: .claude/settings.json. Supports pre_tool_use, post_tool_use, pre_file_read, post_file_read, pre_file_write, post_file_write, pre_command, post_command, pre_mcp_tool, post_mcp_tool, pre_prompt, session_start, session_end, and agent_stop.

Windsurf

• Rules: .windsurf/rules/*.md. Supports Cascade’s “auto” activation natively.
• MCP: Global config at ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json.
• Prompts: Cascade prompts.
• Skills: .aix/skills/{name}/ with symlinks from .windsurf/skills/.
• Hooks: .windsurf/hooks.json. Supports pre_file_read, post_file_read, pre_file_write, post_file_write, pre_command, post_command, pre_mcp_tool, post_mcp_tool, pre_prompt, and agent_stop.

Zed

• Rules: .rules file at project root (all rules concatenated).
• MCP: .zed/settings.json.
• Prompts: Not supported.
• Skills: Pointer rules (no native Agent Skills support).

Codex

• Rules: AGENTS.md at project root (and in subdirectories for glob-scoped rules).
• MCP: Global config at ~/.codex/config.toml.
• Prompts: Global at ~/.codex/prompts/.
• Skills: .aix/skills/{name}/ with symlinks from .codex/skills/.