our CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md specifically calls out good engineering books, which I think does help:

From https://github.com/feldera/feldera/blob/main/CLAUDE.md:

- Adhere to rules in "Code Complete" by Steve McConnell.

- Adhere to rules in "The Art of Readable Code" by Dustin Boswell & Trevor Foucher.

- Adhere to rules in "Bugs in Writing: A Guide to Debugging Your Prose" by Lyn Dupre.

- Adhere to rules in "The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition" by William Strunk Jr. & E. B. White

e.g., mentioning Elements of Style and Bugs in Writing certainly has helped our review LLM to make some great suggestions about English documentation PRs in the past.

> - Adhere to rules in "The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition" by William Strunk Jr. & E. B. White

FYI: The third edition was the last one by E. B. White. The fourth edition was revised by someone whose identity is unclear. For something so opinionated, I'd like to know whose opinions I'm reading.

Not that it really matters for your LLM prompt, but it's worth pointing out.