RADProgrammer Delphi Project Standards

https://github.com/radprogrammer/delphi-project-standards

Coding standards and formatting guidelines for Delphi projects, maintained as AI agent instruction files for use with Claude Code and similar tools.

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Contents

• style-guide.md -- Naming conventions, code rules, project structure conventions, and language usage guidance. Closely matches Embarcadero's published style guidelines with deliberate enhancements for consistency and maintainability.
• code-formatting-guide.md -- Indentation, spacing, line break, and capitalization rules for generated and modified code.
• CHANGELOG.md -- Version history for both files.

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Usage as a Submodule

This repo is intended to be consumed as a .delphi submodule, as configured in delphi-project-template. Projects created from that template include this repo at .delphi/ and import the standards into Claude Code via CLAUDE.md:

@.delphi/style-guide.md
@.delphi/code-formatting-guide.md

To update a project to the latest standards, run update-standards.bat from the project root. This pulls the latest commit from this repo, stages the submodule update, and commits it. Review CHANGELOG.md before committing to understand what has changed.

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Adding to an Existing Project Manually

git submodule add https://github.com/radprogrammer/delphi-project-standards .delphi
git commit -m "Add .delphi standards submodule"

Then add the following to your project's CLAUDE.md:

@.delphi/style-guide.md
@.delphi/code-formatting-guide.md

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Provenance

These standards originated in the radteam internal wiki (2021) and were migrated and reformatted for AI agent use in 2026. See CHANGELOG.md for full version history.

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Contributing

Suggestions and feedback are welcome via GitHub Issues. These standards are curated by Delphi MVPs with input from the broader community. Significant changes are discussed openly before adoption.

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