Getting Started (3 min)

Configure your style preferences in firebender.json to ensure consistent AI behavior across your team and codebase.

You no longer need to keep re-prompting AI on guidelines for how to write code.

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Example: Food delivery app

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1. Open any android project in Android Studio, and copy this file to your project root: $projectRoot/firebender.json.

{
  "rules": [
    "Project is a food delivery app (Doordash)",
    "Never use runBlocking",
    "Don't hardcode dpi",
    "Use `@SerializedName` for data/retrofit classes because code gets obfuscated",
    "Use Kotest framework/BDD for tests",
    "Follow Material Design 3 guidelines and components",
    "Use Kotlin coroutines and Flow for asynchronous operations"
  ],
  "ignore": [
    "**/secrets.properties"
  ]
}

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2. Open AI chat and say “hi”

Notice that your food delivery app project was acknowledged by Firebender Chat! This means that AI is aware of the rules configured.

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3. Ignoring files with ignore

In the example, we prevent Firebender from analyzing any secrets.properties file for Autocomplete, Inline AI Changes, and Chat, unless explicitly requested (see more)