# Practical Guide to AI Coding Tools

A Chinese-language practical guide to ten mainstream AI coding tools, with 66 Claude Code tips, tool-specific best practices, prompt-engineering methodology and copyable configuration templates.

Practical Guide to AI Coding Tools is a Chinese-language guide to ten mainstream AI coding tools: Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, OpenClaw, Windsurf, Gemini CLI, Kiro, Aider and Trae. Each tool's section covers its core concepts, a quick start, prompt techniques, advanced usage and a copyable configuration template, and the guide recommends a reading path based on the reader's background, such as a beginner, a frontend developer, or someone migrating from Copilot.

Beyond tool-specific material, it covers cross-tool methodology: prompt engineering for AI coding, breaking large tasks into steps an AI can complete in one pass, AI-assisted code review, systematic debugging with AI, context-window management, test-writing practices, and security considerations when coding with AI.

It also documents real end-to-end workflows, including combining Claude Code with Cursor or with Copilot for different parts of a task, a set of real pitfalls for Claude Code, Cursor and Copilot with their symptoms and fixes, and a comparison guide for choosing a tool by scenario.

Website: https://github.com/jnMetaCode/ai-coding-guide