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Every project has its own prose style and its own forms of address for characters. Instead of explaining that over again every time you open a conversation, there is a place to write it once and keep using it. With a project open, go into Settings and pick Agent from the list, and you see the Project agent group. Its description is “Instructions and data sharing for the agent in this project. These layer on top of the workspace instructions.” Inside are two rows, Share data to improve AI and Instructions, and this page looks at the lower one, Instructions.

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Only inside this project

The button at the right of the Instructions row is Add when nothing has been written and Edit when something has. Press it and the edit screen opens with the title Project instructions. Below that it reads “These instructions are added to the agent’s system prompt for every chat in this scope.” What you write here is attached to every conversation you open in this project. In return, it does not follow you to another project. If you are writing a period piece and a contemporary one side by side, you have to write each separately. The Instructions row previews the first part of what you saved as a single line, so you can tell which rules are in force without opening it.

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What to write

The empty editor’s guide text is “Describe how the agent should write — tone, focus, constraints, terminology…”. Put in manuscript terms, that comes to narrative point of view and tense, how characters speak, how names of people and places are written, and the clichés you want avoided. It takes up to 8,000 characters. Go over and it is cut off along with a Character limit exceeded notice. It saves on its own when you stop typing. Leaving by way of Back at the top of the screen keeps what you were writing.
The Edit button on the Instructions row has been pressed to enter the edit screen. The title is Project instructions and three or four lines are written in the body, with the Back button and the title (Project instructions) visible together at the top of the screen.
The Edit button on the Instructions row has been pressed to enter the edit screen. The title is Project instructions and three or four lines are written in the body, with the Back button and the title (Project instructions) visible together at the top of the screen.

The project instructions edit screen. What you write here is attached to every conversation in this project.

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Who can change it

Only project owners and admins can change it. Without the permission, the button turns into View and “Only project owners and admins can change these.” is attached below the card. Reading the contents is still allowed.
The workspace instructions mentioned in the section description cannot be edited separately in the current settings screen. The one scope you can write for yourself is the project.