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Agent instructions: in the repo or in the tool?

There are two places to put the standing rules you want a coding agent to follow: in a file in the repo, or built into the tool that runs the agent. I've ended up with both, and they trade off differently. In the repo, the rules are versioned. They show up in pull requests, the whole team sees them…

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  1. 2026-11-08 14:02 · DEV Community — AI
    Agent instructions: in the repo or in the tool?

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