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Shall we create the project's rules?

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A rule is something every agent in the

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project needs to know before it starts.

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In my case, things like what language it answers in,

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and the files it can't change without telling me.

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It can apply to this project, to every project,

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or only to a role or a type of CLI.

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For this project, I write one rule with two instructions: answer

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in English, and don't change package.json without telling me first.

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I save it, and from now on it applies to the agents in this project.

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When I create the first stage,

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I get a request to write the guidance to CLAUDE.md.

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Before allowing it, I like to look at what will be written.

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It's a block between two markers,

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and the rest of the file stays as it was.

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This permission is per project, so it only asks once.

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Claude answered with both instructions.

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In the prompt, I only asked which rules it

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had to follow; it read the rest from the file.

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There's also a screen that shows everything the

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agent receives, and where each part comes from.

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I open that one when the agent does something I didn't expect.

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This rule lives in the repository.

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git status shows the new files, so the rule goes into the commit,

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and anyone who clones the repository gets it too.

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In Flow, there's a counter for the project's rules.

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They apply to both Claude and Codex.