Instructions master

Manage instruction authoring. This skill governs authoring scope and evaluation when skill-level guidance conflicts. Follow higher-priority instructions and explicit user direction; use domain sources for domain facts.

Establish the contract

• Read the complete target and all applicable instructions before editing.
• Identify the intended behavior, audience, loading mechanism, instruction hierarchy, and existing scope.
• Inspect only related instructions, history, and automated enforcement that can change the decision. Distinguish established requirements from assumptions and proposals.
• Resolve material uncertainty about the intended contract before making an irreversible or broad change.

Edit coherently

• Revise, merge, or remove existing text before adding more. Rewrite the affected section as a coherent whole and remove superseded, duplicated, or conflicting guidance.
• Add only durable, non-obvious information that changes behavior. Do not turn one example, failure, preference, or unsupported scenario into a universal rule.
• Preserve established scope, meaningful exceptions, and user control. Change descriptions or triggers only when applicability changes or observed selection behavior proves they are wrong.
• Change related instructions, metadata, evaluations, references, scripts, or user documentation only when their own contract is affected.
• Place each rule at the narrowest stable level that reaches its intended audience. Remove guidance covered by automation only after verifying that the automation enforces the same semantic requirement.
• Write instructions that are direct, concise, grammatically correct, and self-contained within the loaded document and its explicitly linked materials. Do not rely on unstated context. Explain the reason when it affects judgment; use negative wording when it defines a necessary boundary.