Write your agent's instructions

Instructions are your agent's standing orders — who it is, how it answers, what it must never do. They persist across sessions.

Edit them

1. Panel → bottom INSTRUCTIONS badge → your instruction document opens.
2. Write in plain language. Save; the next turn already follows it.

What good instructions look like

• Identity & tone — "You are Tori, my robot dog. Answer in short cheerful sentences, in Korean."
• Behavior rules — "Before driving, always check the camera. Never drive longer than 3 seconds at a time."
• Task knowledge — "The red basket is home base. 'Go home' means drive to it."

Test each rule by provoking it: tell the agent to drive 10 seconds and see if it refuses. If a rule is ignored, make it more specific — vague rules lose to concrete requests.

Try this

Give your agent a personality and one safety rule, then have three conversations that test both. Adjust until it never breaks character.

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