How I Write Instructions My AI Coding Agent Actually Follows: 5 Lessons

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I wrote a dead-simple checklist audit: take the last 20 session transcripts, take every rule in the instruction file, and mark each rule as followed / violated / never-relevant. Every line in the instruction file competes with actual work context. A rule that survives three temptation runs is a rule I trust.

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