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A project-level instruction file that persists across every session, letting a team encode architecture, conventions, preferences, and forbidden patterns onc…

A project-level instruction file that persists across every session, letting a team
encode architecture, conventions, preferences, and forbidden patterns once and have
the agent carry them into every run without repetition. Students learn what belongs
in such a file (short, always-true project conventions) versus what belongs in a
skill or a slash command.

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