{
  "title": "Custom instructions",
  "description": "Persist instructions at user or project scope.",
  "slug": "custom-instructions",
  "locale": "en",
  "seoTitle": "Custom instructions — Can My Agent Use",
  "socialTitle": "Custom instructions",
  "socialDescription": "Compare persistent user and project instructions by exact product surface.",
  "llmSummary": "Custom instructions persist user- or project-scoped guidance. Storage format, discovery, scope, and precedence are qualifiers.",
  "audience": "Engineers comparing chat, desktop, and CLI agent harnesses.",
  "contentKind": "feature",
  "status": "published",
  "tags": [
    "interfaces"
  ],
  "updated": "2026-08-28T00:00:00.000Z",
  "published": "2026-08-28T00:00:00.000Z",
  "category": "interfaces",
  "summary": "Persist instructions at user or project scope.",
  "specLabel": "Common product term",
  "aliases": [],
  "capabilityKind": "atomic",
  "parent": "instructions",
  "related": [],
  "relations": [],
  "highlight": false,
  "notes": [
    {
      "id": 1,
      "text": "Evidence checked 2026-08-28: OpenWork's server owns workspace .opencode configuration, including skills, agents, commands, and other persistent OpenCode instruction primitives."
    }
  ],
  "issues": [],
  "resources": [
    {
      "title": "Methodology",
      "href": "/methodology",
      "kind": "note"
    },
    {
      "id": "openwork-instructions",
      "title": "OpenWork — Architecture",
      "href": "https://github.com/different-ai/openwork/blob/dev/ARCHITECTURE.md",
      "kind": "docs",
      "publisher": "OpenWork",
      "evidenceType": "documented",
      "reviewedAt": "2026-08-28"
    }
  ],
  "support": [
    {
      "harness": "openwork-desktop",
      "versions": [
        {
          "track": "current",
          "status": "yes",
          "noteIds": [
            1
          ],
          "target": {
            "kind": "dated-documentation",
            "revision": "current OpenWork architecture documentation",
            "observedAt": "2026-08-28"
          },
          "environmentProfile": "local-default",
          "qualifiers": [
            {
              "type": "runtime",
              "value": "precedence and file discovery are supplied by the embedded OpenCode runtime"
            }
          ],
          "evidence": [
            {
              "resourceId": "openwork-instructions",
              "type": "documented",
              "observedAt": "2026-08-28"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "html": "/features/custom-instructions",
  "markdown": "/features/custom-instructions.md",
  "json": "/api/v1/features/custom-instructions.json",
  "body": "Persist project or user instruction files. OpenWork's sourced cell covers its server-owned OpenCode workspace configuration; it does not claim that every instruction format or precedence rule is unique to OpenWork.\n\nThe matrix below lists published **web**, **desktop**, and **CLI** surfaces. Unreviewed cells remain **unknown** until a dated note and public source support a more specific status.\n\nUse the Markdown and JSON twins if you are an agent reading this site."
}