{
  "title": "Persistent instructions",
  "description": "Compare AGENTS.md, nested instruction scopes, and product-native rule systems independently.",
  "slug": "instructions",
  "locale": "en",
  "seoTitle": "Persistent agent instruction coverage — Can My Agent Use",
  "socialTitle": "Which persistent instruction formats can my agent use?",
  "socialDescription": "Compare cross-agent and product-native instruction discovery and scope behavior.",
  "llmSummary": "Persistent instructions are a capability family covering AGENTS.md, nested scopes, and native rule systems.",
  "audience": "Engineers comparing durable agent configuration.",
  "contentKind": "feature",
  "status": "published",
  "tags": [
    "interfaces",
    "instructions",
    "agents-md",
    "rules"
  ],
  "updated": "2026-08-28T00:00:00.000Z",
  "published": "2026-08-28T00:00:00.000Z",
  "category": "interfaces",
  "summary": "Track portable and product-native instruction discovery independently.",
  "specLabel": "Catalog grouping",
  "aliases": [
    "AGENTS.md",
    "rules",
    "custom instructions"
  ],
  "capabilityKind": "family",
  "related": [
    "agent-skills"
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "highlight": true,
  "notes": [],
  "issues": [],
  "resources": [
    {
      "title": "AGENTS.md specification",
      "href": "https://agents.md",
      "kind": "spec"
    }
  ],
  "support": [],
  "html": "/features/instructions",
  "markdown": "/features/instructions.md",
  "json": "/api/v1/features/instructions.json",
  "body": "Reading one root instruction file does not establish nested precedence, path-specific rules, or compatibility with a product-native instruction format."
}