- In short
- Standing system-level instructions let a team write verification behaviors, format defaults, and tone once so that every conversation in the Project inherits them automatically. A verification instruction, such as requiring source citation and saying "I don't know" when documents do not cover something, applies to every conversation without anyone re-typing it. Standing instructions are the persistent mechanism; a one-off request typed into a single chat is not the same thing, and the value compounds because the discipline holds without anyone remembering to ask each time.
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