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There also is one special instructions
file which you can add and that's

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an agents.md file. This is a file or a

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convention that's supported by other
coding agents, like Cursor as well.

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And the idea is the same.
You can put general instructions in here.

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Unlike the instruction file from earlier,
it's not restricted to

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specific files though. Instead,
agents.md will essentially always

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be loaded for all your prompts. Therefore,
you also don't wanna make it too

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complex because all the instructions you
put in there will always be

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loaded and will always consume tokens.

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But for example,
I could put the instruction ensure we

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rules in there to make sure
that our Python code is in line with the

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PEP8 Python styling rules, which
is what that is about, in case you

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don't know Python. This
is simply a style guide in the end

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again, you can make that more complex.

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Put anything in there
that should always be loaded.

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You just should keep in mind
that it will always be loaded.

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You can also put multiple agents.md files
in your

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code and for example,
have them in subfolders.

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So let's say in a source folder,
and then the

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instructions in there would only be loaded
if the agent works in

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a file in that subfolder. So
that allows you to set up

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subfolder specific instructions with help
of

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agents.md.
When working with GitHub Copilot,

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those Copilot instructions
which I showed you before, like this

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one, or agents.md or both. That
is totally up to

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you. The advantage of agents.md is
that it will also work with other coding

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assistants. The disadvantage is
that you don't have the fine-grain control

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you have with the Copilot instructions.