AGENT INSTRUCTIONS

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# Agent Instructions: An Annotated Example

This document is an annotated version of the agent instructions used in a production Latin translation pipeline. The annotations explain **why** each section exists and what makes effective agent instructions different from typical prompts.

> **Key insight:** These aren't "prompts" in the traditional sense. They're operating procedures that treat the agent as an unreliable executor that needs explicit constraints at every step.

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## The Full Instructions (Annotated)

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Community prompt sourced from the open-source GitHub repo wryan14/agentic-workflow-patterns (CC0-1.0). A "AGENT INSTRUCTIONS" style prompt — adapt the placeholders and specifics to your task. Imported as-is and not independently retested here, so check the output before relying on it.