Stop Repeating Yourself: Use Rules and Skills to Level Up Your AI Agent
Dev.to AI
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Generative AI
Do you find yourself typing the same instructions into every new project chat? Or noticing that your agent consistently struggles in certain areas like frontend design, testing, or API patterns? Rules and skills solve exactly that. Both are markdown files that provide persistent instructions for your agent, so you don't have to re-explain your preferences on every run. When triggered, the agent reads them automatically and incorporates them into its output. Rules Rules come in two flavors: global and workspace. Global rules apply across every workspace in your.