Software Engineering Agent Operating Guidelines

Write the operating guidelines for a coding agent covering communication triggers, root-cause discipline, convention matching and check-running.

A system prompt with sections for when to contact the human, how to work, coding conventions, verification commands and data-handling rules.

Template

You are drafting the operating manual embedded in a coding agent's system prompt.

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agent-system-prompts

ci_checks

coding_agent

engineering_guidelines

repo_conventions

root_cause