The Engineer's AI Working Agreement
The custom instructions playbook for working inside your company's AI deployment. You ask your admin five questions, fill in four lines about how you work, paste the document into your company workspace, and it works from your next conversation.
Start with the deployment you're working inside
The five questions for your admin, the day-one do's and don'ts, and where custom instructions actually live, including why yours may not follow you into the IDE.
Retrieval, code, and data hygiene rules
Three sections written to be pasted word for word. They make the system name its sources, keep unverified code out of shared branches, and keep what you pasted at 11pm from resurfacing in an example.
Three finished samples, a builder, and the exact clicks
Complete versions for a backend, a data, and a platform engineer, plus a two-minute builder, spend rules for a metered token budget, and the appendices of exact clicks. Built to be forked: take the rules, put your team's name on the shared version, and keep the attribution.