AI Custom Instructions

What are you trying to accomplish
I want the ai agent to integrate the custom instructions I’ve added. When starting a new branch, I add the custom instructions, but the agent generally seems to ignore them. One main issue is that it constantly tries to chain terminal commands with ‘&&’ and that usually just causes errors, so I’ve added a line to never do that. It still tries to do that. I have a lot of other stuff in there specific to my repo, and it generally gets things right, but I think that’s because it does a good job of getting context from the code and not because it reads the instructions. It does other things that I’ve explicitly stated it should never do. I also have a ‘.builderrules’ file and a general ‘ai-instructions.md’ file that it seems to ignore, but I’m not sure if those are supposed to work in the builder app or not.

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Code stack you are integrating Builder with
Tanstack Start with pnpm monorepo and shadcn ui library

Reproducible code example
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Helo Nate,

To help us investigate further, could you please share the following:

  1. The exact URL you were on when the issue occurred.
  2. Your Session ID

Thank you,

I don’t have the specific branch open anymore, but it happens on every project we work on. So here’s just one where it’s happened in the past.

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Please let me know if I can provide any more information. Thank you.