Questions over your instructions

Give it the shelf

• A broad policy or research question: Gemini with Deep Research on. It searches the open web, nothing to upload.
• Command instructions: put them in a project or an agent’s knowledge files. Up to 40 in ChatGPT, 100 in a Gemini agent.
• Keep the shelf current. Replace the file when the instruction changes; an old file gives confident old answers.
• Keep to the data rules. If it would not go on the share drive, it does not go here either.

Open the page it cites

1. Take the careful tier. Pro GPT 5.6 Terra Grok Expert Policy questions are where the fast tier skims.
2. A citation is a pointer, not proof. Open it and read the paragraph yourself.
3. Check the date and the change number. A superseded version answers just as confidently.
4. Long documents are read unevenly. If an answer looks thin, ask about that chapter by name.
5. The instruction wins. Where the answer and the page disagree, the page is right.

Say it like this

Which instruction and paragraph governs this? Quote the sentence. If the attached files do not answer it, say so rather than answering from memory.

Then list any attached instructions that disagree on this point, and show both passages with their paragraph numbers.

Name the edition and change number of every document you used, so I can confirm I gave you the current one.