GenAI Field Guide

Getting started

Projects

A project (a Gemini Gem or Project, a ChatGPT Project, a Claude Project) is a container that persists across chats: your files, a standing instruction block, and increasingly a memory.

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Project Resources for each new chat Files · examples · standing instructions Monday’s chat Its ownconversation Friday’s chat Its ownconversation
One project, many chats. The files and standing instructions ride along into every chat opened inside it.

What goes where

Put it in the project Put it in the chat
The SOP, the instruction, the style guide Today's question
The template that "good" looks like The specific draft you want reworked
Standing instructions: reader, tone, format, "say when you're unsure" One-off constraints for this task
Reference tables you cite constantly Anything you only need once

A worked example (exercise)

  1. Create a project. Load a real SOP or style guide.
  2. Ask for a draft memo on a task the SOP covers.
  3. Then ask: "List every sentence in the draft that is not supported by the loaded document."
  4. Read that list. That is the difference between grounding and invention, in your own material.