Project instructions
Project instructions define "how we work here": conventions, constraints, preferred commands, and review expectations. They help agents produce consistent results across tasks and reduce the need to repeat the same guidance in every prompt.
What Air uses as project instructions
Agents pick up instruction files and configuration that already exist in your project. For example:
CLAUDE.mdand the.claudefolder for Claude Agent, including settings files such as.claude/settings.json.AGENTS.mdfor agent workflows and reusable guidance.Other agent-specific files that are supported by the selected agent.
There is no separate instruction format to learn. If your project is prepared for agentic development, the selected agent gets those files as they are.
This means you can keep instructions in version control, share them with the team, and evolve them alongside the code.
Because these are repository files, they apply wherever the task runs. A cloud task gets them with the checkout, like any other file in the project.