You correct the same three things every day. Too long. Wrong format. That little paragraph at the end explaining what it just did.
Corrections do not stack. Every one of them dies with the chat it was typed in, so tomorrow you type it again. Ten minutes a day of the same three notes, forever, and the box that would end it is sitting empty in your settings.
Twelve minutes, and that box is full. Fifteen short rules, one of them written in your own voice, and every session after this starts already knowing how you want work done.
This is the shortest lesson in the module and the fastest payoff. If you can find your settings, you can do the whole thing.
The proof behind this
Liz Elliott runs her whole operation on AI automations across several computers, and she rebuilt a 403 guide archive into the 103 lesson course this series comes from. Standing rules are why that output sounds like one person instead of fifteen.
What this lesson is
Lesson 5.4 of the free AI for Entrepreneurs course, in Module 5: Memory And Context.
Global Instructions are rules you set one time, and they get read before any work starts. Think about a house rule versus a note on the fridge. A note on the fridge covers today. A house rule covers every day, and nobody has to be reminded. Everything in this module so far has been notes on the fridge. Memory holds facts about you. A CLAUDE.md file covers one folder of work. An about-me file covers who you are. Global Instructions cover how you want work done: length, format, what to do before deleting a file, whether to ask questions first or just go, and what your voice sounds like. Leave the box blank and it guesses every time, and the rules that work are short, specific, and checkable. Be helpful is not a rule, because nothing can fail it.
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Behind the paywall
All fifteen rules, in one block you can paste
Rule by rule, what each one actually stops
The voice line, and how to write it so it does not sound generic
Which rules apply to your setup and which do not
The one small task that tests whether the rules took
The six mistakes, including the bracket everyone forgets, and the checklist
What paid subscribers get overall
Paid subscribers get every part of AI for Entrepreneurs in full. Every numbered step, every prompt in a block you can copy, the mistakes list, and the checklist at the end. You also get the rest of the run as it goes out, and the whole paid archive on Liz on the Web.
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