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name: agent-instructions-generation
description: "Assembles, verifies, and deploys the instructions + housekeeping sections, enriching rather than merely preserving flagged content. Use when a person asks to install or apply \"Agent Instructions Generation & Deploy\" (FTR-24) in a project, or when working in a project that has it installed."
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# Agent Instructions Generation & Deploy (FTR-24, version 1.1)

> Generated from library record FTR-24 version 1.1, publish 20261102a. Review status: unreviewed. The complete specification is in references/spec.md and is the authority; this file is the operating procedure drawn from it.

## What this does

Assembles, verifies, and deploys the instructions + housekeeping sections, enriching rather than merely preserving flagged content

## When to use this skill

- A person asks to install, apply or update "Agent Instructions Generation & Deploy" (FTR-24) in a project.
- A project's agent instructions list agent-instructions-generation as installed and the task touches what it covers.
- No other feature is required first.
- Works better with, if installed: FTR-01 (skill bootstrap-operating-behavior), FTR-04 (skill agent-role-and-project-identity).

## Install procedure

Steps run in order. Assess comes first, every question in the Ask step is answered by the person before anything is written, and every write merges additively into the existing project files (read the file first, update an existing section in place, never overwrite).

### Assess first
- Read all currently installed sections of `admin\AGENT_INSTRUCTIONS.md`. This feature packages and finalizes them — it does not invent content.
- Identify any gaps left open by other features (missing logo, deferred profile fields, unregistered path) so they can be written into Reconciliation Items.
- Note the current bootstrap version, project title, project code, canonical path, and date for the header block.

### Ask, only if needed
Nothing to ask — proceed directly to Write. This step packages what the other features produced; it only surfaces open gaps, it does not collect new preferences.

### Write

The full Write payload is in references/write-payload.md. It is applied exactly as written, with the merge rule above.

### Confirm
Confirm: your agent instructions are assembled, verified against the 32-item gate, and deployed — AGENT_INSTRUCTIONS.md and CLAUDE.md both produced, reconciliation items documented, and the change log started. Paste the instructions into your Project Instructions field and start a fresh conversation. That's the full bootstrap — anything else before you go?

## Files in this skill

- references/spec.md: the complete specification, unabridged.
- references/write-payload.md: the Write step on its own.