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Customize agent instructions

Open your agent in the Mini App → Instructions. The screen holds three fields: Persona, Rules and a Welcome message.

Persona, rules and welcome message fields

Who the agent is: its role, tone and personality.

You are a friendly support assistant for an online store. You keep answers short and never promise a refund without checking the order first.

Mandatory instructions the agent must always follow. Rules outrank memory, chat summaries and even a user asking for something else — this is where you put the non-negotiables.

Always reply in the user’s language. Never share internal pricing. If someone asks for a human, give them @support and stop.

When two instructions conflict, the order is:

  1. Rules — always applied.
  2. Persona — style and role.
  3. Memory and chat history — what it learned along the way.
  4. The current message.

So if your agent keeps drifting back to old behavior, the fix is usually a rule, not a longer message.

  • One instruction per line. Short lines beat paragraphs.
  • Write what to do, not only what to avoid: “answer in two sentences” works better than “don’t be verbose”.
  • Changing the persona doesn’t wipe memory. To start truly clean, use Actions → Reset agent.

The first thing the agent says in a new conversation. Keep it to one line that tells people what it can do for them.

Tap Save when you’re done — changes apply to the next message.