An instruction narrows the actions a system should take. Useful instructions identify the task, boundaries, relevant context, and the form of an acceptable result.

Instructions Constrain Behavior

A language model maps context to a prediction or structured proposal. Tools, state, policies, validation, and control flow turn model calls into a bounded agent system.

A Model Is One Component, Not the Whole Agent

In this situation—asking a study helper to explain fractions without giving away the final answer—which choice best applies “Instructions Constrain Behavior”?

A prompt is an input contract for a model node. Treating it as versioned configuration makes its role, assumptions, output schema, and evaluation history visible.

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