Explain instruction scope and combining rules in the custom instructions guide - #416
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…ons guide Customers writing whole-text structural instructions (reorder the argument, convert lists to prose) see translation quality drop and don't understand why. Document that instructions are applied per passage rather than as an editing pass over the finished document, that sentence-level scope is the intended use, and how multiple instructions interact, with good/bad structural examples. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
Support has seen recurring confusion from customers on custom instructions.
The custom instructions guide covered how to phrase instructions but not what they're suited for or how multiple instructions interact. This PR adds:
No internal implementation details (chunk sizes, model training behavior) are exposed.
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mint broken-links --check-anchors: no issues in the two edited pages (two pre-existing findings elsewhere are untouched)🤖 Generated with Claude Code