What are Rules & Guidelines?
Agent and Chat rules and guidelines are natural language instructions that can help Augment reply with more accurate and relevant responses. Rules and guidelines are perfect for telling Augment to take into consideration specific preferences, package versions, styles, and other implementation details that can’t be managed with a linter or compiler. You can create guidelines for a specific workspace or globally for all chats in your IDE; guidelines do not currently apply to Completions, Instructions, or Next Edit. User Guidelines are defined under Settings and stored within your IDE to be used to guide preferences inside of the Agent and Chat. Workspace Guidelines and Rules are stored directly in your repository.Working with User Guidelines
User Guidelines are stored locally in your IDE and will be applied to all future chats in that IDE. Guidelines defined in VSCode will not propagate to JetBrains IDEs and vice versa.