Project Guidance

Project guidance now lives in Settings > Personalization. Build 53 removed the separate Project Rules toolbar button and modal, so there is one configuration surface for both global preferences and active-file project guidance.

Where it appears

Open Settings > Personalization.

Use:

Generic for global defaults across projects
Project for the active FileMaker file

Personalization with Generic and Project tabs

Generic guidance

Generic guidance contains:

Personality
Custom instructions
Naming conventions
Reusable patterns
Script template

Generic values are stored as application preferences. They are not copied into every project profile.

Project guidance

Project guidance contains:

Project name
Project description
Project Rules
Naming convention override
Pattern override
Script template override

Project personalization settings with project name, description, and project rules

Fallback behavior

Project guidance inherits from Generic independently for each guidance field:

Empty project naming conventions use Generic naming conventions.
Empty project patterns use Generic patterns.
Empty project script template uses the Generic script template.

A project can override only one field while inheriting the others.

Project description and Project Rules are project-specific and do not inherit Generic values.

Availability to AGENT and MCP

The effective configuration is included in project_context for:

standard Genie modes
embedded WebUI AGENT
Script Workspace AGENT
Local MCP clients

Local MCP exposes the same context through:

resource: genie://context/project
compatibility reference: project_context

The payload includes guidance_sources so clients can distinguish project overrides from Generic defaults.

Safety boundary

Project guidance can influence:

naming
comments
implementation patterns
script structure

It never expands tool access, targets, Stage A/B scope, Workbench staging, Apply, or mutation authority.