Hi all, how can I provide ad-hoc guidance to an existing agent? I saw there is a context manager for

cf.instructions

, but what if I already have an agent that I'm passing into tasks? Will this bind?

What about using the Task instructions?

That would definitely work too, but I'd love to be able to keep our tasks well scoped/defined and tweak things at the agent level

I don't think cf.instructions binds to the agent directly, maybe additionally. If you need to adjust the instructions of an agent, maybe it makes sense to create a new one (or simply overwrite the agents instructions with: agent.instructions = "... some instruction...")

Hey @Jason, for ad hoc instructions the context manager is best; neither agents nor tasks are designed for "temporary" configuration (e.g. the instructions applied are assumed to last for the life of the task/agent). Essentially, any task that's run inside a

with cf.instructions(...)

context has those instructions appended to the prompt