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Guidelines

Guidelines allow you to provide persistent, reusable context to the agent. Junie adds this context to every task it works on.

Supported agent guideline files

The following file types are supported:

  • The AGENTS.md open format for coding agents.

  • Junie-specific guidelines.md file.

By default, Junie looks for agent guidelines at .junie/guidelines.md in the root folder of the configured project. If you want to use an AGENTS.md file, or a guidelines.md file at a custom file path, set Guidelines path in Settings | Tools | Junie | Project Settings.

Examples of guidelines

  • Information about the specific front-end technologies or testing frameworks to be used.

  • Information about the code style, naming conventions, or any other information you believe would be useful for the development or debugging process.

  • Code examples to follow or common antipatterns to avoid.

For more technology-specific examples of guidelines with explanations, see the junie-guidelines catalog.

Creating guidelines

You can add and edit the .junie/guidelines.md file manually, or prompt Junie to explore the project and generate the guidelines.md file for you.

Generate project guidelines by Junie

Add guidelines manually

To add the .junie/guidelines.md file, click Add button on the prompt panel, select Create project guidelines, and then edit the added template file as required.

Create project guidelines
24 November 2025