---
title: "Instruction Following"
category: 06-communication
level: basic
stability: stable
description: "Apply instruction following in AI agent workflows."
added: "2025-03"
---

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# Instruction Following

**Category:** `communication`  
**Skill Level:** `basic`  
**Stability:** `stable`
**Added:** 2025-03

### Description

Parse, interpret, and faithfully execute multi-step instructions with precision, handling edge cases and ambiguities gracefully.

### Example

```
Instruction: "Summarize the document in 3 bullet points, in French, using formal tone."
Agent checks: length constraint ✓ | language ✓ | tone ✓
Output: Trois points résumés en français avec ton formel.
```

### Related Skills

- [Clarification Seeking](clarification-seeking.md)
- [Structured Output](structured-output.md)
