Five copy-paste ChatGPT project instruction examples

On November 3, 2026, the AI section of DEV Community published an article titled "Five paste-ready ChatGPT project instructions." The author provides five instruction examples that can be pasted directly into ChatGPT's Project settings, explains which default behaviors each one overrides, and includes background on ChatGPT project instructions.

The author discloses that the post itself was drafted and edited with AI tools, tagged #ABotWroteThis, and reports a real test run. On November 2, 2026, between 6:23 and 6:24 AM Japan time, the author created a project called "Estimate drafts (fictional)" on a Free account, pasted the instructions from example 4 into Project settings, and then ran two separate new conversations: one prompt with a missing fact and one with a conflicting fact. The article includes the unmodified replies from ChatGPT for both runs.

As of this reporting, only one article has been published on the topic, and the story currently stops here. What began as a set of ready-to-use instruction templates is so far documented only by this single account of how they behave in practice, with the author's own test as the only evidence offered for how ChatGPT responds to prompts containing a missing fact or conflicting information.