How to Add Custom Instructions When Generating an Article in AmICited

Want the draft written a particular way? Custom instructions let you brief the AI agent before it writes — tone of voice, style rules, things it must include or avoid — so the first draft already sounds like you.

Where to find it

It’s step 4 (optional) of the Generate an article flow — “Custom instructions — Guidance for the AI agent that writes this article, sent ahead of the prompt brief.” It’s a text box with a 1000-character limit.

What to put in it

Good instructions cover things the content type and prompts don’t already imply:

• Tone and voice — formal, conversational, expert, plain-language.
• Style rules — spelling variant, sentence length, whether to use “we”/“you”.
• Must-includes — a specific stat, a disclaimer, a call-to-action, a table.
• Don’ts — claims to avoid, competitors not to name, jargon to skip.

How to use it

1. Keep it short and directive. A few clear rules beat a long essay.
2. Focus on what’s non-obvious. You don’t need to restate the topic — the prompts and content type already set that.
3. Reuse what works. Once you find instructions that produce good drafts, keep them handy and paste them into each new article for a consistent house style.

Leave it blank and AmICited writes a solid default draft; fill it in when you need the output to follow specific rules.