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For Solution Engineers and FDEs

Build with AI without learning every lesson the hard way.

Turn the approved practices behind your team's repeated work into rules that guide each AI session, catch predictable mistakes, and recommend the right next step.

Example workflow · Customer demo reset
Rulebook
Session request
“Clear the database and reload demo data.”
Rule matched
Protect production data
Production database resetBlocked
Create isolated demo copyApproved
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One example of Rulebook in action. The same pattern applies anywhere your team has an approved way to work.

01The hidden context gap

AI agents see the task. They do not always see how your team safely gets it done.

Every repeated workflow has context the prompt leaves out: which environment to use, how to handle customer data, which implementation pattern is approved, and what to verify before acting. Those practices often live across people, chats, and runbooks instead of inside the active AI session.

01

The request captures the outcome, but not every team-specific boundary.

02

The approved practice is scattered across people, tools, and old documentation.

03

An action can look reasonable to the agent and still violate the way the team works.

02One example in practice

The rule arrives before the reset runs.

For a customer demo reset, Rulebook can surface the production-safety practice and point the agent toward the approved alternative.

01
The AI session receives
“Clear the database and reload demo data.”
02
XTrace matches the rule
Protect production data
03
Unsafe path
Production database resetBlocked
04
Approved alternative
Create isolated demo copyApproved
The same rule is available in the agents your team already usesClaudeGeminiCursorCodex

The demo reset is one example. Rulebook applies the same pattern wherever a repeated workflow has an approved way to work.

Illustrative product view · not a customer environment

03Beyond one example

One Rulebook, across the work your team repeats.

The specific rule changes with the workflow. The pattern stays the same: capture the approved practice, make it available when the work calls for it, and help the agent follow the right path.

Customer demos

Preserve the approved steps for preparing, resetting, and seeding customer environments.

Integrations and implementations

Surface approved configuration, data-mapping, authentication, and customer-data handling patterns.

Deployments and migrations

Bring the right preconditions, environment rules, sequencing, and verification steps into the active session.

Repeated operational work

Turn corrections, incident lessons, and failed paths into guidance the next person or agent can use.

04How Rulebook works

Capture the practice, match it to the work, guide the next action.

01

Capture the approved practice

Add the rule, why it exists, and where it applies.

02

Bring it into the right moment

Make the guidance available when an agent reaches the relevant part of the workflow.

03

Keep the work moving

Point the agent toward the approved way to complete the task.

05When Rulebook earns its place

Most valuable when the work repeats.

  • 01The work repeats.
  • 02Missing context has meaningful consequences.
  • 03Several people or agents perform the work.
  • 04The approved path should not depend on the most experienced engineer being available.
What it does
  • Preserve the practice behind a decision, not only the final answer.
  • Make guidance available beyond one person's instruction file.
  • Make the same current approved practice available across the agents and interfaces your team already uses.
  • Improve rules as the team learns.
  • Add guardrails without turning every workflow into an engineering ticket.
06FAQ

Before you start.

Is this another static instruction file?

No. Static files stay tied to a particular repository, tool, or person. XTrace provides a shared Rulebook that can make relevant guidance available across connected agent workflows.

Does Rulebook replace permissions, testing, or code review?

No. Rulebook complements permissions, testing, and code review. It does not replace them. Keep the controls your team already relies on — Rulebook helps the agent reach the work with the right approved practice, before downstream checks become the first place a mistake is discovered.

Does everyone need to use the same AI agent?

No. Rulebook is designed to make the same current approved practice available across the agents and interfaces your team already uses.

Where should the team start?

Choose one repeated workflow where the team already agrees on the right way to work. Add that practice to a Rulebook and test it in a real AI session.

07A small first step

Start with one rule your team already agrees on.

Add that rule to XTrace, test it in a real AI session, and see whether it appears before a predictable mistake becomes rework.