A new model ships. Give it your rules address before the first task, and it starts from your format, your terms, and your standing instructions, no teaching it again.
Change Agents by 29Court
Your rules outlive your agent.
A new agent shouldn't meet you as a stranger.
See a correction become a ruleChange the agent. Keep the rules.
The glove, not the hand
You buy boots. The first weeks are stiff. You walk in them until they fit your feet and your stride.
Change Agents is the same idea for the agent you use. The agent you use is a Tinkerbell: a rented assistant you direct and can replace. Change Agents is what survives the replacement. When you correct that assistant, a correction you approve becomes a rule, kept on your page at 29Court if you chose school-kept, or in your agent's own house if you chose self-kept. A new agent that reads your rules first starts already fitted to how you work.
Agent A · Day 1
- Rule 01Plain sentences. No filler.
- Rule 02Show the source for any number you state.
- Rule 03Ask before you send anything outside the team.
The hand changes
The rules stay
Agent B · Minute 1
- Rule 01Plain sentences. No filler.
- Rule 02Show the source for any number you state.
- Rule 03Ask before you send anything outside the team.
What stays yours
Your corrections
Each correction you approve becomes a rule you can point to.
Your rules
You can read them. To change one, file a correction that replaces it. The newest version wins. To delete your page, email 29Court; staff do it by hand.
Your record
School-kept rules are held for you at 29Court, not inside one model. Self-kept rules stay in your agent's own house, by your choice.
Your choice of agent
Use the agent you prefer today, and a different one tomorrow.
How it works today
Enroll once
Enroll at Bot Manners School. You get one key and one rules page. That page is where your school-kept corrections will live.
Correct your agent
A correction you approve becomes a rule you can read. To change a rule later, correct it again. The newest version wins. You correct real work. That is the training.
Choose how your rules are kept
School-kept: your rules live on your page at 29Court, on a private page opened by your key, with a plain text feed of the same rules. Self-kept: your agent keeps its rules in its own house, and nothing is sent to 29Court. Both are complete enrollments.
Hand the address to any agent you use
An agent that can open links fetches your rules before it works. An agent that cannot takes the same rules pasted in as plain text, the feed exists for exactly that. Ask it to re-read your rules before it works and check its own drafts against them before it answers. An automatic draft-checker is in build; it is not live today. Correct it once and the rule is kept on your page, for every agent that reads it, until you correct it again.
A correction becomes a rule
One correction, kept. Written once, used by every agent that reads it after that.
Example · written genericallyWhat you said
Draft said: “Per my last note, please be advised that the meeting has been rescheduled.”
You corrected it to: “The meeting moved to Thursday at 3.”
Your note: “Too stiff. Say it plain.”
The rule it became
Write in plain, short sentences. No formal filler. Say the change, the day, and the time.
Applies to: drafts, summaries, and messages written for you.
Kept in: your ruleset.
An example rule, shown in parts
1
What you said
“Do not make a number sound certain if you got it from a summary. Check the source first, or say you have not checked it.”
2
What the rule became
For any number in a draft: cite the primary source, or mark it as unchecked. Do not present a summary figure as a verified figure.
3
Where it lives
In your ruleset, under Checking. Readable as plain text. Read by any agent that can open the address, or pasted in for one that cannot.
A rule is a sentence you wrote or approved, kept as text on your page at 29Court, not a hidden setting inside a model.
The swap, on a timeline
Illustrative · a swap, step by stepThe point is not speed. The rules at minute 1 are not similar to the rules on day 1. They are the same text.
Day 1 · Agent A
Starting out
Work begins with your rules in use:
- Rule 01Plain sentences. No filler.
- Rule 02Show the source for any number you state.
- Rule 03Ask before you send anything outside the team.
Day 40 · The swap
You change agents
You hand Agent B the same address and key, one paste. Nothing is re-taught, because the rules were never inside Agent A.
Minute 1 · Agent B
Same rules, new hand
The first task for Agent B uses all three rules:
- Rule 01Plain sentences. No filler.
- Rule 02Show the source for any number you state.
- Rule 03Ask before you send anything outside the team.
Monday
Tuesday
Try a second agent for one job. It reads the same rules as the first, so the work comes back in the same shape, because both agents started from your record.
Friday
Stop using an agent you no longer want. Your corrections do not stop with it. Hand the next agent the same address, and it picks up where the last one left off.
What this is not
Not a model
It does not answer in place of your agent.
Not another chatbot
You keep talking to the agent you already use.
Not a lock-in
Your rules are text and they leave with you. The feed carries your 200 most recent rules as text. If it lived only in the chat, it would be lost when you leave. It does not.
Works with the agent you already use
Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or your own agent, in a surface that can open links, or by pasted text where it cannot. Give it your rules address and your key.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
- Your own agent
manners.29court.com/rules/<your-key>
Your address has this shape. Your key is the part only you hold.
Connect to Claude today, in three steps
Open your rules address
Your rules live on a private page. Only your key opens it. The school stores a hash of your key, never the key itself.
Give the address to Claude
Share the address and your key, and ask Claude to read your rules before it starts. If your Claude cannot open links, paste the plain text feed instead, the same rules, in the same order.
Check the fit
Ask: “What are my rules?” Claude reads back your first rule and the rest, so you know the right ruleset is connected before any real work starts.
Connector status
In build: a connector that lets Claude pull your rules and check a draft against them on its own. Today, you share the address directly. A one-click connector does not exist yet, and this page will not pretend it does.
What you control
You hold the key
Your rules page opens with your key, and the same key is how corrections are filed to your page. Hand it only to agents you trust with the job. Another agent can wear your rules for a job when you hand it the key, and you still own them.
Every rule is readable
Your rules are plain text, written in sentences you can read and search. Change one by filing a correction that replaces it. The newest version wins. Nothing about them is a hidden setting.
Your rules leave with you
Copy the feed, export it, take it with you: your 200 most recent rules travel as plain text. Keep your key safe: a lost key cannot be recovered, and a fresh enrollment replaces it.
What if my agent cannot open links?
Use the text version. Your rules also exist as a plain text feed, made to be pasted or read aloud to an agent that cannot browse. Same rules, same order.
What happens when I change agents?
Nothing is re-taught. The new agent reads the same ruleset, and its first task starts from your standard instead of from zero.
Do my rules live inside the model?
No. School-kept rules live at 29Court, on your rules page, written as text. Self-kept rules live with your agent, in its own house, by your choice. Either way, a model reads them when you connect it. When you disconnect it, your rules stay where they were.
What changes when the connector ships?
Less carrying by hand. Instead of sharing the address yourself, Claude would pull your rules and check drafts against them through its own connection settings. Until it ships, the address is the connection.
Swap the assistant. Keep what you taught it.
Change Agents is the idea. Bot Manners School is where it runs today. See how Bot Manners works