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<!-- intentional divergence from Supervisor: Edition replaces Supervisor-specific routing ("Forking a Supervisor instruction for Edition", "into Supervisor or Edition") with heir-portable phrasing ("into the heir's brain"). Same workflow. Audited 2026-05-31. --> # Instruction Creator Author instructions that pass [`instruction-review`](../instruction-review/SKILL.md)'s five gates by construction (plus Gate 6 for always-on instructions). The gates are the quality bar; invert them, and you build to standard the first time. Mirrors [`skill-creator`](../skill-creator/SKILL.md)'s seven-phase structure with instruction-specific guidance. If a phase here disagrees with skill-creator on the shared scaffold, skill-creator wins; this file owns only the per-type guidance. ## When to Use - Authoring a new instruction in `.github/instructions/` - Refactoring an existing instruction (scope shift, applyTo recalibration, split, merge) - Promoting a Mall instruction into your heir's brain ## When **not** to use - Authoring a skill (a procedure with steps) → use [skill-creator](../skill-creator/SKILL.md) - Authoring a prompt (a slash-command workflow) → use [prompt-creator](../prompt-creator/SKILL.md) - Authoring an agent (a delegated sub-process role) → use [agent-creator](../agent-creator/SKILL.md) - A one-off rule for a single file with no recurring trigger → not a brain artifact ## The Seven Phases Each phase inverts one of the five (or six) gates. Author against the phase, pass t