diff --git a/engine/app/controllers/coplan/agent_instructions_controller.rb b/engine/app/controllers/coplan/agent_instructions_controller.rb
index 3ec0d739..192128af 100644
--- a/engine/app/controllers/coplan/agent_instructions_controller.rb
+++ b/engine/app/controllers/coplan/agent_instructions_controller.rb
@@ -5,7 +5,11 @@ class AgentInstructionsController < ApplicationController
     def show
       @auth_instructions = CoPlan.configuration.agent_auth_instructions
       @curl = CoPlan.configuration.agent_curl_prefix
-      @base = request.base_url
+      # Includes the engine's mount point — host apps may mount CoPlan under
+      # a prefix (e.g. /coplan), and request.base_url alone would point every
+      # curl example at the wrong path. root_path here is the engine's, which
+      # carries the request's SCRIPT_NAME.
+      @base = "#{request.base_url}#{root_path.chomp("/")}"
       @plan_types = PlanType.order(:name)
       render layout: false, content_type: "text/markdown", formats: [:text]
     end
diff --git a/engine/app/views/coplan/agent_instructions/show.text.erb b/engine/app/views/coplan/agent_instructions/show.text.erb
index 47ad9298..ef320b9f 100644
--- a/engine/app/views/coplan/agent_instructions/show.text.erb
+++ b/engine/app/views/coplan/agent_instructions/show.text.erb
@@ -4,6 +4,19 @@ Interact with the CoPlan app to create, read, edit, and comment on plan document
 
 <%= @auth_instructions %>
 
+## Quick Start: The Editing Loop
+
+Keeping a local Markdown file and syncing whole documents is the intended workflow — you do not need to express edits as granular operations. The canonical loop:
+
+1. **Read** — `GET <%= @base %>/api/v1/plans/$PLAN_ID/snapshot`. Save `current_content` to a local file and note `current_revision`.
+2. **Edit** the local file however you like.
+3. **Write** — `PUT <%= @base %>/api/v1/plans/$PLAN_ID/content` with the full new content, `base_revision` set to the revision you read, and a specific `change_summary` (it becomes the version's label in the plan history — "Tightened rollout plan per Sam's feedback", not "Update").
+4. **On `409 Conflict`** someone edited in between: re-read the snapshot, re-apply your changes to the fresh content, and PUT again with the new revision. Never retry with the stale `base_revision`.
+
+The server diffs your content against the current revision, records granular operations automatically, and preserves comment anchors in unchanged regions. Re-read before every editing session — don't trust a local copy that's more than a few minutes old, and don't keep long-lived local state between tasks.
+
+See [Editing Plans](#editing-plans-recommended-full-content-replacement) for the full request/response reference, and the lease + operations path only when you need a surgical single-operation edit.
+
 ## API Reference
 
 ### List Plans
diff --git a/engine/app/views/coplan/llms/show.text.erb b/engine/app/views/coplan/llms/show.text.erb
index ee5f1c51..9bc25061 100644
--- a/engine/app/views/coplan/llms/show.text.erb
+++ b/engine/app/views/coplan/llms/show.text.erb
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 
 CoPlan has a REST API that AI agents can use to create plans, apply edits, and leave review comments.
 
+The editing model is simple: read a plan's content and revision, edit the Markdown locally, and PUT the whole document back with `base_revision` for optimistic concurrency. The server diffs, versions, and preserves comment anchors automatically — no operation-by-operation editing required.
+
 ## API
 
 - [Agent Instructions](<%= coplan.agent_instructions_path %>): Full API reference for AI agents, including authentication, endpoints, editing workflow, and commenting.
diff --git a/spec/requests/agent_instructions_spec.rb b/spec/requests/agent_instructions_spec.rb
index b7f2bbaf..a14ce98c 100644
--- a/spec/requests/agent_instructions_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/requests/agent_instructions_spec.rb
@@ -41,5 +41,19 @@
       get agent_instructions_path
       expect(response.body).to include('"plan_type"')
     end
+
+    it "builds example URLs from the request base (root mount)" do
+      get agent_instructions_path
+      expect(response.body).to include("http://www.example.com/api/v1/plans")
+      expect(response.body).not_to include("example.com//api")
+    end
+
+    it "includes the engine mount prefix in example URLs" do
+      # Host apps may mount the engine under a prefix (HOST_APP_GUIDE
+      # documents mount at "/coplan"); examples must include it or agents
+      # 404 on their first read.
+      get agent_instructions_path, env: { "SCRIPT_NAME" => "/coplan" }
+      expect(response.body).to include("http://www.example.com/coplan/api/v1/plans")
+    end
   end
 end