The Summarisation Prompt Designer
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Write the summarisation prompt used when this agent compacts its context. Agent purpose: [DESCRIBE] What is being summarised: [CONVERSATION / TOOL RESULTS / BOTH] What the agent does after summarisation: [DESCRIBE] The summary must preserve: 1. The original goal, verbatim 2. Constraints and requirements stated by the user 3. Decisions made and their reasons 4. Things already tried and their outcomes — critical, or the agent repeats work 5. Current state: what is done, what is in progress, what remains 6. Anything discovered that changes the approach 7. Open questions and blockers The summary may discard: - Exploratory reasoning that led nowhere - Full tool outputs where the conclusion is captured - Restatements and confirmations - Details of completed sub-tasks beyond their outcome Produce: 1. The summarisation prompt itself 2. The output structure it should produce 3. What the agent should be told about the summary — that it is a summary, what it can rely on, what it should re-verify 4. A check: how would I detect that summarisation dropped something that mattered? The single most common failure is losing "things already tried" — the agent then repeats work in a loop. Guard against it explicitly.
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