Voice: rewrote REGINALD_SYSTEM and CAPTURE_SYSTEM (core) to an elevated,
dry butler register, and re-voiced his visible lines — chat greetings, the
approve/dismiss/error replies, the standup closer ('The kettle is on. Yours,
Reginald.'), the onboarding welcome, and the capture prose. Both system prompts
now also instruct him never to use an em dash.
Em-dashes: swept every user-facing string in the renderer free of em-dashes
(punctuation only, comments left untouched) via a per-file pass, plus the core
tool descriptions and the memory focus-slot placeholder ('· ' not '— '). Bare
'—' value placeholders became middots ('·'). No em-dash now renders anywhere
in the app or in Reginald's own output.
core 169 tests green (updated the memory placeholder assertion) · core + desktop
tsc clean · verified visually (posh greeting + standup closer render).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reginald's context is tiered so the model always sees what matters without ever
copying ticket data into the prompt:
- HOT (this module) — charter + active directives + the focus snapshot, packed
under a hard token budget (2k). Assembled fresh each turn as the prompt seed.
- WARM — the append-only directive/event ledger + digest, summarized on demand.
- COLD — gitea + sidecar via query_project. Ticket bodies/comments/detail live
here and are NEVER inlined; the model fetches them by number when needed.
- `assembleHotContext(inputs, budget=2000)`: focus (tiny, always kept) → most
recent active directives (each while they fit ~⅔) → charter fills the true
remainder, truncated on a line boundary. Measures the fixed tail exactly and
reserves for header/joiner/ellipsis so the total never exceeds budget.
- `estimateTokens` (tokenizer-free ~4 chars/token, slight over-estimate so a real
tokenizer stays under), `activeDirectives` (accepted/amended, most-recent-first).
Acceptance met: hot assembles under the 2k budget even with a ~34k-token charter;
nothing ticket-shaped is inlined (only numbers + titles for focus). +5 core tests;
full core suite + typecheck green.
Follow-up: wire assembleHotContext into the live system prompt in main (needs
charter + directives + focus at chat time) — the assembly + budget is the tested core.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
