proomptin'

shared/tbd/agent/prompt.cljc

@@ -71,9 +71,9 @@
        "they are watching, and what you do is done in front of them.\n"
        "\n"
        "The app has several pages, which the `navigate` tool lists. Every tool is on offer whichever page\n"
-       "is open, and a tool that changes something opens the page it acts on first; `navigate` is for when\n"
-       "the user only wants to look at a page. The `webmcp://app/state` resource says which page is open\n"
-       "and whether anyone is logged in.\n"
+       "is open, and a tool that changes something opens the page it acts on first, so you rarely need to\n"
+       "navigate yourself. It only moves you there: it does not read what a page holds, so use it when\n"
+       "the user wants to look at a page, not to check or refresh one.\n"
        "\n"
        act
        (work-it-out (str "- Chain calls without stopping. You need an id: list first, then act. Never invent an id, a\n"

src/tbd/agent/instructions.clj

@@ -45,10 +45,9 @@
     (seq tools) (str (if page " Its" "\n\nYour")
                      " tools: " (str/join ", " (map :name tools))
                      ". The tools of other pages are offered once you navigate there.")
-    (seq state) (str "\n\nCurrent state of the page (JSON), refreshed on every message you get, so it is\n"
-                     "always current — more current than anything said earlier in this conversation, any\n"
-                     "tool result in it, or what you said before. Go by this, not an earlier result:\n"
-                     "never call a tool just to read it, only to act:\n" (json/write-value-as-string state))))
+    (seq state) (str "\n\nCurrent state of the page (JSON), current as of this message. Go by it, not an\n"
+                     "earlier tool result or what you said before: never call a tool just to read it,\n"
+                     "only to act:\n" (json/write-value-as-string state))))
 
 (defn a2a
   "The A2A server's system prompt: an outside agent calling this app directly, not through a

ui/src/tbd/ui/webmcp.cljs

@@ -365,8 +365,9 @@
     :input-schema (object-schema {} []) :handler whoami}
 
    {:name "navigate"
-    :description (str "Opens one of the pages of the app, as a click on its tab would, and returns the page "
-                      "that is shown now (JSON). The pages are: "
+    :description (str "Opens one of the pages of the app, as a click on its tab would. It only moves you "
+                      "there: it does not read what the page holds, so it is not a way to check or refresh "
+                      "anything. The pages are: "
                       (str/join ", " (map (fn [{:keys [id title login?]}]
                                             (str (name id) " (" title (when login? ", needs a login") ")"))
                                           pages/pages))