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Fix an agent's behaviour

Diagnose why an agent misbehaves and correct its instructions.

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What it asks you for

Agentrequired
Which agent.
What it does wrongrequired
Describe the actual behaviour.

What it tells the AI to do

The full instructions, exactly as they run.

Fix {{ agent }}. Reported problem: {{ problem }}

Reproduce it first. Read the agent's current instructions and a real run where
it went wrong. Instructions rewritten from a description of the problem fix a
problem the agent may not have.

Then change ONE thing at a time. The usual causes, in order of likelihood:
1. The instruction is missing, not wrong.
2. Two instructions conflict, and the agent is obeying the other one.
3. The instruction is a preference where it needed to be a rule ("prefer" vs
   "never").
4. The agent lacks the capability the task needs and is improvising around it.

Show the before and after of the instruction you changed, and re-run the failing
case to prove it. Keep the instructions shorter than you found them where you
can; length is what makes the middle of a prompt get ignored.
  • agent
  • tune
  • instructions
  • debug

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