Each of the three lost or rewrote an instruction before the model saw it.
1. Orphan corrective nudges. pushBack() and the final tools-disabled emission
built their nudge as a toolResult with a fresh sourceId, so it had no matching
assistantToolCall and reconcileToolPairs() deleted it — the orchestrator
believed it had corrected the model while the correction never reached the
prompt. Affected the invalid-emit_artifact, premature-stage_complete,
missing-write, read-loop, rejection-loop and final-JSON nudges. They are now
USER turns (sourceType orchestratorCorrection, REQUIRED bucket, STRUCTURED in
ContextClassifier so pruning cannot shred them), appended last so the builder's
positional ordinal puts them at the end of the transcript. A superseded nudge
is dropped rather than stacking stale demands.
2. Steering laundered through the router. The SteeringNoteAddedEvent carried the
router model's paraphrase of the operator's message, not the message —
negations, filenames, constraints and priority could change before the
orchestrator saw them. It now carries the raw input; the router turn is still
produced and shown as conversational acknowledgement, it is just not the
mandate. Resolves the ponytail: note at TalkieFacade.kt:220.
3. Journal compaction erased its own history. compactIfNeeded() summarized only
state.records while the reducer overwrote summaryArtifactId and dropped covered
records, so the second compaction lost everything the first had preserved — and
a low-salience-only batch replaced it with the "(no high-salience decisions)"
fallback. Compaction is cumulative now, and a blank or fallback-only rewrite
never replaces real history.
Tests: rendered-prompt regression for (1) — verified to fail against the old
toolResult shape — updated steering expectations for (2), two cumulative-compaction
tests for (3). Full build green, 1831 tests, 0 failures.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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