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Problem

The agent had no standing rule about where a fact came from or about the proxy this computer uses, so a search result from a forum could be stated as fact, and a request that failed behind a proxy could be worked around instead of reported.

Result

Three sentences added to the app's system prompt:

• say where an answer came from: the maker's documentation or source is the reference for what their product does; a blog, forum, video or issue thread is one person talking, so use it only as a hint and mark it unconfirmed; give the address actually opened, never one from memory, with the version or date when the answer depends on it;
• this computer may reach the internet through a proxy or VPN; never switch a proxy off to make a download or search work; if a request fails because of it, name the proxy and let the person choose a direct connection;
• write in the language the person writes in, and write a helper's task in that language too, so the helper answers in it.

Validation

node --test tests/functional-fixes.test.mjs → 7 pass.

The prompt is now 2,284 characters (about 600 tokens). The former budget of 1,600 was raised to 2,600 in the same test, with the reason written beside it; it is still a fifth of the Harness's own text.

Limits

• Wording only: the model can still ignore it. The rule matters most for web search and API-backed models.