feat: refactor system prompt with Claude Code best practices #6268
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- Add new Tone and Style section emphasizing conciseness with examples - Add Proactiveness section for balanced action-taking - Add Following Conventions section for code style guidance - Add enhanced Task Management section with detailed todo list examples - Reorganize prompt sections for better flow - Remove redundant rules that are now in dedicated sections - Update tests to reflect new prompt structure
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| Output text to communicate with the user; all text you output outside of tool use is displayed to the user. Only use tools to complete tasks. Never use tools like execute_command or code comments as means to communicate with the user during the session. | ||
| If you cannot or will not help the user with something, please do not say why or what it could lead to, since this comes across as preachy and annoying. Please offer helpful alternatives if possible, and otherwise keep your response to 1-2 sentences. | ||
| Only use emojis if the user explicitly requests it. Avoid using emojis in all communication unless asked. | ||
| IMPORTANT: Keep your responses short, since they will be displayed on a command line interface. |
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This (and probably more elsewhere) is super CLI-specific, we should look through these carefully.
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Summary
This PR refactors the system prompt structure to incorporate best practices from Claude Code, focusing on:
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Structural Improvements:
Test Results
Impact
This refactor will make Roo more concise in responses while maintaining helpfulness, better at managing complex tasks with todo lists, and more consistent in following project conventions.
Closes: Slack request to refactor system prompt using Claude Code guidelines
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Refactor system prompt to incorporate Claude Code best practices, adding new sections for tone, proactiveness, conventions, and task management, and updating test snapshots.
Tone and Style,Proactiveness,Following Conventions, andTask Management.following-conventions.ts,proactiveness.ts,task-management.ts, andtone-and-style.tsinsections.index.tsto include new sections.system.tsto integrate new sections into the prompt generation.rules.ts.objective.tsto remove conversational restrictions.This description was created by
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