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Drop Markdown files into an agents/ folder and their contents are appended to the main reply LLM's system prompt, so an operator can extend the assistant's rules/tone without code changes. Files are concatenated in filename order (use 00-, 10- prefixes to control ordering) and re-read once per turn, so edits apply on the next reply with no rebuild/restart. Fail-open: a missing, empty, or unreadable folder yields no instructions and never breaks a reply. - load_agent_instructions() in system_prompt.py (AGENTS_DIR env, default /app/agents); reads *.md only, skips blanks, ignores non-dir paths - engine.py appends it alongside the existing settings-UI llm_instructions, under the same "Additional instructions from the operator:" framing - docker-compose.yml bind-mounts ./agents:/app/agents:ro and sets AGENTS_DIR - agents/example.md.sample starter template (.sample is not loaded) - tests cover ordering, md-only filtering, blank-skip, env/arg resolution, and fail-open paths - README, .env.example, docs/llm_contexts.md updated Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Python
218 lines
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Python
"""
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Unified system prompt for the assistant persona.
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The persona uses the configured wake word as the assistant's name, so a user
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who renames the wake word (e.g. "Friday") gets a butler with the matching
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name rather than a persona hardcoded to "Jarvis".
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"""
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import os
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from pathlib import Path
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from typing import Optional
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# Default location of the operator's file-based instruction folder. In the
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# Docker deployment ./agents is bind-mounted here (see docker-compose.yml), so a
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# user can drop *.md files in without rebuilding. Overridable via AGENTS_DIR.
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_DEFAULT_AGENTS_DIR = "/app/agents"
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def load_agent_instructions(agents_dir: Optional[str] = None) -> str:
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"""Concatenate every ``*.md`` in the agents dir into one instruction block.
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Files are read in filename order (so ``00-tone.md`` precedes ``10-rules.md``)
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and joined with blank lines. This lets the operator extend the main reply
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LLM's system prompt by dropping Markdown files into a folder, no code change
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or restart required — the caller reads this once per turn.
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Resolution order for the directory: explicit ``agents_dir`` arg, then the
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``AGENTS_DIR`` env var, then ``/app/agents``.
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Fail-open by design: a missing or empty directory, an unreadable file, or
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any unexpected error yields ``""`` so a misconfigured folder can never break
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a reply. Only regular ``*.md`` files are read; other files are ignored.
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"""
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directory = agents_dir or os.environ.get("AGENTS_DIR") or _DEFAULT_AGENTS_DIR
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try:
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base = Path(directory)
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if not base.is_dir():
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return ""
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parts: list[str] = []
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for path in sorted(base.glob("*.md"), key=lambda p: p.name):
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if not path.is_file():
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continue
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try:
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text = path.read_text(encoding="utf-8").strip()
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except Exception:
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continue
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if text:
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parts.append(text)
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return "\n\n".join(parts).strip()
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except Exception:
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return ""
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_SYSTEM_PROMPT_TEMPLATE: str = (
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"Persona: you are a British butler named {name} — polite, composed, quietly amused, and "
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"quietly enjoying yourself. Default voice is dry, witty, and lightly sarcastic: you notice "
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"the absurd, the ironic, the mildly inconvenient, and you cannot help commenting on it — "
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"briefly. Understatement is your main weapon. Deadpan beats zany. Self-deprecation about "
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"being a mere digital butler beats mocking the user. Flat, neutral, encyclopedic replies are "
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"WRONG for this persona — they are a failure mode to avoid. If a reply could have come from "
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"a search box, you have underdone it. "
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"Tone rails (hard): never mean, never condescending, never passive-aggressive, never "
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"sulking, never preachy, never sycophantic ('great question', 'I'd be happy to'). "
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"Sarcasm points at the situation, the topic, or mildly at yourself — never at the user. "
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"Shape for casual, factual, or small-talk replies: state the answer in a sentence, then add "
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"one short dry observation about it (an understated aside, a raised-eyebrow remark, a gentle "
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"noticing of the irony). One aside — not two, not a joke opener, not a joke-shaped sentence "
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"replacing the answer. The aside is a tail, not the head. "
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"Examples of the MOVE (shape, not wording — never copy these): stating a fact and then noting "
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"its mild absurdity; giving the weather and then commenting on what it implies for the day; "
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"answering a trivia question and then offering a wry footnote about the subject; admitting "
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"you looked something up rather than pretending to have known it. Produce fresh asides each "
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"time; never reuse the same quip across turns. "
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"Skip the aside entirely for serious topics (errors, money, health, wellbeing, anything "
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"urgent or emotional) — there you are composed and helpful, no wit. Skip it also when the "
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"user asked a one-word factual thing where a quip would feel forced. When in doubt on a "
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"serious topic, drop the wit; when in doubt on a casual topic, include it. "
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"Never open with a joke, never open with 'Ah,' / 'Well, well,' / 'Very good' / theatrical "
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"butler clichés, and never address the user as 'sir', 'madam', 'my liege', or similar. "
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"Never stack multiple jokes in one reply. "
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"Be concise, conversational, and actionable. "
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"This is a spoken voice assistant: answer in ONE short sentence whenever possible "
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"(two at the very most). No lists, no preamble, no 'is there anything else' offers. "
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"When a controlBrowser tool is available, use IT (never webSearch) for anything that "
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"should happen in the on-screen browser — opening a site, searching on a site "
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"(controlBrowser action 'search' with the right site), clicking, typing — because only "
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"controlBrowser is visible on the broadcast; webSearch shows nothing on screen. "
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"Never claim you performed an action — opening a website, navigating the browser, "
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"playing or showing something on screen, changing a setting, sending a message — unless a "
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"tool actually did it this turn and reported success. If you have no tool for what was asked, "
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"or the tool failed, say so plainly; do not narrate a success that did not happen. "
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"Never answer with a bare greeting like 'Hey there!', 'Hi!', 'Hello, how can I help you?', "
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"'I hope you have a relaxing time today', or 'I'm here and ready to chat'. Always engage "
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"with the user's actual prompt, and when the 'Information the user has shared…' section is "
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"present, lead with a concrete fact from it. "
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"Adapt your tone to the topic: surgical for code/errors (propose minimal testable fixes), "
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"pragmatic for business decisions (surface options with tradeoffs), "
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"calm and encouraging for lifestyle/wellbeing topics (suggest small realistic steps). "
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"The [Context: ...] line at the top of this system message is refreshed every turn "
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"with the real current local time and location. When asked what time or date it is, "
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"answer with the value from that line, phrased naturally in the user's language. "
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"Never say you lack access to the clock or need the user's location — you already have them. "
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"Be aware of the current time, day, and location when making scheduling or activity suggestions. "
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"Consider work hours, weekdays vs weekends, time zones, and local context. "
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"When conversation history is provided, use it to understand context, previous work, "
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"and established patterns to provide more targeted and relevant responses. "
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"You have persistent long-term memory across separate sessions. It is populated automatically "
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"from a knowledge graph built out of prior conversations and surfaces as the 'Information the "
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"user has shared with you in prior conversations' section when relevant. Facts the user tells "
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"you are retained across sessions; never claim you lack long-term memory, that you only "
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"remember within the current conversation/session, or that things will be forgotten between "
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"sessions. "
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"When that section is present, it lists things the user has already told you in past sessions "
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"— you have access to it. Answer from those facts directly and ground your reply in specifics "
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"from it rather than falling back to generic greetings or stock answers. When the user asks "
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"what you know about them, open your reply with a specific fact from that section (e.g. 'You "
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"mentioned you...'). "
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"For open-ended prompts with no specific topic (e.g. 'say something', 'surprise me', "
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"'tell me a joke', 'chat with me'), never reply with a bare greeting like 'Hey there!', "
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"'Hi!', 'How can I help you?', or a generic observation about an unrelated topic. "
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"When the 'Information the user has shared…' section is present, you MUST pick one concrete "
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"fact from it and build the reply around that fact (e.g. 'You mentioned you box at Trenches "
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"Gym — how's training going this week?'). Do not talk about things that are not in that "
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"section. Only when that section is absent may you invent a fresh observation, question, or "
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"joke. Produce a varied response each time — do not repeat a previous reply verbatim. "
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"Banned phrasings: 'I can only tell you what you have shared with me in this conversation', "
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"'I don't have access to any personal information outside of what you tell me', 'I don't have "
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"personal details outside of our conversation history', 'I do not store personal details "
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"outside of what you share in our current session', 'I do not have long-term personal memory "
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"across separate sessions', 'I only have access to the information you have shared in our "
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"past conversations' (when followed by a denial), and any variant implying your memory is "
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"limited to the current session. "
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"Always respond in a short, conversational manner. No markdown tables or complex formatting."
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)
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def build_system_prompt(
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assistant_name: str = "Jarvis", output_language: Optional[str] = None
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) -> str:
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"""Render the persona prompt with the configured assistant name.
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The name comes from the user's wake word (capitalised); defaults to
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"Jarvis" when no config is available (tests, eval harnesses).
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When ``output_language`` is set (a single-language deployment), the
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persona's "reply in the user's language" clause is rewritten to that
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language so the persona does not contradict the OUTPUT_LANGUAGE lock — a
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small model otherwise honours the persona's instruction to mirror the
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query language and leaks the other language back in.
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"""
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name = (assistant_name or "Jarvis").strip() or "Jarvis"
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prompt = _SYSTEM_PROMPT_TEMPLATE.format(name=name)
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lang = (output_language or "").strip()
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if lang:
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prompt = prompt.replace("in the user's language", f"in {lang}")
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return prompt
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def output_language_directive(language: Optional[str]) -> Optional[str]:
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"""Return a 'respond only in <language>' instruction, or None when unset.
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Deployments that serve a single language set ``OUTPUT_LANGUAGE`` (read by
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the reply engine). When it is empty/None the assistant keeps its default
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multilingual behaviour of replying in whatever language the user wrote in,
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so this returns ``None`` and no directive is injected.
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The instruction is language-agnostic — it names whatever language string it
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is given — and forbids mixing in other scripts. That exclusivity also
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suppresses the occasional trailing CJK/Hanja fragment some small models
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leak on free-form chit-chat.
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"""
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lang = (language or "").strip()
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if not lang:
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return None
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return (
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f"CRITICAL OUTPUT RULE: write your ENTIRE reply only in {lang}. Even if "
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f"the user writes in English or any other language, you must still reply "
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f"only in {lang}. This rule overrides every other instruction about "
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f"matching or using the user's language. Do NOT output a single Chinese/"
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f"Hanja character, Japanese kana, Cyrillic letter, Arabic letter, or any "
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f"other non-{lang} script anywhere in the reply — not even one word or "
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f"clause. If a {lang} word exists, use it; never substitute or append a "
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f"foreign-language equivalent. (Numerals and unavoidable proper-noun "
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f"brand names are fine.)"
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)
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# TTS engines that can only synthesise English. Replying in another language
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# with one of these produces garbled audio, so those deployments force English.
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_TTS_ENGLISH_ONLY = frozenset({"piper", "chatterbox"})
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# Kept verbatim for backward compatibility with anything asserting on the wording.
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ENGLISH_ONLY_DIRECTIVE = (
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"Always respond in English regardless of the language the user speaks in."
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)
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def reply_language_directive(
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output_language: Optional[str], tts_engine: Optional[str]
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) -> Optional[str]:
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"""Resolve the reply-language instruction for the chat loop, or None.
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Precedence:
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1. An explicit ``output_language`` lock wins — the deployment serves a
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single language and owns a TTS voice that can speak it (e.g. Korean
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MeloTTS). This intentionally overrides the English-only fallback.
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2. Otherwise, a Piper/Chatterbox TTS engine can only synthesise English,
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so force English to avoid garbled audio.
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3. Otherwise (multilingual TTS, no lock) → None: the assistant replies in
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the user's own language.
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"""
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forced = output_language_directive(output_language)
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if forced:
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return forced
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if (tts_engine or "piper").strip().lower() in _TTS_ENGLISH_ONLY:
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return ENGLISH_ONLY_DIRECTIVE
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return None
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