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4 skeleton files: report.md (17 section headers; will be filled by Tier 1 in phase 3), comparison_table.md (5 sample rows; will be filled by Tier 1 in phase 4), decisions.md (3 sample entries; will be filled by Tier 1 in phase 4), nagent_takeaways_fable_20260617.md (17th takeaway placeholder; will be filled by Tier 1 in phase 4). state.toml updated to current_phase = 1. Fable artifact at docs/artifacts/Fable System Prompt.md is NOT staged. Verified.
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Decisions — Recommendations for the Deferred nagent-Rebuild
Track: fable_review_20260617
For: The user-deferred Manual Slop agent-directive overhaul (per user 2026-06-17: "I'm deferring that till probably next week or two").
What this is. Concrete recommendations to apply when the user overhauls Manual Slop's agent directives. Each entry: rationale, source evidence (cluster file:line), suggested Manual Slop destination, priority. Adopted recommendations become new content in
AGENTS.md,conductor/*.md,conductor/code_styleguides/*.md,.opencode/agents/*.md, ordocs/*.mdas appropriate.
Entry 1: Adopt Fable's "Search-Default for Current-State" rule
Source evidence: research/cluster_7_epistemic_discipline.md §"What Fable says" (Fable System Prompt.md:158-164).
Rationale: Fable's rule that the model MUST use web search for "current role / position / status" queries (e.g., "Who is the current California Secretary of State?") is a genuinely-useful epistemic discipline. Manual Slop's current directives don't have an explicit analog; the project's RAG discipline (conductor/code_styleguides/rag_integration_discipline.md) is opt-in, not default-on.
Suggested Manual Slop destination: A new section in conductor/code_styleguides/rag_integration_discipline.md (or a new styleguide) titled "Search-Default for Current-State Queries."
Priority: Medium (the convention should be added; the user's deferred rebuild is the appropriate time).
Verdict category: Useful.
Entry 2: Explicitly reject Fable's "Mental-Health Watchdog" framing
Source evidence: research/cluster_3_user_wellbeing_watchdog.md §"Verdict" (Fable System Prompt.md:92-124).
Rationale: Fable's directive that the model "avoid psychoanalyzing or speculating on the motivations" of the user + "share its concerns with the person openly" + "suggest they speak with a professional" is anti-user watch-dogging. The model is text generation; it is not a clinician. Manual Slop's existing 4 memory dimensions + the data-oriented error handling convention are the data-grounded contrast: the model does not have an opinion on the user's mental state; it has a conversation log.
Suggested Manual Slop destination: A new anti-pattern entry in AGENTS.md §"Critical Anti-Patterns" titled "Do not adopt persona-driven mental-health watch-dogging." Cite Fable as the explicit rejection (per cluster 3).
Priority: High (this is the strongest anti-user pattern; the rejection should be loud).
Verdict category: Anti-User.
Entry 3: Treat Fable's product-branding sections as noise
Source evidence: research/cluster_1_product_branding.md §"Verdict" (Fable System Prompt.md:1-31).
Rationale: Fable's "Claude Fable 5" + "Mythos" + "Anthropic.com/news/claude-fable-5-mythos-5" content is brand-specific noise. It applies only to Anthropic's commercial deployment and has no analog in Manual Slop's open-source-or-per-developer model. The "Knowledge cutoff" + "Web search" + "Today is Tuesday, June 09, 2026" content is similarly deployment-specific.
Suggested Manual Slop destination: No destination. The Fable branding content is explicitly out of scope for the rebuild.
Priority: N/A (no action needed).
Verdict category: Persona.