Explain the PR snapshot, not the commit-by-commit journey#1
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Explainers kept narrating the branch's development history (iterations, reverts, fixups) instead of the net change. The prompt hands the agent git history and commit messages for intent reconstruction but never said they are input-only, so they leaked into the narration. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Explainers kept narrating the commits that led up to the PR — iterations, reverts, fixups — instead of the final state of the change.
The prompt tells the agent it has "the full repo, git history" and to "reconstruct intent from the PR title, body, commit messages, and linked issues", but never said that history is input-only. Combined with the "human story" / "journey" framing, agents reinterpreted the development history as the story to tell.
This adds one explicit bullet to the investigation brief: explain the PR's net change as it stands right now; commit messages and branch history are investigation input only, never narration.
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