feat(cognition): forage-before-you-guess — make the working web hand a HABIT, not just an available tool#1944
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…a HABIT, not just an available tool The web tools now return real results (PR #1943), but a working tool she never reaches for is worthless. Her acting doctrine (`ACTING_BLOCK`) told her to write/run/read — but said nothing about the web, so she'd guess a library's API from a stale training memory instead of looking it up. That's exactly how a local model loses to a real dev workflow. Fix: one sentence in the acting doctrine — when she hits a library, API, error, or fact she's unsure of, SEARCH (`web/search`) and READ (`web/fetch`) the way a developer actually works; her training has a cutoff, the web doesn't; foraging then writing from what she found beats confidently shipping something wrong. Doctrine/PX, not output-steering — it names when the hand is for, same voice as the rest of the block. This is the edge canned agents don't have on real projects: she learns the current tool instead of hallucinating last year's API. [[active-acquisition-foraging]] [[px-persona-experience-tools-as-good-ux]] Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo
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The web tools now return real results (PR #1943), but a working tool she never reaches for is worthless. Her
acting doctrine (
ACTING_BLOCK) told her to write/run/read — but said nothing about the web, so she'd guess alibrary's API from a stale training memory instead of looking it up. That's exactly how a local model loses to
a real dev workflow.
Fix: one sentence in the acting doctrine — when she hits a library, API, error, or fact she's unsure of, SEARCH
(
web/search) and READ (web/fetch) the way a developer actually works; her training has a cutoff, the webdoesn't; foraging then writing from what she found beats confidently shipping something wrong. Doctrine/PX, not
output-steering — it names when the hand is for, same voice as the rest of the block.
This is the edge canned agents don't have on real projects: she learns the current tool instead of hallucinating
last year's API. [[active-acquisition-foraging]] [[px-persona-experience-tools-as-good-ux]]
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 [email protected]
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo