fix(prompts): forbid wide filesystem search in shared formula-following guidance#6
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…ng guidance When an agent's first lookup hypothesis fails, the fallback should be another `gc` / `bd` introspection command, not a filesystem search. Wide traversals rooted at `/`, `~`, `/Users`, or `$HOME` walk macOS TCC-protected directories (Documents, Desktop, Downloads, removable volumes), trigger permission prompts that block work, and produce no signal a CLI command can't already provide. gastownhall#1785 added this prohibition to the dog prompt narrowly. Forensic transcripts from a 2026-05-08 fresh-init city show agents in other roles falling back to filesystem search for non-formula targets too (e.g. dog-1: `find /Users/eric -maxdepth 4 -name .dolt-data`). The shared "Following Your Formula" section is the right home for the broader rule — every formula-following agent reads it, the guidance applies to formula-shaped and non-formula-shaped lookups alike, and the dog's existing language stays put as a role-specific reminder. Touches three parallel mirror locations of the same content: - `examples/gastown/packs/gastown/template-fragments/following-mol.template.md` - `examples/gastown/packs/maintenance/template-fragments/following-mol.template.md` - `internal/bootstrap/packs/core/assets/prompts/pool-worker.md` Prose-only edit; no Go code. Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Upstream-PR: gastownhall#1860
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Fork-PR for review. Upstream: gastownhall#1860 (OPEN). Operator comment posted 2026-05-20 surfacing macOS-TCC severity; awaiting maintainer reply.