feat: pass task guidance via system prompt to clean up conversation thread #316
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…hread Move the TASK GUIDANCE preamble from the user message to a system-level mechanism specific to each executor: - Claude: Use --append-system-prompt flag - Gemini: Write .gemini/GEMINI.md file in the worktree - Codex/OpenClaw: Include in prompt (no system prompt mechanism) This keeps the executor's conversation thread cleaner by not showing the large guidance block at the start of every task, while still providing the same instructions to the AI. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Codex CLI auto-loads AGENTS.md files for project-specific instructions, similar to how Gemini uses GEMINI.md. Updated Codex executor to write task guidance to AGENTS.md in the worktree instead of including it in the user prompt. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Writing AGENTS.md would overwrite any existing project instructions. Safer to keep system instructions in the prompt like OpenClaw. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
--append-system-promptflag to pass guidance as system prompt.gemini/GEMINI.mdfile in the worktree (auto-loaded by Gemini CLI)This keeps the executor's conversation thread cleaner by not showing the large guidance block at the start of every task.
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