What a role reads

Every shift, before reading what you ask it, a role reads three things: how it should work (its instructions), what it has learned (its memory) and where the company stands (the state). The last two are built on every start, and they grow on their own.

The state has a budget

The state once reached 68% of the prompt — more than the craft’s instructions. Not because it held a lot of information, but because it was written in a fixed order and nobody checked how much space it took.

Now it is assembled in blocks and packed by importance:

Always included	Included if it fits, in this order	Dropped first
Strategy (or the notice that it has not been written)	Notices from leadership	Recent facts
Active project or “NONE”, with its record	Figures	Org chart
Scope rule	What awaits a decision (objectives, plans, requests)

The scope rule — “if a piece is not in this list, it is not from here” — always closes the text. It used to be the first thing lost when trimming from the end, and it is exactly what stops a role from claiming another project’s work.

What does not fit is said (“3 blocks do not fit here; ask for them if needed”) instead of silently disappearing.

Five are listed, not twelve

Twelve lines in the prompt inform no more than five: they inform less, because they push whole blocks out. Lists are cut at five (facts, at three) and “… and N more” is added with the tool to request them.

A role does not read another’s assignments

The assignments the owner gives a role used to appear in everyone’s state, and took up half the block. They are no longer in a role’s prompt: each one receives theirs in their own conversation. Leadership still sees them.

Memory has a cap too

It fills by importance — lessons, then procedures, then the most recently noted — and is cut when space runs out. A heading with nothing under it is not written: it looks like the role knows nothing.

What this changed

The state went from 3,003 to 1,616 characters and still holds what matters: the project record, the figures and the scope rule. A role’s entire prompt is ~1,800 tokens.