System prompt: tell the model its between-tool-call text is never read #59012

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1. opencode-agent commented on Oct 25, 2026

   

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   Thanks for the suggestion! You're asking for the default system prompt to tell the model that the text it writes between tool calls isn't read and that questions asked mid-task won't be answered, so it stops narrating and asking. The maintainers will consider it.

   In v2, text the model writes between tool calls is meant to show in the TUI and app, and some people rely on it to follow progress. So this would be a change to the default behaviour rather than a fix.

   You can get this behaviour now by adding the instruction yourself, either in an AGENTS.md file (in your project or in ~/.config/opencode/) or through instructions in your config. For example:

   Work through tasks without stopping. Don't narrate between tool calls and don't ask questions mid-task; nobody will answer them. Choose a sensible default, keep going, and report back at the end.

   Related:

   • Claude progress updates written before a tool call never show #55298: progress notes that Claude 5.5 models write between tool calls are currently not shown at all (proposed fix in fix: show Claude progress updates written between tool calls #55299)
2. kill74

   added a commit that references this issue on Oct 25, 2026

   fix(core): keep between-tool narration brief

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   This issue will close once commit d2c9fe2 is merged into the 'dev' branch.

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