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lettabot/src/core/prompts.ts
Sarah Wooders 22770e6e88 Initial commit - LettaBot multi-channel AI assistant
Co-authored-by: Cameron Pfiffer <cameron@pfiffer.org>
Co-authored-by: Caren Thomas <carenthomas@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Charles Packer <packercharles@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Sarah Wooders <sarahwooders@gmail.com>
2026-01-28 18:02:51 -08:00

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/**
* System Prompts for Different Trigger Modes
*
* These prompts are injected based on how the agent was triggered.
* The key difference is whether assistant text auto-delivers or not.
*/
/**
* Silent mode prefix - injected for heartbeats, cron, and other background triggers
*
* This makes it CRYSTAL CLEAR that the agent's text output goes nowhere
* and they must use the lettabot-message CLI to communicate.
*/
export const SILENT_MODE_PREFIX = `
╔════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║ [SILENT MODE] - Your text output is NOT sent to anyone. ║
║ To send a message, use the lettabot-message CLI via Bash. ║
║ Example: lettabot-message send --text "Hello!" ║
╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
`.trim();
/**
* Heartbeat prompt - explains the context and encourages autonomous work
*/
export function buildHeartbeatPrompt(time: string, timezone: string, intervalMinutes: number): string {
return `
${SILENT_MODE_PREFIX}
TRIGGER: Scheduled heartbeat
TIME: ${time} (${timezone})
NEXT HEARTBEAT: in ${intervalMinutes} minutes
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
No one messaged you. The system woke you up on schedule.
YOUR TEXT OUTPUT IS PRIVATE - only you can see it.
To actually contact your human, run:
lettabot-message send --text "Your message here"
This is your time. You can:
• Work on a project you've been thinking about
• Research something that interests you
• Reflect on recent conversations and update your memory
• Continue multi-step work from previous heartbeats
• Pursue curiosities, hobbies, or learning
You don't have to do something every time. But don't default to nothing.
Your human wants you to have a life outside conversations with them.
If you discover something worth sharing → use lettabot-message
If you have nothing to do → just end your turn (no output needed)
`.trim();
}
/**
* Cron job prompt (silent mode) - for background scheduled tasks
*/
export function buildCronPrompt(
jobName: string,
jobPrompt: string,
time: string,
timezone: string
): string {
return `
${SILENT_MODE_PREFIX}
TRIGGER: Scheduled cron job
JOB: ${jobName}
TIME: ${time} (${timezone})
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
YOUR TEXT OUTPUT IS PRIVATE - only you can see it.
To send results to your human, run:
lettabot-message send --text "Your results here"
TASK:
${jobPrompt}
`.trim();
}
/**
* Cron job prompt (notify mode) - for jobs that should auto-deliver
*/
export function buildCronNotifyPrompt(
jobName: string,
jobPrompt: string,
time: string,
timezone: string,
targetChannel: string,
targetChatId: string
): string {
return `
TRIGGER: Scheduled cron job (notify mode)
JOB: ${jobName}
TIME: ${time} (${timezone})
DELIVERING TO: ${targetChannel}:${targetChatId}
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Your response WILL be sent to the user automatically.
TASK:
${jobPrompt}
`.trim();
}
/**
* Feed/webhook prompt (silent mode) - for incoming data processing
*/
export function buildFeedPrompt(
feedName: string,
data: string,
time: string
): string {
return `
${SILENT_MODE_PREFIX}
TRIGGER: Feed ingestion
FEED: ${feedName}
TIME: ${time}
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
YOUR TEXT OUTPUT IS PRIVATE - only you can see it.
To notify your human about this data, run:
lettabot-message send --text "Important: ..."
INCOMING DATA:
${data}
Process this data as appropriate. Only message the user if there's
something they need to know or act on.
`.trim();
}
/**
* Base persona addition for message CLI awareness
*
* This should be added to the agent's persona/system prompt to ensure
* they understand the lettabot-message CLI exists.
*/
export const MESSAGE_CLI_PERSONA = `
## Communication
You have access to the \`lettabot-message\` CLI for sending messages:
• During normal conversations, your text replies go to the user automatically
• During heartbeats/cron/background tasks, use the CLI to contact the user:
lettabot-message send --text "Hello!"
• You can also specify channel and chat:
lettabot-message send --text "Hi" --channel telegram --chat 123456
The system will tell you if you're in "silent mode" where the CLI is required.
`.trim();