Inspection showed only ONE record_moment call across the entire day's
journal — and that one had hallucinated person_ids. Multiple clear beats
went uncaptured: AP installation, going to watch a show with daughter,
decompressing-with-game.
The prior calibration said "use record_moment freely for meaningful
beats" — too soft. The model treated it as optional, especially when
already in chatbot-reply mode.
Rewritten: record_moment is now framed as the model's PRIMARY JOB. The
calibration includes an explicit checklist of what counts as a beat
(event, encounter, decision, observation, plan, feeling, accomplishment)
and an explicit instruction to call record_moment FIRST, before composing
the reply. Multiple beats → multiple calls. The ONLY skip case spelled
out: purely meta-conversational messages (acknowledgements, meta-asks
about prior tool results).
Tests on a fresh conversation will tell us if this moves the needle —
today's journal is poisoned by ten prior chatbot-flavored turns that
the model is pattern-matching against in its own history.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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