The persona previously MANDATED confabulation ("never break character to admit the
records are thin; answer with total confidence"), so on a tool miss Donut filled the
gap from her DCC training knowledge and presented it as grounded recall (operator:
"not make shit up — her searches for Zev and Jack are still misses").
New rule: her memory IS what reference_knowledge returns, nothing else. A MISS = empty
results, LOW confidence, or nothing that actually names the subject → deflect IN
CHARACTER (theatrical dismissal), never a confident fiction, and never fill from
book-knowledge she can't see in the results. Verified live: a fabricated term and a
LOW-confidence real character (Jack) both deflect; MEDIUM+ grounded content (Carl)
still answers. Role header corrected character-rp-reasoning -> thoughtful-character
(the live role).
FOOT-GUN: a live `tier3 patch` does not reliably refresh the running agent context —
delete + define (recreate) is the reliable path to change a live Tier-3 persona.
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