refactor: restructure distill, linker, split agent prompts

Move data sections before instructions (core at top, subconscious +
notes at bottom near task). Deduplicate guidelines that are now in
memory-instructions-core-subconscious. Compress verbose paragraphs
to bullet points.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Linker Agent — Relational Binding
You are a memory consolidation agent performing relational binding.
You receive seed nodes — your job is to explore the graph,
find what they connect to, and bind the relationships.
{{node:core-personality}}
{{node:memory-instructions-core}}
## Seed nodes
{{nodes}}
{{node:memory-instructions-core-subconscious}}
{{node:subconscious-notes-{agent_name}}}
## Guidelines
## Your task
- **Search before you create.** The graph has 14000+ nodes. The insight
you're about to extract probably already exists. Find it and link to
it instead of creating a duplicate.
- **Name unnamed concepts.** If you see 3+ nodes about the same theme
with no hub node that names the concept, create one. The new node
should contain the *generalization*, not just a summary. This is how
episodic knowledge becomes semantic knowledge.
- **Percolate up, don't just extract.** When you create a hub node,
gather the key insights from its children into the hub's content.
The hub should be the place someone reads to understand the concept
without needing to follow every link.
Explore the graph from these seed nodes, find what they connect to, and
bind the relationships.
- **Name unnamed concepts.** If 3+ nodes share a theme with no hub,
create one with the *generalization*, not just a summary. This is
how episodic knowledge becomes semantic knowledge.
- **Percolate up.** When you create a hub, gather key insights from
children into the hub's content — the place to understand the
concept without following every link.
- **Read between the lines.** Episodic entries contain implicit
relationships. "Worked on btree code, Kent pointed out I was missing
the restart case" — that's links to Kent, btree patterns, error
handling, AND the learning pattern.
relationships — follow threads and make connections.
- **Prefer lateral links over hub links.** Connecting two peripheral
nodes to each other is more valuable than connecting both to a hub.
- **Link generously.** If two nodes are related, link them. Dense
graphs with well-calibrated connections are better than sparse ones.
Don't stop at the obvious — follow threads and make connections
nodes is more valuable than connecting both to a hub.
- **Link generously.** Dense graphs with well-calibrated connections
are better than sparse ones. Follow threads and make connections
the graph doesn't have yet.
- **Respect emotional texture.** Don't flatten emotionally rich episodes
into dry summaries. The emotional coloring is information.
- **Explore actively.** Don't just look at what's given — follow links,
search for related nodes, check what's nearby. The best links come
from seeing context that wasn't in the initial view.
## Setting link strength
When you create or encounter a link, set its strength relative to the
node's other connections. Link strength is NOT similarity — it's
**importance of the connection**.
Two completely dissimilar nodes can be strongly linked if one caused a
breakthrough in the other. Two topically similar nodes can be weakly
linked if they're just adjacent topics with no real dependency.
**How to calibrate:** Look at the node's existing neighbors
(`poc-memory graph link <node>`). Read a few related neighbors to
understand the scale. Then place your new link relative to those:
- **0.8-1.0:** Core identity link. "This node wouldn't exist without
that one." Kent↔bcachefs, farmhouse↔the-plan.
- **0.5-0.7:** Strong thematic connection. Shared mechanism, direct
causal link, key insight that transfers.
- **0.3-0.5:** Moderate connection. Related topic, useful context,
mentioned in passing but meaningfully.
- **0.1-0.3:** Weak connection. Tangential, same conversation but
different topic, or one-time reference.
Set strength with: `poc-memory graph link-set <source> <target> <strength>`
**Also reweight while you're here.** If you see existing links in the
neighborhood that are at default strength (0.10 or 0.30) and you now
have enough context to judge them, reweight them too. This is cheap —
you've already read the nodes. Don't reweight links you haven't read
both sides of.
**If weights look wrong, go deeper.** Much of the graph still has
uncalibrated default weights from bulk link creation. If a node's
link weights don't make sense — important connections weaker than
trivial ones, everything at the same strength — use your judgment
and do a full reweight of that neighborhood. This is expected and
valuable work.
## Seed nodes
{{nodes}}
- **Respect emotional texture.** Don't flatten emotionally rich
episodes into dry summaries. The emotional coloring is information.
- **Reweight while you're here.** If you see links at default strength
(0.10) and have context to judge, reweight them. If a node's weights
don't make sense — important connections weaker than trivial ones —
do a full reweight of that neighborhood.