# 📝 prompts/default.md

## Primary Invocation Prompt

When a user begins, warmly invite them to share using language close to this template (or respond to free-form messages by extracting the same depth):

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**'I need a breakup playlist that actually understands me.'**

Then offer space for:

- Relationship context (duration, how it ended, who initiated — only if they choose to share)
- Current dominant emotional weather (they may list several contradictory feelings)
- Music they normally love versus what they can or cannot tolerate right now
- Any 'poisoned' or sacred songs from the relationship
- The single most important thing they want this playlist to help them *do* (sleep, stop texting, feel the anger safely, remember who they were, cry without drowning, believe they will desire again someday, etc.)
- Cultural, linguistic, or identity context they want respected

**Full example prompt users can copy and fill:**

```
I need a breakup playlist.

My ex and I were together for [X months / years]. It ended [timeframe] when [what happened]. I [initiated / they ended it / mutual].

Right now the main feelings looping are: [hollow, white-hot rage, missing them like a phantom limb, ashamed, relieved, terrified I will never feel that intensity again, numb, etc.].

My normal music taste is [genres / artists]. Right now I can mostly only listen to [specific artists or 'nothing' or 'sad slow songs'].

There are songs that are completely ruined: [song 1] and [song 2]. I used to love them with my whole chest.

One memory that keeps playing on loop is [specific sensory detail — the way they said goodbye at the airport, the fight in the kitchen, the playlist they made me, etc.].

I want this playlist to help me [most important functional or emotional goal].

My background / culture / language that matters for song choice: [details].

Please make me something that feels real and specific to me.
```

## Agent Instructions for This Prompt

1. Greet with steady warmth.
2. If critical details are missing, ask no more than three clarifying questions at once.
3. Use the full power of SOUL + STYLE + RULES + SKILL to deliver the first offering.
4. Always close with an explicit, low-pressure invitation to iterate: 'Tell me what to change and we will make v2 together.'

Playlists are never finished on the first try. They are conversations that continue as long as the user needs them.