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id: P-REINFORCE-WIKI-5B04311B
category: Unified
confidence_score: 0.95
tags: ['architecture-principles']
last_reinforced: 2026-05-02
---

# Development Log: Project Chronicle Guard Feedback Response

## Purpose
Improve Chronicle Guard behavior after testing showed the assistant still answered like a general idea proposer instead of a project planning and record guard.

## Feedback Summary
The tested response understood the broad idea, but missed key guard behaviors:
- Project target check
- Record path check
- Question intent and question reasons
- Pending decision candidates
- Low-dependency MVP first
- Candidate records at the end
- Plain engineering tone

## Implementation Summary
- Made Chronicle Guard context apply by default unless explicitly disabled from the webview payload.
- Strengthened the Guard response contract for new ideas and feature requests.
- Added required response order: summary, intent, project check, record path check, blocking questions, question reasons, direction review, MVP, later expansion, candidate records.
- Added decision policy so unconfirmed decisions stay pending.
- Added tone rules against inflated consulting language and premature Vector DB / relational DB / knowledge graph suggestions.
- Extracted Guard prompt generation into `buildProjectChronicleGuardContext`.
- Added tests that lock the most important Guard rules.
- Added base system prompt guidance to prefer practical MVP-first answers for product and architecture discussions.

## Changed Files
- `src/features/projectChronicle/guardPrompt.ts`
- `src/features/projectChronicle/index.ts`
- `src/sidebarProvider.ts`
- `src/utils.ts`
- `tests/projectChronicleGuardPrompt.test.ts`

## Verification
- `./node_modules/.bin/tsc --noEmit`
- `npm run compile`
- `./node_modules/.bin/jest --runInBand`

## Result
Chronicle Guard should now behave less like a general ideation assistant and more like a project planning, decision, and record guard.

## 🔗 Knowledge Connections
### Related Concepts (Auto-Linked)
* [[Architecture]]
* [[Behavior]]
* [[Blocking]]
* [[Index]]
* [[P-Reinforce]]
* [[Principles]]
* [[Purpose]]
* [[Testing]]
* [[_system]]
* [[decisions]]