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System Prompt

Clawdbot builds a custom system prompt for every agent run. The prompt is Clawdbot-owned and does not use the p-coding-agent default prompt. The prompt is assembled by Clawdbot and injected into each agent run.

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Structure

The prompt is intentionally compact and uses fixed sections:
  • Tooling: current tool list + short descriptions.
  • Skills: tells the model how to load skill instructions on demand.
  • Clawdbot Self-Update: how to run config.apply and update.run.
  • Workspace: working directory (agents.defaults.workspace).
  • Workspace Files (injected): indicates bootstrap files are included below.
  • Time: UTC default + the user’s local time (already converted).
  • Reply Tags: optional reply tag syntax for supported providers.
  • Heartbeats: heartbeat prompt and ack behavior.
  • Runtime: host, OS, node, model, thinking level (one line).

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Workspace bootstrap injection

Bootstrap files are trimmed and appended under Project Context so the model sees identity and profile context without needing explicit reads:
  • AGENTS.md
  • SOUL.md
  • TOOLS.md
  • IDENTITY.md
  • USER.md
  • HEARTBEAT.md
  • BOOTSTRAP.md (only on brand-new workspaces)
Large files are truncated with a marker. Missing files inject a short missing-file marker.

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Time handling

The Time line is compact and explicit:
  • Assume timestamps are UTC unless stated.
  • The listed user time is already converted to agents.defaults.userTimezone (if set).
Use agents.defaults.userTimezone in ~/.clawdbot/clawdbot.json to change the user time zone.

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Skills

Skills are not auto-injected. Instead, the prompt instructs the model to use read to load skill instructions on demand: 
<workspace>/skills/<name>/SKILL.md
This keeps the base prompt small while still enabling targeted skill usage.