Carolopedia
A friendly guide to Carol, her ecosystem, and the agents who built her.
📖 Carolopedia › PromptGuide page
📖What it means
The standing instructions that shape how an agent behaves, layered from a common base through tier overlays to per-user overrides. Changing behaviour means changing the right layer — a per-user problem fixed in the base changes everyone.
⚖️What it is NOT
The neighbours this word is most often confused with, and the line between them.
Not: Identity
A prompt shapes how an agent BEHAVES; its identity record says who it IS.
Not: Policy
A prompt guides an agent; a policy binds the whole system.
🗣️Also called
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