From 34c1bc33f9da536c41f757e388539cf45f35ec5c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ganesh47 <22994026+ganesh47@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:19:16 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Harden prompt context by excluding README and AGENTS

---
 src/prompt.ts       | 4 +---
 test/prompt.test.ts | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/prompt.ts b/src/prompt.ts
index 52c6a98..8c2493a 100644
--- a/src/prompt.ts
+++ b/src/prompt.ts
@@ -32,9 +32,7 @@ const REPOSITORY_CONTEXT_CANDIDATES = [
   "specs/001-plan-alignment/spec.md",
   "specs/001-plan-alignment/research.md",
   "sqlite-metadata-system.md",
-  "docs/project-readme.md",
-  "AGENTS.md",
-  "README.md"
+  "docs/project-readme.md"
 ];
 
 async function readPromptReferenceFiles(cwd: string, limit = 4): Promise<PromptReferenceFile[]> {
diff --git a/test/prompt.test.ts b/test/prompt.test.ts
index ba2a0da..ec40334 100644
--- a/test/prompt.test.ts
+++ b/test/prompt.test.ts
@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ describe("buildBuildPrompt", () => {
     expect(prompt).toContain("### Patch resilience");
     expect(prompt).toContain("If `apply_patch` fails once, do not retry the same hunk unchanged");
     expect(prompt).toContain("If the file has mixed line endings, normalize them once before editing");
+    expect(prompt).not.toContain("### README.md");
     expect(context).toContain("Retry failure hints:");
+    expect(context).toContain("Reference files: none");
   });
 });