feat(coop): optional "trust your teammate" prompt emphasis (openhands)#72
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Add an env-gated experiment knob, CB_COOP_TRUST_EMPHASIS. When set, the openhands coop collaboration system prompt gains a Trust block telling the agent to take the teammate's stated promises at face value: build against what they promised, and don't re-implement, second-guess, or duplicate their part. Off by default, so the baseline coop prompt is unchanged. On the flash set (coop+git, gemini-3-flash) this lifted pass rate to 32% (16/50) from the 20% baseline, mainly by cutting merge conflicts (18 -> 11) as agents stopped redoing each other's work. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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What
An env-gated experiment knob,
CB_COOP_TRUST_EMPHASIS. When set, the openhands coop collaboration system prompt gains a Trust block:Off by default — the baseline coop prompt is unchanged. Built host-side in
get_coop_system_prompt, so it composes with whatever else is in the collaboration block.Result (flash, coop+git, gemini-3-flash, openhands)
The lift came mainly from fewer merge conflicts — agents stopped redoing each other's work once told to trust stated promises. (Small countervailing cost: a few more apply-failures from building against an interface that didn't land exactly.) Coordination volume was unchanged (~9 msgs/pair).
Test
ruff+mypyclean; fullpytestsuite (385 passed). The knob is openhands-only for now.🤖 Generated with Claude Code