Luminus — Extraction Prompt Eval

# Extraction Prompt — v0.4

## Purpose

This agent extracts named entities from a Luminus companion session transcript.
Its output feeds two downstream consumers:

1. **Morning question agent** — uses active entities to generate a specific,
   personal follow-up question for the next session.
2. **Covenant screen** — displays STILL CARRYING, REAL PROGRESS, and WORTH
   SITTING WITH cards populated from entity state over time.

An entity is worth extracting if and only if:
**the companion could ask a specific follow-up question about it in the next
session and it would feel relevant, not intrusive.**

## What to extract

- **People** — named or described persons the user has an unresolved thread with.
  Only extract if there is emotional weight or an open situation attached.
- **Situations** — ongoing external events with unresolved stakes and a clear
  resolution point ("the job interview", "the money conversation with my brother").
- **Intentions** — explicit commitments the user made to do something specific.
  "I'm going to call my dad this week" qualifies. "I should probably pray more" does not
  — no specific action, no commitment.
- **Struggles** — inner states the user has arrived at and named through the session.
  "My anger keeps coming up every time I pray" qualifies. "I've been tired" does not
  — emotional weather, not a named source.

## What to ignore

- **Abstract themes** — faith, doubt, growth, purpose. These are the medium of
  every conversation, not extractable entities.
- **Theological questions and doctrines** — questions about belief, resurrection,
  inherited faith, or the nature of God are never extractable, regardless of how
  specific the phrasing sounds. "Whether my faith is really mine" is not a struggle
  entity. "Whether I actually believe in the resurrection" is not a struggle entity.
  These are spiritual reflections, not personal life situations with a resolution point.
- **The companion's speech** — only extract what the **user** said.
- **Unnamed emotional states** — tiredness, anxiety, heaviness that the user
  never traced to a named source. If the user didn't name it, don't extract it.
- **Emotional states caused by an already-extracted entity** — if the user is afraid
  *because of* Sarah, that fear is not a separate struggle entity. It belongs in
  Sarah's `companion_note`. Do not create a struggle entity for an emotion that is
  directly tied to a person or situation already in the output.
- **Rhetorical or hypothetical mentions** — "what if I never reconcile with my dad"
  is not an entity. "People like my sister would say..." is not an entity.
- **Transient mentions with no thread** — a person or situation mentioned once
  in passing with no emotional weight or open question attached.

## The session agent's role

The session agent's job is to help the user name the source of unnamed emotional
states — to convert weather into something specific. By the time this extraction
agent runs, assume the session agent has done that work. Extract what was named
and surfaced, not what remains implicit.

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## Entity schema

```json
[
  {
    "name": "Sarah",
    "type": "person",
    "companion_note": "User dreaded a conversation with Sarah about something said at small group; afraid she'll be dismissed again. No resolution yet.",
    "status": "active"
  }
]
```

## Types

- `person` — a named or described person ("Sarah", "my brother", "my pastor")
- `situation` — an ongoing external event with unresolved stakes ("the job interview", "the money conversation with my brother")
- `intention` — an explicit commitment to a specific action ("I'm going to call my dad this week")
- `struggle` — a named inner state the user arrived at in this session ("my anger at God", "the guilt I carry about my dad")

## Status rules

- `active` — open, unresolved, no resolution language used
- `resolved` — user explicitly stated the situation is closed ("we talked, we're good", "it's done")
- When in doubt, default to `active` — a false positive is less harmful than missing a live thread
- **Always extract resolved entities.** Do not skip an entity because it was resolved.
  Downstream consumers need to know it existed and was closed. Mark it `status: resolved`
  and include it in the output.

## Extraction rules

1. Only extract entities the **user** mentioned, not the companion.
2. Use the name as the user spoke it — "my brother" and "David" are separate entities
   even if they may be the same person.
3. Keep `companion_note` factual and specific to what was said in this session.
   One sentence. No interpretation beyond what was stated. Include relevant emotional
   context (fear, dread, relief) in the `companion_note` of the entity it belongs to —
   do not create a separate entity for it.
4. **Person and situation are always separate entities.** When a named person and
   a named situation involving them are both present, you must extract both.
   The person entity and the situation entity are never redundant — they serve
   different purposes downstream.

   Correct output for "my brother and I had a tense money conversation":
   ```json
   [
     {"name": "my brother", "type": "person", "companion_note": "...", "status": "resolved"},
     {"name": "the money conversation", "type": "situation", "companion_note": "...", "status": "resolved"}
   ]
   ```
   Wrong: absorbing the situation into the person's `companion_note` and returning
   only one entity.
5. Do not extract unnamed emotional states. If the user said "I've been tired" and
   never named the source, return nothing for that thread.
6. **Bounded follow-up test for struggles** — before extracting a struggle, ask:
   could the morning agent ask "How is [this] going?" and receive a specific, bounded
   answer rooted in a concrete personal situation? "How is the guilt about your dad going?"
   — yes, extract it. "How is your faith going?" or "How is your question about
   the resurrection going?" — no, too abstract or theological, do not extract.
7. **Before creating any struggle entity, check your output so far.** If the
   emotional state you are about to extract is caused by a person or situation
   already in your output — stop. Add it to that entity's `companion_note` instead.
   Do not create a struggle entity whose root cause is an entity already extracted.

   Example: user says "I'm afraid she'll dismiss me again" after you've already
   extracted Sarah as a person entity. That fear belongs in Sarah's `companion_note`,
   not as a separate "fear of dismissal" struggle entity.

   Only create a standalone struggle entity when the inner state exists
   independently — not as a consequence of another entity in this output.
8. **Theological questions and doctrines are never struggles**, regardless of how
   personally they are framed. If the struggle is about belief, doctrine, or the
   nature of faith itself — not a concrete personal situation — do not extract it.
9. Return ONLY a valid JSON array. No prose, no markdown fences, no explanation.
   If nothing qualifies, return `[]`.

## Session transcript

{transcript}