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Changing a single word in the system prompt caused a major shift in the agent's behavior, and the old version can no longer be retrieved. Prompts, like code, need version control.

💡 What You Will Learn

Changing a single word in the system prompt caused a major shift in the agent's behavior, and the old version can no longer be retrieved. Prompts, like code, need version control.

📜 Table of Contents

• Summary
• .gitignoreConfiguration

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agent-project/
├── prompts/
│   ├── system_prompt_v1.md
│   ├── system_prompt_v2.md
│   └── prompts.md ()
├── tools/
│   ├── tool_definitions.yaml
│   └── tool_descriptions.md
├── config/
│   └── agent_config.yaml
└── tests/
    └── test_cases.json

Summary

main           — 
├── staging    — 
├── dev        — 
├── prompt/xxx — Prompt
└── tool/xxx   — 

.gitignoreConfiguration

# .gitignore
.env
*.key
config/production.yaml
logs/
__pycache__/
.venv/
*.pyc
.DS_Store