Function buildWorkspaceIdentityPrompt

src/node/services/workspaceTitleGenerator.ts:146–179

(
  message: string,
  conversationContext?: string,
  latestUserMessage?: string
)

 * - title: Human-readable description (e.g., "Fix plan mode over SSH")
 */
export function buildWorkspaceIdentityPrompt(
  message: string,
  conversationContext?: string,
  latestUserMessage?: string
): string {
  const promptSections: string[] = [`Primary user objective: "${message}"`];

  const trimmedConversationContext = conversationContext?.trim();
  if (trimmedConversationContext && trimmedConversationContext.length > 0) {
    promptSections.push(
      `Conversation turns (chronological sample):\n${trimmedConversationContext.slice(0, 6_000)}`
    );

    const normalizedLatestUserMessage = latestUserMessage?.replace(/\s+/g, " ").trim();
    if (normalizedLatestUserMessage) {
      promptSections.push(
        `Most recent user message (extra context; do not prefer it over earlier turns): "${normalizedLatestUserMessage.slice(0, 1_000)}"`
      );
    }
  }

  // Prompt wording is tuned for short UI titles that stay accurate over the whole chat,
  // rather than over-indexing on whichever message happened most recently.
  return [
    "Generate a workspace name and title for this development task:\n\n",
    `${promptSections.join("\n\n")}\n\n`,
    "Requirements:\n",
    '- name: The area of the codebase being worked on (1-2 words, max 15 chars, git-safe: lowercase, hyphens only). Random bytes will be appended for uniqueness, so focus on the area not the specific task. Examples: "sidebar", "auth", "config", "api"\n',
    '- title: 2-5 words, verb-noun format, describing the primary deliverable (what will be different when the work is done). Examples: "Fix plan mode", "Add user authentication", "Refactor sidebar layout"\n',
    '- title quality: Be specific about the feature/system being changed. Prefer concrete nouns; avoid vague words ("stuff", "things"), self-referential meta phrases ("this chat", "this conversation", "regenerate title"), and temporal words ("latest", "recent", "today", "now").\n',
    "- title scope: Choose the title that best represents the overall scope and goal across the entire conversation. Weigh all turns equally — do not favor the most recent message over earlier ones.\n",
    "- title style: Sentence case, no punctuation, no quotes.\n",
  ].join("");
}

export async function generateWorkspaceIdentity(
  message: string,