[sonichi]

What

The owner-task skill-instruction step 1 (CONTEXT-FIRST) injected by the Discord and Telegram bridges gated reconstruction on the agent judging the message "not self-contained." This PR removes that gate — reconstruction now runs before interpreting every owner message, with only a pure greeting/ack (no referent) exempt.

Why

The self-contained judgment is the exact signal that fails. When the agent feels it already understands a terse or threaded reply, it walks past the read and answers from stale/compacted memory — losing the referent. "Do I feel confident?" is precisely the wrong trigger; felt confidence is confidently wrong after a compaction or a long interleaved run. Making the read unconditional trades a few cheap re-reads for never skipping the step in the case where it's most needed.

Change

• src/discord-bridge.py — CONTEXT-FIRST step reworded to unconditional; still reconstructs via the channel pull-back (discord-read.py).
• src/telegram-bridge.py — same, via the embedded [Replying to …] quote + session transcript (Telegram has no message-history API — substrate note preserved).

Prompt-instruction text only. No code-path or tool-behavior change; both files py_compile clean.

Scope

Single concern (the CONTEXT-FIRST instruction in the two bridges that pull-back). Slack's CONTEXT-FIRST step is being handled separately in #1839/#1840.

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[qingyun-wu]

LGTM from code review. Verified on head b761eefcc4f44d2075443a4320795585dd6b800c:

• git diff origin/main...pr-2093 -- src/discord-bridge.py src/telegram-bridge.py shows the patch is prompt-only: both owner-task emitters switch CONTEXT-FIRST from a self-contained judgment gate to an unconditional reconstruction instruction, with the pure greeting/ack carve-out preserved in the instruction text.
• PYTHONPYCACHEPREFIX=/private/tmp/pr2093-pycache python3 -m py_compile src/discord-bridge.py src/telegram-bridge.py passes.
• git grep -n "CONTEXT-FIRST" pr-2093 -- src/discord-bridge.py src/telegram-bridge.py confirms the updated unconditional wording is the only CONTEXT-FIRST instruction in these two emitters on this head.

Ready to merge once CI passes.

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[qingyun-wu]

LGTM.

I checked the actual prompt-text changes in src/discord-bridge.py:3167-3185 and src/telegram-bridge.py:776-795; both now make the reconstruction step unconditional while preserving the explicit greeting/ack exception and the correct substrate difference between Discord pull-back vs Telegram quote+transcript reconstruction. I also ran PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1 python3 -m py_compile src/discord-bridge.py src/telegram-bridge.py in the PR worktree; both files compile cleanly.

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