Enhance DECOMPOSE_SYSTEM_PROMPT with sizing, traceability, interface-fir

[bamdadd]

Summary

Establish a complete, audited, and tested baseline for the Lintel monorepo by scaffolding missing test infrastructure, hardening the contracts and api-support layers, adding a shared test-support package with in-memory fakes, validating all core subsystems (event-store, event-bus, projections, workflows, agents, models) with unit and integration tests, and enforcing lint/typecheck compliance across all 45+ packages via CI.

Changes

• Audit and document current package dependency graph
• Establish missing test infrastructure scaffolding
• Harden contracts package with complete type annotations and validation
• Harden api-support protocols and dependency injection layer
• Add shared pytest fixtures for in-memory event store and event bus
• Implement and test event-store append and replay correctness
• Implement and test event-bus pub/sub correctness
• Validate and test projection engine against event stream
• Audit and test LangGraph workflow pipeline stage nodes
• Audit and test agent role implementations
• Audit and test models LLM provider routing
• Add end-to-end integration test suite in packages/app
• Enforce lint and typecheck compliance across all packages

Context

Update the DECOMPOSE_SYSTEM_PROMPT constant in packages/chat-api/src/lintel/chat_api/decomposer.py to include four explicit instruction sections: (1) sizing constraint — each work item must be implementable in a single PR touching max 3 files; (2) requirement traceability — every numbered point in the user input must map to at least one work item; (3) interface-first ordering — protocols and abstractions must appear before concrete implementations; (4) agent-readiness — descriptions must specify the target package, key files to create/modify, API routes, events to emit, and acceptance tests. Acceptance: the updated prompt is present in the file and a unit test asserts all four instruction keywords/phrases appear in the prompt string.

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Review

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Tests

✅ All tests passing.

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[bamdadd]

VERDICT: APPROVE

Summary

This diff contains:

1. Minor .gitignore additions for Python bytecode files
2. Prompt text refinements in decomposer.py (tightening sizing constraints, renaming sections)
3. New tests verifying prompt content, plus test fixes to set mock_policy.max_tokens = 16384

Findings

Correctness: The test fixes (mock_policy.max_tokens = 16384) suggest the real code now accesses policy.max_tokens on the result of select_model. The mock updates are necessary for the tests to not fail with AttributeError on MagicMock attribute access (though MagicMock would auto-create attributes, the explicit value likely matters for logic that uses the numeric value). This is correct.

Prompt tests: The TestDecomposeSystemPrompt tests are brittle by design (they test exact string content), but that's intentional here — they serve as regression guards to ensure prompt sections aren't accidentally removed. The OR-conditions in test_agent_readiness_present are a bit loose but acceptable.

Security: No concerns.

Quality: The prompt changes are coherent refinements (singular "constraint", clearer section naming, tighter file limit). The test additions are appropriate for prompt-as-code validation.

No issues requiring changes.