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Open Deep Research Observability prompt

Role: You are a senior AI systems observability engineer specializing in multi-agent pipelines and trace analytics. Your task is to help us define what visibility truly means in our LangGraph “Open Deep Research” project, and what we must monitor to make it reliable and explainable at scale.

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Context:

• We run long-form, multi-agent research graphs composed of supervisor, researcher, compression, and tool nodes.

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The Authoritative Playbook for uv in Production Teams

This guide is the complete, canonical workflow for managing Python project dependencies using uv. It provides a clear, two-mode approach, production-ready best practices, and drop-in templates to ensure reproducibility, security, and developer efficiency across teams.

Core Concept: The Two Modes of uv

uv operates in two distinct modes. Your team should choose one and use it consistently.

1. Project Mode (Recommended): This is the modern, preferred approach. It's managed by commands like uv add, uv lock, and uv sync, using the cross-platform uv.lock file as the single source of truth for reproducibility.
2. Requirements Mode (Compatibility): This mode mirrors the classic pip-tools workflow and is useful when you need a requirements.txt file for legacy tools or specific deployment platforms.

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uv Project Template Scaffold

This scaffold provides a production-ready starting point for any new Python project, with best practices for dependency management, CI, and collaboration baked in.

Project Structure

my-python-project/
├── .github/
│ └── workflows/

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The Authoritative uv Project Scaffold & Playbook

This repository contains a production-ready Python project starter with uv dependency management, linting, formatting, testing, CI, and contribution guidelines all baked in. It represents a gold-standard foundation for building robust Python applications, designed to eliminate setup friction and enforce quality from the very first commit.

🚀 Rollout Strategy: How to Use This Template

There are three recommended ways to use this scaffold, depending on your team's needs.

1. GitHub Template Repository (Recommended) – For org-wide standards. Create a repository from this scaffold and enable the “Template repository” setting. Team members can then click Use this template to generate new, fully compliant projects instantly.
2. Cookiecutter (CLI-driven Templating) – For parameterized, automated scaffolding. Users can generate a new project by running

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Research Prompt (paste into Claude)

Role & Goal You are an expert DevEx engineer researching best-practice change-management and task-management workflows using Claude Code (CLI & SDK) in real engineering teams as of Sept 22, 2025. Produce actionable guidance I can adopt in a repo that already uses a YAML task plan and a Prefect 3 flow to orchestrate phases/tasks 1:1 (think .claude/tasks.yaml → flows/golden_testset_flow.py).

What to cover (prioritize authoritative sources):

1. MCP configuration & scopes — current, documented best practice for using project-scoped .mcp.json in VCS vs user-scoped/global config; precedence with .claude/settings.json and managed policy files; environment-variable expansion and approval prompts for project MCP. Cite docs.
2. Claude Code settings for governance — permission model (allow/ask/deny), enabling/approving .mcp.json servers, “includeCoAuthoredBy” in commits, relevant env vars (MCP_TIMEOUT, MAX_MCP_OUTPUT_TOKENS)

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Here’s a short list of Ollama models that track closest to gpt-oss:20b in capability/feel, plus how to prompt them so you don’t lose quality when you swap away from OpenAI-tuned prompts.

Best bets (by “feel” + instruction-following)

1. Mistral NeMo 12B Instruct — very solid instruction following, large context (128k), good tool/JSON behavior for its size. ollama pull mistral-nemo:12b (or mistral-nemo:12b-instruct where available) ([Ollama][1])

2. Llama 3.1 Instruct (8B or 70B) — stable, widely used baseline; 70B will beat 20B-class models on reasoning, 8B is a fast local workhorse. ollama pull llama3.1:8b-instruct (or llama3.1:70b-instruct if you have VRAM) ([Ollama][2])

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Optimized Documentation Retrieval with MCP + Local Index

Date: September 18, 2025
Author: Don

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Overview

Large llms-full.txt files contain thousands of URLs and can overwhelm LLM context windows.

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How to Build ChatGPT: Complete Study Guide

AI Makerspace Series - Step-by-Step Implementation Guide

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📚 Series Overview

The "How to Build ChatGPT" series from AI Makerspace provides a comprehensive roadmap for building production-ready LLM applications, following OpenAI's product evolution from simple chat interfaces to sophisticated AI systems. This study guide covers all four core parts with detailed lesson notes and presentation slides.

🎯 Learning Objectives

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AIE8 Student Git Guide (Rebase-Only, No Merges to main)

This guide shows how to:

• Initialize your GitHub repo (origin)
• Keep your main branch identical to the class repo (upstream)
• Do all work on feature branches
• Rebase feature branches to pick up updates (no merges)

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