PROMPT OF THE DAY

# Wrap any Claude API call to capture a forensic decision trail.
# Paste into your system prompt or pre-prompt:

Return your response as a JSON object with exactly three fields:
{
  "answer": "<your complete response>",
  "reasoning": "<2-3 sentences: why you reached this answer>",
  "confidence": "low | medium | high"
}

Confidence guide:
  high   = established fact, direct calculation, explicit instruction
  medium = reasonable inference with known gaps or assumptions
  low    = speculation, incomplete data, or genuinely ambiguous input

Forces structured output with embedded reasoning and confidence — use in any API call or agent pipeline where you need an audit trail of decisions. From The Anthropic Stack's forensic logging guide, Apr 29 | https://theanthropicstack.substack.com/p/build-a-forensic-trail-for-every

LANDSCAPE NOTES

• Ghostty terminal leaving GitHub (3,239pts HN) — Mitchell Hashimoto citing near-daily Actions/PR outages; migration plan underway, read-only mirror stays at current URL. Dev infrastructure signal worth watching. https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-github

• Claude Code push notifications — @ClaudeDevs announced phone push notifications when a long task finishes or Claude needs input. No changelog entry found in v2.1.121-123 — may have shipped in an earlier release this week. Check your notification settings. https://x.com/ClaudeDevs

• pip 26.1 ships lockfiles and dependency cooldowns — pip lock datasette llm writes a pylock.toml; --uploaded-prior-to P4D pins to packages at least 4 days old. Simon Willison's breakdown at https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/28/pip-261/