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rcourtman 55dfdcb1d3 Instruct the Assistant to attribute facts and caveat staleness
The model now receives provenance — per-fact source/confidence and discovery
freshness — but nothing told it to use it, so answers stated facts the user
couldn't trace or weigh. Add a GROUNDING & PROVENANCE section to the base system
prompt: briefly attribute facts to their source ("Debian 12, per
/etc/os-release"), note recency for time-sensitive claims, do not present stale
context as current, and keep attribution concise rather than citing every line.

This is the prose-attribution layer of the provenance work (the visible part
chosen as the first, lowest-risk step over a heavier citations UI). Whether the
model attributes well in practice is a live-behavior question to verify by
exercising the Assistant — the prompt only guarantees the instruction reaches it.

- Test: TestBuildSystemPrompt_IncludesProvenanceGuidance.
- Contract: ai-runtime base prompt must instruct provenance attribution.
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