feat(prompts): add staleness detection to refiner prompt#44
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Add instruction 3 to the refiner prompt that tells it to detect and reconcile stale TASK.md content when the user has made manual code changes between agman iterations. The refiner now compares the Plan's Completed/Remaining steps against the git diff, commit log, and actual codebase, treating code as the source of truth. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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When a user makes manual code changes between agman iterations, the refiner receives a TASK.md whose Plan section is out of sync with the actual codebase — steps marked "Remaining" may already be done, and "Completed" steps may have been rewritten.
The refiner already receives git diff and commit log context, but its instructions didn't tell it to use that context to reconcile the overall plan. This adds a new instruction (inserted as #3, with subsequent instructions renumbered) that tells the refiner to compare TASK.md's plan against the git diff, commit log, and actual codebase before rewriting, treating the code as the source of truth when they diverge.
Prompt-only change — no Rust logic modified.