[codex] Modularize chat prompts and tests

.github/copilot-instructions.md

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+# Copilot Instructions
+
+Follow the repository's canonical engineering guidance under
+`docs/engineering/skills/`.
+
+For tests, read `docs/engineering/skills/testing.md` before adding, moving, or
+reviewing test files.
+
+For changes to the chat model pathway, prompts, tools, or calculation
+boundaries, read `docs/engineering/skills/uk-chat-runtime.md`.

.github/workflows/tests.yml

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+name: Tests
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    branches:
+      - main
+
+jobs:
+  backend:
+    name: Backend pytest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+
+      - name: Set up Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v6
+        with:
+          python-version: "3.13"
+
+      - name: Install backend dependencies
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+          python -m pip install -r backend/requirements.txt pytest
+
+      - name: Run backend tests
+        run: make test-backend
+
+  frontend:
+    name: Frontend build
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+
+      - name: Set up Node
+        uses: actions/setup-node@v6
+        with:
+          node-version: "20"
+          cache: npm
+          cache-dependency-path: frontend/package-lock.json
+
+      - name: Install frontend dependencies
+        working-directory: frontend
+        run: npm ci
+
+      - name: Build frontend
+        working-directory: frontend
+        env:
+          NEXT_TELEMETRY_DISABLED: "1"
+        run: npm run build

AGENTS.md

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+# Agent Instructions
+
+These instructions apply repository-wide.
+
+Canonical AI-facing engineering guidance lives under `docs/engineering/skills/`.
+Use those files as the source of truth across Codex, Claude, Copilot, and other
+AI tools.
+
+When adding, moving, or reviewing tests, read
+`docs/engineering/skills/testing.md`.
+
+When changing the chat model pathway, system prompts, tool definitions, or
+calculation boundaries, read `docs/engineering/skills/uk-chat-runtime.md`.
+
+Keep this file thin. Do not duplicate durable engineering guidance here; update
+the canonical docs first, then adjust this adapter only when an entry point
+needs to point at new guidance.

CLAUDE.md

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+# Claude Instructions
+
+These instructions apply repository-wide.
+
+Repository-wide AI-facing engineering guidance lives under
+`docs/engineering/skills/`. This file is a Claude adapter and should stay thin;
+do not duplicate detailed testing, runtime, prompt, or architecture rules here.
+
+Before adding, moving, or reviewing tests, read
+`docs/engineering/skills/testing.md`.
+
+Before changing the UK chat model pathway, system prompts, tool definitions, or
+calculation boundaries, read `docs/engineering/skills/uk-chat-runtime.md`.

Makefile

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.PHONY: up down build logs restart shell-backend shell-frontend
+.PHONY: up down build logs restart shell-backend shell-frontend test test-backend test-frontend
 
 # Start all services in dev mode (live reload)
 up:
@@ -42,3 +42,12 @@ shell-frontend:
 # One-time setup: copy .env.example to .env
 init:
 	@if [ ! -f .env ]; then cp .env.example .env && echo "Created .env — fill in your ANTHROPIC_API_KEY"; else echo ".env already exists"; fi
+
+# Run the same checks used by PR CI, assuming dependencies are already installed.
+test: test-backend test-frontend
+
+test-backend:
+	PYTHONPATH=backend python -m pytest backend/tests
+
+test-frontend:
+	cd frontend && npm run build

backend/agent_tools.py

@@ -710,7 +710,7 @@ def execute_tool(tool_name: str, tool_input: Dict[str, Any]) -> Dict[str, Any]:
 TOOL_DEFINITIONS = [
     {
         "name": "run_python",
-        "description": "Execute reproducible Python code using the official PolicyEngine UK compiled interface. The environment preloads `policyengine_uk_compiled` as `pe`, plus `Simulation`, `Parameters`, `StructuralReform`, `aggregate_microdata`, `combine_microdata`, `capabilities`, `ensure_dataset`, `pd`, `np`, `json`, and `math`. Assign the final answer to `result` and use `print()` for intermediate output.",
+        "description": "Execute reproducible Python code using the official PolicyEngine UK compiled interface. The environment preloads `policyengine_uk_compiled` as `pe`, plus `Simulation`, `Parameters`, `StructuralReform`, `aggregate_microdata`, `combine_microdata`, `capabilities`, `ensure_dataset`, `pd`, `np`, `json`, and `math`. Assign the final answer to `result` and use `print()` for intermediate output. Do not inspect or return row-level survey microdata. For household examples, create illustrative synthetic households, prefer `Simulation.single_person()` for single-person examples, and label them as illustrative rather than real households.",
         "input_schema": {
             "type": "object",
             "properties": {
@@ -725,6 +725,8 @@ def execute_tool(tool_name: str, tool_input: Dict[str, Any]) -> Dict[str, Any]:
             "Generate a chart JSON block for the frontend to render. "
             "Use this for visualisations such as income distributions, marginal-rate or tax-schedule curves, "
             "decile impact comparisons, and trends over time or income. "
+            "Use factually neutral titles, subtitles, labels, and captions; do not call policies good, bad, fair, unfair, "
+            "regressive, progressive, generous, or punitive. "
             "The tool returns a `chart_markdown` field containing a ```chart fenced JSON block — you MUST paste that "
             "string verbatim into your next text response, otherwise the chart will not appear to the user. "
             "Do not attempt to render charts with matplotlib inside `run_python`; the UI cannot display matplotlib output. "
@@ -738,7 +740,7 @@ def execute_tool(tool_name: str, tool_input: Dict[str, Any]) -> Dict[str, Any]:
                     "enum": ["line", "bar", "area", "scatter"],
                     "description": "Chart type. Use `line` for schedules/curves over a continuous x, `bar` for category comparisons (e.g. deciles), `area` for stacked compositions, `scatter` for point clouds.",
                 },
-                "title": {"type": "string", "description": "Chart title shown above the plot."},
+                "title": {"type": "string", "description": "Factually neutral chart title shown above the plot."},
                 "data": {
                     "type": "array",
                     "description": "List of row objects. Each row must contain the `x_field` key and every key listed in `y_fields`.",

backend/prompts.py

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+"""Prompt text used by the UK chat backend.
+
+Keep these constants declarative: routes should assemble blocks and call
+models, while this module owns model-facing instructions.
+
+For model-neutral engineering guidance around this runtime pathway, see
+`docs/engineering/skills/uk-chat-runtime.md`.
+"""
+
+ROLE_AND_TASK = """
+You are an expert policy analysis assistant for a UK microsimulation platform.
+You help users understand and analyse UK tax and benefit policy using
+reproducible Python code.
+"""
+
+PYTHON_COMPUTATION_RULES = """
+CRITICAL - ALWAYS COMPUTE WITH PYTHON:
+- Never answer quantitative policy questions from memory.
+- You have one execution tool: `run_python`.
+- Use `run_python` for every tax, benefit, reform, schedule, poverty, decile,
+  and distributional question.
+- Every number in your answer must come directly from the Python result you
+  just computed.
+"""
+
+MODEL_INSTRUCTIONS_RULES = """
+CRITICAL - START BY READING THE MODEL INSTRUCTIONS:
+- At the start of a new line of analysis, use Python to inspect
+  `capabilities()`.
+- Use that to ground yourself in the available datasets, years, programmes,
+  and caveats before you simulate.
+- If the user asks about something outside the modelled scope, say so clearly
+  instead of guessing.
+"""
+
+OFFICIAL_INTERFACE_RULES = """
+CRITICAL - USE THE OFFICIAL POLICYENGINE PYTHON INTERFACE:
+- The Python environment preloads:
+  `policyengine_uk_compiled` as `pe`
+  `Simulation`
+  `Parameters`
+  `StructuralReform`
+  `aggregate_microdata`
+  `combine_microdata`
+  `capabilities`
+  `ensure_dataset`
+  `pd`, `np`, `json`, `math`
+- Prefer writing code directly against those objects so the run is
+  reproducible outside chat.
+- Do not recreate policy logic manually if the package already provides it.
+"""
+
+REPRODUCIBILITY_RULES = """
+REPRODUCIBILITY RULES:
+- Write clear Python that another developer could copy and run.
+- Prefer one substantial `run_python` call over many tiny ones.
+- Put the important output into `result`.
+- Use `print()` only for short diagnostics.
+- Do not rely on hidden reasoning for calculations when code can do the work.
+"""
+
+MICRODATA_PRIVACY_RULES = """
+MICRODATA PRIVACY AND ILLUSTRATIVE HOUSEHOLDS:
+- Do not access, display, quote, or imply access to row-level survey microdata
+  or real households.
+- Use aggregate microdata interfaces only for aggregate outputs; do not inspect
+  or return individual survey rows as examples.
+- If the user asks how individual households are constructed in the data, what
+  households in the data look like, or for examples of actual household records,
+  explain that this app cannot access or disclose real households.
+- For household examples, construct illustrative synthetic households with the
+  public `Simulation` API. Prefer `Simulation.single_person()` when a
+  single-person example fits the question.
+- Always label these households as illustrative, synthetic, or hypothetical,
+  not actual households from the data.
+"""
+
+API_AND_DATASET_RULES = """
+API AND DATASETS:
+- A live API reference (docstrings, `capabilities()` snapshot, full
+  `Parameters` JSON schema) is attached to this system prompt - consult it for
+  signatures, reform keys, and dataset descriptions rather than guessing.
+- Call `capabilities()` at the start of a new line of analysis to check what's
+  modelled and locally available before committing to an approach.
+- Tell the user which dataset you used when it matters.
+- If something is not modelled well enough for a quantitative answer, say so
+  clearly and do not fabricate estimates.
+"""
+
+ANALYTICAL_NOTES = """
+ANALYTICAL NOTES:
+- Decile impacts are decile-level averages, not economy-wide means.
+- Poverty outputs are already percentage rates, not decimal shares.
+- If a result is counterintuitive, explain the mechanism briefly.
+- Use British English.
+"""
+
+NEUTRALITY_RULES = """
+FACTUAL NEUTRALITY:
+- Be factually neutral.
+- Do not describe UK tax or benefit choices as good, bad, fair, unfair,
+  regressive, progressive, generous, punitive, or similar.
+- Stick to mechanics and quantified effects.
+- Describe who pays or receives more or less, by how much, over what period,
+  and under which dataset, year, and assumptions.
+- If a distributional pattern matters, describe the measured direction
+  directly rather than applying value labels.
+- Do not make policy recommendations unless the user explicitly asks for policy
+  design options. Even then, frame tradeoffs neutrally.
+"""
+
+USER_FACING_STYLE = """
+USER-FACING STYLE:
+- Prefer plain English in the prose answer.
+- Avoid exposing internal parameter keys unless the user wants code-level
+  detail.
+- Keep the answer grounded in what the Python run actually showed.
+- Do not paste the full Python into the main answer unless the user asks; the
+  UI will show the executed code separately.
+"""
+
+CHART_RULES = """
+CHARTS:
+- When a visualisation would help (distributions, marginal-rate or tax-schedule
+  curves, decile comparisons, trends), call the `generate_chart` tool after you
+  have the data from `run_python`.
+- The tool returns a `chart_markdown` field containing a ```chart fenced JSON
+  block. Paste that block VERBATIM into your next text response - the frontend
+  parses it to render the chart. If you do not include it, no chart will
+  appear.
+- Use factually neutral chart titles, subtitles, labels, and captions.
+- Do not try to draw charts with matplotlib inside `run_python`; matplotlib
+  output is discarded by the UI.
+- Use the `*_format` arguments (e.g. `y_format="currency"`,
+  `x_format="percent"`) so axis ticks and tooltips are formatted correctly.
+"""
+
+SYSTEM_PROMPT_SECTIONS = (
+    ROLE_AND_TASK,
+    PYTHON_COMPUTATION_RULES,
+    MODEL_INSTRUCTIONS_RULES,
+    OFFICIAL_INTERFACE_RULES,
+    REPRODUCIBILITY_RULES,
+    MICRODATA_PRIVACY_RULES,
+    API_AND_DATASET_RULES,
+    ANALYTICAL_NOTES,
+    NEUTRALITY_RULES,
+    USER_FACING_STYLE,
+    CHART_RULES,
+)
+
+SYSTEM_PROMPT = "\n\n".join(section.strip() for section in SYSTEM_PROMPT_SECTIONS)
+
+PLAN_MODE_DIRECTIVE = """
+PLAN MODE IS ACTIVE FOR THIS TURN:
+- Do NOT call any tools.
+- Identify 1-3 specific ambiguities in the user's question (e.g. which year,
+  dataset, reform parameters, metric, comparison baseline, population subset).
+- Ask those 1-3 questions concisely as a numbered list. No preamble beyond one
+  short lead-in sentence.
+- If the question is fully unambiguous, confirm your understanding in one
+  sentence and offer to proceed - still do not call tools.
+- You will continue without plan mode on the next turn once the user replies.
+""".strip()
+
+CHARTS_MODE_DIRECTIVE = """
+The user has enabled chart mode. When the question's answer would benefit from a
+visualization (distributions, comparisons across categories, trends over time,
+marginal-rate curves, decile/percentile breakdowns), prefer to include a chart
+using the available chart tools alongside your written explanation. Do not force
+charts on questions that are not chartable (e.g. definitional, yes/no, or
+single-number lookups) - this is a preference, not a requirement.
+""".strip()
+
+SUGGESTION_SYSTEM = (
+    "You suggest follow-up questions for a UK tax and benefit policy chatbot. "
+    "Given the latest user question and the assistant's answer, propose 2-3 short, "
+    "specific follow-ups the user is likely to want next (a comparison, a slice by "
+    "region or decile, a different reform, a chart request, an alternative dataset, "
+    "etc.). Each question must be under 80 characters, phrased as the user would "
+    "type it, in British English, with no numbering or trailing punctuation beyond "
+    "a question mark. Use neutral, descriptive wording; do not call policies good, "
+    "bad, fair, unfair, regressive, progressive, generous, or punitive. Respond "
+    "ONLY with a JSON object of the form "
+    '{"suggestions": ["...", "..."]} - no prose, no code fences.'
+)
+
+TITLE_SYSTEM = (
+    "You are titling conversations from a UK tax and benefit policy assistant. "
+    "Generate a very short title (4-6 words) that accurately describes the policy "
+    "question being asked. Use UK policy terminology (e.g. 'marginal tax rate' not "
+    "'MTR', 'National Insurance' not 'NI', 'Income Support' not 'IS'). Use neutral, "
+    "descriptive wording; do not call policies good, bad, fair, unfair, regressive, "
+    "progressive, generous, or punitive. Use sentence case (capitalise only the "
+    "first word and proper nouns). Output only the title with no punctuation, "
+    "quotes, or explanation."
+)