docs: note what --system-prompt replaces, with captures of the default - #27
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One note under the CLI options table, right after the existing "this table highlights common options" line.
The gap. The table documents
--system-prompt,--system-prompt-file,--append-system-promptand--append-system-prompt-file. All four act on a default the guide never shows. That matters in two directions:--system-promptsilently discards it, and--append-system-promptputs your text after it — and a reader deciding between the two has no way to see what is at stake.The note says what is at stake and points at wire captures of that default: 19–26k characters depending on model and entry point, archived per model with the date and a reproduce command. Also worth knowing for this guide's audience — the interactive CLI and the print/SDK path do not send the same prompt or the same tool set, so "the default system prompt" is two different things depending on how the session started.
Archive: OrcaPromptVault, AGPL-3.0, every artifact labelled captured or vendor-reported, no vendor source code or credentials involved.
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Disclosure: I work at Continuum AI, which maintains that archive.
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