version: "1.0.0" name: steering-patch description: "Selected during the steering phase to refine agent behavior through prompts, tool descriptions, or hook reminders without changing executable code."

Meta-ARE Steering Patch (Plugin-specific)

Steering Boundary (Plugin-specific)

Use steering iterations to refine how the default agent chooses among existing capabilities. Modify non-Python declarative guidance or hook.json PreToolUse configuration only. The verifier rejects all Python-file changes, including Python-hosted prompts and docstrings, during this phase.

Declarative Guidance (Plugin-specific)

Prefer correcting, replacing, or consolidating an existing instruction over appending a competing rule. Keep guidance short, operational, conditional, and general across GAIA2 scenarios. Check the complete surrounding prompt for contradictions and avoid absolute rules that suppress valid behavior.

Use always-on guidance only for behavior that applies broadly. If guidance is specific to one tool boundary, prefer a targeted PreToolUse reminder.

PreToolUse Hooks (Plugin-specific)

Preserve unrelated hook entries and use the repository's supported nested PreToolUse reminder schema. Match only the intended tool with a valid regular expression. Keep reminders concise, state the relevant constraint rather than a case-specific action, and verify the final JSON structure.

Never include task-specific names, IDs, answers, or lookup tables. A hook may guide a decision but must not solve a benchmark case for the agent.