workspace: the model cannot say which Altimate Workspace a project is linked to unless it is routing, and conflates it with other services' "workspace"

[sahrizvi]

Problem

Two related gaps in how the model understands "workspace":

1. "Which workspace is this project linked to?" has an answer only when the workspace is routing something. feat(workspace): identity in the prompt, and a /workspace menu for refresh, sync and unlink #1278 (closing workspace: identity is dropped from the system prompt when the workspace serves no integrations #1269) put the binding into the routing directive in awareness.ts, which is silent by design whenever there is nothing to steer. So an unlinked project, a link that cannot be verified this turn, and a freshly created workspace with no integrations all render nothing — and the model answers from whatever "workspace" is nearby in context, or guesses.

2. "Workspace" means two unrelated things in the product — the Altimate Workspace a project is linked to, and other services' own "workspace" (a Databricks workspace, an IDE workspace folder). Nothing tells the model which one an unqualified "workspace" means, so it can answer a Databricks question about the Altimate link, or vice versa, confidently. Two of our own strings used the word for something else: the Databricks auth prompt (<workspace-host>) and the nothing-built validator ("the workspace is configured to require artifacts").

Expected

• A short identity section in the system prompt on every step, independent of routing, with a definite answer per state: linked to X (id N) / none linked (and how to link) / could not be verified this turn (assert nothing).
• The active instruction scoped to a genuine identity question ("this/current/active workspace", or an unqualified "workspace" asking what this project is connected to) — never to any mention of the word, so unrelated Databricks conversations get no linking pitch.
• One owner for identity: the routing directive describes which workspace serves the tools, never the current link.
• Our own strings qualify the word when they mean something other than the Altimate Workspace.

Notes

Pilot-gated (ALTIMATE_WORKSPACE=1) like the rest of the workspace feature. Verified end to end against freemium from the PR branch (unlinked, linked, "current workspace", Databricks questions in both states).

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https://claude.ai/code/session_012Q51zFUmPg1WwtS5CrGJE6

[sahrizvi]

Resolved in v0.12.1 — npm i -g @altimateai/altimate-code@0.12.1 or altimate-code upgrade. Pilot-gated (ALTIMATE_WORKSPACE=1).