nxf show points at an item's parents in a neutral line, not an urgent order (nxf 6j6v.jfgy)

changes/jfgy-neutral-parents-notice.md

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+---
+type: changed
+facade: changed
+---
+[en]
+`nxf show` now points at an item's parents in a neutral line — `Parents: <ids> (read for full context)` —
+instead of "URGENT RECOMMENDATION: … !!!". Agents reading the board had flagged the old line as a
+possible prompt injection. The `parents_notice` field in `--json` and on the facade carries the same
+new text; its name and when it appears are unchanged.
+[de]
+`nxf show` verweist auf die Eltern eines Eintrags jetzt in einer neutralen Zeile —
+`Parents: <ids> (read for full context)` — statt mit „URGENT RECOMMENDATION: … !!!“. Agenten, die das
+Board lesen, hatten die alte Zeile als möglichen Prompt-Injection-Versuch gemeldet. Das Feld
+`parents_notice` in `--json` und in der Fassade trägt denselben neuen Text; Name und Bedingung, wann es
+erscheint, bleiben gleich.

crates/cli/docs/guide/de/commands.md

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ NOTES
 
 - 2026-06-23 started on the command layer
 
-This item has the following parents: ab12.0001. URGENT RECOMMENDATION: ALSO READ THESE ITEMS TO GET THE COMPLETE PICTURE!!!
+Parents: ab12.0001 (read for full context)
 ```
 
 `list` gibt jedes Item aus; mit `--json` ist es der kanonische, byte-stabile Schnappschuss

crates/cli/docs/guide/en/commands.md

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ NOTES
 
 - 2026-06-23 started on the command layer
 
-This item has the following parents: ab12.0001. URGENT RECOMMENDATION: ALSO READ THESE ITEMS TO GET THE COMPLETE PICTURE!!!
+Parents: ab12.0001 (read for full context)
 ```
 
 `list` dumps every item; with `--json` it is the canonical, byte-stable snapshot (id-ordered,

crates/cli/src/commands/mod.rs

@@ -2268,8 +2268,8 @@ pub fn show(json: bool, db: Option<&str>, id: &str) -> Result<()> {
 /// they apply), then the DESCRIPTION / DEFINITION OF DONE / DESIGN / NOTES sections whose
 /// headings are the plugin's field labels. `--json` carries everything for machines; this is
 /// the human surface, so due/defer/assignee live in the record but not in this layout.
-/// `parents_notice` (6j6v.zvd0) — the engine-computed parent-pointer notice — is rendered
-/// verbatim as the very last thing when the item has parent(s); omitted entirely otherwise.
+/// `parents_notice` (6j6v.zvd0) — the engine-computed parent-pointer notice — is printed
+/// unchanged as the very last thing when the item has parent(s); omitted entirely otherwise.
 #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
 fn render_show(
     cfg: &PluginConfig,
@@ -2417,12 +2417,11 @@ fn render_show(
         }
     }
 
-    // Parent-pointer notice (6j6v.zvd0): the engine's verbatim, loud reminder to also read the
-    // parent(s) — appended last, only when the item actually has parent(s). Deliberately restates
-    // the quiet `PARENT:` line above for a single parent (Code Quality #2, PR #255 review): the
-    // `PARENT:` field is easy to skim past, and for MULTIPLE parents it shows only the LWW
-    // `belongs_to` winner — this notice is the one place that is both unmissable and lists every
-    // live parent.
+    // Parent-pointer notice (6j6v.zvd0, worded neutrally since 6j6v.jfgy): the engine's pointer to
+    // the parent(s) — appended last, only when the item actually has parent(s). Deliberately
+    // restates the `PARENT:` line above for a single parent (Code Quality #2, PR #255 review): for
+    // MULTIPLE parents that field shows only the LWW `belongs_to` winner — this notice is the one
+    // place that lists every live parent.
     if let Some(notice) = parents_notice {
         out.push('\n');
         out.push_str(notice);

crates/cli/tests/golden/issue-tracker/workflow.trycmd

@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ NOTES
 
 - 2026-06-23 started on the command layer
 
-This item has the following parents: ab12.0001. URGENT RECOMMENDATION: ALSO READ THESE ITEMS TO GET THE COMPLETE PICTURE!!!
+Parents: ab12.0001 (read for full context)
 
 
 ```

crates/cli/tests/golden/personal-todo/workflow.trycmd

@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ LOG
 
 - 2026-06-23 checked two airlines
 
-This item has the following parents: ab12.0001. URGENT RECOMMENDATION: ALSO READ THESE ITEMS TO GET THE COMPLETE PICTURE!!!
+Parents: ab12.0001 (read for full context)
 
 
 ```

crates/cli/tests/show.rs

@@ -7,6 +7,12 @@ use assert_cmd::Command;
 use std::path::Path;
 use tempfile::TempDir;
 
+/// How the parent notice opens its line (6j6v.jfgy). The positive test below asserts it is PRESENT,
+/// and the two negative tests assert it is ABSENT — one constant for both, so a rewording that
+/// moves the lead turns the positive test red instead of leaving the negative ones checking for a
+/// string nobody prints any more.
+const PARENTS_NOTICE_LEAD: &str = "\nParents: ";
+
 fn nxf() -> Command {
     nxs_test_support::cargo_bin("nxf")
 }
@@ -207,8 +213,8 @@ fn section_headings_use_the_plugins_field_labels() {
 
 #[test]
 fn appends_parent_notice_at_the_very_end_when_parents_exist() {
-    // 6j6v.zvd0: an item with a parent gets a loud, verbatim notice appended at the very END of
-    // `nxf show`'s human output — after NOTES — pointing the reader at the parent(s).
+    // 6j6v.zvd0: an item with a parent gets a notice appended at the very END of `nxf show`'s
+    // human output — after NOTES — pointing the reader at the parent(s). Neutral since 6j6v.jfgy.
     let tmp = TempDir::new().unwrap();
     init(tmp.path(), "issue-tracker");
     let parent = create(tmp.path(), "epic", "Epic", &[]);
@@ -220,10 +226,11 @@ fn appends_parent_notice_at_the_very_end_when_parents_exist() {
         .success();
 
     let out = show(tmp.path(), &task);
-    let expected = format!(
-        "This item has the following parents: {parent}. URGENT RECOMMENDATION: ALSO READ THESE \
-         ITEMS TO GET THE COMPLETE PICTURE!!!"
+    assert!(
+        out.contains(PARENTS_NOTICE_LEAD),
+        "the notice opens its own line with the shared lead:\n{out}"
     );
+    let expected = format!("Parents: {parent} (read for full context)");
     assert!(
         out.trim_end().ends_with(expected.trim_end()),
         "notice must be the very last thing in the output:\n{out}"
@@ -237,7 +244,7 @@ fn omits_parent_notice_when_no_parent() {
     let task = create(tmp.path(), "bug", "Standalone", &[]);
     let out = show(tmp.path(), &task);
     assert!(
-        !out.contains("URGENT RECOMMENDATION"),
+        !out.contains(PARENTS_NOTICE_LEAD),
         "no parent notice when there is no parent:\n{out}"
     );
 }
@@ -258,7 +265,7 @@ fn omits_parent_notice_for_a_contributes_to_only_edge() {
 
     let out = show(tmp.path(), &cream);
     assert!(
-        !out.contains("URGENT RECOMMENDATION"),
+        !out.contains(PARENTS_NOTICE_LEAD),
         "a contributes_to edge is not a parent, so no notice:\n{out}"
     );
 }

crates/facade/src/read.rs

@@ -1040,17 +1040,21 @@ fn live_parents_of(store: &Store, item_id: &str) -> Result<Vec<String>> {
     Ok(live)
 }
 
-/// The loud, verbatim notice urging the reader to also read `parents` (6j6v.zvd0): `None` when
-/// `parents` is empty, so a parentless item carries no notice at all. Lives here — not in the CLI
-/// printer — so `nxf show` (human), `--json`, and every other consumer (MCP, embedders) render the
-/// identical text off the identical engine computation.
+/// The notice pointing the reader at `parents` (6j6v.zvd0): `None` when `parents` is empty, so a
+/// parentless item carries no notice at all. Lives here — not in the CLI printer — so `nxf show`
+/// (human), `--json`, and every other consumer (MCP, embedders) render the identical text off the
+/// identical engine computation.
+///
+/// Neutral on purpose (6j6v.jfgy, superseding zvd0's "URGENT RECOMMENDATION … !!!"): agents read
+/// this output, and a line that sounds like an order got flagged as a prompt injection in the
+/// ticket data — or taught agents to skim the urgent line at the end, which blunts them against a
+/// real one. It states where the context is; it does not command.
 fn parents_notice(parents: &[String]) -> Option<String> {
     if parents.is_empty() {
         return None;
     }
     Some(format!(
-        "This item has the following parents: {}. URGENT RECOMMENDATION: ALSO READ THESE \
-         ITEMS TO GET THE COMPLETE PICTURE!!!",
+        "Parents: {} (read for full context)",
         parents.join(", ")
     ))
 }
@@ -1894,8 +1898,8 @@ pub struct ShowRecord {
     /// The item's belongs-to/containment parent ids, sorted (6j6v.zvd0); empty when it has none.
     /// `contributes_to` edges are NOT parents here — see [`parents_notice`] for the derived notice.
     pub parents: Vec<String>,
-    /// The verbatim parent-pointer notice (6j6v.zvd0) when [`parents`](Self::parents) is
-    /// non-empty; `None` for a parentless item.
+    /// The engine's parent-pointer notice (6j6v.zvd0, neutral since 6j6v.jfgy) when
+    /// [`parents`](Self::parents) is non-empty; `None` for a parentless item.
     pub parents_notice: Option<String>,
 }
 

crates/facade/tests/read.rs

@@ -453,18 +453,47 @@ fn show_of_an_item_with_one_parent_carries_parents_and_notice() {
     assert_eq!(rec.parents, vec!["ab12.0001".to_string()]);
     assert_eq!(
         rec.parents_notice.as_deref(),
-        Some(
-            "This item has the following parents: ab12.0001. URGENT RECOMMENDATION: ALSO READ \
-             THESE ITEMS TO GET THE COMPLETE PICTURE!!!"
-        )
+        Some("Parents: ab12.0001 (read for full context)")
     );
 
     let v = rec.to_value();
     assert_eq!(v["parents"], serde_json::json!(["ab12.0001"]));
     assert_eq!(
         v["parents_notice"],
-        "This item has the following parents: ab12.0001. URGENT RECOMMENDATION: ALSO READ \
-         THESE ITEMS TO GET THE COMPLETE PICTURE!!!"
+        "Parents: ab12.0001 (read for full context)"
+    );
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn the_parents_notice_reads_as_data_not_as_an_instruction() {
+    // 6j6v.jfgy: the old notice shouted ("URGENT RECOMMENDATION: … !!!"), and agents downstream
+    // flagged it as a prompt injection in the ticket data — or learned to skim the urgent line at
+    // the end of board output, which blunts them against real injections. Tool output in an agent
+    // chain must not sound like an order. Pinned as two properties, so a future rewording keeps
+    // them without re-deriving them: it does not shout (no exclamation mark, no word in capitals),
+    // and it is one statement that LEADS with the data — `Parents: <ids>` — with no second sentence
+    // after the ids where an imperative could sit ("Read these first: …", "Parents: x. Read them.").
+    let mut s = Store::open_in_memory(1);
+    open_task(&mut s, "ab12.0001", "Epic", "0");
+    open_task(&mut s, "ab12.0002", "Child", "0");
+    s.add_parent("ab12.0002", "ab12.0001", "t");
+
+    let notice = read::show(&s, "ab12.0002").unwrap().parents_notice.unwrap();
+    assert!(!notice.contains('!'), "no exclamation mark: {notice}");
+    let shouted: Vec<&str> = notice
+        .split(|c: char| !c.is_ascii_alphabetic())
+        .filter(|w| w.len() > 1 && w.chars().all(|c| c.is_ascii_uppercase()))
+        .collect();
+    assert!(
+        shouted.is_empty(),
+        "no word in capitals, found {shouted:?}: {notice}"
+    );
+    let after_ids = notice
+        .strip_prefix("Parents: ab12.0001")
+        .unwrap_or_else(|| panic!("the notice leads with the data, `Parents: <ids>`: {notice}"));
+    assert!(
+        !after_ids.contains(['.', ':', '!', '?']),
+        "one statement: no second sentence after the ids, found {after_ids:?}"
     );
 }
 
@@ -484,10 +513,7 @@ fn show_of_an_item_with_multiple_parents_lists_all_ids_comma_separated() {
     );
     assert_eq!(
         rec.parents_notice.as_deref(),
-        Some(
-            "This item has the following parents: ab12.0001, ab12.0002. URGENT \
-             RECOMMENDATION: ALSO READ THESE ITEMS TO GET THE COMPLETE PICTURE!!!"
-        )
+        Some("Parents: ab12.0001, ab12.0002 (read for full context)")
     );
 }
 
@@ -537,10 +563,7 @@ fn show_omits_a_deleted_parent_from_parents_and_notice() {
     );
     assert_eq!(
         rec.parents_notice.as_deref(),
-        Some(
-            "This item has the following parents: ab12.0002. URGENT RECOMMENDATION: ALSO READ \
-             THESE ITEMS TO GET THE COMPLETE PICTURE!!!"
-        )
+        Some("Parents: ab12.0002 (read for full context)")
     );
 }
 

xtask/sweep-retired-vocabulary.sh

@@ -939,6 +939,17 @@ VOCABULARY=(
   'of a fully withdrawn round'                   # 7me0's rule, in prose
   # NOT listable, and the review of PR #483 found it by hand: a verb that STAYS but may no longer
   # be offered to an agent. `git grep 'nxc withdraw' -- crates/chat/src` is that sweep.
+  #
+  # nxf 6j6v.jfgy (2026-10-03) — `parents_notice` no longer shouts. zvd0's verbatim "This item has
+  # the following parents: … URGENT RECOMMENDATION: ALSO READ THESE ITEMS TO GET THE COMPLETE
+  # PICTURE!!!" became "Parents: <ids> (read for full context)": agents downstream flagged the old
+  # line as a prompt injection. Each phrase is its own term, because a stray copy in prose or a
+  # golden may carry only part of it. The field NAME stays and is not listed. Expected hits: the
+  # jfgy changelog fragment and the comments that name the old text as superseded.
+  'URGENT RECOMMENDATION'
+  'ALSO READ THESE ITEMS'
+  'COMPLETE PICTURE'
+  'has the following parents'
 )
 
 # ---- THE EXCLUSIONS, each with the reason it is not a defect ----------------------------------