fix(gateway): scope answers to the question's subject on both answer prompts - #176
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…prompts Harden both answer system prompts so retrieved passages about a *different* subject (person / product / entity) than the question are not presented as the answer — the model must say the context lacks the answer instead. Applied to _ANSWER_SYSTEM_PROMPT (/v1/query) and INJECTION_RESISTANT_SYSTEM_PROMPT (the injection-resistant answer surface). Also gitignore .env.openai. Verified: ruff, ruff format, mypy --strict (gateway + injection), pytest (injection + gateway + red-team prompt-injection suite). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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fix(gateway): scope answers to the question's subject
Both answer system prompts now instruct the model that retrieved passages about a
different subject (person / product / entity) than the question must not be
presented as the answer — it must say the context doesn't contain the answer
instead. This reduces a class of confident-but-wrong answers when retrieval
surfaces near-miss passages.
Applied symmetrically to both answer surfaces:
_ANSWER_SYSTEM_PROMPT—/v1/queryINJECTION_RESISTANT_SYSTEM_PROMPT— the injection-resistant surface (Step 7.3)Also
.gitignores.env.openaiso the local OpenAI-demo secret can't be staged.Verification (local)
ruff+ruff format✅ ·mypy --strict(gateway + injection) ✅pytestinjection + gateway + the red-team prompt-injection suite ✅ (theprompt still excludes the injection payload and retains the "untrusted" framing,
so the 7.3 invariants hold)
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