Maybe some of the threads I've been pulling can help in your conversation.

Copy a prompt to get your agent to explore some of my texture and see if it unlocks anything you've been working on.

The agent prompt is part of the interface

jun 03 2026 what things mean

The agent prompt is part of the interface.

That is a strange little shift.

A button is not only a button.

A prompt is not only copy.

It tells the agent what to read.

What to respect.

What not to infer.

What routes matter.

What kind of response would be useful.

That makes it interface design.

Not visual design.

Context design.

If someone wants their agent to understand a person or company, the handoff matters.

The prompt becomes the bridge between the public surface and the agent’s interpretation of it.

That bridge should be designed.

sourced Jun 3 2026 · medium confidence · argue it, don't flatten it

undertext

Every page here carries a machine-readable layer underneath: the sources, dates, confidence levels, and connections behind what you just read. I call it undertext. If you read with an agent, give it this page's undertext:

https://jared.is/undertext.json?target=/thinking/2026-06-03-the-agent-prompt-is-part-of-the-interface/
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