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What is actually in a conversation

Roles, precedence, templates, assembly, compaction and memory.

What you’ll learn

Messages have roles
Identify a message role separately from its wording.
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Instruction priority belongs to the host
Use a supplied host's priority rules to resolve one conflict.
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A chat template packages messages
Explain why models need the expected message formatting.
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Context is assembled
Identify which material was actually included in a request.
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Compaction trades detail for space
Recognize information lost in a supplied summary.
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Context, memory and retention differ
Separate request input from stored notes and service logs.
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Reasoning text is not an audit trail
Choose observable evidence over a plausible explanation.
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Reconstruct the model input
Given a visible chat and an inclusion log, mark what reached the model, what was summarized and what remains outside the request.
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