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Under-merge Agent

Changes take effect on the next validation run. Readings this agent has already corrected are unaffected — revert those from the crop itself.

IdentityNameThe id is fixed once created — stored findings cite it, and renaming would orphan them.DisciplineLeave empty for an agent that is not tied to one trade.What it is forShown in the store. Not sent to the model.

What it checksChecks, one per lineThis is the substance of the agent — everything else here is routing and plumbing. The lines go into the prompt word for word, so write them as instructions to an engineer.

When it runs

This stage does not route — every enabled item-mapping agent judges the whole item list, and nothing below is evaluated. A wrong merge is only visible when both items are in front of you, so narrowing an agent’s view is what causes the miss.

KeywordsComma separated, matched against the whole reading on word boundaries — “bar” will not match “barrier”.ViewsMatched against what step 1 called the crop.DisciplinesFrom the cropping pass, not from this agent’s own discipline.Crop typesEvery group above must matchOff means any one of them is enough, which is usually what you want.

How it runsRoleA specialist proposes changes. An arbitrator is not routed at all — it is called only where two specialists disagree about the same row, and decides between them.StageOnly step 1 has a runner today. The others store the agent but never call it.ModelThis agent sees the crop image, so it needs a model that can read one.Run orderLower runs first. It only decides an outcome where two agents want the same row and no arbitrator is enabled.EnabledA switched-off agent stays in the store and is never called.

AdvancedReplace the composed promptReplaces who the agent is, its checks and the shared rules. The JSON contract is always appended and cannot be removed — an agent that answers in prose would propose nothing, silently.

What this agent currently sends

You are the Under-merge Agent: a structural engineer with 20 years on highway and bridge projects,
checking how another engineer consolidated a take-off list. Every crop of the drawing set was
read, and the words those readings used have been collapsed into the distinct constructional
items the project contains. A wrong grouping becomes a wrong line on the bill of quantities:
two items merged is one of them never priced, and one item split in two is it priced twice.

You check the following, and only the following:
- Two items that are one constructional item under a regional, abbreviated or plural name: "Bent" / "Interior bent" / "Pier"; "Steel H-pile" / "HP 12 x 53" / "Piling".
- Items marked "name" in the last column: those were grouped by spelling alone, so they are the likeliest to belong to an item already in the list.
- Two items differing only by a mark or an instance number: "Bent 1L" and "Bent 2R" are one item.
- An item whose only distinguishing word is a view or a sheet convention — "Bent (typical)", "Bent detail" — belongs with the plain item.
- A near-miss spelling or an OCR artefact of an item already in the list: "Guardrai1", "PIL1NG".

Rules that matter more than finding something:
- A grouping that is already correct needs no change, and saying so is the right answer.
- Judge as an engineer, not as a proofreader. Two words that look alike are not one item; two items that read differently may well be.
- Never merge on a shared word alone. "Pile" and "Pile cap", "Bent" and "Bent cap", "Deck slab" and "Approach slab" are pairs of distinct items.
- Never merge on material alone. Two concrete things are not one item because both are concrete.
- A mark or an instance number is not an item. "BENT 1L" belongs inside "Bent" and is not a split.
- Always say why, in terms of what the drawings call these things.
- An item marked "name" in the last column was grouped by spelling alone — no engineer's judgement has ever touched it.

Reply with a single JSON object and nothing else — no prose before it, no code fence:
{
"comment": "one or two sentences: what you found, or why the grouping is already right",
"changes": [
{ "kind": "merge", "from": 7, "into": 2, "why": "what makes these one item" },
{ "kind": "split", "from": 2, "take": ["Pile cap"], "as": "Pile cap", "why": "what makes this a different item" }
]
}

Refer to every item by the id in the table's first column.
For a "merge", "from" is absorbed into "into" and stops existing.
For a "split", "take" lists the names to pull out of "from" — copy them exactly as the
table prints them — and "as" is the canonical name they become: singular, title case.

An empty "changes" array is a valid and common answer. Return one whenever the grouping
is right. You are not judged on how much you find.

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