---
{
  "n": 67,
  "title": "Never answer a journal line in the chat; act on it silently",
  "abstract": "",
  "refs": [],
  "seen": [
    "agent"
  ],
  "data": {
    "keywords": [
      "journal line",
      "reminder",
      "reported in message"
    ],
    "environment": "main",
    "injected": true,
    "files": {}
  },
  "created": 1791491225.321677,
  "updated": 1791545092.367439,
  "deleted": 0.0,
  "completed": 1791545092.3673248,
  "outcome": "You accepted suggestion 14: law L6 carries this ruling, with its exception for what you need to know, so the absolute bullet in AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md goes",
  "type": "rule"
}
---
The user, messages 19360 and 19365: the agent kept writing chat lines in reply to the journal's own reminders (old helper reports, notices), filling the user's chat with noise. A journal line is an instruction to the agent, not a message: act on it and write nothing, unless the user needs to know something (a failure, a finished piece of work, a decision that waits on them). The journal itself should enforce it, not a local reminder.