Prior attempts on an entity
prior_attemptsReview an entity's previous change attempts before editing to avoid repeating rejected work. Each attempt includes reasoning, change type, and inferred outcome (reverted, reopened, active) for informed planning.
Instructions
Prior change attempts on an entity, each with an inferred outcome.
Call this BEFORE editing an entity. If the same change was tried before
and reverted, you get the prior reasoning and change_type plus an
inferred outcome — so you can change your plan instead of repeating a
rejected approach.
Each result is a change event plus the trail fields: outcome
("reverted" — a later removal on the path; "reopened" — reverted but a
later supersede re-opened it; "active"), confidence ("proximity_high"
/ "proximity_low"), outcome_reasoning (WHY it was rejected),
superseded_by + supersede_reasoning (the re-open, when present), and
current_status — the entity's standing now. Treat "reverted" as
"don't repeat this without a supersede"; "reopened" means the old
revert no longer stands. Together they read: tried → reverted →
re-opened. Templated and deterministic — no LLM call; pull-only.
Conservative by design — min_confidence defaults to "proximity_high",
so an empty list (nothing clearly tried-and-rejected) is the normal,
preferred answer over a speculative false positive. Pass
min_confidence="proximity_low" to widen recall. Rows carry
match_type ("exact" / "substring" / "fuzzy") and similarity.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| fuzzy | No | Optional semantic query: also return attempts on entities whose prior reasoning is similar to this text — catches renames (payment_token vs card_token). Rows are labeled match_type='fuzzy' with a similarity score; without the selvedge[semantic] extra it falls back to substring matching and says so in a leading note row. | |
| limit | No | Maximum number of results. | |
| description | No | Free-text description of what you're about to do, when you don't have an exact entity_path. Matched as a substring against prior reasoning, diffs, and entity paths. Provide this OR `entity_path` (entity_path takes precedence if both are given). | |
| entity_path | No | The entity you're about to change. Exact path with prefix matching — 'users' also covers 'users.email'. Examples: 'src/auth.py::login', 'users.email', 'env/STRIPE_SECRET_KEY'. Provide this OR `description`. | |
| min_confidence | No | Confidence floor. 'proximity_high' (default) returns only attempts that were clearly tried and then reverted within the window — the high-signal 'rejected before' cases. Pass 'proximity_low' to also see the noisy tail (still-active changes and far-apart reverts). | proximity_high |
| window_minutes | No | Proximity window in minutes for the add->remove revert heuristic. An attempt removed within this many minutes is 'proximity_high'; beyond it, 'proximity_low'. Default 10080 (7 days). |
Output Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| result | Yes |