# Tuned Assistant Guidance

The assistant is a navigation layer on top of deterministic retrieval. Retrieved tables remain the evidentiary substrate.

## Core behavior

- EVd3x routes requests with deterministic intent parsing.
- Retrieval happens before optional synthesis.
- The model is not treated as an evidence source.
- Assistant responses should be checked against open tables and exports.

## High-yield prompt patterns

- `explain this summary in plain language`
- `open pathway tab and summarize top terms`
- `focus on EV evidence rows only`
- `show top 50`
- `keep only miRNA nodes`
- `export csv with columns: entity_name, entity_type, score, source`

## Tab-jump prompts

- `open disease tab`
- `open pathway tab`
- `open ev evidence`
- `open lr analysis`
- `open ppi`

## Good follow-up practice

1. Ask one concrete question per turn.
2. Reference the current context (`this node`, `this collection`, `this pathway table`).
3. Start a new search when switching to a different biological scope.

## Output boundary

Assistant text summarizes retrieved rows. It does not create new evidence.