Make Agent Behavior customizable by modifying System Prompt

[RajWorking]

What problem or use case are you trying to solve?

Generally people want to customize the agent's behavior.
E.g. make fewer code comments, or more.

Describe the UX of the solution you'd like
Users should be able to inject a few lines into the system prompt.

Do you have thoughts on the technical implementation?
Maybe create a section in the navbar where user can type in any modifications to the system prompt that they like.

[h55nick]

My understanding is that https://github.com/All-Hands-AI/OpenHands/blob/main/.openhands_instructions should be doing this? It seems to work on the github-resolver work?

[grrowl]

+1 — especially for the codeact agent, the system prompt defines the git user and email configuration in a way the LLMs don't seem to accept overriding in user messages like .openhands_instructions (ineffective example below):

10. Git - EXPLICIT INSTRUCTIONS:

- Before committing, configure git to use "admin" as the user.name and "[email protected]" as the user.email.

[mamoodi]

I believe this is being worked on.

[neubig]

Hey @RajWorking , is this finished by #4983?

[RajWorking]

Yes, we can close this now