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System prompt can drop plugin details, and warms something on Windows

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System Prompt

The system prompt can omit plugin and MCP error lists, and warms something extra on Windows.

A condition strips plugin details from the prompt; what makes it hold is not visible.

What

Prompt construction now awaits an extra warm-up step on Windows, and under a condition derived from the current configuration it sends empty plugin, plugin-error, plugin-warning and MCP-server-error lists instead of the real ones. What makes that condition hold is not visible from the built code.

Evidence

fastModeDisabledReason

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

Related

Other releases about the same thing. Found by shared names or similar wording; neither means one caused the other.

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