Why is metadata placed in an assistant message immediately after system?

[IsaacRe]

I see that the system prompt is constructed as a system message immediately followed by an assistant message containing some metadata about the context.

https://github.com/alexzhang13/rlm/blob/main/rlm/utils/prompts.py#L139

Seems like this would be OOD for a lot of os models that were IFT'd with system-user-assistant turn order, so curious why this approach was taken.

[alexzhang13]

Ah this was meant to be because this specific piece of information changes frequently depending on the task. You are right though, it should be a "user" prompt and not an assistant, but this would likely make it system-user-user-assistant

[IsaacRe]

Right, probably would be best to either add in system or merge with the next user message