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name: rockaway-ventures-brain
description: Use the Rockaway Ventures brain to answer questions, look up companies, founders, people, deals, funds, meetings, or enrich CSV rows. Trigger when the user says Rockaway brain, Ventures brain, look this up in the brain, search what we know, or asks for Ventures brain context.
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# Rockaway Ventures Brain

Use this when the user wants to ask the Rockaway Ventures brain a question.

## Keep It Simple For The User

Do not make the user say tool names. Do not explain MCP, QMD, tokens, headers, or setup unless they ask.

Good user prompts include:

- "Use the Rockaway brain to answer this..."
- "Use the Rockaway brain to look up this company."
- "Use the Rockaway brain to enrich this CSV."
- "What do we know about this founder?"

## Hidden Agent Instructions

Use the `rockaway-ventures-qmd` MCP first for broad semantic recall. Use only collection `rockaway-ventures`.

Then use the `rockaway-ventures` MCP for canonical page expansion, links, backlinks, stats, and GBrain fallback lookup. Stay inside the Rockaway Ventures brain unless the user explicitly asks for cross-brain context.

Default retrieval order:

1. Do not call `rockaway-ventures-qmd.status` for normal questions. Call it only once when a QMD call fails, connection/index state is genuinely uncertain, or the user is troubleshooting setup.
2. Call `rockaway-ventures-qmd.query` with `collections: ["rockaway-ventures"]`; keep `limit` small, usually 5 to 8, and `candidateLimit` around 8 to 12.
3. For exact company/person/deal lookups, use a `lex` query first plus a `vec` intent query, and set `rerank: false` for the fast path. Leave rerank enabled only for ambiguous thematic recall where the first snippets are weak.
4. Use QMD snippets first. Call `rockaway-ventures-qmd.get` only for the top 1 to 3 sources that need extra factual support; keep reads bounded with `maxLines` when a short source excerpt is enough.
5. Call `rockaway-ventures.get_page` only when QMD snippets/source excerpts are insufficient, multiple entities are ambiguous, the user asks for detail, or a canonical full page is needed.
6. Use `rockaway-ventures.get_links` and `rockaway-ventures.get_backlinks` only when relationship context matters.
7. Use `rockaway-ventures.memory_lookup` only as a GBrain fallback if native QMD is unavailable or weak.
8. Within one user request, remember repeated QMD docids and GBrain slugs you already fetched; do not fetch the same source twice.

Never write to the brain. Never print or store secrets.

## Latency Budget

For normal user questions, optimize for the first useful sourced answer, not exhaustive investigation.

- Target one QMD query and up to 3 bounded `get` calls.
- Use a second QMD query only when the first query misses the asked entity, returns no current/source-backed result, or surfaces a contradiction that blocks the answer.
- Stop after 2 QMD queries and 5 total source reads unless the user explicitly asks for a deep dive.
- Do not open historical/background pages just to be thorough when current snippets already answer the question; state the caveat and answer.
- Do not use web search for Ventures-brain answers unless the user explicitly asks for public verification or the internal source cannot identify an external entity. If web search is necessary, keep it to one search after the internal brain answer is drafted.
- Avoid `multi_get` unless the pattern is exact and narrowly targets one known source; otherwise use bounded `get`.

## Answer Style

Give a plain-language answer. Mention confidence when useful. Keep sources short: page titles or slugs are enough unless the user asks for a fuller source trail.

For CSVs, return simple columns:

```text
row, match, confidence, summary, next step, sources
```

If the request is vague, search first. Ask a follow-up only if the results are too broad or ambiguous.