A slice reshapes only while its bound is small

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show a slice of something large licenses the exact non-reduction it was written to prevent. A slice whose bound exceeds the payload is the payload with a label on it, and the block says nothing about the bound.

-Use `print(...)` when you want to RESHAPE what comes back — label several values, format a table, show a slice of something large — not to hand over a value the last line would have echoed anyway.
+Use `print(...)` when you want to RESHAPE what comes back — label several values, format a table, show the FIRST few of something large — not to hand over a value the last line would have echoed anyway. A slice reshapes only while its bound is small: `[:200]` shows you the shape, `[:12000]` is the whole thing with a label on it.

This is measured, not hypothetical

Every [:N] literal in every cell of a VLB trial, per arm. codeact7 is the arm carrying #27 and #30 — the pair that tells the model to stop ending cells on the raw result:

arm · task	slices	≥ 2000	≥ 8000	median bound	max
terra codeact6 · private_lending	0	0	0	—	—
terra codeact6 · food_safety	4	2	0	4000	5000
terra codeact7 · private_lending	23	22	16	12000	18000
terra codeact7 · food_safety	30	30	21	10000	15000
venti codeact6 · private_lending	45	0	0	120	1200

Important

macaron-v1-venti slices constantly — 45 of them in one trial — and never above 1200. That is what reduction looks like. Told to stop echoing the raw result, gpt-5.6-terra started slicing too and reached for [:12000], which this bullet endorses. On food_safety_dispute_33d the result was a worse dump rate than the baseline it replaced: 44.7% → 100.0% in the 2K–20K band.

The cells are unambiguous about which sentence they are following:

r = await asyncio.gather(*(mcp.email.search_emails(query=q, page_size=100) for q in [...]))
for lab, x in zip([...], r): print('\n##', lab, '\n', x['result'][:15000])

Labelled, iterated, sliced — every instruction obeyed, nothing removed.

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📝 Walkthrough

• 更新 print(...) 输出重塑指南：仅当切片边界较小时（如 [:200]），切片才会压缩输出；较大的边界（如 [:12000]）应标注为近似完整结果。
• 保留 return-channel 指导，并新增回归测试，确保保留 “LAST expression is echoed back to you” 且移除误导性的 “needs no print at all”。

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更新工具输出提示。提示现在说明 [:200] 用于查看数据形状，并修正较大切片边界的说明。新增回归测试验证提示文本。

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工具输出提示

Layer / File(s)	Summary
输出提示与回归测试 lib/index.js, test/smoke.js	移除无需 print 的提示，更新切片说明。回归测试确认已删除文本不存在，且 LAST expression is echoed back to you 仍然存在。

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~2 minutes

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Title check	✅ Passed	标题准确概括了主要变更：只有较小边界的切片才会重塑输出。标题简洁、具体，并与代码和测试变更一致。
Description check	✅ Passed	描述直接说明了切片指导的修改、实测数据和回归场景，与变更内容相关。
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897-899: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

为新的切片说明补充回归断言。

当前测试只验证 needs no print at all 已删除，以及 LAST expression is echoed back to you 仍保留。它没有验证 [:200] shows you the shape 和“大于结果时仅改变标签”的新文案；文案回退时测试仍会通过。请在这里断言两段文本存在。

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