Decompose a question into ordered steps for the answering agent ("think in steps").
The steps drive BOTH document retrieval and — for pass/fail, verbatim — the answer
agent's task, so the decomposition shapes the final answer, not just recall.
When dateIntent is supplied (intent-aware planning) an advisory temporal-intent hint is
appended so the planner anchors steps to the right time shape; it is omitted entirely for
non-temporal (none) intents, leaving the prompt byte-identical to the no-intent path.
Concrete date windows are NOT resolved here — that stays downstream in the answer stage.
Decompose a question into ordered steps for the answering agent ("think in steps"). The steps drive BOTH document retrieval and — for pass/fail, verbatim — the answer agent's task, so the decomposition shapes the final answer, not just recall.
When
dateIntentis supplied (intent-aware planning) an advisory temporal-intent hint is appended so the planner anchors steps to the right time shape; it is omitted entirely for non-temporal (none) intents, leaving the prompt byte-identical to the no-intent path. Concrete date windows are NOT resolved here — that stays downstream in the answer stage.