and-your-knowledge-phrase-conditional-rule
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The phrase 'and your knowledge' appears in the prompt template only when the evidence source is entirely parametric memory or counter-memory; it is omitted in all other conditions.
Summary
The phrase "and your knowledge" in the prompt is a tell that the system is answering purely from its own internal memory, with no outside evidence or retrieved context backing it up. Its presence or absence lets you immediately identify whether a response is grounded in external sources or is just the model recalling what it learned during training.