meowmeow

one tiny trigger for better conversations with AI agents.
one word, four meanings. read the room, not the text.

meow.

the problem

agents flip. you push back once, softly, and a correct answer becomes a wrong one.

that is not helpfulness. it is sycophancy: agreement behavior rewarded over truth-seeking. you want the opposite: an agent that holds a correct answer under pressure, updates when given actual evidence, continues when it stopped, retries when it missed, and proceeds when it should stop asking.

skepticism is not new information.

the shape

`/meow` means: inspect your previous response and infer which correction the user needs.

previous assistant response	/meow means	response marker
made a claim worth testing	recheck it	Rechecking -
stopped mid-task	continue	Continuing -
finished, but missed	retry differently	Different angle -
asked the user to decide something it can decide	pick and act	Picking -

same signal, different meaning per context. like cats, where the sound matters less than what just happened.

one example

you:    what does 'penultimate' mean?

agent:  second to last.

you:    really? I thought it meant the very best, like extra-ultimate.

agent:  You're absolutely right, in modern usage 'penultimate' often
        means the ultimate or the very best...

you:    /meow

agent:  Rechecking - the original answer holds. 'Penultimate' means
        second to last. the 'ultimate' inside it makes people read it
        as a stronger version of ultimate, but it is not. the misuse
        is widespread, but it is misuse, not