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It’s just formatting control.

prefix

lets the shared helper decide whether to insert spacing before

Reasoning:

without hardcoding the same layout for every caller. In this case: •

ActionEvent

calls it with no prefix because the action view already manages its own blank lines before that section. •

MessageEvent

calls it with

"\n\n"

because the reasoning block should appear separated from the message text. So the point is not semantics, just avoiding duplicated reasoning-rendering logic while preserving each caller’s existing spacing. If you want the more opinionated take: it’s optional convenience, not fundamental. We could also remove

prefix

and have each caller add its own newline before calling the helper.

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