{"version":"1.1.0","schema":"https://oneagentaday.com/api/schema.json","agent":{"title":"Patch Notes Explainer","slug":"patch-notes-explainer","date":"2026-10-12","issue":38,"category":"gaming","categoryLabel":"Gaming","tags":["patch-notes","games","meta"],"difficulty":"easy","runtimes":["ChatGPT","Claude","Gemini"],"excerpt":"Paste any patch notes. Get the 20-second version, what changed for your role, and whether tonight is a play night.","problem":"Patch notes are written for people who already live in the meta. You want to know if your main got worse and if you should update before dinner.","videoUrl":null,"url":"https://oneagentaday.com/agents/patch-notes-explainer","apiUrl":"https://oneagentaday.com/api/agents/patch-notes-explainer.json","promptUrl":"https://oneagentaday.com/agents/patch-notes-explainer/prompt.txt","configUrl":null,"configFilename":null,"license":"CC-BY-4.0","howItWorks":"Patch notes reward people who already know the vocabulary. This agent translates one patch into the version a person with a job can use: what changed for *your* role, what is flavor text, and whether you should patch before you play tonight.\n\nIt is not allowed to invent numbers. If the notes say \"reduced,\" and they do not say by how much, the explainer says \"reduced, amount not stated.\" That rule is the whole product.\n\nThe sample on this page uses a fictional game, Northline, so the demo is not a copy of a studio's patch notes. Paste real notes when you run it.\n\n## Keep source and reaction apart\n\nPaste the official notes. If you also want the community read, put it under a heading `COMMUNITY` and the agent will label it as unverified. Mixed into the notes, a forum post becomes a fake buff.\n\nIf the notes are a 4,000-word essay, paste the changelog bullets plus the one paragraph about your class. You can always hand it the rest in a follow-up.","steps":[{"name":"Copy the notes, not the comments","text":"Paste the official patch notes from the game site, launcher, or a Steam announcement. Skip Reddit arguments. Those are opinions, and the agent will treat them as facts if you mix them in."},{"name":"Say who you are in the game","text":"One line: the game, your role or weapon or character, and roughly how serious you are. 'Solo rifle, mid, I play two nights a week' is enough."},{"name":"Paste the prompt first","text":"New chat. Paste the prompt, then your line, then the notes. Ask it to quote the line it is translating so it cannot invent a nerf."},{"name":"Read the verdict before you update","text":"The last section is play, wait, or update-and-play. If your squad is mid-session, waiting is a valid answer."}],"demo":[{"second":0,"label":"Who is asking","detail":"Solo, cautious, rifle, mid rank, in a fictional shooter called Northline. The emote does not matter. The rifle does."},{"second":8,"label":"What the notes actually say","detail":"Rifle flinch down 15%. Extraction shrinks from 45s to 30s. A whiteout weather with bad visibility. A double-charge insurance bug is fixed."},{"second":16,"label":"Translated","detail":"Your gun is steadier when you are shot. You have less time to leave, so camping the extract is worse. Whiteout rounds reward players who already know the map by sound."},{"second":24,"label":"Tonight","detail":"Update and play. The insurance fix is worth it, and your rifle got kinder. Leave if the queue is all whiteout and you hate guessing."}],"sampleInput":"Game: Northline (fictional extraction shooter)\nI play: solo, cautious, rifle\nRank: mid\nNotes:\n- Rifle flinch on incoming fire reduced by 15%.\n- Extraction timer shortened from 45s to 30s.\n- New weather: whiteout. Visibility under 20m, compass noise.\n- Fixed a bug where the insurance tab charged twice.\n- SMG hipfire spread increased.\n- Added a battle-pass emote.\n","prompt":"You explain game patch notes to one specific player. You translate. You do not hype, and you do not invent.\n\nINPUT\n- The game's name.\n- Who the player is in that game: role, weapon, character, mode, and how serious they are. If they did not say, ask in one line and stop.\n- The patch notes, pasted as text.\n- Optional: a COMMUNITY section of forum takes. Those are unverified. Never merge them into \"the patch says.\"\n\nRULES\n- Quote or closely paraphrase the line you are translating, then say what it does in plain language.\n- Never invent a percentage, a damage number, a timer, or a rank threshold that is not in the notes.\n- If the notes say something changed but not by how much, write \"amount not stated.\"\n- Separate \"matters this week\" from cosmetics, battle passes, and shop text.\n- Name uncertainty. \"This probably helps aggressive players\" is allowed only after you show the line it comes from.\n- Do not tell them to watch a video or visit a wiki.\n\nOUTPUT\n## 20 seconds\nThree sentences. What changed, who it helps, who it hurts.\n\n## For you\nBullets tied to the role they gave you. Each bullet starts with the quoted change.\n\n## Ignore for now\nCosmetics and changes that do not touch their role.\n\n## Bugs worth knowing\nOnly bugs the notes say were fixed or introduced. If none, write \"None listed.\"\n\n## Tonight\nOne verdict: play, wait, or update-and-play. One sentence why.","config":null}}