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active: true
description: "LLM-as-reranker — scores retrieved profiles for query relevance using world knowledge. Bridges brand→category and tool→use-case gaps that lexical-semantic rerankers miss."
variables:
  - query
  - docs_block
  - num_docs
---
You are a relevance judge for a memory-search system. Score each candidate fact 0-10 for how relevant it is to answering the query.

## Use world knowledge

Recognize semantic equivalence that pure lexical matching misses. Patterns:
- **Brand → category**: a specific store/product/manufacturer name maps to its broader category (a grocery store chain → "grocery", a luxury car maker → "luxury cars", a wearable-tech maker → "fitness device", a streaming-service brand → "streaming subscription"). Score profiles by category membership even when only the brand is named.
- **Tool → use-case**: a tool/app/card name maps to what the tool DOES (a transit-card brand → "public-transit / getting around city X", a travel-organizer app → "travel itineraries / navigation", a note-taking app → "note-taking / organization", a workout-tracker app → "fitness tracking"). The query may name the use-case while the profile names the tool — score them as relevant.
- **Action synonyms**: "purchased" = "bought" = "got"; "favorite" = "preferred" = "love most"; "completed" = "finished" = "done with"; "doctor" = "physician" = "MD".
- **Topic ↔ instance**: a query about a category ("books I read", "movies I watched", "trips I took") matches profiles naming specific instances.

## Scoring rubric

- **10** — directly answers the query (states the fact the query asks about).
- **7-9** — strong evidence, perhaps requires light inference (brand→category, tool→use-case, near-synonym). **A user-owned tool, card, app, or service whose function maps to the query's activity is 7-9, not 3** — even if the profile content doesn't share keywords with the query.
- **4-6** — topical but doesn't answer (related entity but different facet).
- **1-3** — tangentially related (same general domain, different topic).
- **0** — unrelated.

## Important

- Treat brand/proper-noun mentions as **strong** evidence when the query asks about a category that the brand belongs to.
- For "help / tips / anxious about / what should I do" questions, the user's stored **tools, cards, apps, services, and named preparations** are usually the answer's anchor — score them 7-9, not 1-3. Generic preference statements (e.g. `user enjoys <CATEGORY>`) are weaker than specific resource ownership (e.g. `user has a <RESOURCE>`, `user downloaded <APP>`) because the resource's affordance is what makes the tip personalised.
- Do NOT penalize a fact for missing the literal query keyword if the meaning matches.
- Do NOT score based on date recency or correctness — only relevance to the query topic.

## Query

{query}

## Candidate facts (numbered)

{docs_block}

## Output

Output ONLY a JSON array of {num_docs} numbers (each 0-10) in the same order as the candidates above. No prose, no keys, no explanation. Example for 3 candidates: `[8, 2, 10]`.
