The 2026-04-19 Hermes Agent Use Cases run had a Nate Herk YouTube video
titled "I Tested Claude's New Managed Agents" score 51 and rank #2
with zero Hermes content. The reranker had intent-specific scoring hints
but no entity-grounding check, so topic-vicinity matches (one offhand
OpenClaw mention) drifted to the top.
Add _primary_entity(topic) that strips intent-modifier suffixes ("use
cases", "workflows", etc.) so "Hermes Agent use cases" yields
primary_entity="Hermes Agent". Pass the entity through to both the LLM
and fallback scoring paths.
Fallback path: if primary_entity is not found (case-insensitive) in
title + snippet, subtract ENTITY_MISS_PENALTY (25 pts). Skip the
demotion for candidates with no text at all (image-only TikToks etc.)
to avoid false negatives on thin-text sources.
LLM path: add a "Primary entity grounding" hint to _build_prompt when
primary_entity is non-empty. Instructs the LLM to score candidates
without the entity at <=30.
Tests: 24 rerank tests pass, including 8 new entity-grounding tests.
Most users never touch FUN_LEVEL. Default medium was shipping a stats
block but rarely a Best Takes block, and when it did it was below the
cluster fold where a synthesizing model had already stopped reading.
A 2,304-upvote Reddit comment ("WHAT?! I reached my monthly limit
just reading this post") on the 2026-04-17 Opus 4.7 run sat inside
cluster 11 and never made it into synthesis. Four coordinated changes:
1. render: promote Best Takes above the cluster list so the synthesizer
sees comedy before it anchors on cluster 1.
2. render: lower medium threshold from 70 to 55 (heuristic maxes at 80),
drop the two-gem floor to one-gem. Default now reliably emits the
block on typical runs.
3. rerank: score individual top_comments by upvote ratio to their parent
thread. A 2,304-upvote comment on a 300-upvote thread now outranks a
400-upvote comment on a 3,400-upvote thread, which is the viral-wit
signal. Handles both the LLM scoring path and the heuristic fallback.
4. render: merge scored comment gems into Best Takes alongside candidate
gems, sorted together. Comment lines show body + parent title +
r/subreddit or @handle + absolute upvotes.
5. SKILL: tell the synthesizer to quote at least two Best Takes entries
verbatim, with an example of the new comment format.
Plan: docs/plans/2026-04-17-001-feat-default-fun-surfacing-plan.md
🤖 Generated with Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) via [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) + Compound Engineering v2.56.1
Co-authored-by: Matt Van Horn <455140+mvanhorn@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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