🏁 The bot has a job now
You turned a generic chatbot into EpicStore's shopping assistant — it refuses off-topic questions, knows the exact product the customer is looking at, and even reasons before it answers. System prompts,
forwardedProps, and reasoning are the three dials behind that, and you just learned all of them. 🎉Nice. Take a short break before the next one.
👨💼 Peter has notes
It finally sounds like one of our people! But it's stuck — it only knows the one product on the screen. A customer asked "got anything by Nike under $200?" and it couldn't answer, because it has no way to actually look anything up in our catalog.
Next section: we give the bot tools — real functions it can call to reach into the live catalog and do things it simply can't do with words alone.