[FEATURE]: System prompt mode switcher (Default/Light)

[kshnkvn]

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Describe the enhancement you want to request

Problem

The current system prompts are heavy and optimized for frontier models.
This causes issues with:

• Smaller local models hitting context limits
• Token waste for simple tasks
• Users who want minimal prompting for specific workflows
• Outdated instructions that don't match current model capabilities (some prompts unchanged for 7+ months)
• Conflicts between default prompts and user's AGENTS.md instructions
• Overspecification that degrades reasoning in high-capability models default system prompt materiallly freaks out / degrades reasoning of every high reasoning model #10927

Proposal

Add a system prompt mode setting with initial options:

• Default: current per-model prompts (anthropic.txt, gemini.txt, etc.) — no changes
• Light: minimal prompt with only essential info: tools, basic safety rules, environment

The current proposal covers several things at once:

• Non-breaking: Default behavior unchanged
• Extensible: Opens path for future custom mode where users provide their own prompt
• Addresses multiple issues without requiring prompt rewrites

Configuration

• Via settings menu (Ctrl+P → Settings)
• Via opencode.json:

{
   "prompt": {
     "mode": "light"
   }
 }

Related issues

• [FEATURE]: Allow custom system prompts in global, project or custom directories #7101
• default system prompt materiallly freaks out / degrades reasoning of every high reasoning model #10927
• Tool descriptions consume excessive tokens in system prompt #11995
• [FEATURE]: Unify provider system prompts #13605
• [FEATURE]: Evidence based refurbishment of openCode's System Prompt (Architecture) #14398

[m-nelly]

I'm running a local model with 32k context and it works really well for my use case; however, OpenCode's system prompt is consuming ~10% of that context window. If we could get a configuration option to replace the default system prompt with the agent/model prompt we specify, that would solve this and all of the other related issues.