Hi Folks. Today I'm dropping a new major release of my Directives preset for SillyTavern and GLM.

GitHub - Download Here

The goals for this release were ambitious but have helped align the preset's goals (now framed as a theatrical experience) - a new CoT from the ground up to support stage-style-planning and ensure all directives are included and in the correct order, plus an incredibly detailed tracking system.

For more on those exact changes please see below. The new CoT, written with RISEN Framework and combined with 'Brain Power' means you are always a toggle away from quick replies (vibes only) to hugely detailed multi-draft (Overthinking - for the perfectionists/those who don't mind waiting 3 minutes for reasoning :D). The CoT dynamically adjusts in complexity and effort, this is not just a 'please think less!' prompt.

Side note on Behind the Scenes - taking inspiration from varied styles (the SIMS style moodlets, RPG stats, world state tracking etc) it's big because so is the scope - it's meant to cover everything, and is both the single biggest addition I've made to the preset EVER and also the single largest directive contained within. Each of the modules can be toggled off, or the whole thing. Regex to strip out deltas after the last 3 turns are included and on by default, checkpoints stay primarily because I can't think of a good way to manage them yet ( will potentially break caching models like claude and glm)

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As always.. would love some feedback, screenshots and requests either here or on the discord (link), cheers

Stab's Directives v3.0.0

🎬 Behind the Scenes (BTS)

Persistent world-state tracking appended to every response. Tracks health, mood, inventory, relationships, plot threads, and off-screen character activity. Only changes are reported each turn (~100 chars), with full checkpoints every ~10 turns. Adapts what it tracks to the genre. 8 toggleable categories in prompt management — disable any you don't need. Toggle Visible Output to see blocks in <details> tags. Replaces the old NPC Tracker.

🤔 Chain-of-Thought 3.0

Complete rewrite with theatrical phases: Script Analysis → Table Read → Blocking → Rehearsal → Dress Rehearsal → Curtain. Every enabled directive is now explicitly named at the point where the model acts on it. Story Strings generate after tone/genre classification. BTS runs as a coherent thread through the whole process.

Other changes

• Brain Power default: Now Balanced (Med). Switch to Overthinking for full depth.
• Override slots: Main Prompt and Jailbreak now accept character card overrides. New Jailbreak (PRESET) toggle available separately.
• Temperature: 1.0 → 0.85.
• 2 new regex scripts strip old BTS deltas from context. |Stabs-GLM5.1-Directives-v3.0.0.json |

Hi folks, me again with another update. Main reason for posting this is that I know a lot of people are currently enjoying DeepSeekV4 Pro (myself included), but the prior version didn't work well. I've now dialed in DS4's behaviour, back ported the changes to the GLM preset and made it available today. DS4 users should see a notable improvement in reasoning and output consistency when the 'brain power' is set to 'overthinking' (brand new sentence!). Do not enable the jailbreak for DeepSeek - it has problems currently.

File: Stabs-GLM5.1-Directives-v2.62.json

GitHub: https://github.com/Zorgonatis/Stabs-EDH

Otherwise, as below, the updates largely revolve around user experience and UX but has the benefit of resulting in more specific instructions and less token waste where the model tries to understand the request.

As always - feedback, suggestions, requests.. all welcome. Cheers!

Stab's Directives v2.6.2 — Release Notes

The big one: Perspective is now decomposed into toggleable options. Instead of editing a SETTINGS variable to pick "3rd Limited" or "1st Person", perspective is now four independent toggle groups in prompt management:

• Narrative Voice — First (I/Me) / Second (You) / Third (They)
• Scope — Limited (one mind) / Omniscient (all minds)
• Your Lens — how the user character is portrayed (I act / You act / They act)
• Tense — Past / Present / Future Pick one from each. The Narrative Perspective directive dynamically assembles them into a single instruction. This gives you combinations that weren't possible before — e.g. Third Person narration with the user addressed in First Person, written in Past Tense, with Omniscient scope. Default: Third Person + Omniscient + You act + Past Tense.

Brain Power replaces the old Reasoning Effort slider. Same concept, better UX. Three toggle prompts instead of editing a SETTINGS value:

• Vibes Only — minimal planning, fast responses
• Balanced (default) — medium effort, drafting avoided
• Overthinking — full CoT with multi-option iteration, NPC method-acting, self-correction The API body also now sends reasoning_effort: "max" natively, so the model always has maximum reasoning budget available — the Brain Power toggle controls how many internal steps the model takes, not the raw capacity.

Other changes:

• Task Steering CoT rework — the AI now gets a hard "stop and abandon presumed next steps" instruction at the top of every turn, designed to work better with DeepSeek V4 Pro's thinking behaviour
• Story Strings simplified — predictions are now generated internally only, no more HTML comments cluttering the context
• OOC Priority now explicitly discards the current plan on trigger
• Unreliable Narrator — hidden info no longer needs to translate to actionable outcomes (the user may never know)
• Bugfix: User Impersonation variable name corrected for consistency
• SETTINGS now only handles genre, tone, and output length — perspective and reasoning are both toggle-based Install: Import the v2.6.2 preset as usual. The perspective toggles are positioned directly below SETTINGS in prompt management — enable one from each sub-category. Previous chat sessions will continue to work but will use the new toggle system on next response.