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+/**
+ * Turning results into the text the model reads.
+ *
+ * Twenty results with 600-character snippets is roughly 15KB, comfortably under
+ * pi's 50KB / 2000-line budget — but the truncation is applied anyway rather
+ * than argued about, because a pathological page could blow past it and an
+ * overflowing tool result costs the whole session, not just this call.
+ */
+
+import type { SearchResult } from "./extract.ts";
+
+export type FormatInput = {
+  query: string;
+  searchUrl: string;
+  finalUrl: string;
+  endpoint: string;
+  results: SearchResult[];
+};
+
+export const formatResults = (input: FormatInput): string => {
+  const lines: string[] = [
+    `Search results for "${input.query}" (${input.results.length} hits, via Chrome at ${input.endpoint})`,
+    `Query URL: ${input.searchUrl}`,
+  ];
+  if (input.finalUrl !== input.searchUrl) lines.push(`Landed on: ${input.finalUrl}`);
+  lines.push("");
+
+  input.results.forEach((result, index) => {
+    lines.push(`${index + 1}. ${result.title}`);
+    lines.push(`   ${result.url}`);
+    if (result.snippet) lines.push(`   ${result.snippet}`);
+    lines.push("");
+  });
+
+  return lines.join("\n").trimEnd();
+};
+
+/**
+ * The note appended when pi's truncation utilities cut the output. Says what was
+ * lost and what to do about it — a bare "[truncated]" tells the model nothing it
+ * can act on, and there is no temp file to point at because the full text only
+ * ever existed in memory.
+ */
+export const truncationNote = (shown: number, total: number, bytesShown: string, bytesTotal: string): string =>
+  `\n\n[Output truncated: ${shown} of ${total} lines (${bytesShown} of ${bytesTotal}). ` +
+  `Re-run castle_cdp_search with a smaller numResults to see the rest.]`;