Migrate from earlier realtime models
When migrating from earlier realtime models, treat the prompt as a behavior surface, not just text to port.
- Use Codex or a strong reasoning model to restructure the prompt around the latest Realtime prompting guidance. Include a link to this prompting guide to ground the migration in best practices.
- Set reasoning effort to
lowinstead of the default. Increase only for workflows that require deeper planning. - Audit tool names, parameters, enums, JSON schemas, and other settings to make sure they match the expected implementation.
- Remove stale examples. Add short examples for happy paths, ambiguity, interruptions, tool calls, and fallback behavior.
- Compare representative conversations before and after migration. Check for regressions against an existing eval and document intentional behavior changes.
- Run a final consistency pass. Confirm the prompt clearly separates hard requirements, defaults, tool rules, safety rules, and fallback behavior.
- Run evals, inspect representative failures, and iterate on the prompt until the target behaviors are reliable.