Modify Caretaker behaviour

Is it possible to modify caretaker priorities?
Right now they seem to work in the following order priority:
Repair, reclaim, assist
I would like to modify them to:
Repair,, assist, reclaim

Obviously any manual orders should be on top of the list.
If there is currently no such option, it would be nice if you'd implement that, I would offer to code it myself if necessary.
Also, I don't really see why this is the standard behaviour in the first place. If I build a caretaker near my base, it's because I need buildpower, not income.

Caretakers are on patrol, I think that's all there is to the AI. So caretakers will get 'stuck' in a task, by looking for the closest thing act upon and acting upon it until it is done, rinse and repeat.

A caretaker built near a factory given no orders from me isn't 'assisting' the factory, it's 'patroling.' Factorys have a small gap in time after building a unit before placing a nanoframe for the next unit. So if there is a large reclaim field by your fac, or a group of low HP heavies nearby, and you are building cheep raiders from your factory, your army of caretakers will spend 65 metal on a glaive, then start reclaiming wrecks in that tiny gap of time, and they will not stop reclaiming the chosen wreck until it is drained dry. If a commander died near your factory, this is painfully noticeable, as there's like a 400m wreck shard, as well as multiple raider/module components, and if you're building <75m units your caretakers have a chance to start excising some of that reclaim without player input, which is unfortunate because the general approach to caretakers is automated/no player input increase to factory buildpower.

Some people have made caretaker automation widgets, but I don't know anything about them. And a poorly written widget may act in a way you would not intend, because of bugs or oversight issues, but if they've written a widget it's probably sensible.

Manored sure, but if you have reclaim fields next to your factory, something has gone wrong anyway. And when you build caretakers to reclaim, most of the time you don't have a production facility nearby.

The other way round is much more problematic. I'm talking about you building a caretaker for buildpower and it starts reclaiming some rocks nearby, right into the void due to excess.

It's possible to make a widget that modifies Caretaker behaviour. No sufficiently-controllable widget has emerged. Also, there might be obscure state/key combinations hidden in the engine for what you want.

GoogleFrog: I have just found out that there is, but its kind of a pain.

I haven't tested it, but theoretically disabling auto-assist could be achieved by turning on repeat, giving the nano an area reclaim command the size of its range, and then giving the nano an area repair command the size of its range while holding ctrl. According to the wiki, holding ctrl while giving an area repair order will disable building assist and make the unit only repair.

So the nano would continuously reclaim everything within its range and then repair everything within its range without assisting anything, and then repeat.

That works if you want the nano to only repair, but if you want it to alternate between repair and reclaim, I think a command like that would make the nano be stuck forever trying to repair things that are outside of its range. I'm not sure though, would have to test.