fix(learning-harness): the round-3 review findings, remediated RED-first

Eight of nine group-3 tasks were rejected. Each defect was hiding a number,
and the numbers are why the loop was not learning:

- The fixed side was judged against the *vulnerable* side's function
  ranges. 191 of 227 pairs with a resolvable labeled span (84%) have
  different spans on the two sides, so a leak was recorded as silence,
  always in the direction that flatters Youden.
- Round zero measured every family with the generalist. `family:unknown`
  earns no credit against any real family, so every family but `unknown`
  baselined at a structural zero and every noise floor with it.
- The cross-family sweep counted absolute failures instead of negative
  flips. On a corpus where most pairs fail at round zero that rejects
  every round for damage it did not do. Unscorable rows voted too.
- K runs was declared and never threaded; `pairs --k-runs` was parsed and
  discarded, and its only test grepped `--help`.
- The meta-agent proposer was a stub, so `learning round` could never
  propose anything. It now composes MetaAgent.evolve against a scratch
  copy of the family directory, and `--proposals FILE` runs a recorded
  sequence offline.
- `refused_holdout` was a vocabulary word no code path could produce, and
  the covering test accepted either outcome.
- Cost was metered once, after everything had been paid for; a stage that
  raised left no record at all.
- The corrected lever number was published beside the earlier one rather
  than in place of it, and the test named for that property never checked.
- Refusals were `continue` statements: `Refusal.degradation()` existed and
  nothing called it. A train-split identical twin was reported as
  `split:train`, which is untrue.

Test repairs that each changed a number: two split tests measured an
`x = 1` fixture that teaches nothing whatever the rule says; two CLI
scoreboard tests asserted against all-zero output produced by a stub that
answers twice and puts its finding outside the labeled function.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T7XD7x5KonMdmGRkp63EQG
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Marius Ciepluch
2026-09-06 13:03:06 +02:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5
parent c2d9c4ad01
commit 1843ef9a02
23 changed files with 1431 additions and 159 deletions
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@@ -68,6 +68,9 @@ class BaselineReport:
slices: tuple[str, ...]
floors: dict[str, NoiseFloor] = field(default_factory=dict)
metrics: dict[str, dict[str, object]] = field(default_factory=dict)
# `<slice>/<family>`: the budgets stay per family, but vibe-py and agent-vfc are different worlds and one
# pooled number hides which of them moved (Req 8.4).
per_slice: dict[str, dict[str, object]] = field(default_factory=dict)
scores: tuple[PairFamilyScore, ...] = ()
cost_usd: float = 0.0
@@ -80,6 +83,7 @@ class BaselineReport:
"cost_usd": self.cost_usd,
"floors": {name: floor.to_dict() for name, floor in sorted(self.floors.items())},
"metrics": {name: dict(block) for name, block in sorted(self.metrics.items())},
"per_slice": {name: dict(block) for name, block in sorted(self.per_slice.items())},
}
@@ -88,7 +92,7 @@ def run_baseline(
*,
taxonomy: FamilyTaxonomy,
configs_dir: Path,
scan: Scan,
scan_factory: Callable[[FamilyConfig], Scan],
model: str,
out_dir: Path,
slices: Sequence[str] = DEFAULT_SLICES,
@@ -96,13 +100,29 @@ def run_baseline(
prompt: str | None = None,
spent_usd: Callable[[], float] | None = None,
) -> BaselineReport:
"""Clone one detector into every family, measure each family against itself, and write the artifacts."""
from ..tool_hunter import _SYSTEM_PROMPT
"""Clone one detector into every family, measure each family **with its own configuration**, write the artifacts.
The factory is the point. One shared `scan` would score every family with one detector, and since the generalist
tags its findings `family:unknown` — which earns no credit against any real family, by the taxonomy's own
decision that abstention is not a partial answer — every family but `unknown` would baseline at a structural
zero and the noise floors would all be nil (Req 8.2).
"""
from ..tool_hunter import _SYSTEM_PROMPT
from .detectors import load_family_configs
if k_runs < MIN_K_RUNS:
raise ValueError(f"round zero scores at least three runs per pair; {k_runs} was asked for")
if not configs_dir.exists():
write_default_configs(configs_dir, taxonomy, prompt=prompt or _SYSTEM_PROMPT, version="0")
configs = load_family_configs(configs_dir, taxonomy)
selected = [case for case in cases if case.slice in set(slices)]
scores = [score_case(case, scan, taxonomy=taxonomy, runs=k_runs) for case in selected]
scores = []
for case in selected:
name = _family_of(case, taxonomy)
config = configs.get(name)
if config is None:
continue # a family with no configuration is not measured rather than measured with someone else's
scores.append(score_case(case, scan_factory(config), taxonomy=taxonomy, runs=k_runs, family=name))
metrics = aggregate(scores, taxonomy=taxonomy)
floors = {name: _floor(name, block, [item for item in scores if item.family == name], k_runs) for name, block in metrics.items()}
report = BaselineReport(
@@ -112,6 +132,7 @@ def run_baseline(
slices=tuple(slices),
floors=floors,
metrics={name: block.to_dict() for name, block in metrics.items()},
per_slice={name: block.to_dict() for name, block in aggregate(scores, taxonomy=taxonomy, per_slice=True).items()},
scores=tuple(scores),
cost_usd=spent_usd() if spent_usd is not None else 0.0,
)
@@ -141,9 +162,12 @@ def score_case(case: PairCase, scan: Scan, *, taxonomy: FamilyTaxonomy, runs: in
vuln_root = _materialize_side(Path(scratch) / "vuln", case, side="vuln")
fix_root = _materialize_side(Path(scratch) / "fixed", case, side="fixed")
ranges = _overlay_scan(vuln_root).ranges
fixed_ranges = _overlay_scan(fix_root).ranges
vuln_runs = [scan(vuln_root) for _ in range(max(runs, 1))]
fix_runs = [scan(fix_root) for _ in range(max(runs, 1))]
return score_pair_family(case, name, vuln_runs, fix_runs, ranges=ranges, taxonomy=taxonomy, parse_ok=bool(ranges))
return score_pair_family(
case, name, vuln_runs, fix_runs, ranges=ranges, taxonomy=taxonomy, parse_ok=bool(ranges), fixed_ranges=fixed_ranges
)
def compare_baselines(out_dir: Path) -> dict[str, dict[str, dict[str, object]]]:
@@ -249,11 +273,10 @@ def run_learning_round(
real changes. The proposer never sees a held-out pair, and the family directory is snapshotted before
the change so any outcome other than acceptance leaves the tree exactly as it was found.
"""
from ..redaction import redact_secrets
from .acceptance import DirectorySnapshot, bump_version, decide, within_budget
from .detectors import load_family_configs
from .proposer import apply_proposal, build_failure_facts, refuse_proposal
from .split import is_teacher
from .split import is_teacher, refuse_if_holdout
if k_runs < MIN_K_RUNS:
raise ValueError(f"a stage scores at least three runs per pair; {k_runs} was asked for")
@@ -268,33 +291,73 @@ def run_learning_round(
train = [case for case in cases if is_teacher(case) and _family_of(case, taxonomy) == family]
holdout = [case for case in cases if case.split == "holdout" and _family_of(case, taxonomy) == family]
batch = train[:minibatch]
spent = 0.0
def _score(rows: Sequence[PairCase], scan: Scan, name: str) -> list[PairFamilyScore]:
return [score_case(case, scan, taxonomy=taxonomy, runs=k_runs, family=name) for case in rows]
def _over_cap() -> bool:
"""Req 9.8: cost is read after every stage, so a round stops rather than finishing and then complaining."""
nonlocal spent
spent = spent_usd() if spent_usd is not None else 0.0
return not within_budget(spent, cost_cap_usd)
before_scan = scan_factory(config)
before_train = _score(batch, before_scan, family)
before_hold = _score(holdout, before_scan, family)
record = _round_record(round_number, family, None, taxonomy, config)
if _over_cap():
return _finish(
journal, directory, record, outcome="reverted_cost", reason="cost_cap_exceeded", cost=spent, trajectories=trajectories
)
facts = build_failure_facts(before_train, family=family, config=config, journal=journal, train_pairs={case.name for case in train})
proposal = proposer.propose(facts) # type: ignore[attr-defined]
record = _round_record(round_number, family, proposal, taxonomy, config)
if proposal is None:
return _finish(journal, directory, record, outcome="rejected", reason="no_proposal", trajectories=trajectories)
return _finish(journal, directory, record, outcome="rejected", reason="no_proposal", cost=spent, trajectories=trajectories)
refusal = refuse_proposal(proposal, config)
if refusal is not None:
return _finish(journal, directory, record, outcome="rejected", reason=refusal, proposal=proposal, trajectories=trajectories)
return _finish(
journal, directory, record, outcome="rejected", reason=refusal, proposal=proposal, cost=spent, trajectories=trajectories
)
leak = refuse_if_holdout(_pairs_named_by(proposal, cases), cases)
if leak is not None:
# Req 5.2: a change a holdout pair taught, or that names one, is refused by name rather than measured.
return _finish(
journal,
directory,
record,
outcome="refused_holdout",
reason=leak.degradation()["detail"], # type: ignore[arg-type]
proposal=proposal,
cost=spent,
trajectories=trajectories,
)
# The sweep's "before" is measured with the unchanged configurations, so what it later reports is what this
# round flipped and not what was already failing (Req 9.5).
before_sweep = _sweep_scores(cases, taxonomy, configs, scan_factory, sweep_families, family, k_runs)
if _over_cap():
return _finish(
journal,
directory,
record,
outcome="reverted_cost",
reason="cost_cap_exceeded",
proposal=proposal,
cost=spent,
trajectories=trajectories,
)
snapshot = DirectorySnapshot.of(configs_dir / family)
apply_proposal(proposal, configs_dir / family)
version = str(int(config.version) + 1) if config.version.isdigit() else f"{config.version}+1"
try:
after_config = load_family_configs(configs_dir, taxonomy)[family]
after_scan = scan_factory(after_config)
after_train = _score(batch, after_scan, family)
after_hold = _score(holdout, after_scan, family)
sweep, flipped_unpredicted = _sweep(cases, taxonomy, configs, scan_factory, sweep_families, family, k_runs)
cost = spent_usd() if spent_usd is not None else 0.0
train_delta = _delta(before_train, after_train)
holdout_delta = _delta(before_hold, after_hold)
if not within_budget(cost, cost_cap_usd):
for score in after_train + after_hold:
archive.record(family, version, score) # type: ignore[attr-defined]
if _over_cap():
snapshot.restore()
return _finish(
journal,
@@ -303,17 +366,34 @@ def run_learning_round(
outcome="reverted_cost",
reason="cost_cap_exceeded",
proposal=proposal,
cost=cost,
cost=spent,
scores=after_train + after_hold,
trajectories=trajectories,
)
verdict = decide(target=family, train_delta=train_delta, holdout_delta=holdout_delta, sweep=sweep, floors=floors) # type: ignore[arg-type]
after_sweep = _sweep_scores(cases, taxonomy, configs, scan_factory, sweep_families, family, k_runs)
sweep, flipped_unpredicted = _negative_flips(before_sweep, after_sweep)
train_delta = _delta(before_train, after_train)
holdout_delta = _delta(before_hold, after_hold)
flipped = _flipped(before_train + before_hold, after_train + after_hold)
attribution = Attribution(
flipped_predicted=len(flipped),
flipped_unpredicted=len(flipped_unpredicted),
precision=len(flipped) / (len(flipped) + len(flipped_unpredicted)) if flipped or flipped_unpredicted else 0.0,
)
if _over_cap():
snapshot.restore()
return _finish(
journal,
directory,
record,
outcome="reverted_cost",
reason="cost_cap_exceeded",
proposal=proposal,
cost=spent,
scores=after_train + after_hold,
trajectories=trajectories,
)
verdict = decide(target=family, train_delta=train_delta, holdout_delta=holdout_delta, sweep=sweep, floors=floors) # type: ignore[arg-type]
if not verdict.accepted:
snapshot.restore()
return _finish(
@@ -323,7 +403,7 @@ def run_learning_round(
outcome="rejected",
reason=verdict.reason,
proposal=proposal,
cost=cost,
cost=spent,
train_delta=train_delta,
holdout_delta=holdout_delta,
sweep=sweep,
@@ -333,10 +413,7 @@ def run_learning_round(
scores=after_train + after_hold,
trajectories=trajectories,
)
version = str(int(config.version) + 1) if config.version.isdigit() else f"{config.version}+1"
bump_version(configs_dir / family, version)
for score in after_train + after_hold:
archive.record(family, version, score) # type: ignore[attr-defined]
return _finish(
journal,
directory,
@@ -344,7 +421,7 @@ def run_learning_round(
outcome="accepted",
reason=verdict.reason,
proposal=proposal,
cost=cost,
cost=spent,
train_delta=train_delta,
holdout_delta=holdout_delta,
sweep=sweep,
@@ -356,13 +433,37 @@ def run_learning_round(
trajectories=trajectories,
)
except Exception:
# A stage that raises has already spent money and already changed the tree. Both facts belong in the
# journal before the exception leaves, or the next round starts from a state nothing describes.
snapshot.restore()
_finish(
journal,
directory,
record,
outcome="reverted",
reason="stage_failed",
proposal=proposal,
cost=spent,
trajectories=trajectories,
)
raise
finally:
del redact_secrets
def _sweep(
def _pairs_named_by(proposal: Proposal, cases: Sequence[PairCase]) -> tuple[str, ...]:
"""Every corpus pair this proposal names, in its predictions or in the file it writes.
A memory entry that quotes a held-out pair is the loop learning the answer instead of the shape, and it looks
exactly like a legitimate hard negative until the holdout number is read as if it meant something."""
haystack = "\n".join([*proposal.predicted_affected, *proposal.predicted_at_risk, *proposal.change.values()])
named = []
for case in cases:
name = str(getattr(case, "name", ""))
if name and re.search(rf"(?<![\w-]){re.escape(name)}(?![\w-])", haystack):
named.append(name)
return tuple(sorted(set(named)))
def _sweep_scores(
cases: Sequence[PairCase],
taxonomy: FamilyTaxonomy,
configs: Mapping[str, FamilyConfig],
@@ -370,23 +471,34 @@ def _sweep(
families: Sequence[str],
target: str,
k_runs: int,
) -> tuple[dict[str, int], list[str]]:
"""Every other family's held-out pairs, so a change cannot help one family by quietly breaking another."""
flips: dict[str, int] = {}
unpredicted: list[str] = []
) -> dict[str, dict[str, str]]:
"""Every other family's held-out pairs, family by family, as `{family: {pair: outcome}}`.
Called once before the change and once after it. Scoring both sides is the only way to say which pairs *this*
round broke: on a real corpus most pairs are failing already, and counting failures would reject every round
for damage it did not do (Req 9.5). Unscorable rows are dropped here rather than counted as failures (Req 4.1).
"""
outcomes: dict[str, dict[str, str]] = {}
for name in families:
if name == target or name not in configs:
continue
rows = [case for case in cases if case.split == "holdout" and _family_of(case, taxonomy) == name]
scan = scan_factory(configs[name])
broken = [
item
for item in (score_case(case, scan, taxonomy=taxonomy, runs=k_runs, family=name) for case in rows)
if item.outcome != "pair_correct"
]
flips[name] = len(broken)
unpredicted.extend(item.pair for item in broken)
return flips, unpredicted
scored = [score_case(case, scan, taxonomy=taxonomy, runs=k_runs, family=name) for case in rows]
outcomes[name] = {item.pair: item.outcome for item in scored if item.outcome != "unscorable"}
return outcomes
def _negative_flips(before: Mapping[str, Mapping[str, str]], after: Mapping[str, Mapping[str, str]]) -> tuple[dict[str, int], list[str]]:
"""Pairs that were right before this round and are not right after it, per family and by name."""
flips: dict[str, int] = {}
broken: list[str] = []
for name, was in before.items():
now = after.get(name, {})
lost = sorted(pair for pair, outcome in was.items() if outcome == "pair_correct" and now.get(pair) != "pair_correct")
flips[name] = len(lost)
broken.extend(lost)
return flips, broken
def _delta(before: Sequence[PairFamilyScore], after: Sequence[PairFamilyScore]) -> float:
@@ -400,8 +512,9 @@ def _delta(before: Sequence[PairFamilyScore], after: Sequence[PairFamilyScore])
def _flipped(before: Sequence[PairFamilyScore], after: Sequence[PairFamilyScore]) -> list[str]:
"""Pairs this round turned right, by name and in a stable order."""
was = {item.pair: item.outcome for item in before}
return [item.pair for item in after if item.outcome == "pair_correct" and was.get(item.pair) not in {"pair_correct", None}]
return sorted(item.pair for item in after if item.outcome == "pair_correct" and was.get(item.pair) not in {"pair_correct", None})
def _round_record(