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Marius CiepluchandClaude Opus 5 b57b1a35d8 feat(learning-harness): thinking is a measured condition, and every round
records whether its decision beat noise

Two things the maintainer was right about.

Thinking was disabled so `temperature: 0` would not be silently ignored --
a trade that only pays if it buys determinism. Round zero says it did not:
11 of 20 injection pairs disagreed with themselves across five runs, so the
variance is in the agentic path, not the decoder. We paid the reasoning cost
on a reasoning model and got nothing. It is now `[learning] thinking`,
recorded in the artifact and part of its key so the two modes cannot be read
as one number. The default stays off only because that is what round zero
was measured under.

And the deeper point: the spec built `sign_test` and `reliable_change` and
the acceptance rule calls neither -- `decide` compares raw deltas. On a
detector with that floor a raw delta is mostly noise, and a rule that
brittle is exactly what makes a deterministic decoder look necessary. It is
not; the alternative is an acceptance rule that models the score as noisy,
the way reflective-evolution and Bayesian prompt optimizers do. Changing
Req 9.5 is a maintainer's call, so this does not change the decision: every
round now journals the two-sided sign test over the pairs that moved, and
after four rounds the journal will say whether any decision could be told
from a coin flip.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T7XD7x5KonMdmGRkp63EQG
2026-09-06 15:12:09 +02:00

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"""Every round says whether its decision was distinguishable from noise (learning-harness, Req 9.5).
The spec built `sign_test` and `reliable_change` and the acceptance rule never calls either: `decide` compares raw
deltas. On a detector where 11 of 20 pairs disagree with themselves between runs, a raw delta is mostly noise, and
a rule that brittle is exactly what makes someone reach for a deterministic decoder to prop it up.
Changing Req 9.5 is a maintainer's call, so this does not change the decision — it records, beside every decision,
the two-sided sign test over the pairs that actually changed. After a few rounds the journal says plainly whether
any of those decisions could be told from a coin flip.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
from openultrasast.learning.acceptance import reliability
def test_a_clean_sweep_of_the_minibatch_is_distinguishable_from_noise() -> None:
result = reliability(better=8, worse=0)
assert result.better == 8 and result.worse == 0
assert result.p_value < 0.05 and result.reliable is True
def test_two_pairs_moving_the_right_way_is_not() -> None:
"""n = 2 cannot reach p < 0.05 whatever it does, and a rule that treats it as evidence is measuring nothing."""
result = reliability(better=2, worse=0)
assert result.p_value == 0.5 and result.reliable is False
def test_a_round_that_changed_nothing_reports_no_evidence_rather_than_agreement() -> None:
result = reliability(better=0, worse=0)
assert result.p_value == 1.0 and result.reliable is False
def test_an_even_split_is_never_reliable_however_large() -> None:
assert reliability(better=20, worse=20).reliable is False
def test_the_round_journals_the_reliability_of_its_own_decision() -> None:
from openultrasast.learning.journal import RoundRecord
record = RoundRecord(
round=1,
family="injection",
hypothesis="h",
levers=("checklist",),
predicted_affected=(),
predicted_at_risk=(),
outcome="accepted",
train_better=8,
train_worse=0,
holdout_better=1,
holdout_worse=0,
)
payload = record.to_dict()
assert payload["train_reliable"] is True and payload["train_p_value"] < 0.05
assert payload["holdout_reliable"] is False, "one pair is not evidence, and the record says so"