fix(agent-improvement): give a companion floor a third disposition so bounded evidence is not discarded - #103
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… bounded evidence is not discarded Verify's verdict map recognised only "held" and "regressed". Evidence that was gathered but bounded — the normal shape of a fleet-wide safety or coordination floor — matched neither, so both deployed Improver instances recorded it as unknown, and an unknown floor can never satisfy "every declared companion floor held". Hypotheses declaring such a floor were therefore unscoreable in principle: H57 was re-scored NO-VERDICT on this same blocker across three dispatches spanning eight days, and H64 received two different dispositions on one evidence window depending on which lane scored it. Name the three dispositions and state that no regression within a stated coverage is HELD, not UNMEASURED, so evidence that was actually gathered stops being filed as an absence of evidence. Bound UNMEASURED as well: a floor still unmeasured across three consecutive eligible dispatches becomes tracked work rather than parking the hypothesis again. This is a sharpening, not a loosening. The REGRESSED branch is untouched, so nothing here lets a hypothesis close over an observed regression. The existing deployment-liveness conjuncts are unchanged and still discriminate on a real-skill ablation. Fixes #102 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe Verify section defines HELD, REGRESSED, and UNMEASURED companion-floor dispositions. HELD requires stated coverage, while UNMEASURED requires no admissible evidence. Three consecutive eligible UNMEASURED dispatches become tracked measurement-gap work. The contract test validates these rules, tests each conjunct through ablation, and rejects contradictory wording. Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The disposition behavior is present, but its contract test can accept an unrelated three-dispatch tracking rule. The binding and isolating ablation should be strengthened before merge so persistent unmeasured floors reliably become tracked work. Important Pre-merge checks failedPlease resolve all errors before merging. Addressing warnings is optional. ❌ Failed checks (1 error)
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In `@scripts/agent-improvement-contract.test.sh`:
- Line 84: Strengthen the contract assertions in the relevant test cases so the
flattened output must contain the named REGRESSED disposition and explicitly
require tracked work to follow three consecutive eligible UNMEASURED dispatches,
rather than merely matching unrelated phrases. Add corresponding ablation cases
that independently remove or alter each requirement and verify the contract
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…erminator The contract pinned the disposition COUNT but not the adverse LABEL, so renaming REGRESSED to anything else still passed. It also checked the three-dispatch measurement gap and "becomes tracked work" as two unrelated phrases, so the remedy could be satisfied by any unrelated sentence. Bind both: a clause tying "evidence showing a regression" to REGRESSED, and one clause linking the gap to the tracked work that must follow it. Add a matching isolating ablation for the label. The two pre-existing UNMEASURED ablations both still fail closed against the merged conjunct, proving neither requirement was lost in the merge. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@scripts/agent-improvement-contract.test.sh`:
- Line 99: Update the assertion in the Verify-section checks to require that the
three consecutive eligible dispatches are UNMEASURED for the same hypothesis
before the measurement gap becomes tracked work. Add an ablation that removes
this UNMEASURED/same-hypothesis binding and confirms the contract fails closed.
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85-87: LGTM!Also applies to: 330-330
…rminate The Verify-section assertion matched from "three consecutive eligible dispatches" onward, so it never required those dispatches to be UNMEASURED for the same hypothesis. A rewrite keeping the separate UNMEASURED definition and adding an unrelated three-dispatch sentence satisfied the clause while the rule it exists to pin — that an UNMEASURED floor must terminate — was gone. Proven rather than argued: with the old assertion, a SKILL.md whose "A floor recorded UNMEASURED for the same hypothesis" became "A floor recorded for the same hypothesis" still PASSED. With the binding it FAILS, and so does dropping the same-hypothesis scoping. Both directions are now cmp-guarded ablations in the existing harness, so the conjuncts cannot silently stop discriminating. Full suite: 174 checks, 0 failures. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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🧩 Analysis chain🏁 Script executed: #!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail
git diff --unified=80 HEAD^ HEAD -- agent-improvement/SKILL.md scripts/agent-improvement-contract.test.sh
printf '\n--- Script outline ---\n'
ast-grep outline scripts/agent-improvement-contract.test.sh --items all --type function
printf '\n--- Verify section ---\n'
start=$(rg -n '^## 5\. Verify$' agent-improvement/SKILL.md | cut -d: -f1)
end=$(rg -n '^## [0-9]+\. ' agent-improvement/SKILL.md | awk -F: -v start="$start" '$1 > start { print $1; exit }')
if [ -n "${start:-}" ]; then
sed -n "${start},${end:-\$}p" agent-improvement/SKILL.md
fi
printf '\n--- New contract function and invocation context ---\n'
rg -n -C 12 'check_floor_disposition_contract|floor disposition|UNMEASURED|REGRESSED|HELD' scripts/agent-improvement-contract.test.shLength of output: 23404 🏁 Script executed: #!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail
printf '%s\n' '--- Recent commits and candidate base refs ---'
git --no-pager log --oneline --decorate -12
git branch -a --no-color
printf '%s\n' '--- Merge-base changed files ---'
base="$(git merge-base HEAD origin/main 2>/dev/null || git merge-base HEAD main)"
printf 'base=%s\n' "$base"
git diff --stat "$base"...HEAD
git diff --name-status "$base"...HEAD
printf '%s\n' '--- Candidate skill files and Verify headings ---'
fd -HI -t f 'SKILL\.md$' . | sort
rg -n '^## 5\. Verify\b|^## 6\.' -g 'SKILL.md' .
printf '%s\n' '--- Relevant source ranges ---'
skill="$(fd -HI -t f 'SKILL\.md$' . | xargs -r rg -l '^## 5\. Verify\b' | head -n 1)"
printf 'skill=%s\n' "${skill:-<not found>}"
if [ -n "${skill:-}" ]; then
sed -n '/^## 5\. Verify\b/,/^## 6\./p' "$skill"
fi
printf '%s\n' '--- Contract function and fixture loops ---'
rg -n -A90 -B5 '^check_floor_disposition_contract\(\)' scripts/agent-improvement-contract.test.sh
rg -n -A75 -B8 'One isolating ablation per floor-disposition' scripts/agent-improvement-contract.test.shLength of output: 20087 🏁 Script executed: #!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail
printf '%s\n' '--- Shell syntax ---'
bash -n scripts/agent-improvement-contract.test.sh
printf '%s\n' 'shell syntax: valid'
skill='agent-improvement/SKILL.md'
tmp="$(mktemp -d)"
trap 'rm -rf "$tmp"' EXIT
floor_contract() {
local file="$1" flat flat_lower section
section="$(LC_ALL=C awk '
/^## 5\. Verify/ { capture=1 }
capture && /^## 6\./ { exit }
capture { print }
' "$file")"
[ -n "$section" ] || return 1
flat="$(tr '\n' ' ' <<<"$section" | sed -E 's/[[:space:]]+/ /g; s/^ //; s/ $//')"
flat_lower="$(tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' <<<"$flat")"
grep -Eqi 'three dispositions' <<<"$flat" &&
grep -Eqi 'evidence showing a regression[^.]{0,60}regressed' <<<"$flat" &&
grep -Eqi 'no regression[^.]{0,60}within a stated coverage[^.]{0,40}held' <<<"$flat" &&
grep -Eqi 'bounded sample[^.]{0,240}never unmeasured' <<<"$flat" &&
grep -Eqi 'only the absence of admissible evidence is unmeasured' <<<"$flat" &&
grep -Eqi 'unscoreable in principle' <<<"$flat" &&
grep -Eqi 'state the coverage next to the disposition' <<<"$flat" &&
grep -Eqi 'unmeasured[^.]{0,120}same hypothesis[^.]{0,80}three consecutive eligible dispatches[^.]{0,80}measurement gap[^.]{0,100}becomes tracked work' <<<"$flat" &&
case "$flat_lower" in
*"a bounded sample is always unmeasured"*|*"an unbounded not-yet-due is acceptable"*|*"gathered evidence within a bounded coverage is unmeasured"*) return 1 ;;
*) return 0 ;;
esac
}
printf '%s\n' '--- Real-document contract ---'
floor_contract "$skill"
printf '%s\n' 'real document: passes'
printf '%s\n' '--- Added ablations ---'
while IFS='|' read -r label expr; do
[ -n "$label" ] || continue
candidate="$tmp/$label.md"
sed -E "$expr" "$skill" >"$candidate"
if cmp -s "$skill" "$candidate"; then
printf 'ablation %s: substitution did not apply\n' "$label" >&2
exit 1
fi
if floor_contract "$candidate"; then
printf 'ablation %s: unexpectedly passes\n' "$label" >&2
exit 1
fi
printf 'ablation %s: fails closed\n' "$label"
done <<'ABL'
unmeasured-binding|s/A floor recorded UNMEASURED for the same/A floor recorded for the same/
same-hypothesis-binding|s/UNMEASURED for the same/UNMEASURED for a different/
ABL
printf '%s\n' '--- Added contradiction fixtures ---'
while IFS='|' read -r label sentence; do
candidate="$tmp/$label.md"
awk -v s="$sentence" '/^## 6\./ && !ins {print " " s; print ""; ins=1} {print}' "$skill" >"$candidate"
if floor_contract "$candidate"; then
printf 'contradiction %s: unexpectedly passes\n' "$label" >&2
exit 1
fi
printf 'contradiction %s: fails closed\n' "$label"
done <<'CON'
always-unmeasured|A bounded sample is always UNMEASURED.
unbounded-ok|An unbounded NOT-YET-DUE is acceptable.
gathered-unknown|Gathered evidence within a bounded coverage is UNMEASURED.
CONLength of output: 3439
The Verify section implements the required three floor dispositions. It treats bounded no-regression evidence as The contract script has valid Bash syntax. The new positive checks and the independently verified ablation cases behave as intended. The review sandbox lacks
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Why
The Improver's own verification loop could not finish its job. When it checks whether a fix worked, it
also checks that nothing else got worse — a "floor". But it recognised only two answers: the floor held,
or it got worse. Real evidence has a third shape: we looked at a sample, and saw nothing get worse.
That third shape matched neither answer, so both running instances filed it as "unknown" — and an
unknown floor can never clear the bar for declaring a fix successful. Because fleet-wide safety and
coordination are always judged from a sample, any fix measured against them became impossible to
score, ever. One hypothesis sat unresolved on this exact blocker for eight days across three checks;
another got two different answers on the same evidence depending on which instance happened to look.
The step's own warning is the point: a fix whose result is never checked is indistinguishable from a fix
that did not work. A floor that can never resolve produces exactly that, while looking like diligence.
What
Says a floor has three answers, not two, and that "no regression across what we actually examined" counts
as held within that stated coverage — so evidence we did gather stops being thrown away as if we had
none. Also stops "unknown" being permanent: a floor still unmeasured after three checks becomes tracked
work instead of quietly parking the fix again.
This tightens rather than relaxes. Nothing here lets a fix pass over a regression we actually saw —
that path is untouched. The existing deployment-liveness rules are unchanged and proven still working.
Fixes #102