Three Phase 2 additions land in this commit:
1. matrix.SearchRequest gains ExcludeIDs ([]string) — filters specific
worker IDs out of results post-retrieval, AND skips them at the
playbook boost+inject step (so excluded answers can't sneak back
via Shape B). Real-world driver: coordinator placed N workers,
client asks for replacements, system needs alternatives, not the
same N. Threaded through retrieve.go after merge but before
metadata filter so excluded IDs don't waste post-filter top-K slots.
2. New harness phase 2b: 200-worker swap simulation. Captures the
top-K from alpha's warehouse query, then re-issues with
exclude_ids=<placed>. Result Jaccard(orig, swap) measures whether
the substrate finds genuine alternatives.
3. New harness phase 1b: fresh-resume mid-run injection. Three new
workers ingested via /v1/embed + /v1/vectors/index/workers/add,
then verified findable via semantic queries matching resume content.
Plus Hour labels on every event (operational narrative: 0/6/12/18/
24/30/36/42/48) and a refactor of captureEvent to take hour as a
param.
Run #003 + #004 results (5K workers + 10K ethereal):
Diversity (#004):
Same-role-across-contracts Jaccard = 0.080 (n=9)
Different-roles-same-contract Jaccard = 0.013 (n=18)
Determinism: 1.000 (#004 unchanged)
Verbatim handover: 4/4 = 100%
Paraphrase handover: 4/4 = 100%
Phase 2b — 200-worker swap (Jaccard 0.000):
8 originally-placed workers fully replaced by 8 alternatives.
ExcludeIDs substrate change works end-to-end — boost AND inject
both honor the exclusion, so excluded workers don't return via
the playbook either.
Phase 1b — fresh-resume injection: REAL PRODUCT FINDING.
Substrate ABSORPTION is fine — 3 /v1/vectors/index/workers/add
calls at 200 status, 3 vectors persisted. But none of the 3
fresh workers surfaced in top-8 even with semantic queries
matching their resume content (e.g. "Senior tower crane rigger
NCCCO Chicago" vs fresh-001's resume "Senior rigger with 12
years tower-crane signaling..." NCCCO + Chicago).
Top-1 came from existing workers at distance ~0.25; fresh
workers' distances must be > 0.25, pushing them past rank 8.
Cause: dense retrieval at 5000+ workers means many existing
profiles cluster near any specific query in cosine space;
nomic-embed-text-v2 (137M) introduces enough noise that a
fresh worker doesn't reliably outrank them just because the
text content overlaps.
Workarounds (Phase 3 work): (a) hybrid retrieval (keyword +
semantic), (b) playbook-layer score boost for fresh adds,
(c) larger embedder. Documented in run #004 report.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Phase 1 had two known gaps: (1) the 3 contracts had zero shared role
names, so same-role-across-contracts Jaccard was vacuous (n=0); (2)
the verbatim handover at 100% was the trivial case, not the hard
learning test (paraphrased queries against another coord's playbook).
Both fixed in this commit.
Contract redesign — all 3 contracts now share warehouse worker /
admin assistant / heavy equipment operator roles, plus a unique
specialist per contract (industrial electrician / bilingual safety
coord / drone surveyor — the "specialist not on the standard roster"
case from J's spec). Counts and skill mixes vary per region.
New driver phase 4b — paraphrase handover. Bob runs qwen2.5-paraphrased
versions of Alice's contract queries against Alice's playbook
namespace. Tests whether institutional memory propagates across
coordinators AND across natural wording variation that Bob would
introduce when running Alice's contract.
Run #002 result (5K workers + 10K ethereal_workers, 4 demand × 3
coords + paraphrase handover):
Diversity (the question J asked: locking or cycling?):
Same-role-across-contracts Jaccard = 0.119 (n=9)
→ 88% of workers DIFFER across regions for the same role name.
Milwaukee warehouse vs Indianapolis warehouse vs Chicago
warehouse pull mostly distinct top-K from the same population.
The system locks into geo+cert+skill context, not cycling.
Different-roles-same-contract Jaccard = 0.004 (n=18)
→ role-specific retrieval works (unchanged from Phase 1).
Determinism: Jaccard = 1.000 (n=12) — unchanged.
Learning:
Verbatim handover 4/4 = 100% (trivial case, expected)
Paraphrase handover 4/4 = 100% (HARD case — passes!)
Of those 4 paraphrase recoveries:
- 2 used boost (Alice's recording was already in Bob's
paraphrase top-K; ApplyPlaybookBoost re-ranked to top-1)
- 2 used Shape B inject (recording wasn't in Bob's
paraphrase top-K; InjectPlaybookMisses brought it in)
The boost/inject mix is healthy — both paths are used and both
produce correct top-1s. Multi-coord institutional memory propagation
is empirically working under wording variation.
Sample warehouse worker top-1s across contracts (proves diversity):
alice / Milwaukee → w-713
bob / Indianapolis → e-8447
carol / Chicago → e-7145
Three different workers from the same 15K-person population,
selected on geo+cert+skill context.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three coordinators (alice / bob / carol) with three contracts
(Milwaukee distribution / Indianapolis manufacturing / Chicago
construction). 7-phase scenario runner: baseline → surge → merge →
handover → split → reissue → analysis. Each coord has a separate
playbook namespace (playbook_{name}) so institutional memory stays
isolated by default but transferable on demand.
Phase 1 deliberately skips the 48-hour clock, email/SMS endpoints,
and Langfuse tracing — those are Phase 2/3.
Run #001 (52 events, 4 queries × 3 coords × 2 demand flavors):
Diversity:
Different-roles-same-contract Jaccard = 0.004 (n=18)
→ role-specific retrieval is working perfectly. Different
roles within one contract pull totally different worker
pools. System is NOT cycling; locks into per-role retrieval.
Same-role-across-contracts Jaccard = N/A (n=0)
→ TEST-DESIGN ISSUE: the 3 contracts use distinct role names
per industry (warehouse worker / production worker / general
laborer), so no exact-name overlaps exist. Phase 2 should
either share at least one role across contracts OR add a
skill-based diversity metric.
Determinism: Jaccard = 1.000 (n=12)
→ HNSW + Ollama retrieval is fully deterministic on identical
query text. coder/hnsw + nomic-embed-text are stable.
Learning: handover hit rate = 4/4 = 100%
→ Bob inherits Alice's recordings perfectly when bob runs
identical queries with alice's playbook namespace. CAVEAT:
this tests the trivial verbatim case, not paraphrase handover.
The harder test (bob runs paraphrased queries with alice's
playbook) is Phase 2 work.
Per-event capture in JSON: every matrix.search response is logged
with phase / coordinator / contract / role / query / top-K IDs +
distances + per-corpus counts + boosted/injected counts. Reviewable
via:
jq '.events[] | select(.phase == "merge")'
jq '.events[] | select(.coordinator == "alice")'
jq '.events[] | select(.role == "warehouse worker")'
Notable finding from per-event: carol's "general laborer" and "crane
operator" queries both surface w-1009 as top-1, with crane operator
at distance 0.098 (very tight) and general laborer at 0.297. The
system found a worker who legitimately covers both roles — realistic
for small construction crews.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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