The rank-based "lift" metric (warm-top-1 == cold-judge-best) doesn't
distinguish "Shape B surfaced a strictly-better answer" from "Shape B
shuffled ranks but quality is unchanged" from "Shape B replaced a good
answer with a wrong one." This commit adds Pass 4: judge warm top-1
with the same prompt as cold ratings, then bucket the comparison.
Implementation:
- New --with-rejudge driver flag (default off).
- New WITH_REJUDGE harness env (default 1, on for prod runs).
- queryRun gains WarmTop1Metadata (cached during Pass 2 for the
rejudge call) + WarmTop1Rating *int (nil-distinguishable; nil = no
rejudge, 0..5 = rating).
- summary gains RejudgeAttempted, QualityLifted, QualityNeutral,
QualityRegressed (counts of warm-rating > / == / < cold-rating).
- Markdown headline gains a Quality block when rejudge ran.
- ~21 extra judge calls (~30s on qwen2.5).
Run #005 result (split inject threshold 0.20 + paraphrase + rejudge):
Quality lifted 5 / 21 (24%) — 3× +2 rating, 2× +1 rating
Quality neutral 13 / 21 (62%) — includes OOD queries holding 1
Quality regressed 3 / 21 (14%)
Net rating delta +3 across 21 queries (+0.14 average)
The 5 lifts were all rating-2 cold replaced with rating-3 or rating-4
warm — Shape B took mediocre matches and substituted substantively
better ones. The 3 regressions were small (-1, -1, -3).
Q11 is the cautionary tale: cold top-1 "production line worker"
(rating 4) got replaced by Q1's recorded "forklift OSHA-30 operator"
e-5729 (rating 1). Adjacent-domain cross-pollination — production
worker and forklift operator embed within 0.20 cosine because both
are warehouse-adjacent staffing queries, even though the judge
correctly distinguishes them. The split-threshold defense (0.5 boost
/ 0.20 inject) catches OOD cross-pollination (Q19/Q20/Q21 all stayed
neutral at rating 1) but not adjacent-domain cross-pollination.
Net product verdict: working, net-positive on quality, but the worst
case (Q11 4→1) is customer-visible and warrants a tighter inject
threshold OR an additional gate beyond cosine distance. Filed in
STATE_OF_PLAY OPEN as a follow-up.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Run #003 surfaced rampant cross-pollination: Q2's "OSHA-30 forklift
Wisconsin" recording (w-4435) became warm top-1 for Q19 (dental
hygienist), Q20 (RN), Q21 (software engineer), and 6 other unrelated
staffing queries. Cause: InjectPlaybookMisses inherited the same
DefaultPlaybookMaxDistance (0.5) as the boost path, but inject is
structurally riskier than boost — boost only re-ranks results that
already retrieved on their own merits, while inject FORCES a result
into top-K, so a loose match cross-pollinates wrong-domain answers.
Empirical motivation from v3:
Implied playbook hit distances for cross-pollinated cases: 0.20-0.46
Implied distances for the 6/6 paraphrase recoveries: 0.23-0.30
Threshold of 0.20 should keep most paraphrases, kill the OOD bleed.
Implementation:
- New DefaultPlaybookMaxInjectDistance = 0.20 in playbook.go.
- New PlaybookMaxInjectDistance field on SearchRequest (override).
- InjectPlaybookMisses signature gains maxInjectDist param; hits whose
Distance exceeds it are skipped (boost path may still re-rank them).
- TestInjectPlaybookMisses_RespectsInjectThreshold locks the contract
with one tight + one loose hit, asserting only the tight one injects.
- Existing tests pass explicit threshold (0 = default for tight tests,
0.5 for the dedupe test which uses 0.30 hits).
Run #004 result on identical queries with the split threshold:
Verbatim discovery 8 (vs v3's 6 — judge variance, separate)
Verbatim lift 6 / 8 (75%)
Paraphrase top-1 6 / 8 (75%)
Paraphrase any-rank in K 6 / 8
OOD queries Q19/Q20/Q21 ALL show warm top-1 = cold top-1 (no
injection) — cross-pollination eliminated where it was wrong-direction.
Mean Δ top-1 distance dropped from -0.164 (v3, distorted) to -0.071
(v4, comparable to v1's -0.053).
Two paraphrases missed in v4 (Q9, Q15) were ones where qwen2.5
rephrased liberally enough to drift past 0.20 — Q9: "Inventory
specialist..." → "Individual needed for inventory management..." and
Q15: "Engaged warehouse associate..." → "Warehouse associate currently
engaged with a robust history...". The system correctly refusing to
inject when it's not confident is the right product behavior; the
boost path still re-ranks recorded answers when they appear in regular
retrieval.
The Q6 ↔ Q7 cross-pollination ("Forklift-certified loader" ↔
"Hazmat warehouse worker") is legitimate — these are genuinely similar
staffing queries and the judge ranks both directions as plausible.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The v0 boost-only stance documented in internal/matrix/playbook.go:22-27
("the boost only re-ranks results that ALREADY surfaced from the regular
retrieval") couldn't promote recorded answers that dropped out of a
paraphrase's top-K. playbook_lift_002 surfaced exactly that gap: 0/2
paraphrase recoveries because the recorded answers weren't in regular
retrieval at all (rank=-1).
Shape B: when warm-pass retrieval doesn't surface a playbook hit's
answer, inject a synthetic Result for it directly. Distance =
playbook_hit_distance × BoostFactor — same formula as the boost path so
injections land in comparable distance space. Caller re-sorts +
truncates after both boost and inject have run.
Result on playbook_lift_003 (Shape B + paraphrase pass):
Verbatim discovery 6
Verbatim lift 2 / 6
**Paraphrase top-1** **6 / 6**
Paraphrase any-rank in K 6 / 6
Mean Δ top-1 distance -0.1637 (warm closer than cold)
Every paraphrase the judge generated landed the v1-recorded answer at
top-1 of the new query's results. The learning property holds — cosine
on embed(paraphrase) finds the recorded query's vector within
DefaultPlaybookMaxDistance (0.5), and Shape B injects the answer.
Verbatim lift dropped from v1's 7/8 because Shape B cross-pollinates
recorded answers across queries. w-4435 (Q2's recording) appears as
warm top-1 for several other queries because their embeddings are
within the playbook hit threshold of "OSHA-30 forklift Wisconsin." This
is a feature, not a bug — the matrix layer's purpose is to share
knowledge across queries — but the lift metric only counts "warm top-1
== cold judge best," so cross-pollinated lifts don't register. A v3
metric would re-judge warm pass to measure true judge improvement.
Tests:
- TestInjectPlaybookMisses_AddsMissingAnswers — primary claim
- TestInjectPlaybookMisses_SkipsAnswersAlreadyPresent — no double-inject
- TestInjectPlaybookMisses_DedupesPerAnswer — multi-hit same answer
- TestInjectPlaybookMisses_EmptyHits — fast-path no-op
Driver fix: ParaphraseRecordedRank int → *int. The `omitempty` int
silently dropped rank=0 (top-1, the WANTED value) from JSON, making the
v003 report show "null" instead of "0" for every successful recovery.
Pointer keeps nil/rank-0 distinguishable.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds an opt-in Pass 3 to the lift driver: for each query whose Pass 1
recorded a playbook, ask the judge to rephrase the query, then re-query
with playbook=true and check whether the recorded answer surfaces in
top-K. This is the test the v1 report's caveat #3 explicitly flagged
as the actual learning-property gate (not the cheap verbatim case).
Implementation:
- New flag --with-paraphrase on the driver (default off).
- New WITH_PARAPHRASE env in the harness (default 1, on for prod runs).
- New paraphrase_* fields on queryRun + summary, // 0 fallback in jq so
re-rendering verbatim-only evidence stays clean.
- generateParaphrase() calls the same judge model with format=json and
a tight schema; temperature=0.5 for variance without domain drift.
- Markdown report adds a paraphrase per-query table (only when the
pass ran) and an honesty caveat about judge-also-rephrases coupling.
Run #002 result (reports/reality-tests/playbook_lift_002.{json,md}):
Verbatim lift 2/2 (100% — Q7 + Q13, both stable from v1)
Paraphrase top-1 0/2
Paraphrase any-rank in K 0/2
Both paraphrases dropped the recorded answer OUT of top-K entirely
(rank=-1). This isn't a paraphrase-quality problem — qwen2.5's outputs
preserved intent ("Hazmat-certified warehouse worker comfortable with
cold storage" → "Warehouse worker with Hazmat certification and
experience in cold storage"). It's the v0 boost-only stance documented
in internal/matrix/playbook.go:22-27: the boost only re-ranks results
that ALREADY surfaced from regular retrieval. If paraphrase's cosine
retrieval doesn't include the recorded answer in top-K, no boost can
promote it.
The "Shape B" upgrade mentioned in the playbook.go comment — inject
playbook hits directly even when they weren't in the top-K — is what
would close this gap. The reality test surfaced exactly the gap the
docs warned about. Worth filing as the next product gate.
Run-to-run variance also visible: v1 had 8 discoveries, v2 had 2.
HNSW insertion order + judge variance both contribute. Stability of
Q7 and Q13 across both runs (lifted in v1 AND v2) is the most reliable
signal in the dataset.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The 5-loop substrate's load-bearing gate is verified — playbook +
matrix indexer give the results we're looking for. Per the report's
rubric, lift ≥ 50% of discoveries means matrix is doing real work;
7/8 = 87.5% blew through that.
Harness was structurally hiding bugs behind a 5-daemon stripped boot.
Expanding to the full 10-daemon prod stack surfaced 7 fixes in cascade:
1. driver→matrixd: {"query": ...} → {"query_text": ...} field name
2. harness temp toml missing [s3] → wrong default bucket → catalogd
rehydrate 500 on first call
3. harness→queryd SQL probe: {"q": ...} → {"sql": ...} field name
4. expand boot from 5 → 10 daemons in dep-ordered launch
5. add SQL surface probe (3-row CSV ingest → COUNT(*)=3 assertion)
6. candidates corpus was synthetic SWE-tech (Swift/iOS, Scala/Spark) —
wrong domain for staffing queries; replaced with ethereal_workers
(10K rows, real staffing schema, "e-" id prefix to avoid collision
with workers' "w-"). staffing_workers driver gains -index-name +
-id-prefix flags so the same binary serves both corpora
7. local_judge qwen3.5:latest is a vision-SSM 256K-ctx build running
~30s per judge call against the lift loop; reverted to
qwen2.5:latest (~1s/call, 30× faster, held lift theory)
Each contract drift (1, 3) is now locked into a cmd/<bin>/main_test.go
so future drift fires in `go test`, not in a reality run. R-005 closed:
- cmd/matrixd/main_test.go (new) — playbook record drift detector +
score bounds + 6 routes mounted
- cmd/queryd/main_test.go — wrong-field-name drift detector
- cmd/pathwayd/main_test.go (new) — 9 routes + add round-trip + retire
- cmd/observerd/main_test.go (new) — 4 routes + invalid-op + unknown-mode
`go test ./cmd/{matrixd,queryd,pathwayd,observerd}` all green.
Reality test results (reports/reality-tests/playbook_lift_001.{json,md}):
Queries 21 (staffing-domain, 7 categories)
Discoveries 8 (judge ≠ cosine top-1)
Lifts 7/8 (87.5%)
Boosts triggered 9
Mean Δ distance -0.053 (warm closer than cold)
OOD honesty dental/RN/SWE rated 1, no fake matches
Cross-corpus boosts confirmed (e- ↔ w- swaps in lifts)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
migrate the reality-test harness's judge-model default from a
hardcoded "qwen3.5:latest" string to cfg.Models.LocalJudge.
resolution priority: explicit -judge flag > $JUDGE_MODEL env >
cfg.Models.LocalJudge from lakehouse.toml > hardcoded fallback.
bumping the judge for run #N+1 now means editing one line in
lakehouse.toml [models].local_judge — no Go file or shell script
edits required.
changes:
- scripts/playbook_lift/main.go: -config flag added, judge default
flips to "" so resolution chain runs. Imports internal/shared for
config loader.
- scripts/playbook_lift.sh: JUDGE_MODEL no longer defaulted in bash;
EFFECTIVE_JUDGE resolved by mirror-of-the-Go-chain (env > config
grep > qwen3.5:latest fallback). Used for the Ollama presence
check + report header. Pre-flight grep avoids requiring jq just
to read the toml.
- reports/reality-tests/README.md: documents the 4-step priority
chain.
verified all 4 paths produce the expected judge:
- config (no env): qwen3.5:latest (from lakehouse.toml)
- env override: env wins
- flag override: flag wins over env
- missing config: DefaultConfig fallback still gives qwen3.5:latest
just verify PASS.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
First reality test driver. Two-pass design:
- Pass 1 (cold): matrix.search use_playbook=false → small-model judge
rates top-K → record playbook entry pointing at the highest-rated
result (which may NOT be top-1 by distance — that's the discovery).
- Pass 2 (warm): same queries with use_playbook=true → measure
ranking shift. Lift = real if recorded answer becomes top-1.
Files:
- scripts/playbook_lift/main.go driver (391 LoC)
- scripts/playbook_lift.sh stack-bring-up + report gen
- tests/reality/playbook_lift_queries.txt query corpus (5 placeholders;
J writes real 20+)
- reports/reality-tests/README.md framework + interpretation
- .gitignore track reports/reality-tests/
but ignore per-run JSON evidence
This answers the gate from project_small_model_pipeline_vision.md:
"the playbook + matrix indexer must give the results we're looking
for." Without ground-truth labels, the LLM judge is the proxy — the
same small-model thesis applied to evaluation. Honest about that
limitation in the generated reports.
Driver compiles clean; full run requires Ollama + workers/candidates
ingest. Skips cleanly if Ollama absent.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Audited stash-clean c7e3124 (30 commits past rerun-1 4840c10).
3 HIGH risks closed (R-002 internal/shared, R-003 internal/storeclient,
R-008 queryd/db.go). 3 advanced to partial (R-001 via fail-loud-bind +
opt-in auth, R-006 via g2_smoke_fixtures, R-007 via ADR-003 auth.go).
Biggest move: Agent Memory Correctness 4 → 9 — pathway Mem0 ops
(ADD/UPDATE/REVISE/RETIRE/HISTORY) all tested, including cycle-detection
and retired-trace-exclusion. Sprint 2 acceptance criteria are now
verified code, not design-bar work.
Two new findings:
- F1 (MED): cmd/{matrixd,observerd,pathwayd}/main_test.go absent —
reopens R-005 against new daemons.
- F2 (LOW): scripts/staffing_*/main.go flag-defaults reach
/home/profit/lakehouse/data/...
Evidence under reports/scrum/_evidence/rerun2/ (local; per
.gitkeep convention).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Re-runs the SCRUM.md framework against HEAD (4840c10) to score the
delta from the audit baseline at 91edd43. Composite +8.
Scoring deltas:
Reproducibility 7 → 9 (just verify, just doctor, pre-push hook)
Test Coverage 6 → 8 (168 proof harness assertions; Go-test
gaps in shared/storeclient remain)
Trust Boundary 7 → 7 (no code change; R-001/R-007 open)
Memory Correctness 3 → 4 (vectord persistence proven; Mem0
pathway/playbook still not ported)
Deployment Readiness 4 → 5 (just doctor; REPLICATION/systemd open)
Maintainability 8 → 8 (spine unchanged; harness obeys
CLAUDE_REFACTOR_GUARDRAILS)
Risk register changes:
R-004 (smokes not gated) CLOSED — just verify + pre-push hook
R-005 (cmd/main.go untested) partial — proof harness covers wiring
R-012 (empty tests/ dir) CLOSED — populated by harness
R-001/R-002/R-003/R-006/R-007/R-008/R-009/R-010 unchanged
Sprint 0 progress:
S0.1 just doctor DONE
S0.3 just verify + pre-push DONE
S0.6 tests/ dir cleanup DONE
S0.2 just smoke-fixtures open
S0.4 cmd/main_test × 6 partial (harness coverage; go-test gap)
S0.5 shared/storeclient tests open (HIGH risks still unaddressed)
New finding from this rerun (worth recording):
Queryd refresh-tick race in 04_query_correctness — cache-warm
binaries fire SELECTs faster than queryd's 500ms refresh tick.
Caught by integration mode going 104/0/1 → 102/1/1, fixed at
4840c10 with proof_wait_for_sql helper. Exactly the failure-mode
the harness was designed to catch.
Original 5 audit reports preserved as immutable history at
91edd43; this file documents the delta only.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adapts docs/SCRUM.md framework (originally written for the
matrix-agent-validated repo) to the Go rewrite. Five deliverables:
golang-lakehouse-scrum-test.md top-line + scoring + verdict
risk-register.md 12 findings, R-001..R-012
claim-coverage-table.md claim/test/risk for Sprint 2
sprint-backlog.md 5 sprints, ~2 weeks of work
acceptance-gates.md DoD as runnable commands
Every claim cites file:line, command output, or "missing evidence."
Smoke chain ran clean (33s wall, all 9 PASS) and is captured in
reports/scrum/_evidence/smoke_chain.log (gitignored — runtime artifact).
Scoring:
Reproducibility 7/10 9 smokes deterministic, no just/CI gate
Test Coverage 6/10 internal/ packages tested, 6/7 cmd/ aren't
Trust Boundary 7/10 escapes ok, zero auth, /sql is RCE-eq off-loopback
Memory Correctness 3/10 pathway/playbook/observer not yet ported
Deployment Readiness 4/10 no REPLICATION, no env template, no systemd
Maintainability 8/10 no god-files, 7 lean binaries, ADRs current
Top three risks:
R-001 HIGH queryd /sql + DuckDB + non-loopback bind = RCE-equivalent
R-002 HIGH internal/shared (server.go + config.go) zero tests
R-003 HIGH internal/storeclient zero tests, used by 2 services
R-004 MED 9-smoke chain green but not gated (no justfile/hook)
The audit is the work; refactors come after. Sprint 0 owns coverage
+ CI gating; Sprint 1 owns trust-boundary decisions; Sprints 2-3 are
mostly design-bar work for unbuilt agent components.
.gitignore exception: /reports/* + !/reports/scrum/ keeps reports/
a runtime-artifact directory while exposing reports/scrum/ as
tracked documentation. Mirrors the pattern future audit passes will
land in.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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