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>
3-lineage scrum (Opus 4.7 / Kimi K2.6 / Qwen3-coder) on today's wave
landed 4 real findings (2 BLOCK + 2 WARN) and 2 INFO touch-ups.
Verbatim verdicts + disposition table at:
reports/scrum/_evidence/2026-04-30/
B-1 (BLOCK Opus + INFO Kimi convergent) — ResolveKey API:
collapse from 3-arg (envVar, envFileName, envFilePath) to 2-arg
(envVar, envFilePath). Pre-fix every chatd caller passed the env
var name twice; if operator renamed *_key_env in lakehouse.toml
while keeping the canonical KEY= line in the .env file, fallback
silently missed.
B-2 (WARN Opus + WARN Kimi convergent) — handleProviders probe:
drop the synthesize-then-Resolve probe; look up by name directly
via Registry.Available(name). Prior probe synthesized "<name>/probe"
model strings and routed through Resolve, fragile to any future
routing rule (e.g. cloud-suffix special case).
B-3 (BLOCK Opus single — verified by trace + end-to-end probe) —
OllamaCloud.Chat StripPrefix used "cloud" but registry routes
"ollama_cloud/<m>". Result: upstream got the prefixed model name
and 400'd. Smoke missed it because chatd_smoke runs without
ollama_cloud registered. Now strips the right prefix; new
TestOllamaCloud_StripsCorrectPrefix locks both prefix + suffix
cases. Verified live: ollama_cloud/deepseek-v3.2 round-trips
cleanly through the real ollama.com endpoint.
B-4 (WARN Opus single) — Ollama finishReason: read done_reason
field instead of inferring from done bool alone. Newer Ollama
reports done=true with done_reason="length" on truncation; the
prior code mapped that to "stop" and lost the truncation signal
the playbook_lift judge needs to retry. New
TestFinishReasonFromOllama_PrefersDoneReason covers the fallback
ladder.
INFOs:
- B-5: replace hand-rolled insertion sort in Registry.Names with
sort.Strings (Opus called the "avoid sort import" comment a
false economy — correct).
- A-1: clarify the playbook_lift.sh comment around -judge "" arg
passing (Opus noted the comment said "env priority" but didn't
reflect that the empty arg also passes through the Go driver's
resolution chain).
False positives dismissed (3, documented in disposition.md):
- Kimi: TestMaybeDowngrade_WithConfigList wrong assertion (test IS
correct per design — model excluded from weak list = strong = downgrade)
- Qwen: nil-deref claim (defensive code already handles nil)
- Opus: qwen3.5:latest doesn't exist on Ollama hub (true on the
public hub but local install has it)
just verify: PASS. chatd_smoke 6/6 PASS. New regression tests:
3 (B-2, B-3, B-4 each get a focused test).
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>
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