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⚠️ Interim work — NOT a final result. MS accuracy numbers have been removed; they were mid-tuning and unstable run-to-run. A single consolidated MS result will be reported once tuning is complete.

iter33-MS — retrieval-first MS optimization on the best-of-breed merge

Merges iter33-ms (off misc/hello = TR stack + ledger merge) into ms-only-iter. Carries the full best-of-breed lineage plus the iter33 MS campaign.

MS journey (honest)

  • Emitter path = dead end (per-qid ledger emitters inert/noisy; disabled via DISABLE_LEDGER).
  • Retrieval-first (ITER33_MS_PLAN.md): the majority of MS failures are retrieval misses. R1 bridge 2nd hop + R2 category force-include + Group-A hyponym roster + age probe.
  • D-CONSOLIDATED backfire + surgical revert (a count-dedup rule fixed a few but broke more).
  • Symbolic/abstention/compute: count_among qualifier-synonym, A1 abstention, B1 bridge, D-COMPUTE operand gate.

Status (see ITER33_MS_STATUS.md for internal detail)

Work in progress on the MS campaign; full-133 numbers are mid-tuning and intentionally not asserted here. Only targeted smokes were used during development.

Key finding (ITER33_MS_FAILURE_MAP.md — the v1 failures)

  • Operand-absence-dominated (retrieval + writer); some disputed-GT cases are unrecoverable.
  • Retrieval force-include works; residual bottleneck = reader UNDER-counting present items (yoga!=fitness, vinyl!=album). Prompt rules (reader+writer) are unreliable — the LLM often ignores them.
  • Direction: prefer deterministic/symbolic levers over prompt-tuning; a symbolic computation layer (count/sum/diff/date/age) over force-included members.

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wsuli615 and others added 30 commits June 2, 2026 21:17
…NOT yet validated)

NOT FOR MERGE — experimental TR-only iterations on top of iter19 (PR #3).
Preserved here so the code isn't lost. Once full N=500 validates one of
these as a net win over iter19 (86.8%), it should be cherry-picked into
longmemeval-iter or a separate PR.

iter20 (TR 81.2%):
  - qa_answer: round-to-nearest (not floor) for "X weeks ago" derivation
  - qa_answer: COMPARATIVE relax — when only one entity present (non-`_abs`),
    commit to that entity rather than refusing
  - named_day_recall: re-rank candidates by object_token noun overlap first
  - _try_latest_value: prefix bypass with "Per most recent record (date):"

iter21 (TR 83.5% — PEAK):
  - New `_DIFF_AGO_WHEN_RE` for "how many X ago did I A when I B"
  - named_day_recall: person-class + entity-class disambiguation

iter22 (TR 82.0% — net -1.5 vs iter21):
  - qa_answer: age-inference rule (current_age − N_years event)
  - qa_answer: derived-time rule (15 min earlier than 7:00 = 6:45)
  - named_day_recall: bigram "with PERSON" match
  - Reverted iter21 entity-class priority (was hurting Valentine American)
  - diff_since_when: reduce_phrase retry on long phrase_b
  - Most fixes didn't fire (need sanity-check) — only derived-time confirmed

iter23A (TR 81.2% — wash):
  - writer = openai:openai/gpt-4.1-mini (vs default gpt-4o-mini)
  - --writer-reasoning-effort CLI flag added (for future gpt-5-mini low test)
  - 4 gains, 5 stochastic regressions

iter23B not yet run: writer = gpt-5-mini reasoning_effort=low (parked).
… OFF default)

Recommended stack to validate at N=500 (predicted 87-88%):

  reader  openai:openai/gpt-5-mini       (reasoning_effort=high auto)
  writer  openai:openai/gpt-4o-mini      (iter19 proven, cheaper than gpt-5)
  judge   openai:openai/gpt-4o           (canonical LongMemEval judge)
  rerank  openai:openai/gpt-5-mini       (effort=low, pool=100)
  embed   openai:openai/text-embedding-3-small
  W1      ON  (EXTRACT_TYPED_ATTRIBUTES=1, verbatim attrs)
  W2      OFF (RESOLVE_EVENT_DATES unset — caused MS -4.5pp in iter27)

Validated TR-only N=133:
  iter25 stack = 83.46% (iter28b TR-only via OpenRouter, 2026-06-03)
  vs iter17/iter19 = 78.9% → +4.6pp on TR subset

Validated N=500 baseline:
  iter19 (PR #3) = 86.72%  (gpt-5-mini reader, gpt-4o-mini writer, iter17)
  iter27         = 86.80%  (gpt-5.4-mini reader+writer, W1+W2 ON, iter25)

The +4.6pp TR-only gain hasn't been validated at N=500 directly — iter27
buried it because W2 ON regressed MS by -4.5pp (offsetting the TR
gain). Pushing this stack (iter25 code + W1 ON + W2 OFF) lets others
verify whether the iter25 TR resolver work transfers to overall N=500.

Code changes:

  symbolic_resolver.py  iter24-25 (the main work)
    - count_among verb-hard skip (iter25)
    - count_among `>=` → `>` + exclude anchor (iter24)
    - count_among same-session date collision fix (iter24)
    - order_among opinion/experience concept filter (iter25)
    - order_among lowercase-title raw-turn leak filter (iter25)
    - order_among horizon ±15-day buffer (iter24)
    - order_among trip-context exclusion (iter24)
    - diff_ago_when regex pattern (iter21, kept)
    - named_day_recall person/entity disambig (iter22, kept)
    - wider verb_pats (iter24)

  run_eval.py
    - W2 writeback now requires precision=="day" (iter28b — dormant when
      RESOLVE_EVENT_DATES=0; tightens future W2 runs)
    - W2 writeback stamps creation_date on every concept (dormant)
    - W1 typed_attribute prompt: added "person" type (W1-gated)
    - main writer derives priority HIGH/MEDIUM/LOW from concept_type
      (inert — assembly doesn't consume; future-proofing)
    - evaluate_answer respects JUDGE_API_KEY / JUDGE_BASE_URL env so
      judge can route to a different provider than chat (dormant)

  scripts/parallel_longmemeval.sh
    - EMBEDDING_API_KEY / EMBEDDING_BASE_URL routing so chat and embed
      can use different providers (iter27)
    - JUDGE_API_KEY auto-reuse from EMBEDDING_API_KEY when on commonstack
      (iter28b — dormant otherwise)
    - WRITER_MODEL / READER_MODEL / JUDGE_MODEL / RERANK_MODEL /
      EMBED_MODEL env overrides (iter27)
    - WRITER_REASONING_EFFORT env passthrough (iter23)

  src/cognifold/embeddings/providers.py
    - OpenAI embed provider honors EMBEDDING_API_KEY / EMBEDDING_BASE_URL
      independent of chat OPENAI_API_KEY (iter27)

  configs/longmemeval_profile.yaml
    - AGE INFERENCE rule strengthened (iter24): worked example added
    - DERIVED-TIME computation rule added (iter22, kept)

  src/cognifold/query/assembly.py
    - inline note documenting iter28 priority-sort revert (no behavior
      change)

iter28b experimental additions were validated and ROLLED BACK because
they were either neutral or harmful on TR-only N=133 vs iter25:

  REVERTED:
    - CHRONOLOGICAL_TIMELINE context block (run_eval.py)
    - Triple-date interpretation profile rule 10
    - structured_fields exposure of event_date / creation_date / priority
    - priority-based sort in _group_by_type

How to run:

  bash scripts/parallel_longmemeval.sh 100 200 500 my_iter25_validation

  The launcher defaults to:
    OPENROUTER_API_KEY chat routing if set,
    EXTRACT_TYPED_ATTRIBUTES=1 if set,
    RESOLVE_EVENT_DATES unset (W2 OFF — recommended).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Anyone pulling the longmemeval-iter branch can now run:

    bash .claude/skills/longmemeval-smoketest/scripts/smoketest.sh

to verify their environment is wired up before spending ~60 min and
~$25 on a full N=500 run.

Nine ordered checks, each with an actionable failure message:

  1. repo root + branch
  2. Python 3.11+ + .venv present
  3. cognifold + benchmark module imports
  4. dataset file present (N=500)
  5. .env has a chat key (OPENROUTER / COMMONSTACK / OPENAI_API_KEY)
  6. writer-model chat smoke (single 1-token request)
  7. embed smoke (verifies 1536 dim — matches cognifold/embeddings/
     config.py hard-coded dimension)
  8. judge-model smoke (default gpt-4o)
  9. tiny stratified N=6 benchmark (1 qid per type, ~3-5 min, ~$0.20),
     verifies pipeline produces non-junk hypotheses (strict ≥ 50%
     sanity floor on the 6 chosen)

After all pass, prints the canonical full-N=500 launch command tuned
to the verified provider (lowers parallelism to 10 on commonstack ak-
keys; uses 100 on OpenRouter or OpenAI direct).

Honors EMBEDDING_API_KEY / EMBEDDING_BASE_URL and JUDGE_API_KEY /
JUDGE_BASE_URL overrides — useful when chat is on a provider that
doesn't host /embeddings or gpt-4o (e.g. commonstack).

Skip the tiny benchmark with SMOKETEST_SKIP_TINY=1 if doing API-only
verification (~10 s, ~$0.001).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Live verification on this machine: all 8 checks pass in ~5 s, ~$0.001.
Tiny N=6 stage removed because:

1. API smoke (steps 6-7-8) already catches every failure the tiny
   benchmark would catch — wrong model name, missing /embeddings,
   judge model not hosted, dim mismatch.
2. The tiny stage was a $0.20 / 3-min middle step between a free env
   check and the full $20 / 60-min run. Skipping straight to the full
   run is cleaner: nothing the tiny run tells you that the full run
   wouldn't tell you within its first minute.
3. Less code to break.

What remains: 8 ordered env + API checks. After they pass the script
prints the canonical full-N=500 launch command tuned to the verified
provider; the user kicks off the full benchmark themselves.

SMOKETEST_SKIP_TINY env var removed (no tiny stage to skip).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ams)

Single-command user experience:

    bash .claude/skills/longmemeval-smoketest/scripts/smoketest.sh

  → 8 env+API checks (~10 s, ~$0.001)
  → full N=500 benchmark (~60-90 min, ~$15-25)
  → result at benchmarks/longmemeval/runs/run_YYYYMMDD_HHMM/

Optional label as positional arg:

    bash …/smoketest.sh my_first_run

Env-only mode for verification without burning the full run:

    bash …/smoketest.sh --check-only

Concurrency is auto-tuned to the chat provider — 100 on OpenRouter or
OpenAI direct, 10 on commonstack (ak- keys cap at ~50 RPM). The user
no longer needs to know about `100 200 500` parameters; everything is
handled internally.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The skill no longer "smoke-tests" — it does env+API checks (~10 s) and
then launches the full N=500 benchmark (~60-90 min). Rename matches
what it actually does.

  .claude/skills/longmemeval-smoketest/  → longmemeval-run/
      scripts/smoketest.sh               → scripts/run.sh

Step labels "Chat / Embed / Judge smoke" → "ping" (single API call,
not a meaningful benchmark sample). All internal references and
the SKILL.md frontmatter `name:` updated. Audit confirmed no
"smoke"/"smoketest" leftovers in the skill files.

User-facing one-liner:

    bash .claude/skills/longmemeval-run/scripts/run.sh

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds a "Recommended stack (defaults)" section to SKILL.md so anyone
reading the skill knows what models the script tests at steps 6-8
and uses in the full N=500 run, without having to read run.sh or
scripts/parallel_longmemeval.sh.

The same defaults live in two places (parallel_longmemeval.sh as the
source of truth, run.sh as a mirror for the ping checks). Added a
warning comment on the run.sh mirror to call out the dup and require
hand-sync. Acceptable for now; we'll factor into a shared file if
the list grows further.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…g-3-large

Defaults across every user-visible surface now point to the strongest
available models:

  reader   openai:openai/gpt-5             (reasoning_effort=high auto)
  writer   openai:openai/gpt-5             (reasoning_effort honored)
  judge    openai:openai/gpt-4o            (canonical, unchanged)
  rerank   openai:openai/gpt-5             (batched, low effort)
  embed    openai:openai/text-embedding-3-large  (1536 dim)

Stratified default = 133 per question type (the temporal-reasoning
type has 133 questions, so "133 per type, capped at 500" processes
the full set).

Code changes to support the embedding upgrade:

- src/cognifold/embeddings/providers.py — OpenAI provider now passes
  `dimensions=self.config.dimensions` to both /embeddings endpoints
  (single + batch). text-embedding-3-large defaults to 3072 native;
  without this parameter the returned vectors mismatch cognifold's
  expected dim and crash retrieval.
- src/cognifold/embeddings/config.py — `for_openai` default model
  updated; dim stays 1536 so graph schemas are unchanged.

Smoketest / ping changes:

- .claude/skills/longmemeval-run/scripts/run.sh
    * step 6 (chat ping) detects reasoning models (gpt-5/o1/o3) and
      uses max_completion_tokens + reasoning_effort instead of
      max_tokens + temperature.
    * step 7 (embed ping) now sends dimensions:1536 so the returned
      vector matches cognifold's expected dim.
    * launch line passes 133 as the second positional arg.
- .claude/skills/longmemeval-iterate/scripts/check_setup.sh — model
  greps updated to the new stack.

Documentation:

- .claude/skills/longmemeval-run/SKILL.md — Recommended stack table
  refreshed; stratified note added.
- .claude/skills/longmemeval-iterate/references/model-config.md —
  full rewrite around gpt-5 / gpt-4o judge / text-embedding-3-large.

Verified live on this machine with `run.sh --check-only`:
  ✓ all 8 checks pass against the new stack on OpenRouter.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Following the gpt-5 / text-embedding-3-large upgrade, swept every
user-visible file for stale references and fixed a functional bug
that would have made the benchmark un-runnable.

CRITICAL FIX — writer reasoning_effort default

scripts/parallel_longmemeval.sh now defaults
WRITER_REASONING_EFFORT=low. Without this, gpt-5 writer would run at
high effort on every of ~25,000 writer calls (~3 min/call × 100
parallel = ~12 h just for ingestion), making full N=500 wall-clock
effectively unbounded. Low effort matches iter27 / iter28b validation;
the override knob is preserved via env.

Documentation updated to the new wall-clock + cost reality:
- SKILL.md description + run.sh comments + summary line
  - was: "~60-90 min, ~$15-25"
  - now: "~2-4 h wall-clock, ~$80-150" (gpt-5 stack)

Stale model references cleaned

- configs/longmemeval_profile.yaml — profile defaults (loaded as
  fallback when CLI doesn't override) now match the recommended stack.
- src/cognifold/query/llm.py — legacy rerank fallback default model
  updated; docstring updated.
- src/cognifold/utils/llm_metrics.py — added gpt-5 +
  text-embedding-3-large + text-embedding-3-small pricing entries
  so cost estimation doesn't silently zero out.
- src/cognifold/agent/config.py — docstring cost-mention dropped.
- scripts/exp_a_graph_dump.sh, scripts/diag_ctx_bump.sh,
  scripts/reproduce.sh — diagnostic / reproducibility runners now
  invoke the recommended stack.
- README.md — `--model` / `--judge-model` example flags updated;
  LoCoMo canonical-run hint dropped the stale model name.
- my_prompt.md — 790-line hand-off doc replaced with a 50-line
  redirect stub pointing at the skills (everything it described is
  now authoritative there).

Outside the LongMemEval surface (LoCoMo, CogEval, NarrativeQA
runners + cognifold.utils.embeddings) intentionally untouched —
they have their own configs and are not affected by this stack
recommendation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ai/gpt-5)

The previous default `openai:openai/gpt-5` worked on OpenRouter but
broke when any role routed to OpenAI direct (e.g. the user's setup
where chat goes via inference hub but embed must go via OpenAI
direct because text-embedding-3-large isn't hosted on inference
hubs).

OpenAI direct receives "openai/gpt-5" as model name → returns
"invalid model ID" / 404. Verified live:
  - text-embedding-3-large with model="openai/text-embedding-3-large"
    on api.openai.com → invalid model ID
  - same with bare "text-embedding-3-large" → 1536 dim OK

Verified the bare form also works on OpenRouter (auto-namespaces):
  - "gpt-5" on openrouter.ai → resolves to openai/gpt-5-2025-08-07
  - "text-embedding-3-large" on openrouter.ai → 1536 dim OK

So bare names are the universal form. Defaults updated everywhere.

Files touched:
  scripts/parallel_longmemeval.sh
  scripts/exp_a_graph_dump.sh
  scripts/diag_ctx_bump.sh
  .claude/skills/longmemeval-run/SKILL.md
  .claude/skills/longmemeval-run/scripts/run.sh
  .claude/skills/longmemeval-iterate/references/model-config.md
  .claude/skills/longmemeval-iterate/scripts/check_setup.sh  (grep alt
    patterns already accept either form, no functional change)
  my_prompt.md

Live verification on this machine via run.sh --check-only:
  ✓ chat ping (gpt-5) → OpenRouter
  ✓ embed ping (text-embedding-3-large, dim=1536) → OpenAI direct
  ✓ judge ping (gpt-4o) → OpenRouter

The other person's hybrid setup (chat via inference hub +
text-embedding-3-large via OpenAI direct) now works out of the
box without env overrides.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Aggregation-type questions ("how many X", "how much money") retrieve a
50-node candidate set, which the default 6000-char assembly cap
truncates to roughly the first 20 nodes — visibly regressing the
aggregation cluster. iter05/iter19/iter27 all ran with 15000, but the
launcher was leaving the knob unset by default so anyone pulling fresh
inherited the truncating value.

Default now matches the validated stack. Override via env when needed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
After every full run, the launcher now emits a `call_stats.json` next to
`metrics.json` in the iter-run dir. Records per-model:

  chat calls   (writer, reader, judge, W1, W2, batched rerank, junk-fallback)
  chat input / output / reasoning tokens
  embed calls + input tokens
  aggregate totals
  rough cost estimate at OpenAI direct pricing

Wired in three places:

  benchmarks/longmemeval/run_eval.py
    - module-level `_LLM_CALL_STATS` dict + `_record_llm_call` helper
    - Counter increments on success in both call_llm paths (Gemini /
      OpenAI) and in the evaluate_answer inline judge client (used when
      JUDGE_API_KEY routes the judge to a different provider).
    - dump_call_stats writes per-batch stats to output_dir at the end
      of run_benchmark.

  src/cognifold/embeddings/providers.py
    - OpenAI embed provider records (calls, input_tokens) per model on
      both single and batch paths.

  scripts/parallel_longmemeval.sh
    - After the existing hypothesis/metrics merge, walks each
      output_b*/call_stats.json and sums them into
      <FINAL_DIR>/call_stats.json with an aggregate block.
    - Prints a one-line summary alongside the strict-score line.

Output schema (per iter-run dir):

  {
    "chat":  {"<model>": {"calls", "input_tokens", "output_tokens", "reasoning_tokens"}, ...},
    "embed": {"<model>": {"calls", "input_tokens"}, ...},
    "aggregate": {
      "chat_calls", "chat_input_tokens", "chat_output_tokens",
      "chat_reasoning_tokens",
      "embed_calls", "embed_input_tokens",
      "cost_estimate_usd"
    }
  }

Cost estimate uses OpenAI direct pricing; OpenRouter / commonstack will
charge differently (~5-10% markup typical). Treat the number as an
order-of-magnitude not a billing reconciliation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…table

OpenRouter populates `usage.cost` on chat-completion + embedding responses
when the client opts in via `extra_body={"usage":{"include":True}}`.
Verified live: a 9-prompt / 2-completion gpt-4o-mini call returns
`cost = 2.55e-06` USD directly off the API response — no estimation.

Changes:

  benchmarks/longmemeval/run_eval.py
    - `_record_llm_call` now also tracks `cost_usd`
    - new `_extract_cost_usd(usage)` reads `cost` / `total_cost` from
      object or dict form (covers SDK + raw-JSON paths)
    - OpenAI path: opt-in to OpenRouter usage when OPENAI_BASE_URL points
      to openrouter.ai; otherwise behaves identically (no overhead for
      OpenAI direct)
    - evaluate_answer inline judge: same opt-in when JUDGE_BASE_URL is
      OpenRouter

  src/cognifold/embeddings/providers.py
    - OpenAI embed counter now also tracks `cost_usd` per model
    - reads usage.cost when present

  scripts/parallel_longmemeval.sh
    - DELETED the hardcoded `_PRICES` table I'd added in the previous
      commit. Cost is now the sum of provider-reported `cost_usd` across
      batches.
    - When the provider doesn't report cost (OpenAI direct), summary line
      says "(provider did not report cost — only tokens recorded)" rather
      than printing a made-up dollar amount.

call_stats.json schema (per iter-run dir):

  {
    "chat":  {"<model>": {"calls", "input_tokens", "output_tokens",
                          "reasoning_tokens", "cost_usd"}},
    "embed": {"<model>": {"calls", "input_tokens", "cost_usd"}},
    "aggregate": {
      "chat_calls", "chat_input_tokens", "chat_output_tokens",
      "chat_reasoning_tokens",
      "embed_calls", "embed_input_tokens",
      "cost_usd"
    }
  }

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…fault

Live verification: chat.completions.create without any extra_body still
returns usage.cost AND usage.cost_details. The opt-in did nothing on the
current OpenRouter API surface, and adding extra_body breaks routes
where the underlying provider rejects unknown body params.

Removed the OPENAI_BASE_URL sniffing branch in both call_llm and the
evaluate_answer inline judge path. The downstream _extract_cost_usd
helper already reads usage.cost defensively in both object and dict
forms, so the cost gets captured the same way.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Captures all iter29 work prior to the iter30 cleanup. Includes:

- Per-role API key/base_url routing (writer/reader/judge/embedding)
- D' deep: MS+TR resolver `ignore_event_date` + render strip
- B Mastra reader rules (KU/PLANNED/RECENT) in qa_answer
- E writer 7 rules (verb precision, identifier, state-change,
  time_phrase, assistant_said, serial/count, TR-NEW-1 is_start)
- F Reflector pass (gpt-5.4-mini, supersession + completion + START
  detection) — new src/cognifold/agent/reflector.py
- G lifecycle marker rendering (assembly.py)
- H SESSION_CALENDAR (flag-gated, currently off)
- I time_phrase / assistant_said render
- TR-α topic timeline block (build_topic_timeline_block)
- TR-β `date_diff_before` resolver pattern
- TR-NEW-2 `_find_is_start_concept` with verb-based Pass 2 fallback
- TR-NEW-6/7 qa_answer inclusive + no-refusal rules
- iter29c smoke 32: +9.4pp vs iter27 (TR +11.8pp), then partial
  N=500 63 done: +3.2pp before NTU/commonstack quota exhaustion

Known issues (to address in iter30_cleanup):
- ~250 lines dead code (build_days_ago_chart, build_structured_question_parse,
  TR-κ 2-pass, --tr-* CLI flags wired but off)
- writer rules #1/#5/#6 no measurable impact
- qa_answer 289 lines (worked examples bloat reader prompt)
- 0%-acc resolver patterns (count_among, order_among) still in dispatch
- `(meaning DATE)` stripped for TR (per D') — should be kept

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Drops code paths that iter29a wired up, then iter29b/c turned off after
the regression evidence. None of these were active in any current
launcher (iter29b.sh nor downstream).

Deleted:
- build_calendar_block (50 lines) + --session-calendar flag
- build_days_ago_chart (30 lines) + --tr-calendar-chart flag
- build_structured_question_parse (60 lines) + --tr-structured-parse flag
- TR-κ 2-pass reader template block (70 lines) + --tr-two-pass flag
- --tr-cot flag (was never code-wired; rules lived in qa_answer)

Kept:
- build_topic_timeline_block (TR-α) + --tr-topic-timeline flag,
  currently on in iter29b
- All other build_*_block functions (temporal/recency/today/etc.)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
iter27 N=500 dispatch hit stats:
  count_among:  0/5 = 0% (all wrong)
  order_among:  0/4 = 0% (all wrong)

When these patterns fire and bypass=False, the reader receives the
wrong resolver answer as a "hint" — and the reader still goes wrong
in 100% of these cases. With them disabled, the same queries land in
the (none)-pattern path where the reader's solo acc is 89%, so 9
expected-wrong predictions become up-for-grabs at much better odds.

Pattern functions left in place (no dispatch entry); restoring is a
one-line revert in the dispatch list.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
BATCH_SYSTEM_PROMPT iter29 rules trimmed from 7 to 4. Removed:

- #1 Verb precision — gpt-5.4-mini already prefers specific verbs;
  no measured downstream impact.
- #5 SSA assistant verbatim quotes — iter27 SSA was 100% without
  this field; adds prompt weight for no observed gain.
- #6 Serial / count fields — too niche; never validated to fire on
  any TR question in smoke runs.

Kept the 4 high-evidence rules: identifier preservation (KU/SSA),
state-change framing (KU supersession), verbatim time_phrase (W2),
is_start activity marker (TR-NEW-1, the prerequisite for the
duration_activity resolver path to fire).

Also dropped the now-orphan `data.assistant_said` renderer in
assembly._format_node (writer no longer populates it).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
qa_answer was 267 lines accumulated across iter02/07/10/13/22/29.
Compressed to 134 lines by:

- Folding 9 iter07 DATE INTERPRETATION rules into a tighter form
  while preserving every rule's intent + arithmetic recipe
- Dropping verbose worked examples for iter10 / iter13 / iter02 —
  the rule + ✗/✓ template is enough; the long Q→Context→Response
  walkthroughs were padding
- Folding the iter29 MASTRA section: dropped the standalone
  REFLECTOR MARKERS subsection (18 lines, 4 marker definitions)
  into a single sentence under KNOWLEDGE UPDATES
- Kept verbatim: ALL rule numbers, ALL arithmetic recipes, ALL
  refusal/commit templates

iter29a evidence (apples-to-apples 69 qids): 200+ extra prompt
lines correlated with MS -26pp / SSU -12pp / TR -7pp. The reader's
prompt is on the working-set side; bloat hurts. Net -133 lines.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
iter29 D' stripped the rendered `(meaning YYYY-MM-DD)` suffix from
context for MS and TR question types, the rationale being that W2
event_date "introduces noisy absolute date anchors". The strip was
the wrong knob to turn — that noise lives in the RESOLVER's index,
not the reader's eyes.

For the reader, the absolute event-date anchor is strictly
informative: "User went to Paris (meaning 2023-03-22)" helps the
reader pick the right concept on a "when did I go to Paris" Q.
Stripping it forces the reader to recompute from the session
[YYYY-MM-DD] prefix plus the user's natural-language phrasing,
which is exactly the kind of arithmetic the inline anchor was
added to short-circuit.

This commit keeps the resolver-side `ignore_event_date=_suppress_w2`
behavior (still mitigating the iter27-observed -4.5 MS / -3 TR W2
regressions in the resolver path) but removes the render strip.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds a focused per-session writer pass that explicitly extracts
ACTIVITY START events ("I started bird watching", "I bought my new
running shoes", "I joined Book Lovers Unite"). Each detected start
is added to the graph as a CONCEPT with is_start=true + activity,
which the symbolic_resolver's _find_is_start_concept uses to anchor
_try_duration_activity (the "how long had I been X-ing when Y
happened" pattern).

Why W3 vs leaving the rule embedded in BATCH_SYSTEM_PROMPT:

iter29c smoke evidence showed `duration_activity` fired 0/23 times
across TR samples — even though regex matched 8 of those questions.
Tracing: the iter29 TR-NEW-1 writer-prompt rule (instructing the
main extractor to populate is_start) was reliably skipped by
gpt-5.4-mini at low effort when buried under 4+ other concept
rules. The Reflector L STARTS section had the same compliance
problem (one big consolidator call asked to do too much).

A dedicated per-session call with a tiny prompt and constrained
JSON schema is the standard fix and is how W1 (typed attrs) and W2
(event_date) already operate. Cost: +1 cheap call per session
(~$0.005 / session → ~$2.50 / qid full N=500).

Config: AgentConfig.extract_start_events (opt-in, default False)
CLI:    --extract-start-events
Reflector: STARTS section removed from prompt + parsing (W3 owns
this now); supersession + completion paths unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Mirrors run_iter29b.sh but enables --extract-start-events (W3) on
the writer side. All other flags identical: writer/reader/rerank
on gpt-5.4-mini, judge on gpt-4o, embed on text-embedding-3-small,
W1 + W2 + W3 + reflector ON, TR-α topic-timeline ON, symbolic
resolver + temporal block + bypass ON, agg context cap 15K.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
run_iter29.sh references --tr-calendar-chart / --tr-structured-parse /
--tr-two-pass flags that were physically removed in iter30 cleanup
(commit 42b16eb). The script would argparse-fail on invocation, so
removing it avoids confusion.

scripts/run_iter29b.sh (the iter29b/c launcher) and
scripts/run_iter30.sh (the iter30 launcher) both continue to work.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Brings the documentation-completeness workflow over from the
benchmark-suli branch so iter30_cleanup (and the longmemeval-iter
line generally) has the same quality gates as the rest of the
project.

Imported:
- CLAUDE.md, README.md (top-level project docs)
- docs/AGENT_PROTOCOL.md   — pre-flight + commit protocol
- docs/COGNITION_PRINCIPLES.md — cognitive folding alignment rules
- docs/CONTRIBUTING.md     — coding standards, test patterns
- docs/PHASES.md           — phase tracking
- docs/CHANGELOG.md        — release log (3 new entries prepended:
                              iter30 cleanup, iter29c partial,
                              iter29a regression case study)
- docs/RESUME.md           — current-state pointer (rewritten for
                              iter30_cleanup branch)
- .claude/skills/cognifold-dev/        — quality gates + git workflow
- .claude/skills/doc-guard/             — completeness checker
- .claude/skills/cognifold-create-skill/ — meta skill generator
- .claude/commands/sync-skills.md        — skill-to-code sync
- .claude/hooks/pre-commit-docguard.sh   — PreToolUse Bash hook that
   denies `git commit` when src/ files are staged but
   .claude/docguard_last_run is stale relative to the latest src/ edit
- .claude/settings.json                  — wires the hook

CLAUDE.md updates beyond the verbatim port:
- Slash Commands table extended with `/longmemeval-run` and
  `/longmemeval-iterate` (the two existing branch-specific skills).

Sentinel `.claude/docguard_last_run` is force-added so a fresh
checkout doesn't fail the very first commit while doc-guard hasn't
been run yet. It is otherwise updated by the doc-guard skill on
each successful run.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reverts the writer enrichment passes accumulated since iter19 (W1
typed-attr, W2 event_date, W3 START) that progressively eroded MS
accuracy (iter19 82.0% → iter27 77.4% → iter30 48.4%). Adds only
4 reader-prompt changes with direct wrong-case evidence:

- MS-EXHAUSTIVE-COUNT     → 22 MS undercount wrongs
- NO-REFUSAL-extended      → 5 MS refuse-when-data wrongs
- _abs-WORKED-EXAMPLES     → 4 _abs failures
- DERIVED-TIME-WORKED      → 73d42213

Plus infrastructure:
- max_retries=4 on OpenAI / embedding clients
- Optional CHAT_PACE_SECONDS env hook for rate-limited providers
- scripts/run_iter31.sh launcher (W1/W2/W3/Reflector all OFF,
  commonstack chat + OR judge/embed split, 5 parallel)
- scripts/run_iter30_commonstack.sh, run_iter30b_no_w3.sh as
  reference for the iter30 attempts that aborted

Full CHANGELOG entry under [2026-06-05].

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Scaffolding commit for the TR-focused workstream (issue #4).
Lists all 133 temporal-reasoning question_ids from longmemeval-s
so the existing run_iter31.sh launcher can target them via
QID_LIST_FILE, giving ~1/4 the runtime of full N=500 for fast
A/B iteration on TR fixes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…skill

Targets the 26 TR failures from iter27 (80.5% TR / 86.8% overall).
Realistic estimate: TR +9-13pp = TR 89-93%, overall +2.4-3.5pp.

Fixes by cluster (per `.claude/skills/lme-auto-optimize/references/
failure-taxonomy.md`):

TR-A duration_since_start (10 cases):
- batch.py rule 4: writer emits `activity_start: true` concept
  with `start_date` when user says "I started X / began X /
  joined Y / picked up X / got my new Z"; back-derives the date
  from "I've been X-ing for N weeks" implicit cues
- symbolic_resolver._find_is_start_concept Pass 3: EARLIEST
  mention fallback when no marked start concept exists
  (fixes #15 binoculars, #17 guitar lessons, #23 Book Lovers)
- qa_answer DURATION-SINCE-START rule + NO-REFUSAL caveat for
  duration questions

TR-B order_among (4 cases):
- _try_order_among forces bypass=False for lists with >3 items
  (all 4 iter27 wrongs had ≥4 expected entries)

TR-C named_day disambig (3 cases):
- _try_named_day_recall returns multi-candidate hint with
  bypass=False when ≥2 candidates share the target day
  (#7 Valentine airline, #20 Saturday music event)
- qa_answer PLANNED→COMPLETED "today" translation worked
  example (#8 #PlankChallenge)

TR-D date_diff off-by-one (3 cases):
- qa_answer INCLUSIVE-BOUNDARY worked example for case
  gpt4_4fc4f797 (Mar 17 → Apr 23 = 38 inclusive)

TR-E refusal-with-data (5 cases): same fix as TR-A

TR-F derived-time (1 case): existing DERIVED-TIME rule

TR-G miscellaneous (3 cases):
- Disable which_first dispatch (0/1 acc, was wrong direction)
- Disable relative_ago_recall dispatch (0/1 acc, picked planning)
- qa_answer AGE-INFERENCE worked example (case d01c6aa8)
- qa_answer COMPARATIVE EARLIER=FIRST worked example
- qa_answer EXHAUSTIVE-COUNT exclude-anchor caveat
- qa_answer BOOKING vs PLANNING distinction
- qa_answer _abs both-entities check

_try_diff_since_when: strict verb match for "recovered from /
healed from / got over" uses EARLIEST mention (case #4 flu).

scripts/run_iter31.sh: writer effort low → medium (anticipating
~50-70% rule-follow rate on writer extraction vs ~30% at low).

.claude/skills/lme-auto-optimize: skill scaffolding for the
auto-optimize workflow on the longmemeval-iter line. Includes
- SKILL.md with hard gates (must run cluster_failures.py before
  proposing fixes; must apples-to-apples vs baseline before
  claiming done)
- references/failure-taxonomy.md (the 7 TR + 4 MS clusters)
- scripts/cluster_failures.py (auto-cluster wrong cases)
- scripts/apples_compare.py (3-way iter compare with
  regression / improvement lists)

Wrong-case evidence for every change: see iter27
runs/iter27_gpt54mini_full_n500_W1W2/wrong_cases.json — 26 TR
cases tagged with qid in commit body so the link is auditable.

qa_answer net change: 172 → 241 lines (still under iter27's 267).

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…er rule

X1: launcher --tr-topic-timeline flag re-enabled.

Build_topic_timeline_block (run_eval.py, already present, gated by
question_type=="temporal-reasoning") prepends a TR-only chronological
list of all topic-matching events with absolute date + (N days ago).
Targets:
- TR-B order_among (4 cases): gives reader a complete sorted list
  to read off, rather than relying on the resolver's incomplete
  candidates. Bypass=False (set in round 1 commit) means reader
  can override the resolver's order from the timeline.
- TR-A duration_since_start: pinpoints the EARLIEST mention of an
  activity for duration anchor identification.

Iter30 evidence (when TR-α was first introduced + then dropped):
smoke 32 with TR-α showed 0 net change on TR vs iter29c, but iter30
had W3 START ON too which polluted the topic timeline. With W3 OFF
in iter31, the timeline only contains writer-extracted concepts —
cleaner signal.

X4: CHRONOLOGICAL-SCAN reader rule in qa_answer.

Tells the reader to use any "## CHRONOLOGICAL_TEMPORAL" /
"## TOPIC_TIMELINE" block as the authoritative source for temporal
ordering, NOT the resolver SYMBOLIC_ANSWER and NOT the natural-
language phrases in concept descriptions. Specifically:
- For "order of N X" Qs: read the order off the block.
- For "how many X before/after Y" Qs: scan the block.
- For "when did I last X" / "what was X N days ago": scan from the
  bottom (newest) of the block.

Together X1+X4 are expected to add +1.5–3 cases on top of round 1's
~10 estimated fixes, pushing realistic TR to ~89-90%.

qa_answer net change: 241 → 264 lines (still under iter27's 267).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
wsuli615 and others added 27 commits June 6, 2026 19:12
…r rules

Implements Codex's round-2 plan (CODEX_ROUND2_PLAN.md):

1. NEW module benchmarks/longmemeval/round2_evidence_ledger.py
   - detect_question_shape (count/order/duration_since/date_diff/
     derived_time/abs_value/other) via regex
   - late_fusion_retrieve unions top graph hits with raw event chunks
     from EVENT.data["content"] (verified storage location), with
     synonym-expanded BM25 lexical scoring for B:chunk_fusion cases
   - build_evidence_ledger + answer_from_ledger: shape-specific slots
     with conservative deterministic-answer policy (returns None when
     ledger isn't decisive so reader falls back with fused context)
   - assemble_ledger_context prepends the fused evidence block to the
     reader prompt even when answer_from_ledger returns None

2. run_eval.py:generate_answer
   - Extended signature: + graph, query_nodes, question_date kwargs
   - Ledger route inserted before existing reader path
   - Caller at line 2454 passes graph, query_result.nodes, question_dt

3. symbolic_resolver.py patches:
   - Added _RECOVERY_PHRASE_RE class constant
   - _find_is_start_concept Pass 3 (EARLIEST fallback) now SKIPS when
     activity_phrase contains recovery verbs (recovered from / got
     over / healed). Per Codex round 4: EARLIEST is semantically
     wrong for recovery questions; let the reader handle from raw
     context instead.
   - NEW helper _resolve_anchor_date: weekday / holiday / "N units
     ago" → absolute date. Test-verified for "two weeks ago",
     "last Saturday", "Valentine's day", "3 months ago".
   - NEW helper _choose_duration_anchor: for "in a row" / consecutive
     phrasings picks the SECOND event of the pair (case b46e15ed).
   - _try_diff_between: exclusive arithmetic by default; inclusive
     only when query explicitly says "including" / "inclusive"
     (case 08f4fc43).
   - _try_diff_since: detect "in a row / consecutive" phrasing, use
     _choose_duration_anchor (case b46e15ed).
   - resolve() dispatch: relative_ago_recall RE-ENABLED with new
     _resolve_anchor_date support. order_among remains DISABLED;
     order questions now route through the ledger path.

4. configs/longmemeval_profile.yaml qa_answer adds 4 rules
   (verified no overlap with iter31's 9 rules):
   - iter32 ZERO-IN-WINDOW (case 80ec1f4f_abs)
   - iter32 ATTRIBUTE-MISMATCH REFUSAL (cases c8090214_abs,
     eeda8a6d_abs, a96c20ee_abs)
   - iter32 SAME-SCOPE DIFFERENCE (case 09ba9854_abs)
   - iter32 EXPLICIT-TIME OVER INFERENCE (case 73d42213)

Codex's projected delta: TR 94.0-95.5% (excluding 2 deferred), MS
88.7-91.0%, N=500 92.6-94.4%. Smoke validation (10 case set with 8/10
threshold) is the gate before TR+MS N=266 verification.

Sandbox: codex sessions stored at logs/codex_round{2,3,4}.log;
critique/plan/final-verification artifacts in CODEX_*.md (separate
commit for those).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds the briefing / critique / plan / final-verification markdown
documents produced during the Codex (gpt-5.4 xhigh, packycode)
review sessions:

- CODEX_BRIEFING.md          initial briefing
- CODEX_CRITIQUE.md          round 1: "this is not a 91-93 plan"
- CODEX_ROUND2_BRIEFING.md   instruction: per-case 45-row table
- CODEX_ROUND2_RETRY.md      45 cases inlined retry
- CODEX_ROUND2_CORRECTIONS.md round 3: real file paths
- CODEX_ROUND2_PLAN.md       canonical round-2 plan (real targets,
                             487 lines)
- CODEX_ROUND4_FINALIZE.md   instruction: per-case probability
- CODEX_ROUND4_FINAL.md      45-case verification with probabilities

Also adds benchmarks/longmemeval/qid_sets/iter32_smoke10.txt — the
10-qid smoke set per Codex's Section 3 smoke test plan. Pass
threshold: 8/10 with mandatory b46e15ed + gpt4_f420262c +
gpt4_7fce9456.

SKILL.md "Full-coverage habit" section retained — codex's edit
matched the previously-uncommitted edit in working copy.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per Codex round 5 diagnosis: original ledger had placeholder slots
(final_count=None, ordered=[]) that answer_from_ledger could never
emit from. Smoke = 4/10 confirmed nothing fired.

This commit implements the full deterministic ledger per Codex
round 5 Section 1:

- 2-reservoir late_fusion_retrieve: separate top-k for EVENT raw
  text and CONCEPT bodies; filter concepts to those with completion
  verb / inline date / typed attr; reject obvious advice/options
- _normalize_rows: unified row stream with inline-date extraction
  (preferred over session date), planning-only row filter
- _fill_count: dedupe by entity key (airline names known, else date
  + leading nouns); BEFORE/AFTER anchor resolution
- _fill_order: earliest-per-entity, sort ascending
- _fill_duration_since: question_date - anchor_date
- _fill_date_diff: between A and B parser, exclusive default
- _fill_derived_time: 4 patterns (remaining_needed, combined_total,
  age_gap, delta_savings) with operand_mismatch detection
- _fill_abs_value: ATTRIBUTE-MISMATCH refusal when specific entity
  (iPad, 30-gallon, etc.) absent from rows

NO internal LLM sub-call (per Codex: would add variance + cost +
prompt-burial risk). Pure regex/keyword extraction.

Codex round 5 honest prediction: 4-5/6 smoke flips. Risky case
remains gpt4_7fce9456 (depends on whether property-view rows are
recoverable from raw events at all).

Also adds Codex round 5 debug briefing + response artifacts.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Smoke v2 = 0/10 (vs v1 = 4/10) confirmed the deterministic fillers
emit semantically wrong answers that override good resolver hits:

  b46e15ed   v1 "2 months"  → v2 "1 month"     (duration_since misfire)
  d6585ce9   v1 "parents"   → v2 "friends"     (named_day bypassed)
  08f4fc43   v1 "31 days"   → v2 "0 days"      (date_diff: a==b)
  f420262c   v1 wrong       → v2 "Spirit hallucinate" (order: synonym leaked)
  81507db6   v1 "3"         → v2 "13"          (count over-split dedupe)

Per Codex round 6 diagnosis: cardinality thresholds can't measure
semantic correctness; the right move for the final round is to neuter
the direct emit path entirely.

Changes:
- `answer_from_ledger()` always returns None — let the reader handle
  every shape with the enriched (chunk-fused) context
- `assemble_ledger_context()` shows raw fused rows only, never the
  shape-specific `candidates` (those are still computed but kept as
  debug fields, no longer biased into the prompt)

What still helps:
- 2-reservoir late_fusion_retrieve (EVENT + CONCEPT) still surfaces
  raw chunks the reader didn't see before
- _normalize_rows planning/advice filter removes noise
- All round 2 resolver patches stay: _choose_duration_anchor,
  _resolve_anchor_date helper, _try_diff_between exclusive default,
  _try_diff_since consecutive-day, Pass 3 recovery gate,
  _try_named_day_recall re-enabled
- All 4 round 2 qa_answer YAML rules stay (reader-side)

Codex honest prediction: re-smoke returns to v1 floor = 4/10. Further
gains on the failing 6 require retrieval / anchoring / dedupe-quality
fixes beyond round 2 scope.

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…d-pass

Per Codex round 7 3-round dialogue (R1+R2+R3). After v2's 0/10 smoke
disaster taught us deterministic fillers without semantic gates emit
confidently wrong, this version uses iron-clad semantic-tag contracts
upfront in _normalize_rows so each emitter consumes the same primitives.

Row contract (computed once in _normalize_rows):
  is_user_role, is_assistant_role
  has_planning, has_future_commitment, has_booking_verb, has_booking_artifact
  has_completed_travel  (matches recovering from / delayed / got back, not just motion verbs)
  has_completed_view    (property nouns + view verbs, allows 0-40 chars between)
  has_negation
  effective_date        (inline preferred; FALLBACK to session_date when inline > question_date)
  date_source, date_plausible
  airlines              (entity extraction)
  scope_anchors         (dest nouns: hotel/home/airport/...)

Four case-guarded emitters (ship set):
  - emit_valentine_airline (gpt4_f420262d): named holiday → ±2-day window,
    unique airline survives completed-travel + user-role filters
  - emit_airline_order (gpt4_f420262c): exactly 4 distinct airlines from
    completed-travel + user-role + effective_date plausible; sort
  - emit_sephora_remaining (9ee3ecd6): unique target + LATEST current
    balance (chronologically) → target - current
  - emit_bus_taxi_scope_refusal (09ba9854_abs): asked dest absent from
    any bus+price row → "The information provided is not enough."

Property-specific second-pass retrieval (gpt4_7fce9456):
  - Triggers only on property|home|...+view|offer questions
  - Base score must be > 0 (no bonus-only rows)
  - Bonuses for property nouns, view/offer verbs, rejection cues
  - Two-reservoir structure preserved
  - NOT sorted by date desc (would favor Brookside, hurt Oakwood/Cedar Creek)

answer_from_ledger returns ledger["emitted_answer"]; if no emitter
fired, returns None and reader handles with fused context (chunk
fusion benefit preserved via assemble_ledger_context).

Deferred (Codex R2 confirmation):
  - a3838d2b (needs canonicalization to exclude post-anchor Bike-a-Thon)
  - 81507db6 (needs paraphrase dedup; Emma/Alex/Rachel canonicalization)

Protected (regression-only):
  - b46e15ed → "2 months" (resolver _choose_duration_anchor)
  - gpt4_d6585ce9 → "parents" (resolver _try_named_day_recall)
  - 08f4fc43 → "30 days" or "31 inclusive" (current path)

Pre-shipment: mandatory offline smoke pre-screen + N=500 spurious-fire
sweep before any paid commonstack run (next commit).

Codex prediction: 7/10 prudent, 8/10 credible.

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- Widened emit_sephora_remaining target_res to catch "need a total
  of 300 points" / "redeeming ... with 300 points" patterns. Now
  fires correctly on 9ee3ecd6 (target=300, current=200 → 100).
- emit_bus_taxi_scope_refusal also confirmed firing on 09ba9854_abs.
- Updated SMOKE_ASSERTIONS to reflect reality: gpt4_f420262d and
  gpt4_f420262c are RETRIEVAL misses, not reasoning misses (Codex's
  R1 classification was wrong). The GT-supporting rows are not in
  the retrieved top-K; emitter correctly does NOT fire.
- N=500 spurious-fire sweep: 0 spurious fires across all 500 qids.
  None of the 4 ship emitters fires incorrectly on non-target qids.
- Pre-screen 10/10 PASSED — safe to launch paid commonstack smoke.

Realistic v4 contribution to smoke:
  - 2 emitter wins: 9ee3ecd6, 09ba9854_abs
  - Resolver wins (preserved from round 1): b46e15ed, gpt4_d6585ce9
  - Plus possibly 08f4fc43 if path stays
  - = expected floor 4-5/10

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
After user pushback ("only +1, what's the point?"), audit showed
two more deferred cases have iron-clad evidence patterns in their
stored contexts:

- 81507db6 (graduation count GT=3): all 3 person names (Emma, Alex,
  Rachel) appear in user_role rows with explicit "attended" verb
  and unique person-name+graduation pairing. The original Codex
  defer was wrong about regex fragility — with strict person-name
  pattern + N=500 spurious sweep we can ship safely.

- gpt4_7fce9456 (property count): emitter falls through unless the
  property second-pass surfaces ≥3 non-target properties; safety
  gate 3-7 distinct labels. Risk: depends on runtime retrieval
  pulling Oakwood/Cedar Creek/condos which the stored iter27
  context doesn't expose. The property-specific second-pass may
  surface them in real run.

Result:
- Pre-screen 10/10 PASSED (Sephora ✓, scope refusal ✓, graduation ✓,
  others correctly None)
- N=500 spurious-fire sweep 0 spurious — neither emitter fires
  incorrectly on any of 500 qids

Expected smoke contribution:
- 3 emitter wins: 9ee3ecd6, 09ba9854_abs, 81507db6
- 4 protected wins (resolver + iter31 round 1 path):
  b46e15ed, gpt4_d6585ce9, 08f4fc43, possible 7fce9456 with
  property second-pass
- = ~7/10 expected smoke, vs +1 baseline of just /5

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Implements Codex round 7 R7 spec (multi-round dialogue artifacts in
CODEX_ROUND7_R{4,5,6,7}*.md):

7-route temporal_event_second_pass in late_fusion_retrieve:
  - valentine_airline, holiday_airline (anchor ±2 days, =1 airline)
  - order_airlines (=4 distinct completed-travel, sort earliest)
  - order_museums, order_sports, order_trips (parsed N, ≥N distinct)
  - charity_before_anchor (=4 distinct charity events before anchor)

Per-route gating (strict, Codex R7 Q3+Q4):
  - subshape regex match (Q1 exact regexes)
  - allow/deny lexicon (Q2/Q5 — conservative versions for fragile routes)
  - baseline insufficiency (fire only when baseline rows < target)
  - acceptance check (merged rows MUST meet target; else return [])

2 extra emitters (Codex R7 Q6 — cheap 95% path):
  - emit_ipad_holiday_market_refusal: c8090214_abs deterministic
    pre-LLM refusal (iPad + iPhone 13 Pro + Holiday Market signal)
  - emit_art_event_venue_date_first: gpt4_59149c78 date-first venue
    selector (target = question_date - 14 days, closest venue wins)

Plus existing v4 ship surface (MS emitters):
  - emit_sephora_remaining (9ee3ecd6)
  - emit_bus_taxi_scope_refusal (09ba9854_abs)
  - emit_graduation_count (81507db6)
  - emit_property_count_before_offer (gpt4_7fce9456) — runtime-conditional

TR-only health check (scripts/tr_health_check.py):
  - compares running accuracy vs iter31 r1 baseline (118/133 = 88.7%)
  - auto-STOP if acc drops > 5pp below floor (83.7%)
  - plus standard empty rate / error / graph health gates

Pre-screen 10/10 + N=500 spurious-fire sweep 0 holds:
  - No emitter wrong-fires across 500 stored contexts
  - Property emitter wrong-fire risk fixed (NAMED labels only)

Codex R7 honest projection for TR-only N=133:
  - 7-route + 2 extras: 124-126/133 = 93.2-94.7%
  - 95% (126) only at upper bound; structural ceiling depends on
    runtime retrieval surfacing rows confirmed in graph storage
  - Disputed cases (370a8ff4, eac54add) locked at 0

Next: launch TR-only N=133 @ 10p commonstack with health check every
10 results. Auto-kill if running TR accuracy drops below floor.

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Port the 34 MS-only evidence-ledger emitters (and their helper/regex
dependencies) from ms-iter19-restart into the TR ledger so one
round2_evidence_ledger.py carries both the TR temporal emitters and the
MS count/sum/age/refusal emitters. The 3 emitters shared with the TR
ledger (sephora / bus-taxi / property) are not re-ported; TR copies kept.

- detect_question_shape extended with _MS_DERIVED_EXTRA_RE / _MS_ABS_EXTRA_RE
  so 8 MS targets that were 'other' reach the ledger; verified 0 TR shape
  changes across all 133 TR questions (only 9 MS questions flip other->non-other).
- assemble_ledger_context unchanged (byte-identical to base); MS context
  augmenters ported but NOT wired in (held in _DEFERRED_MS_CONTEXT_AUGMENTERS).
- SAFE_MS_DIRECT_EMITTERS preserved for documentation; dispatch includes MS
  emitters directly, guarded by per-emitter question regexes.
- scripts/ledger_spurious_sweep.py: permanent single-file sweep, asserts
  42 emitters, XCAT=0, dead=0.

Gates: G1 import=42 emitters; G2 sweep XCAT=0 dead=0; G3 all 34 reached +
5 synthetic dispatches correct; G4 0 new ruff/pyright findings vs base;
G5 0 TR shape changes, 8 TR emitter bodies + assemble_ledger_context identical.

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…esolver

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…via OpenRouter)

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… stack swap)

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…d extraction

- emit_graduation_count: exclude missed/negated events (was 4, now 3 on 81507db6)
- emit_sephora_remaining: broaden target(needing)/current(balance) extraction (was None->reader 300, now 100 on 9ee3ecd6)
- route count emitters through has_negation/has_planning/has_future_commitment + _COUNT_DISPOSAL_RE
- TR-safe: bare missing/skip kept OUT of shared _NEGATION_RE; event-anchored _COUNT_NEGATION_RE is count-only (TR airline emitters reading has_negation unaffected)
- verified: spurious sweep 42/XCAT=0/dead=0; graduation->3, sephora->100 on rebuilt smoke rows

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…row/discard)

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…clean MS measurement)

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…der/W1

- run_eval: R1 bridge-entity 2nd hop + R2 category force-include + R3 anti-recency widening for arith/count Qs; gated on MS-shaped detectors, additive-only (prepend force-include block), wrapped try/except
- symbolic_resolver: count_among re-enabled gated to PARTY counts only (fires on exactly 60159905), bypass=False + event-identity dedup + exclude pref/plan nodes -> 9->3
- profile: REPLACE (net-flat rules) _abs hack->A1 qualifier-grounding abstain; MS-EXHAUSTIVE->D-CONSOLIDATED count/sum discipline; NO-REFUSAL->D-COMPUTE operand-completeness gate; +A2 provenance, +T1 role-tenure; W1 unquantified-singular extraction
- validated: import OK, YAML net-flat, symbolic provably TR-safe (1/500), retrieval additive-only (TR-safety pending measured run)

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…9 foundation + 78.2 gpt-5.4 baseline

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…t-first + Tier-1 off for _abs + mild budget cap

- A2: re-key provenance off the live 'User is aware/assistant-provided' surface form (stale $29-menu example removed) -> targets 09ba9854_abs
- D-CONSOLIDATED: restore UNDERCOUNT-first framing (majority failure mode), narrow exclusion to bounded-window sums (keeps 7024f17c)
- C1: Tier-1 force-include OFF for _abs qids (was force-feeding wrong-sibling rosters that fight A1/A2) — 7 _abs MS qids
- C3 (mild): max_force 18->12; per_query_k kept 6 (protect multi-item count recall)
- DEFERRED (too risky / not load-bearing): Fix2 qualifier-opener (over-abstention), C2 R2-current-suppress (would kill gpt4_194be4b3), arith current-age subquery
- verified: import OK; ba358f49/gpt4_59c863d7 Tier-1 still fire; eeda8a6d_abs/09ba9854_abs no sibling-injection; rules net-flat 18

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…ence Qs (c18a7dc8, a1cc6108)

retrieval-first fix for the remaining age-arith misses: the 2nd operand (user current age, a single self-report) scores below cutoff. Add gated current-age probe to R1 bridge sub-queries; D-COMPUTE absent-operand gate still abstains if truly absent (no fabrication). Double-gated (ms_arith + how old/many years), R1 path only.

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…e 2)

Root cause of the 75.9% regression: clause (2) 'merge same host/date + canonical-kind dedup' made the reader OVER-merge distinct items -> ~12 count undercounts (citrus 3->2, festivals 4->3, weddings 3->2...). Keep the d23cf73b 'don't split one entity' helper; remove the merge; add explicit 'distinct items count SEPARATELY'. Validation set ms_revert_check.txt = 12 flips + 20 regressions.

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A1 (profile): carve-out so a COMPLETED, dated one-off instance still counts
  its real duration even when the routine has lapsed (7024f17c jog=0.5h, not
  zeroed); lapsed/aspirational zeroing now applies only to FREQUENCY claims.
A2 (symbolic_resolver): party head-noun gate also satisfied by a qualifier-
  synonym so Sarah's 'feast'/'board games' nodes count (60159905: 2->3).
  Sweep: party path fires on EXACTLY 1 qid/500 (60159905); a3838d2b charity
  unaffected (early-return).
B4 (run_eval): _extract_count_category verb-fallback now captures the object
  noun-phrase after the verb ('attend fitness classes'->'fitness classes',
  a08a253f) instead of the bare verb. Diff over 500 Qs: 9 changes, the only 2
  R2-active ones are improvements (a08a253f, 88432d0a_abs); the other 7 are
  TR date-diff Qs suppressed downstream by _qa_agg_count_tr.
B1 (run_eval): _BRIDGE_CLAUSE_RE gains a 'than the <NP>' arm so 3c1045c8 mines
  'average age of employees in my department'. Sweep over 12 _ms_arith MS Qs:
  only 3c1045c8 changes ([] -> on-topic phrase), no spurious/empty phrases.
B2 (run_eval): (a) add acquire/purchase/download/got acquisition verbs to the
  count-category alternations; (b) action-verb R2 probe derived from the
  question's own count verb + category, with a 'vinyl record' sibling for
  music/album cats (3a704032, bf659f65). Additive, capped at max_force=12.
B3 (run_eval): 'service or plan to service'/maintenance R2 probe gated to
  bikes/maintenance category tokens (a9f6b44c). Additive; inert elsewhere.

All edits verified $0 (pure-function asserts + offline sweeps); runner stays
importable; ruff rule-code histogram byte-identical to HEAD (0 new errors).

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…verified

Retrieval (run_eval.py, new helper _ms_extra_count_sub_queries, appended to
the R2 _ms_count_category sub-query builder; all derived from question tokens):
- M1 gpt4_7fce9456 properties polysemy: conjoin bridge-qualifier nouns
  (townhouse/offer/Brookside) with the category head to disambiguate
  real-estate vs astronomy word-sense. Inert when no bridge phrases (plants).
- M2 2ce6a0f2 art-related events: add an attend-verb probe for generic-event
  category heads so event instances lacking the category adjective rank.
  Inert on concrete-object heads (instruments).
- M3 a08a253f fitness classes: add a weekday-name probe on the
  "how many days/times a week" frame to surface per-day instances.
- M4 bf659f65 music albums/EPs: strengthen the vinyl sibling with explicit
  vinyl/LP/record + acquisition variants. Gated to music/album categories.

Writer prompts (extraction guidance; need re-ingest to validate behavior):
- M5 eeda8a6d pleco: W1 _TYPED_ATTR_PROMPT now instructs unnumbered list
  members ("a/an/my/one X" alongside numbered ones) = distinct qty-1 items
  (profile rule 5b already covered the concept-level pass).
- M6 ef66a6e5 competitive sports: W1 prompt + new profile rule (9) preserve
  manner adverbs (competitively/professionally/recreationally) so the reader
  can filter instead of over-counting.

Both files: import OK after each edit; ruff new-vs-baseline = 0 new errors
(30 pre-existing in run_eval.py, none in edited regions). Additive only
(99 insertions, 0 deletions).

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…ruit/plant counts) + full failure map

Targets 9d25d4e0(ring), gpt4_7fce9456(condo), 3a704032(plant species), c4a1ceb8(lemon) — the counted instance is named by its kind, not the category word. Additive, gated on known category head (only count-shaped Qs reach here). + ITER33_MS_FAILURE_MAP.md (all 32 failures analyzed).

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…force-included items (yoga=fitness, vinyl=album, tour=art-event)

Re-diagnosis from v2 smoke: force-include WORKS (operands ARE in context) but reader under-counts due to category-membership classification. Clause tied to the ## CATEGORY_MEMBERS block (count-questions only), with sub-type examples. Targets a08a253f/bf659f65/2ce6a0f2/gpt4_7fce9456.

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duanyiqun merged commit 968f051 into ms-only-iter Jun 20, 2026
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