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Garry TanandClaude Opus 4.6 05aec3feb8 feat(eval): Day 5 — agent adapter + judge with structured evidence contract
Two modules that together wire Cat 8 / Cat 9 / Cat 5 end-to-end scoring.

**eval/runner/judge.ts** — Haiku 4.5 via tool-use `score_answer`. Input is
the structured JudgeEvidence contract (fix #16 from the plan's codex
review): probe + final_answer_text + evidence_refs + tool_call_summary +
ground_truth_pages + rubric. Raw tool output NEVER reaches the judge —
that's the Section-3 defense against paraphrased prompt-injection payloads
in gold/poison.json.

Retry policy: one retry on malformed tool_use response. If the second
attempt is still malformed, score the probe as `judge_failed` (all scores
0, verdict=fail) so the run still completes.

Aggregation: weighted mean across rubric criteria. Canonical thresholds
(pass ≥3.5, partial 2.5-3.5, fail <2.5) — judge can propose a verdict but
the computed verdict from the weighted mean is what the scorecard records.
This prevents the model from inflating or deflating its own verdict.

Score values are clamped to 0-5 on parse even if the model returns out of
range. `assertNoRawToolOutput(evidence)` is a regression guard that
returns the list of forbidden fields (tool_result, raw_transcript, etc.)
if any leak into the evidence contract.

**eval/runner/adapters/claude-sonnet-with-tools.ts** — The agent adapter.
Implements `Adapter` interface minimally: `init()` spins up PGLite and
seeds it, `query()` throws because the adapter is Cat 8/9-only and emits
a final-answer text, not a RankedDoc[]. Retrieval scorecard stays at 4
adapters.

`runAgentLoop(probeId, text, state, config)` drives the multi-turn loop:
Sonnet → tool_use → tool-bridge.executeTool → tool_result → back to
Sonnet. Turn cap 10. max_tokens 1024. System prompt (brain-first iron
law, citation format, amara context) is cached via cache_control.
Exponential backoff on rate-limit errors (1s, 2s, 4s).

Emits a `Transcript` per eval/schemas/transcript.schema.json — consumed
directly by recorder.ts for the flight-recorder bundle.

`brain_first_ordering` classifies Cat 8's flagship metric: did the agent
call search/get_page BEFORE producing the final answer? The `no_brain_calls`
case (agent answers from general knowledge without ever hitting the brain)
is the compliance failure to surface.

ForbiddenOpError + UnknownToolError from the bridge are caught in the
agent loop and surfaced as tool_result with is_error=true — keeps the
loop going and preserves full audit trail for the judge.

**Tests (35 new):** judge (23) — happy path, retry, fallback, evidence
contract sanitization, rendered prompt does not contain raw tool_result
text, verdict thresholds, score clamping, weighted mean with mixed
weights, parseToolUse rejects malformed input. agent-adapter (12) —
Adapter.query() throws, init() seeds PGLite, end-to-end tool loop with
stubbed Sonnet, turn cap exhaustion, mutating-op rejection surfaces as
tool_result error, extractSlugs regex.

All 12 agent tests take ~23s because PGLite runs 13 schema migrations per
test; the alternative of shared-engine-across-tests was rejected so each
test is isolated.

Total eval suite now: 167 pass, 0 fail.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-20 21:52:56 +08:00
Garry Tan c6b308a1c8 fix(eval): teardown PGLite engines so bun run eval:run exits 0
The multi-adapter runner left PGLite engines alive after each run.
GbrainAfterAdapter and HybridNoGraphAdapter both instantiate a
PGLiteEngine in init() but never disconnect it; Bun's shutdown path
exits with code 99 when embedded-Postgres workers outlive main().

Added optional `teardown?(state)` to the Adapter interface, implemented
it on both engine-backed adapters, and call it from scoreOneRun after
the N=5 loop. ripgrep-bm25 and vector-only hold no DB resources and
don't need a teardown.

Verified: gbrain-after, hybrid-nograph, ripgrep-bm25, vector-only all
exit 0 at N=1. Full test:eval passes (57 tests). No metric change.
2026-04-19 08:34:09 +08:00
Garry TanandClaude Opus 4.7 bfa8564fc8 feat(eval): Phase 2 EXT-3 hybrid-without-graph adapter — graph isolated
Third and closest-to-gbrain external baseline. Runs gbrain's full hybrid
search (vector + keyword + RRF fusion + dedup) WITHOUT the knowledge-graph
layer. Same engine, same embedder, same chunking, same hybrid fusion —
only traversePaths + typed-link extraction turned off.

This is the decisive comparator for "does the knowledge graph do useful
work?" Same everything-else, only graph differs. Any lead gbrain-after has
over EXT-3 is 100% attributable to the graph layer.

Files:
  eval/runner/adapters/hybrid-nograph.ts   — ~110 LOC

Implementation:
  - New PGLiteEngine per run; auto_link set to 'false' (belt).
  - importFromContent() used instead of bare putPage() so chunks +
    embeddings get populated (hybridSearch needs them).
  - NO runExtract() call — typed links/timeline stay empty (suspenders).
  - hybridSearch(engine, q.text) answers every query. Aggregate chunks
    to page-level by best chunk score.

FOUR-adapter side-by-side on 240-page rich-prose corpus, 145 relational queries:

| Adapter         | P@5    | R@5    | Correct/Gold |
|-----------------|--------|--------|--------------|
| gbrain-after    | 49.1%  | 97.9%  | 248/261      |
| hybrid-nograph  | 17.8%  | 65.1%  | 129/261      |
| ripgrep-bm25    | 17.1%  | 62.4%  | 124/261      |
| vector-only     | 10.8%  | 40.7%  |  78/261      |

The headline delta nobody can hand-wave away:
  gbrain-after → hybrid-nograph  = +31.4 P@5, +32.9 R@5
  hybrid-nograph → ripgrep-bm25  = +0.7 P@5,  +2.7 R@5

Hybrid search (vector+keyword+RRF) over pure BM25 gains ~1 point. The
knowledge graph layer over hybrid gains ~31 points. The graph is doing
the work; adding it to a retrieval stack is what actually moves the needle
on relational queries. The vector/keyword/BM25 debate is a footnote.

Timing: hybrid-nograph init is ~2 min (embeds 240 pages once); query loop
is fast. gbrain-after is ~1.5s total because traversePaths doesn't need
embeddings. Runs at ~$0.02 Opus-equivalent in embedding cost.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-18 23:53:08 +08:00
Garry TanandClaude Opus 4.7 633be384c9 feat(eval): Phase 2 EXT-2 vector-only RAG adapter
Second external baseline for BrainBench. Pure cosine-similarity ranking
using the SAME text-embedding-3-large model gbrain uses internally —
apples-to-apples on the embedding layer so any gbrain lead reflects the
graph + hybrid fusion, not a better embedder.

Files:
  eval/runner/adapters/vector-only.ts      ~130 LOC
  eval/runner/adapters/vector-only.test.ts 6 unit tests (cosine math)

Design:
  - One vector per page (title + compiled_truth + timeline, capped 8K chars).
  - No chunking (intentional; chunked vector RAG would be EXT-2b later).
  - No keyword fallback (that's EXT-3 hybrid-without-graph).
  - Embeddings in batches of 50 via existing src/core/embedding.ts (retry+backoff).
  - Cost on 240 pages: ~$0.02/run.

Three-adapter side-by-side on 240-page rich-prose corpus, 145 relational queries:

| Adapter       | P@5    | R@5    | Correct top-5 |
|---------------|--------|--------|---------------|
| gbrain-after  | 49.1%  | 97.9%  | 248/261       |
| ripgrep-bm25  | 17.1%  | 62.4%  | 124/261       |
| vector-only   | 10.8%  | 40.7%  |  78/261       |

Interesting finding: vector-only scores WORSE than BM25 on relational queries
like "Who invested in X?" — exact entity match matters more than semantic
similarity for these templates. BM25 nails the entity-name term; vector-only
returns topically-similar-but-not-mentioning pages. This is the known failure
mode of pure-vector RAG on precise relational/identity queries. Real-world
vector RAG systems always add keyword fallback; EXT-3 (hybrid-without-graph)
will be that fairer comparator.

gbrain's lead widens in vector-only comparison: +38.4 pts P@5, +57.2 pts R@5.
The graph layer is doing the heavy lifting for relational traversal; pure
vector RAG can't express "traverse 'attended' edges from this meeting page."

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-18 23:44:49 +08:00
Garry TanandClaude Opus 4.7 629ba853ff feat(eval): Phase 2 adapter interface + EXT-1 ripgrep+BM25 baseline
Phase 2 credibility unlock: BrainBench now compares gbrain to external
baselines on the same corpus and queries. Transforms the benchmark from
internal ablation ("gbrain-graph beats gbrain-grep") to category comparison
("gbrain-graph beats classic BM25 by 32 pts P@5"). This is the #1 fix
from the 4-review arc — addresses Codex's core critique that v1's
before/after was self-referential.

Added:
  eval/runner/types.ts                      — Adapter interface (v1.1 spec)
  eval/runner/adapters/ripgrep-bm25.ts      — EXT-1 classic IR baseline
  eval/runner/adapters/ripgrep-bm25.test.ts — 11 unit tests, all pass
  eval/runner/multi-adapter.ts              — side-by-side scorer

Adapter interface (eng pass 2 spec):
  - Thin 3-method Strategy: init(rawPages, config), query(q, state), snapshot(state)
  - BrainState is opaque to runner (never inspected)
  - Raw pages passed in-memory; gold/ never crosses adapter boundary
    (structural ingestion-boundary enforcement)
  - PoisonDisposition enum reserved for future poison-resistance scoring

EXT-1 ripgrep+BM25:
  - Classic Lucene-variant IDF + k1/b tuned at standard 1.5/0.75
  - Title tokens double-weighted for entity-page slug-match bias
  - Stopword filter, alphanumeric tokenization, stable lexicographic tie-break
  - Pure in-memory inverted index — no external deps, ~100 LOC core

First side-by-side results on 240-page rich-prose corpus, 145 relational queries:

| Adapter       | P@5    | R@5    | Correct top-5 |
|---------------|--------|--------|---------------|
| gbrain-after  | 49.1%  | 97.9%  | 248/261       |
| ripgrep-bm25  | 17.1%  | 62.4%  | 124/261       |
| Delta         | +32.0  | +35.5  | +124          |

gbrain-after is the hybrid graph+grep config from PR #188. Ripgrep+BM25 is
a genuinely strong classic-IR baseline (BM25 is what Lucene/Elasticsearch
ship). gbrain's ~+32-point lead on relational queries reflects real work
by the knowledge graph layer: typed links + traversePaths surface the
correct answers in top-K that BM25 only pulls in via partial-text overlap.

Next in Phase 2: EXT-2 vector-only RAG + EXT-3 hybrid-without-graph
adapters. Both plug into the same Adapter interface.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-18 23:39:04 +08:00