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Garry TanandClaude Opus 4.7 e2a5dc4a2b feat(eval): Phase 2 query validator + Tier 5 Fuzzy + Tier 5.5 synthetic + N=5 tolerance bands
Closes multiple Phase 2 items in one commit since they form a cohesive
package: query schema enforcement + new query tiers + per-query-set
statistical rigor.

Added:
  eval/runner/queries/validator.ts               — hand-rolled Query schema validator
  eval/runner/queries/validator.test.ts          — 24 unit tests, all pass
  eval/runner/queries/tier5-fuzzy.ts             — 30 hand-authored Tier 5 Fuzzy/Vibe queries
  eval/runner/queries/tier5_5-synthetic.ts       — 50 SYNTHETIC-labeled outsider-style queries (author: "synthetic-outsider-v1")
  eval/runner/queries/index.ts                   — aggregator + validateAll()

Modified:
  eval/runner/multi-adapter.ts                   — N=5 runs per adapter (BRAINBENCH_N override), page-order shuffle, mean±stddev reporting

Query validator (hand-rolled, no zod dep to match gbrain codebase style):
  - Temporal verb regex enforces as_of_date (per eng pass 2 spec):
    /\\b(is|was|were|current|now|at the time|during|as of|when did)\\b/i
  - Validates tier enum, expected_output_type enum, gold shape per type
  - gold.relevant must be non-empty slug[] for cited-source-pages queries
  - abstention requires gold.expected_abstention === true
  - externally-authored tier requires author field
  - batch validation catches duplicate IDs

Tier 5 Fuzzy/Vibe (30 queries, hand-authored):
  - Vague recall: "Someone who was a senior engineer at a biotech company..."
  - Trait-based: "The engineer who pushed back on microservices"
  - Cultural/epithet: "Who is known as a 'systems builder' in security?"
  - Abstention bait: "Which Layer 1 project did the crypto guy leave?" (prose
    mentions but never names; good systems abstain)
  - Addresses Codex's circularity critique — vague queries where graph-heavy
    systems shouldn't inherently win.

Tier 5.5 Synthetic Outsider (50 queries, AI-authored placeholder):
  - Clearly labeled author: "synthetic-outsider-v1"
  - Phrasing variety not in the 4 template families:
    * fragment style ("crypto founder Goldman Sachs background")
    * polite/natural ("Can you pull up what we have on...")
    * comparison ("What is the difference between X and Y?")
    * follow-up ("And who else advises Orbit Labs?")
    * typos/misspellings ("adam lopez bioinformatcis")
    * similarity ("Find me someone like Alice Davis...")
    * imperative ("Pull up Alice Davis")
  - Real Tier 5.5 from outside researchers supersedes synthetic via
    PRs to eval/external-authors/ (docs ship in follow-up commit).

N=5 tolerance bands:
  - Default N=5, override via BRAINBENCH_N env var (e.g. BRAINBENCH_N=1 for dev loops)
  - Per-run seeded Fisher-Yates shuffle of page ingest order (LCG seed = run_idx+1)
  - Surfaces order-dependent adapter bugs (tie-break-by-first-seen etc.)
  - Reports mean ± sample-stddev per metric
  - "stddev = 0" is honest signal that the adapter is deterministic, not a bug.
    LLM-judge metrics (future) will naturally produce non-zero stddev.

Validation: all 80 Tier 5 + 5.5 queries pass validateAll(). 24 validator
unit tests pass.

Next commit: world.html contributor explorer (Phase 3).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-19 00:10:15 +08:00
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