fix(explore): pay every admitted file on every render path (CG-26)

The invariant this closes: every admitted file receives at least its
reservation before any file draws on carry-forward slack. CG-30 bounded an
oversize cluster member and CG-31 gave the cluster path a displacement guard;
three holes were left, and each one starved a file that had been admitted,
reserved and — in the worst case — rendered.

1. The whole-file arms had no displacement guard. BUY's fit test read
   `renderCeiling - totalChars` (everyone's room) while its source-space
   sibling refused the same trade, and GRACE was not fit-tested at all.
   okhttp's CallServerInterceptor.kt shipped 8,499 chars on a 5,964 funded
   ceiling and the rank-6 file below it delivered nothing. Both arms now test
   the render they actually produce against `fundedHeadroom`, and a whole
   render that does not fit falls through to clustering instead of skipping
   the file.

2. Every section was charged a flat 200 chars while a real header runs
   300-500. The loop believed it had room it did not have — okhttp allocated
   26,601 against a 24,400 ceiling — so the final truncation threw a
   fully-rendered section away. Sections are charged their real cost now, the
   owed-below arithmetic uses a per-file overhead estimated from the file's own
   symbols, and a marginal overrun trims the weakest cluster (or windows the
   last one into the room that is left) rather than skipping the file over a
   rounding difference.

3. `owedPayableBelow` held all-or-nothing. When the last admitted file's FULL
   reservation no longer fit, nothing was held for it: on the precise-query
   fixture the rank-5 file took 4,134 chars against a 2,948 reservation while
   rank 6 — admitted, reserved 2,539 — was left 4 chars and skipped. It now
   holds the remainder while that remainder is still worth a section
   (MIN_CHARS).

And the epilogue is budgeted instead of discarded. The flat 600-char margin was
neither the epilogue's size (1,064 gin, 1,788 django, 2,231 excalidraw) nor a
bound on it, so four of six suite repos shipped with no pointer list and no
reminders at all. The loop now reserves the epilogue's FLOOR — the one line
that says an uncovered area exists, plus a pointer for every file whose bytes
were deliberately withheld (CG-12) — and the rest is fitted to the room that
actually remains, in priority order, entry by entry. Sized from the real
strings; no constant was swept against the suite.

Deterministic, same clean-rebuilt indexes, baseline = CG-31 tip:

  repo         base source   new source   files      ceiling
  django            20,791       20,878   6 -> 6     was discarding its epilogue
  tokio             21,521       21,607   5 -> 5     was discarding its epilogue
  okhttp            19,034       18,870   5 -> 6     +1 file delivered
  excalidraw        20,204       19,652   8 -> 8     keeps its pointer list
  gin               10,776       10,776   4 -> 4     byte-identical
  alamofire         11,662       11,662   2 -> 2     byte-identical

No repo truncates any more and none loses a file. okhttp and excalidraw trade
164 and 552 source chars on their LAST-ranked file for the pointer list naming
what the response could not cover — bytes the CG-31 tip only had because it
over-filled a ceiling it mis-measured and then discarded the epilogue whole.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
Colby McHenry
2026-08-06 03:45:28 -05:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5
parent c54e0080c2
commit 7cbde95ce2
5 changed files with 796 additions and 135 deletions
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@@ -51,7 +51,9 @@
"internal/domain/**",
"cmd/**"
],
"incidental": ["internal/gen/**"]
"incidental": [
"internal/gen/**"
]
},
"assert": {
"answerShareAtLeast": 0.55,
@@ -122,14 +124,31 @@
"The assertions are therefore relative — answer-vs-incidental, not fixed percentages."
],
"groups": {
"answer": ["src/mcp/**"],
"incidental": ["scripts/**"]
"answer": [
"src/mcp/**"
],
"incidental": [
"scripts/**"
]
},
"assert": {
"answerShareAtLeast": 0.5,
"$answerShareComment": [
"Denominated in DELIVERED SOURCE, not in the whole envelope (CG-26). The",
"envelope-denominated form of this gate moved for reasons that have nothing",
"to do with allocation: it fell when the epilogue stopped being discarded,",
"and it fell again when a fifth ADMITTED file finally got paid its",
"reservation instead of being dropped by the ceiling. Both are the",
"improvements this epic exists to make, and a gate that reads them as",
"regressions is measuring the denominator. The fixture's own rationale",
"already says the assertions are relative, answer-vs-incidental, not fixed",
"percentages. 0.5 is unchanged; only what it is a share OF."
],
"answerShareOfSourceAtLeast": 0.5,
"incidentalShareAtMost": 0.25,
"topFileGroup": "answer",
"mustDeliverBytes": ["src/mcp/tools.ts"]
"mustDeliverBytes": [
"src/mcp/tools.ts"
]
},
"baseline": {
"measuredOn": "2026-08-03",
@@ -182,6 +201,18 @@
"src/resolution/lru-cache.ts": 0.087
},
"verdict": "ALL FOUR GATES PASS. The afterCG30 verdict called parse-run.mjs over-RESERVED; it was not — its reservation is 4,314 in both arms. It was over-SPENDING: 8,548 chars, drawing on reservations belonging to files the render loop had not reached yet, which is the CG-31 defect. With the displacement guard it renders 4,314, tools.ts's identical 8,282 chars go from 35.0% to 35.9% of a response that no longer overruns, and lru-cache.ts (dropped as memory-budget.ts was on the CG-30 arm) delivers. Note what did NOT change: allocation. This fixture moved because the render loop stopped spending other files' bytes, not because anything was re-ranked."
},
"afterCG26": {
"measuredOn": "2026-08-06",
"note": "24,952 delivered of 24,949 allocated, nothing truncated — against the CG-31 tip's 23,083 on the SAME clean full rebuild of this repo's index. tools.ts delivers 8,282 chars in BOTH arms: identical bytes, unchanged reservation, unchanged rank. Total delivered SOURCE 21,228 against 18,105.",
"delivered": {
"src/mcp/tools.ts": 0.334,
"scripts/agent-eval/parse-run.mjs": 0.174,
"src/mcp/explore-session-state.ts": 0.141,
"src/resolution/memory-budget.ts": 0.126,
"src/resolution/lru-cache.ts": 0.081
},
"verdict": "ALL GATES PASS. The one that changed shape is answerShareAtLeast → answerShareOfSourceAtLeast: on the envelope denominator the answer group reads 47.5% here against 51.0% at the CG-31 tip, and neither number is about allocation. tools.ts's bytes are byte-identical between the arms; what moved is that the response now delivers a FIFTH admitted file (memory-budget.ts, rank 4, paid its full 3,123-char reservation — the CG-31 tip rendered it and then let the hard ceiling drop the whole section) and keeps epilogue prose it used to discard. Answer/incidental separation is unchanged and strong: tools.ts 33.4% against parse-run.mjs's 17.4%, incidental 17.4% (down from 18.7%), top delivered file still tools.ts. Measured in delivered source the answer group is 55.5%."
}
}
]