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Colby McHenryandClaude Opus 5 52b194a6be merge main into CG-3: keep the envelope view alongside occupancy
CG-3 branched from main before CG-1 landed and rewrote parse-run.mjs wholesale
into an exported parseSession(), which dropped CG-1's --envelope/--answer
reporting entirely. That view is the instrument the CG-1/CG-22 allocation gate
measures bar 2 with, and it is in that benchmark's documented reproduce steps,
so it cannot be lost to the merge.

Resolution takes CG-3's rewrite as the structure and ports the envelope feature
into it: parseSession now collects codegraph_explore response text in call
order, formatEnvelope renders the per-file share, and the CLI parses
--envelope/--answer ahead of the positional filter so a glob is never mistaken
for a log path.

The glob sentinel stays written as a \u0000 escape, never a literal NUL byte --
a raw one makes git treat the whole script as binary, exactly as the comment
there warns.

Verified: --selftest 18/18, and a synthetic explore transcript reports the
expected per-file shares and answer-set total.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-05 00:08:57 -05:00
Colby McHenry 1d333017a8 test(agent-eval): count blocked CLI attempts apart from real contamination (CG-7)
The hook denies the invocation, so a denied attempt puts no codegraph output in
the window and must not disqualify the run -- only a call that actually returned
content does. Attempts are still reported, since an agent hunting for the CLI is
worth seeing.
2026-08-04 16:46:30 -05:00
Colby McHenry e35d4861e0 test(agent-eval): block the codegraph CLI outright — hiding it from PATH was not enough (CG-7)
An agent denied `codegraph` on PATH ran `find / -maxdepth 4 -iname "*codegraph*"`,
found the binary, and invoked it by ABSOLUTE PATH — 12 times in one without-arm
run. So block the invocation itself with a PreToolUse hook on Bash, written into
the run's output dir as an artifact alongside the MCP configs rather than as a
repo file.

The pattern matches command positions only, so looking is still allowed and only
using is denied: `grep codegraph src/`, `ls .codegraph` and `which codegraph`
pass through, while `codegraph explore`, `/abs/path/codegraph …`, `cd x &&
codegraph …` and `VAR=1 codegraph …` are refused. run-all.sh proves both
directions at startup and refuses to run if either fails. parse-run.mjs's
detector uses the same rule, so prevention and detection cannot drift — and it no
longer false-positives on the corpus path, which contains the word codegraph.

Verified end-to-end: the without-arm now probes with `ls .codegraph; which
codegraph`, finds nothing usable, and falls back to Read/Bash.
2026-08-04 16:10:32 -05:00
Colby McHenry d3c01ce8ed test(agent-eval): stop the arms reaching codegraph through the shell (CG-7)
The without-arm had no MCP server but still had Bash, and the target repo carries
the .codegraph/ index the with-arm needs. Agents found it: 14 of 15 without-arm
runs in a 7-repo pass ran `codegraph explore` through Bash, one of them via
`ls .codegraph && codegraph explore ...`. That arm was measuring
codegraph-over-CLI, not codegraph-absent, so every without-arm number it produced
was wrong. It bit the with-arm too -- output arriving through Bash is attributed
to Bash, understating what codegraph itself occupies (1 of 15 runs).

Both arms now run on a PATH where the CLI is hidden, so the MCP server is the
only way to reach codegraph and stays the single variable. The binary shares a
directory with tools the run needs -- claude itself sits next to it -- so the
directory is substituted in place by one of symlinks to every entry except
codegraph, preserving PATH order and precedence. The run aborts if claude or node
did not survive the substitution.

Prevention alone would fail silently the next time the CLI lands somewhere new,
so parse-run.mjs flags any Bash command naming codegraph and parse-bench-readme
drops contaminated without-arm runs from the aggregate (CG_INCLUDE_CONTAMINATED=1
keeps them). CG_ARMS re-runs one arm without redoing the other.
2026-08-04 15:30:28 -05:00
Colby McHenry b93c8d2b6c test(agent-eval): self-test the occupancy math, and fix ratio calibration under shedding (CG-7)
parse-run.mjs --selftest runs the math over synthetic transcripts with known
answers: attribution, message.id dedupe, compact_boundary, FIFO micro-compaction,
and multi-turn stitching. It found a real bug. A gap where the window also SHED
content has a delta far below what was added, which reads as absurdly dense text
and dragged the whole run's ratio with it -- a shed gap in the fixture pushed
2.5 chars/tok to 4.4 and left the wrong result resident. Shedding can only push a
gap's ratio up, so the calibration now takes the lower median as its centre,
drops gaps well above it, and pools the rest. Runs that never shed are unaffected
(gin and vscode re-measure identically).

Also drafts docs/benchmarks/residual-context-occupancy.md -- method, error bar,
and the limitations this metric does not settle. Baseline numbers to follow.
2026-08-04 14:41:13 -05:00
Colby McHenry 4d5f8d371a test(agent-eval): report the occupancy metric's own error bar (CG-7)
On a gap that is >=95% one tool result, the measured context delta IS that
result's token count, so the spread between it and the run-level ratio is the
attribution error. Median over such gaps: +/-1-2% on real runs.
2026-08-04 14:38:38 -05:00
Colby McHenry 9b4df2133b test(agent-eval): price codegraph's fixed context cost alongside its residual (CG-7)
The first request's prompt is system + tool schemas + the question, before any
tool has answered, so differencing the arms' ctxBase prices what codegraph
occupies whether or not the agent ever calls it. Measured on gin: +775 tokens,
small because the tool is deferred -- only its name is in the initial listing.
2026-08-04 14:37:31 -05:00
Colby McHenry 4080b7501e test(agent-eval): measure residual context occupancy, over multi-turn sessions (CG-7)
The A/B arms reported cost, tokens, time and tool counts for one headless
question. They could not report what issue #1500 actually measured: how much of
the context window a tool's responses still occupy once the question is
answered, which every later turn is then charged for.

parse-run.mjs now measures that. Tokens are measured, not estimated: for each
assistant request, input + cache_read + cache_creation is the exact token count
of its whole prompt, so consecutive requests differ by exactly what was appended
between them. That delta is priced against the characters in the gap, calibrated
on gaps that are >=80% tool result. Explore output lands near 2.3 chars/token, so
the usual bytes/4 estimate would have under-counted it by ~40%.

Content also leaves the window, so residual is tracked apart from contributed:
a compact_boundary clears the resident set, and a mid-run context drop is
micro-compaction, which sheds the oldest tool results first and is applied FIFO.

run-all.sh takes "Q1||Q2||Q3" and runs them as one resumed session, one segment
file per turn; parse-run.mjs stitches the segments back together. bench-readme.sh
now runs each README repo as a three-turn session (CG_TURNS=1 restores the
single-question form). parse-bench-readme.mjs reports the arms' retrieval
residual side by side -- codegraph's responses against the without-arm's
Read/Grep/Bash -- in absolute tokens, share of context, and share of window, and
says so explicitly when the rows it aggregated were single-turn.

Two transcript traps are handled and documented at the call site: Claude Code
emits one assistant event per content block, all carrying the same usage (summing
per event double-counts every turn with both thinking and a tool_use), and the
streamed output_tokens is a partial snapshot.

Occupancy lives in parse-run.mjs and is imported by the aggregator rather than
extracted to a module -- a new scripts/agent-eval/*.mjs scores into the
self-query fixture's own corpus and moves its numbers.
2026-08-04 14:35:56 -05:00
Colby McHenryandClaude Opus 5 48a2309b92 test(agent-eval): RUNS knob + explore envelope-share view for new-vs-baseline A/B (CG-15)
ab-new-vs-baseline.sh now builds and indexes once per arm and runs the task
RUNS times (default 1), so the >=2-runs-per-arm rule costs one build instead
of N. Both arms run with CODEGRAPH_NO_PROMPT_HOOK=1 — the machine's ambient
front-load hook resolves to whatever is in dist/, a second uncontrolled
channel that confounds the tool-call counts — and point explore's CG-4
diagnostic at a per-arm sidecar.

parse-run.mjs gains --envelope/--answer: the per-file share of the explore
source envelope, parsed from the rendered markdown so it works on ANY build.
The CG-4 sidecar only exists post-CG-4, so it cannot measure the baseline arm;
this is the only view that measures both arms the same way. Folded into
parse-run.mjs rather than added as a new script on purpose: a new file named
after explore's budget scores into the self-query fixture's own corpus and
moved its answer share 59.9%% -> 47.9%%.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-04 01:05:30 -05:00
Colby McHenry 7fe64b32be feat(eval): add agent-eval harness and /audit + /publish Claude skills
Replaces the old interactive publish.js script with two Claude skills and
a full agent-evaluation harness:

- `.claude/skills/audit/` — `/audit` skill drives `scripts/agent-eval/audit.sh`
  to benchmark retrieval quality (with vs. without codegraph) on a chosen
  real-world repo from the new `corpus.json` (17 repos across 14 languages).
- `.claude/skills/publish/` — `/publish` skill orchestrates the full release
  workflow (preflight → changelog → confirmation gate → bump/build → npm
  publish → GitHub release), replacing `publish.js`.
- `scripts/agent-eval/` — headless (`run-agent.sh`, `run-all.sh`) and
  interactive tmux (`itrun.sh`) harnesses with stream-json parsers
  (`parse-run.mjs`, `parse-session.mjs`) that report tool calls, token
  usage, and a VERDICT line summarising codegraph_explore vs. Read/Grep counts.
- `run-interactive-test.md` — documents the two harnesses, idle-detection
  approach, and what "good" agent behavior looks like after explore-first
  guidance.
2026-05-20 09:39:17 -05:00