handleExplore's named-symbol seeding treats every identifier-shaped query
token as "a symbol the agent named" and grants its definition the
named-FIRST sort tier. Natural-language questions broke this assumption:
ordinary words exact-matched unrelated callables ("check" ->
WalCheckpointValve.check, "serve" -> query-worker serve, "initialize" ->
DatabaseConnection.initialize), and those collisions outranked — and within
the per-repo file budget fully displaced — the corroborated answer files,
forcing the agent back to Read/Grep. The >3-def single-pick fallback had
the same hole: on grpc, the #1064 flagship query "add a parameter to
NewClient" itself tiered balancerStateAggregator.add's file to slot #1.
Guard: a shape-precise token (camelCase, PascalCase, snake_case,
qualified) seeds unconditionally — it is an unambiguous symbol reference.
A bare lowercase word seeds only defs whose file another query token
co-names (that token is itself an exact symbol name defined in the same
file — the "check drain fire" sibling-bag shape), which an incidental
English-word collision never is. Applied by filtering cands ahead of both
branches so the overloaded-name fallback is covered too.
Validated per the retrieval playbook: deterministic probes on this repo
(collision queries fixed; sibling-bag and single-camelCase retained), and
baseline-vs-fixed probes on the #1064 repos — Alamofire and excalidraw
byte-identical, grpc improved (the add-collision file drops out and
clientconn.go + dialoptions.go lead). Full suite green.
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
