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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe pull request adds historian-visible evidence helpers, metamorphic transcript transforms, invariant comparisons, injection-canary detection, fixture expectations, and extensive validation coverage. It also exports ChangesHistorian metamorphic evaluation
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to This PR adds deterministic scenario transforms and invariant checks for end-to-end evaluation. The current implementation still has a bounded value-boundary correctness edge case, a transform test that may pass without exercising its guard, and timing assertions that can cause flaky CI failures; it is mergeable with explicit owner awareness and follow-up. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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- preserve negative evidence across turn-level rewrites - keep rejection duplication within transform contracts - make symbol renames consistent and collision-free - align canary detection with normalized substring scoring
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| const turnText = `${turn.user}\n${turn.assistant}`; | ||
| if (absentPredicates.some((predicate) => predicateMatches(predicate, turnText))) return []; |
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Fresh evidence beyond the earlier role-boundary case is an absent predicate that crosses two adjacent turns: this check concatenates only the user and assistant within each individual turn, whereas lintScenario searches the complete pre-epilogue evidence. If one turn's assistant ends with use and the next turn's user starts with API/v2, both turns remain eligible even though the contract matches use API/v2; paraphrasing or renaming either boundary message can then produce an applicable derivative that is no longer lint-clean. Determine the contributing protected turns from the complete pre-epilogue text before exposing either turn to rewriting.
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Protect negative evidence across adjacent turn boundaries
Confirmed and fixed in 68fefa9.
Reproduction: a lint-clean scenario whose only authorship of legacy bridge is turn-0 assistant ending ...we keep the legacy and turn-1 user opening bridge alive for now. Neither turn matches alone, lintScenario on the source is clean, and paraphrase-irrelevant produced ...abs-legacy-bridge.predicate: not-authored-before-epilogue on 8 of the first 40 seeds.
Two things came out of tracing it. Rewrite eligibility no longer approximates the rule at all: normalizedEvidenceMessages (new export on the contract) returns the historian-visible messages already normalized the way predicateMatches compares, joining back to normalizeContent(authoredEvidenceText(turns)), so a match is located once in that view and every message its span overlaps is excluded. That subsumes the old role-boundary check rather than sitting beside it.
The same exposure was in the turn-order transforms, which the fixture surfaced next: swapping turns 0 and 1 separates the same match, and reorder-independent-turns failed lint on 8 of 40 seeds after the eligibility fix landed. preservesAbsentEvidence now gates reorder, move, and duplication candidates on the derivative still authoring every formation the source authored, checked in both the pre-epilogue window the authorship rule reads and the whole transcript the scorer reads.
Regression test: every transform preserves negative evidence spanning adjacent turns, asserting lint-clean derivatives for all five transforms over seeds 0-39. Reverting the eligibility fix fails it plus the corpus test; the whole metamorphic suite is 44 pass.
| const candidates = [ | ||
| ...new Set(messages.flatMap((message) => | ||
| [...message.text.matchAll(SYMBOL_RE)].map((match) => match[1] ?? match[0]) | ||
| )), |
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The candidate list proves only that a symbol occurs in an eligible message, not that it is unrelated to protected evidence. For a valid scenario where an early question mentions aux_worker.ts and a protected accepted-decision turn later adopts that same file, selecting this candidate renames only the eligible reference while leaving the accepted occurrence unchanged, turning one entity into two and invalidating the metamorphic comparison even though lint still passes. Filter out candidates occurring in any non-eligible message, or otherwise preserve the symbol consistently without modifying protected evidence.
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Exclude symbols that also occur in protected turns
Already covered by f3f19cc, which landed after this review round was generated — no change needed in 68fefa9.
Verified against your exact scenario rather than the diff: turn-0 user asks Should we use Redis for the session cache in aux_worker.ts? and the protected turn-1 accepted decision adopts aux_worker.ts. The source is lint-clean, and across seeds 0-39 rename-unrelated-symbols never renames the eligible occurrence — zero violations.
The mechanism is the blocked set in the transform: symbols are collected from every message outside eligibleKeys, and since a protected turn contributes no eligible messages, any symbol it mentions is excluded from the candidate pool. rename never picks a symbol shared with an ineligible message pins it.
Worth noting the guard is now strictly stronger than when it landed: eligibility itself changed in 68fefa9, so a message that merely participates in a spanned expected-absent match is also outside eligibleKeys and its symbols are blocked too.
| (text: string) => `${text} This is background context only.`, | ||
| (text: string) => `As background: ${text}`, | ||
| ]; | ||
| const text = pick(rewrites, next)(message.text); |
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When the selected eligible message is at or close to MAX_TURN_TEXT_CHARS, every rewrite here adds characters, so derivative() calls parseScenario with an over-limit turn and throws above-operational-maximum instead of returning an InapplicableTransform. A lint-clean source can reach this case by placing maximum-length background text in the epilogue, and the exception aborts transform enumeration for an otherwise valid scenario. Check the rewritten message length before parsing and report the transform as inapplicable when it exceeds the contract limit.
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Preflight paraphrase length before constructing the derivative
Confirmed and fixed in 68fefa9.
Reproduction: validScenarioRaw with the epilogue user message padded to 19,992 chars is lint-clean (lintScenario returns [], so the headroom rule does not save us here), and paraphrase-irrelevant threw scenario.transcript.turns[3].user: above-operational-maximum on 13 of the first 30 seeds.
Fixed by filtering candidates rather than failing late: a message is only a candidate if at least one rewrite fits MAX_TURN_TEXT_CHARS, and the rewrite is then picked from the ones that fit for that message. That keeps alwaysApplicable: true honest — the transform falls back to another eligible message instead of reporting inapplicable — and leaves the seed-to-output mapping unchanged for every message that is not near the ceiling.
rename-unrelated-symbols had the same throw for the same reason (a replacement is up to aux_symbol_9999, longer than a short symbol like API), so it now checks the rewritten messages before constructing the derivative and reports rename does not fit the turn text limit.
Regression tests: paraphrase reports inapplicability instead of throwing at the turn text limit and rename reports inapplicability when the replacement exceeds the turn text limit. Each fails when its own guard is removed.
- make the symbol regex linear to prevent catastrophic backtracking - restore pre-epilogue rewrite eligibility with role-level exclusion - require moves to travel two positions so move and reorder stay distinct - block renames of symbols shared with ineligible messages - delegate canary detection to predicateMatches - normalize invariant claim content with the scoring normalizer - reuse validated turn maps when applying reorder and duplication - drop the unused normalizeContent import and canonicalizeInjectionSet export
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| turns[message.turnIndex]![message.role] = message.text.replace( | ||
| SYMBOL_RE, | ||
| (matched, quoted: string | undefined) => { | ||
| if ((quoted ?? matched) !== original) return matched; | ||
| return quoted === undefined ? replacement : `\`${replacement}\``; | ||
| }, | ||
| ); |
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When an eligible message is already at MAX_TURN_TEXT_CHARS and contains a short symbol such as API, replacing it with aux_symbol_N makes the message exceed the contract ceiling. The subsequent derivative() call then throws above-operational-maximum from parseScenario instead of returning an InapplicableTransform, aborting transform enumeration for a valid source scenario. Check every rewritten message's length before constructing the derivative.
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Preflight renamed messages against the text limit
Already fixed in 68fefa9, which landed while this round was being generated — original_commit_id on this comment is f3f19cc, so the guard was not in the tree you reviewed.
Verified against your exact case rather than assuming the diff covers it: an eligible message padded to MAX_TURN_TEXT_CHARS containing a short symbol returns { applicable: false, reason: "rename does not fit the turn text limit" } instead of throwing. rename reports inapplicability when the replacement exceeds the turn text limit pins it and fails when the guard is removed.
5fd2c28 generalizes the same concern rather than leaving it as a per-transform guard: derivative() now runs parseScenario and lintScenario and returns an inapplicable result when the perturbation is what breaks the contract, so a future transform cannot reintroduce this class by forgetting a preflight. The specific rename guard stays because it names the cause precisely.
| const order = scenario.transcript.turns.map((_, index) => index); | ||
| [order[left], order[right]] = [order[right]!, order[left]!]; | ||
| return preservesContiguousGold(scenario, mapForOrder(order)) ? [order] : []; |
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Even after the ID-free assertion change, candidate construction still admits two adjacent byte-identical turns. Swapping such a pair leaves the transcript and remapped gold unchanged, so the transform reports an applicable derivative whose only semantic difference is its generated ID and can score a duplicate baseline as metamorphic evidence. Exclude candidate pairs whose swapped turns are equal.
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Reject byte-identical reorder candidates
Confirmed and fixed in 5fd2c28.
Reproduction: a lint-clean scenario with two adjacent byte-identical background turns before the epilogue. reorder-independent-turns returned applicable: true with a transcript byte-identical to the source on 8 of the first 40 seeds — so the comparison would have scored the baseline against itself and counted it as metamorphic evidence.
Candidate construction now drops a pair whose two turns are equal in both roles. Regression test reorder refuses a pair of byte-identical turns asserts every applicable derivative over seeds 0-39 differs from the source transcript, and fails when the exclusion is removed.
Worth noting the vacuity is not only an ID artifact: even with an ID-free comparison the derivative is the source, so the invariant would hold trivially rather than because placement is robust. That is why this is filtered at candidate selection rather than papered over in the assertion.
| Array.from( | ||
| { length: Math.max(0, scenario.transcript.epilogueStartIndex - 2 - source) }, | ||
| (_, index) => { | ||
| const order = scenario.transcript.turns.map((_, turnIndex) => turnIndex); | ||
| const [moved] = order.splice(source, 1); | ||
| order.splice(source + index + 2, 0, moved!); | ||
| return { source, order }; | ||
| }, | ||
| ).filter(({ order }) => preservesContiguousGold(scenario, mapForOrder(order))), |
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When a later turn refers back to the accepted decision, every destination generated here can move the decision past that dependent turn because eligibility checks only whether gold ranges remain contiguous. For example, moving an accepted API-version decision after a turn asking what header “that version” uses makes the derivative chronologically incoherent while remaining lint-clean, so an invariant failure measures the changed scenario rather than placement robustness. Restrict moves to spans whose intervening turns are proven independent of the decision.
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Keep moved decisions ahead of dependent turns
Split this one: the mechanically checkable half is fixed in 5fd2c28, the rest I am declining with evidence rather than guessing at a heuristic.
Fixed: a move whose span contains a turn carrying rejected-proposal evidence is no longer a candidate. Every turn the decision passes shifts ahead of it, so such a move leaves the proposal preceding the decision that rejected it — the same inversion reorder-independent-turns already refuses for an adjacent pair, which move-accepted-decision was not applying. Both transforms now derive those turns from the exact evidence view rather than a per-turn concatenation, so a proposal authored across a boundary marks both turns. Regression test: move refuses a span containing a rejected proposal.
Declined: restricting moves to spans whose intervening turns are "proven independent of the decision" in your that version sense. Your example turns on English coreference — the dependent turn shares no tokens, no gold range, and no predicate with the decision — and nothing available to the transform can decide it.
The mechanical proxy makes the transform dead code. Requiring intervening turns to be free of expected-claim coverage, I enumerated the candidate space over all 13 frozen corpus scenarios: every one has zero move spans to begin with, and the only candidate in the test fixture has a protected capacity decision in its span. So the restriction removes the transform without removing a reachable hazard, and the hazard you describe is currently unreachable on the corpus — move-accepted-decision is inapplicable on all 13 scenarios today and only exercises against a fixture with an inserted background turn. I would put this below P1 on that basis.
If you want the guarantee enforced, the honest place is the scenario contract: an explicit per-turn movability or dependency annotation the corpus author sets, which the transform then reads. That is a contract change with a lint rule behind it, not a transform heuristic, and I would rather land it deliberately than approximate it here. Happy to file it if you agree.
| const paraphraseIrrelevant: Transform = { | ||
| id: "paraphrase-irrelevant", | ||
| version: 1, | ||
| alwaysApplicable: true, |
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A contract-valid scenario can have every pre-epilogue turn covered by expected-claim source ranges while both messages in the epilogue repeat expected-absent evidence; eligibleMessages then returns no candidates and this transform returns applicable: false despite advertising alwaysApplicable: true. The corpus guard treats that combination as an error, so adding such a valid scenario breaks transform enumeration. Mark this transform conditional or provide a rewrite that is guaranteed safe for every valid scenario.
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Do not mark a conditional paraphrase as always applicable
Confirmed and fixed in 5fd2c28, though not by relaxing the flag.
Your construction is real. I built it: one pre-epilogue turn covered by both expected-claim ranges, and an epilogue turn whose user and assistant both repeat use Redis for the session cache. lintScenario returns [], and paraphrase returned no irrelevant message to paraphrase.
Tracing it showed the eligibility rule was the bug, not the flag. All three rewrites only frame the message — As background: <text>, <text> This is background context only., and the For context, prefix whose lowercased first character is a no-op under normalizeContent. None of them edits interior text, so a forbidden formation inside a message survives every one of them; only a formation running into a neighbouring message can lose its adjacency, and then only to the rewrite that inserts on that side. Excluding the whole message was over-broad.
Candidates are now (message, rewrite) pairs, each proven against the actual candidate transcript via the same preservesAbsentEvidence helper the order-changing transforms use. A message stays available for the rewrites that are safe for it. Your scenario is now applicable and lint-clean.
alwaysApplicable stays true, and I read it as a corpus invariant the guard enforces rather than a universal theorem — a scenario that violates it should fail loudly so the corpus gets fixed. One correction on the consequence: nothing aborts enumeration there. The transform returns an inapplicable result and the corpus test fails; that is the tripwire working.
Regression test: paraphrase still applies when every unprotected message carries negative evidence, which fails if eligibility goes back to excluding any message a formation touches.
| const rewrites = [ | ||
| (text: string) => `For context, ${text.charAt(0).toLowerCase()}${text.slice(1)}`, | ||
| (text: string) => `${text} This is background context only.`, | ||
| (text: string) => `As background: ${text}`, | ||
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When an exact or multiple-choice probe has a valid gold answer such as background, these fixed rewrites can insert that answer into an unprotected message, including an epilogue message that remains in raw history during probing. The derivative then lets the probe copy its answer without relying on the injected claim, so a passing metamorphic run can overstate probe accuracy even though the source scenario was leakage-free. Reject rewrite templates that contain any probe gold answer, or generate wording that is collision-free for the scenario.
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Avoid introducing probe gold in paraphrase boilerplate
Confirmed and fixed in 5fd2c28. This was the most valuable finding in the round — nothing in the contract would have caught it.
Reproduction: a lint-clean scenario whose exact probe has gold answer background, authored in its claim range as the background tier owns the retry budget. Paraphrase inserted a fresh complete-value occurrence of background into an unprotected message on 20 of the first 30 seeds, including the epilogue user message. lintScenario stays clean throughout: it checks that a gold answer is authored in its source range, and has no rule against additional occurrences elsewhere.
Fixed by rejecting the pair rather than the message: a (message, rewrite) candidate is dropped when containsCompleteValue(rewritten, goldAnswer) holds but containsCompleteValue(original, goldAnswer) does not, for every non-claim-id probe. Using containsCompleteValue rather than substring containment keeps it aligned with how the answer is compared, so background does not spuriously trip on backgrounder.
Regression test: paraphrase never frames a message with a probe gold answer, asserting the complete-value verdict is unchanged for every rewritten message across seeds 0-29. It fails when the probe filter is removed.
| const { source, insertion, turnMap } = pick(candidates, splitmix32(seed)); | ||
| const turns = scenario.transcript.turns.map((turn) => ({ ...turn })); | ||
| turns.splice(insertion, 0, { ...scenario.transcript.turns[source]! }); | ||
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For a lint-clean source whose rendered transcript is close to the single-chunk budget, inserting a rejected-proposal turn can push transcriptTokens + headroomMarginTokens over that budget. derivative() only reparses the object, so this still returns applicable: true with a derivative that lintScenario rejects and that may split the historian input differently from the baseline. Check the resulting scenario's headroom before accepting the duplication and return an inapplicable result when it no longer fits.
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Preflight duplicated turns against chunk headroom
Confirmed and fixed in 5fd2c28.
Reproduction: validScenarioRaw with every message padded by ~14,000 chars renders to 26,314 tokens against a 32,000 budget, so the source is lint-clean with the 2,000 margin to spare. duplicate-rejected-proposal then returned applicable: true with a derivative diagnosing exceeds-single-chunk-headroom (30990 + margin 2000 > 32000).
Rather than adding a third preflight next to the turn-limit and text-limit ones, derivative() now runs the contract it is about to be judged by: parseScenario in a try, then lintScenario, returning an inapplicable transform when the perturbation is what breaks it. Headroom, turn count, message length, and evidence authorship are all covered by construction, and a future transform cannot reintroduce the class by forgetting a check. Insertion is the case where no other candidate helps — every insertion adds the same rendered turn — so declining is the right answer here rather than choosing differently.
Two details worth flagging, since both are places a naive version of this goes wrong. Only diagnostics the source did not already carry count: blaming a transform for inheriting an unclean source would report every transform as inapplicable and hide what the perturbation actually did. And the comparison keys on the diagnostic with the scenario label and any parenthesised measurement stripped, because both differ between a source and its derivative by construction.
Regression tests: duplication refuses to push the rendered transcript past single-chunk headroom asserts the reason names both the backstop and exceeds-single-chunk-headroom, and the corpus test now asserts no frozen scenario ever reaches the backstop — an inapplicable result there means the transform declined too late and the corpus is where it gets fixed.
- protect negative evidence that a match spans across turn boundaries - keep reorder, move, and duplication from separating a spanned match - report inapplicability instead of throwing at the turn text limit Rewrite eligibility previously approximated the authorship rule with a per-turn concatenation, so a forbidden formation authored across two adjacent turns left both turns exposed and a rewrite could produce a derivative that fails lint as never-authored. Eligibility now maps each match back to the messages it spans through the same normalized evidence view the matcher compares, and the turn-order transforms drop any candidate that would separate a match. Paraphrase and rename both lengthen a message, and the derivative re-parses, so a message at the contract limit made transform enumeration throw and abort the whole scenario. Both now preflight the length and report an inapplicable transform.
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| return (["user", "assistant"] as const).flatMap((role) => | ||
| evidenceMessages.has(`${turnIndex}:${role}`) ? [] : [{ turnIndex, role, text: turn[role] }], |
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When a non-protected user role contains only a <system-reminder>…</system-reminder> block or a Magic Context system directive, normalizedEvidenceMessages intentionally omits it, but this missing key makes the raw role eligible. paraphrase-irrelevant can then prepend text that survives reminder removal or prevents isSystemDirective from recognizing the directive, materializing a historian-visible message that was absent from the baseline and invalidating the metamorphic comparison. Require the candidate itself to be historian-visible before exposing it to rewrites.
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Exclude historian-discarded roles from rewrite candidates
Confirmed and fixed in 009f0d7. Good catch — I had reasoned about this while writing the span logic and talked myself out of it on the grounds that adding text cannot remove a match, which is true and beside the point: the hazard is the message set changing, not the evidence.
Reproduction: turn 0 user prefixed with a <system-reminder> block and the epilogue user message replaced by [SYSTEM DIRECTIVE: MAGIC-CONTEXT] refresh the working set. Both are absent from normalizedEvidenceMessages, so neither had a span key, and both were candidates. lintScenario on the derivative stays clean, so the contract backstop in derivative() does not catch it either — the derivative is a valid scenario, just not a perturbation of the baseline.
Fixed at the candidate source rather than per transform: unprotectedMessages now requires the message to be present in the historian-visible view, so both paraphrase and rename inherit it. Rename needed it too — a symbol inside the directive text could break isSystemDirective and make the message visible the same way.
Regression test rewrites never materialize a message the historian would have discarded asserts, over seeds 0-29 for both transforms, that the directive message is untouched and that the derivative's visible message set is identical to the source's. It fails when the visibility requirement is removed.
| return scenario.gold.expectedAbsent.every( | ||
| (absent) => | ||
| !predicateMatches(absent.predicate, authored) || | ||
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Fresh evidence beyond the earlier single-match boundary case is a predicate with multiple authored occurrences: if legacy bridge occurs once across the two turns being reordered and once elsewhere, swapping those turns can destroy the boundary occurrence while this predicate-level Boolean still passes because the unrelated occurrence remains. The derivative therefore loses part of its rejection evidence even though the helper claims to preserve every formation, so track and preserve each source match rather than only checking that the predicate remains present somewhere.
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Preserve every negative-evidence occurrence during reordering
Confirmed and fixed in 009f0d7. You are right that the helper claimed more than it checked.
Reproduction: legacy bridge authored twice — once wholly inside one turn, once across the turn-1/turn-2 boundary. Swapping those two turns destroys the boundary occurrence, and the predicate-level boolean passed on the survivor, so the derivative went out with one fewer authored occurrence than the scenario declares.
The fix identifies occurrences rather than predicates. absentMatchSpans now returns one entry per authored occurrence, keyed by the absent ID and the ordered messages the occurrence runs through, and preservesAbsentEvidence maps each source occurrence through the candidate's turn map and consumes it from the derivative's multiset. A lost occurrence fails even when another remains, and an occurrence that survives intact still matches after a reorder because its span moves with its turns.
Two things fell out of it. The message-level span set the rename eligibility rule uses is now derived from the same enumeration, so there is one definition of what negative evidence touches. And the two-window check the boolean needed is gone: an occurrence that crosses the epilogue boundary changes the messages it spans, so the occurrence identity already carries what the second window was there to catch.
Regression test reorder preserves a second occurrence of the same negative evidence asserts the occurrence count never drops below two across seeds 0-39, and fails when the check is weakened back to predicate-level presence.
- decline a candidate whose derivative the scenario contract would reject - reject reorder pairs that swap byte-identical turns - keep paraphrase framing out of probe gold answers - refuse moves that carry a rejected proposal ahead of its decision Transform enumeration had four ways to hand back a derivative the harness rejects: an inserted turn could push the rendered transcript past single-chunk headroom, a rewrite could outgrow the per-message ceiling, and either could break evidence a lint rule reads across the whole range. `derivative()` now runs the contract it is about to be judged by and reports an inapplicable transform when the perturbation is what breaks it, counting only diagnostics the source did not already carry so an unclean corpus scenario stays the corpus's problem. Paraphrase candidates are now whole message-and-rewrite pairs proven against the per-message ceiling, negative evidence, and probe gold answers. Pairing matters for all three: the framing keeps the original wording, so a formation inside a message survives and only one running into a neighbour can lose its adjacency, which keeps a message available for the rewrites that are safe for it. The probe check is the quiet one — `background` is a valid gold answer and also appears in the framing, and inserting it puts the answer in raw history the probe still reads. Reorder dropped pairs of byte-identical turns, whose swap returns the source transcript and would score the baseline against itself, and both order-changing transforms now derive proposal turns from the exact evidence view rather than a per-turn concatenation.
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| if (!preservesAbsentEvidence(scenario, turns, scenario.transcript.epilogueStartIndex)) return false; | ||
| return scenario.probes.every((probe) => { | ||
| if (probe.answerType === "claim-id") return true; |
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When fixed framing such as This is background context only. matches an expected-claim predicate that previously occurred only in its protected source range, this safety check still accepts the rewrite because it checks absent evidence and probe answers but never expected-claim predicates; claim-id probes bypass the answer check entirely. An unprotected pre-epilogue message can therefore gain authoritative gold evidence, changing what the historian may promote and invalidating the metamorphic comparison. Reject rewrites that create any new expected-claim match outside its declared source range.
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Reject paraphrases that introduce expected-claim evidence
Confirmed and fixed in f07c326. The point about claim-id probes is the one that makes this its own check rather than a variant of the probe-answer one — and a claim need not be referenced by any probe at all, so no answer check stands in for it.
Reproduction: a third gold claim with predicate background context authored in its protected source range, no probe referencing it. lintScenario on the source is clean, and paraphrase raised the authored occurrence count of background context from one to two by framing an unprotected message with This is background context only.
Fixed by counting rather than pattern-matching the framing: a candidate is rejected when the expected-claim occurrence count over the whole evidence view would rise. That covers the case you named and also an occurrence created across the boundary between the framed message and its neighbour, which a check confined to the rewritten message would miss. It reuses the same occurrence enumerator the negative-evidence check uses, now generic over any id-and-predicate set.
Regression test: paraphrase never frames a message into expected-claim evidence, asserting the count is unchanged for every applicable seed in 0-29. It fails when the claim check is removed.
| const text = `${turn.user}\n${turn.assistant}`; | ||
| if (!rejected.some((absent) => predicateMatches(absent.predicate, text))) return []; |
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When the only unprotected raw occurrence of a rejected predicate is inside a user <system-reminder> or directive that production discards, while the required authored occurrence is in a protected turn, this raw-text predicate check selects the discarded occurrence. The transform then duplicates an unrelated historian-visible turn rather than rejection evidence, while preservesAbsentEvidence passes because the protected occurrence remains elsewhere. Build candidates from the same historian-normalized evidence view used by the contract.
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Match rejected-proposal candidates in historian-visible text
Confirmed and fixed in f07c326. Same root cause as the rewrite-candidate finding in the previous round: this was the last place still matching raw strings where the contract reads the historian's view.
Reproduction: a background turn whose user message carries <system-reminder>should we use Redis for the session cache</system-reminder> with the required authored occurrence in a protected turn. The source is lint-clean, the raw predicate check selected that background turn, and duplication copied a turn carrying no rejection at all — with preservesAbsentEvidence passing on the protected occurrence exactly as you describe.
Candidate turns now come from the occurrence enumerator restricted to proposed-but-rejected entries, which runs on the normalized historian-visible view, so a discarded occurrence cannot nominate a turn. That also picks up the cross-boundary case for free: a rejection authored across two turns now nominates both.
Regression test: duplication selects a turn whose rejection the historian receives, asserting the duplicated turn is never the reminder-only one. It fails when candidate selection goes back to raw text.
| apply(scenario, rawSeed) { | ||
| const seed = normalizedSeed(rawSeed); | ||
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| (text: string) => `For context, ${text.charAt(0).toLowerCase()}${text.slice(1)}`, |
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When an eligible message starts with a case-sensitive identifier, this rewrite changes the identifier rather than merely framing the message; for example, MyFile.ts contains the helper becomes myFile.ts contains the helper. Seeds selecting this template can therefore turn an irrelevant paraphrase into a reference to a different file or symbol, so prepend framing without lowercasing the original first character.
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Preserve case-sensitive leading identifiers
Confirmed and fixed in f07c326. This one I had actively reasoned about and got wrong: I justified the lowercasing as a no-op because normalizeContent case-folds before comparing, which is true for every predicate check and irrelevant to the thing that matters — the historian receives the raw text.
Reproduction: an eligible message reading MyFile.ts contains the helper. came back as For context, myFile.ts contains the helper.
Fixed by dropping the recasing: the template is now For context, ${text}. The sentence reads slightly formally with a capitalised original, which is a fair trade for not renaming a file as a side effect of framing.
Regression test: paraphrase framing does not recase a leading identifier, asserting every rewritten variant of that message keeps MyFile.ts and never contains myFile.ts. It fails when the lowercasing is restored.
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| // backtracks exponentially when the trailing `\b` fails. | ||
| // commentlint: allow(JUDGE) | ||
| const SYMBOL_RE = /`([^`]+)`|\b(?:[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9]*(?:[_./-][A-Za-z0-9]+)+|[a-z]+[A-Z][A-Za-z0-9]*|[A-Z]{2,})\b/g; |
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When an eligible message contains inline code that is a command or expression, the first regex alternative treats the entire backtick body as a renameable symbol; for example, selecting `npm test -- --watch` replaces the whole command with `aux_symbol_N`. That is not a semantics-preserving symbol rename and can change the historian output for reasons unrelated to naming, so only admit backtick contents that satisfy an identifier/path grammar.
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Restrict backtick candidates to actual identifiers
Confirmed and fixed in f07c326.
Reproduction: an eligible message containing `npm test -- --watch`. The first regex alternative captured the whole span, so the rename replaced the command with `aux_symbol_N` — rewriting an instruction rather than renaming an entity.
Fixed by anchoring the unquoted alternation and requiring backtick contents to satisfy it, behind one symbolsIn helper that every scan now goes through — candidates, the blocked surface, and the existing-name set — so the grammar cannot drift between them. A rejected span is dropped whole rather than descending into its tokens: npm and test are not names either, and the span is consumed by the regex in any case.
Regression test: rename leaves inline commands and probe-referenced symbols alone asserts the command survives verbatim across seeds 0-39 while a genuine identifier in the same message is still renamed. It fails when the grammar check is removed.
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When a symbol occurs in an eligible transcript message and in a probe question but not in a protected transcript message, this blocked-symbol scan does not see the probe and the transform can rename only the transcript occurrence. The derivative probe then still asks about the old entity—for example, history changes buildAPI to aux_symbol_N while the question remains “What status does buildAPI return?”—so the comparison measures a broken query/history relationship. Include probe questions, answers, and choices in the non-renameable symbol surface.
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Block renames of symbols referenced by probes
Confirmed and fixed in f07c326. The blocked-symbol scan only ever looked at transcript messages, so the probe surface was invisible to it.
Reproduction: buildAPI in an eligible epilogue message and in a probe question, in no protected message. Rename selected it and rewrote the transcript occurrence while the question kept asking about buildAPI.
Probe questions, gold answers, and multiple-choice choices now join the non-renameable surface alongside ineligible messages. All three matter, not just the question: a renamed answer or choice breaks the comparison the same way.
Regression test: rename leaves inline commands and probe-referenced symbols alone, which asserts buildAPI survives every applicable seed in 0-39 while aux_worker.ts — claimed by neither a probe nor inline code — is still renamed on some seed, so the guard cannot pass by making the transform inapplicable. It fails when probes are dropped from the surface.
| const leftTurn = scenario.transcript.turns[left]!; | ||
| const rightTurn = scenario.transcript.turns[right]!; | ||
| if (leftTurn.user === rightTurn.user && leftTurn.assistant === rightTurn.assistant) { | ||
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Beyond byte-identical raw turns, two turns can differ only in user <system-reminder> contents or other text that historian cleaning removes, leaving identical historian-visible user and assistant messages. This raw equality check admits such a pair, so swapping it produces no change to the model input even though the serialized transcript differs, and the run records vacuous metamorphic evidence. Compare the cleaned historian-visible turn payloads when excluding no-op reorder candidates.
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Reject reorder pairs identical after historian cleaning
Confirmed and fixed in f07c326 — my byte-identical check from the previous round was the right idea at the wrong layer.
Reproduction: two adjacent turns differing only inside a <system-reminder> block. Raw equality saw them as distinct, so the swap was a candidate, and the derivative differed only in bytes the historian never receives.
The guard now compares turns reduced to what the historian receives, via the same normalized view the evidence rules use. That subsumes byte-identity — identical raw turns reduce to identical payloads — so it is one check rather than two.
Regression test: reorder refuses a pair the historian receives identically builds the reminder-only difference and asserts the derivative's historian-visible text differs from the source across seeds 0-39. It fails when the comparison goes back to raw turns, which is what makes the distinction between the two layers testable rather than asserted.
- rewrite only messages the historian actually receives - preserve each authored occurrence of negative evidence, not just the predicate A user message that is empty after cleaning, or that is a Magic Context system directive, never reaches the historian, and framing text prepended to one can stop it being recognised as a directive or survive reminder stripping. The derivative would then carry a historian-visible message the baseline never had, which is a different transcript rather than a perturbation of this one, so rewrite candidates are now restricted to messages present in the historian-visible view. Negative-evidence preservation was a predicate-level boolean, so a formation authored twice let the surviving occurrence hide the loss of the other: a reordering could pull apart an occurrence spanning the swapped turns while the check still passed on an unrelated one, leaving the derivative with less rejection evidence than the scenario declares. Occurrences are now identified by the ordered messages they run through, and each source occurrence is mapped through the turn map and matched individually with multiplicity. That subsumes the two-window check the boolean needed, since an occurrence that moves across the epilogue boundary changes the messages it spans.
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| if (!preservesAbsentEvidence(scenario, turns, scenario.transcript.turns.map((_, index) => index))) { | ||
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When an expected-absent predicate is already authored elsewhere and also matches the fixed framing text—for example, a predicate of background context—this check accepts a rewrite that creates an additional occurrence in an unrelated message. preservesAbsentEvidence only proves that every original occurrence survives; it does not reject newly introduced matches, so the derivative strengthens its rejection evidence and can change historian behavior for reasons unrelated to paraphrasing. Require the derivative's expected-absent occurrence multiset to equal the source's, rather than merely contain it.
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Reject paraphrases that add negative evidence
Confirmed and fixed in 8c0e010. You were right that containment was the wrong relation — and the same gap existed on the expected-claim side, where I had used a count comparison in the previous round, so both are now one symmetric check.
Reproduction: an expected-absent predicate of background context authored in turn 0. Paraphrase raised its authored occurrence count from one to two by framing an unrelated message with This is background context only.
The occurrence comparison now reports losses and creations separately rather than returning a boolean. Rewrites and reorderings require both to be zero for negative evidence and expected claims alike; duplication still requires only that nothing is lost, since repeating a rejected-proposal turn is the perturbation it exists to make. Separating the two counts also closes a hole a plain count would leave — a simultaneous loss and gain nets to zero.
Regression tests: paraphrase never frames a message into negative evidence and its expected-claim twin, asserting the occurrence count is unchanged across applicable seeds in 0-29. Both fail when the creation half is dropped.
| const [moved] = order.splice(source, 1); | ||
| order.splice(destination, 0, moved!); | ||
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When the selected accepted-decision turn and every turn it crosses are byte-identical, removing and reinserting it here leaves the transcript unchanged. Unlike the adjacent-reorder transform, this candidate path has no equality check, so it reports an applicable derivative whose observable input differs only by its generated ID and remapped annotation, recording a duplicate baseline as metamorphic evidence. Exclude orders whose resulting transcript equals the source transcript.
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Reject no-op accepted-decision moves
Confirmed and fixed in 8c0e010.
Reproduction: an accepted decision inside a run of four turns the historian receives identically. Removing and reinserting it returned the source transcript, and the transform reported it as applicable.
Rather than adding an equality check to this candidate path, both order-changing transforms now share one guard requiring the historian-visible transcript to differ, and the pairwise check I added to reorder last round is gone. The whole-transcript comparison is what the case needs: a run of interchangeable turns can be permuted without any adjacent pair matching, so a pairwise check would have missed the three- and four-position moves in this fixture.
Regression test: move refuses an order the historian receives unchanged. Its fixture keeps the rejected proposal outside every candidate span, so the proposal-ordering guard from the earlier round is not what declines the candidates — the test fails when only the visible-transcript guard is removed, which is what makes it specific to this fix.
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Enforce verdict monotonicity in invariant comparison
Confirmed and fixed in 8c0e010. This one was a gap between the PR description and the code: the summary claims the invariant checks cover verdict monotonicity, and they did not.
The parameter type was the root of it. AbsentMatchScore was Pick<ScenarioScore, "falseAuthoritativeMatches">, so the verdict was not merely unchecked — it was unrepresentable at the boundary. It now takes verdict and failReasons as well, and a third verdict-monotonicity entry fails on a baseline-PASS to derivative-FAIL or derivative-ERROR transition, reporting both verdicts and the fail reasons the derivative introduced.
Only that direction fails. A derivative that passes where the baseline failed is not a regression, and reporting it would make the invariant fire on scenarios that are merely noisy rather than transformed into something worse.
Regression tests are table-driven over exactly the paths you named — probe, recall, structural, invalid-output, and a derivative ERROR — each with identical injected claim sets and identical expected-absent matches on both sides, asserting the other two invariants still hold so the test proves this check is what catches it. Plus a case pinning the failing-baseline direction as holding. All five fail when the monotonicity condition is loosened to always-true.
- reject framing that authors expected-claim evidence outside its range - stop framing from recasing a leading identifier - select rejection turns from historian-visible text - rename only backtick contents that are identifiers - treat probe text as non-renameable - compare reorder no-op candidates on the historian-visible payload Framing checked negative evidence and probe answers but not expected-claim predicates, so wording like `This is background context only.` could author gold evidence in an unprotected message. A `claim-id` probe has no answer to collide with and a claim need not be probed at all, so no answer check stands in for this one; candidates now require the expected-claim occurrence count not to rise. The `For context,` template lowercased the first character. Under `normalizeContent` that is invisible, which is why it read as harmless, but the historian receives the raw text: a message opening with `MyFile.ts` became `myFile.ts`, naming a different file. Two places still matched raw strings where the contract reads the historian's view. Duplication could select a turn whose only rejection occurrence sits in a reminder block or directive production discards, duplicating a turn that carries no rejection while the protected occurrence kept the evidence check passing. Reorder's no-op guard compared raw turns, so two turns differing only inside a stripped reminder still counted as distinct and their swap produced no change to the model input. Renaming treated any backtick span as a symbol, so selecting `` `npm test -- --watch` `` rewrote a command rather than renaming an entity; backtick contents now have to satisfy the same shape the unquoted alternatives accept. Probe questions, answers, and choices join the non-renameable surface, since renaming only the transcript occurrence leaves the probe asking about an entity the history no longer mentions.
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| matchSpans(rejected, scenario.transcript.turns).flatMap((match) => | ||
| match | ||
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When a rejected predicate spans adjacent turns, matchSpans adds every contributing turn to rejectedTurns; duplicating the latter turn can preserve the original cross-turn match without copying the rejection itself. For example, if one assistant ends with legacy and the next user starts with bridge, copying only the second turn repeats unrelated content while the negative-evidence density remains unchanged, invalidating this transform's comparison. Require the selected turn's own historian-visible payload to contain the rejected predicate.
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Duplicate only turns containing complete rejection evidence
Confirmed and fixed in 77f95af. My previous fix moved candidate selection onto the historian-visible view but kept the wrong granularity — every contributing turn rather than every carrying turn.
Reproduction: legacy bridge authored only across a turn boundary, one assistant ending we could keep the legacy and the next user opening bridge for now. Both turns entered rejectedTurns, so duplication could copy the second — repeating unrelated content while the rejection density stayed exactly where it was.
A turn now qualifies only when its own payload holds a complete occurrence, tested by running the same occurrence enumerator over that turn alone. That keeps the user/assistant boundary inside the turn working, since a rejection spanning the two roles of one turn is still carried by that turn.
Regression test: duplication refuses a turn holding only half of a cross-turn rejection, which fails when selection goes back to contributing turns.
| turns[message.turnIndex]![message.role] = message.text.replace( | ||
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| if ((quoted ?? matched) !== original) return matched; | ||
| return quoted === undefined ? replacement : `\`${replacement}\``; | ||
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When the selected symbol also appears inside a non-identifier backtick span, the first SYMBOL_RE alternative consumes that entire span and this callback leaves it untouched. Thus `buildAPI --watch`; buildAPI is background tooling can become `buildAPI --watch`; aux_symbol_N is background tooling, splitting one entity into two names despite the consistent-rename contract. Either block symbols occurring inside rejected backtick spans or rename their identifier tokens consistently.
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Preserve symbol occurrences embedded in inline commands
Confirmed and fixed in 77f95af. Restricting the backtick grammar last round created this: the span is now rejected as a candidate, but the regex still consumes it, so the tokens inside became unreachable rather than merely unselectable.
Reproduction: `buildAPI --watch`; buildAPI is background tooling — the bare occurrence was renamed while the span kept the old name, exactly as you describe.
Of your two options I took blocking rather than renaming inside the span. Renaming identifier tokens inside a command means editing the command, and a rename that rewrites part of an instruction is the problem the grammar restriction was there to prevent. A symbol occurring in a rejected span is therefore not renameable anywhere in the scenario.
Regression test: rename refuses a symbol it cannot reach inside inline code, which asserts the span and the bare occurrence both survive every applicable seed while a symbol not caught by a span in the same message is still renamed — so the guard cannot pass by making the transform inapplicable. It fails when the blocking is removed.
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When a generated aux_symbol_N appears only in a probe question or choice, this collision set does not see it because existing scans only transcript turns. The original candidate may be unrelated to every probe and therefore allowed, but its replacement can then alias the probe-only entity and change the query/history relationship. Include the probe surfaces already used for blocked when testing replacement-name availability.
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Keep replacement names distinct from probe symbols
Confirmed and fixed in 77f95af. I added probe text to blocked last round and left existing — the collision set for the generated name — scanning transcript turns only, which is the same surface with the opposite direction of harm.
Both sets now come from one list of transcript and probe text, so they cannot drift apart again.
Getting a non-vacuous regression test out of this took a specific construction worth noting: the replacement index is drawn from a ten-thousand-name space, so reserving an arbitrary name would collide about one run in ten thousand and the test would pass either way. The test instead replays the transform's own draw sequence — splitmix32(seed), one draw for the symbol and the next for the starting index — reserves exactly that name in the probe question, and asserts the transform picks something else. rename replacements avoid names only a probe uses fails on every one of its six seeds when probe text is dropped from existing.
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Fresh evidence after the earlier eligibility fix is the length guard in safeParaphrase: a lint-clean scenario can cover every pre-epilogue turn with claim ranges and place both historian-visible epilogue messages at MAX_TURN_TEXT_CHARS, making all three additive rewrites inapplicable. This transform then returns applicable: false while remaining listed in ALWAYS_APPLICABLE_TRANSFORM_IDS, so the corpus guard fails for a contract-valid scenario; mark it conditional or provide a non-growing fallback rewrite.
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Mark length-limited paraphrasing as conditional
Accepted and done in 77f95af. You raised this twice and my previous answer — that the corpus guard is a tripwire working as intended — was defending a declaration that a legal input can falsify. Your sharper construction settles it.
Reproduction: every pre-epilogue turn covered by claim ranges, both historian-visible epilogue messages at exactly MAX_TURN_TEXT_CHARS. Lint-clean, and paraphrase returns inapplicable while listed as always-applicable.
alwaysApplicable is now false. I looked for your other option first and could not find an honest non-growing rewrite: all three templates frame the message rather than editing it, which is exactly why they are safe for evidence inside a message, and any framing adds characters. A shortening or reordering rewrite would be a different perturbation with different safety obligations, not a fallback.
The property the flag was protecting is now asserted where it is true: the corpus test requires paraphrase-irrelevant to apply to every frozen scenario. So a corpus addition that cannot be paraphrased still fails loudly, and the transform no longer claims something a contract-valid input can disprove.
One consequence worth flagging for the stack: ALWAYS_APPLICABLE_TRANSFORM_IDS is now empty. Nothing in this PR reads it besides the corpus guard, but if #100's admission logic keys off it, that is a deliberate change in what it means — a corpus-level assertion rather than a per-transform declaration — and I would rather say so here than have it surface as a silent behaviour change downstream.
Regression test: paraphrase is conditional because a message at the ceiling admits no rewrite, which pins your construction as lint-clean, inapplicable, and not a corpus-guard failure.
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Fresh evidence beyond the earlier fully discarded-role case is a partially visible user message such as <system-reminder>aux_worker.ts</system-reminder> Background note.: the role passes unprotectedMessages because Background note. survives cleaning, but this candidate scan reads the raw message and can select the symbol that exists only inside the stripped reminder. The resulting derivative is marked applicable although its historian-visible input is unchanged, producing vacuous metamorphic evidence; require each candidate symbol to occur in the cleaned message view.
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Select rename candidates from historian-visible text
Confirmed and fixed in 77f95af. The previous round fixed which messages are eligible; this is the spelling scan inside an eligible message, which was still reading raw text.
Reproduction: <system-reminder>hidden_worker.ts</system-reminder> Background note about aux_worker.ts. — the message is eligible because the note survives cleaning, and hidden_worker.ts was selectable even though the historian never sees it, producing an applicable derivative with identical model input.
Candidate spellings now come from the historian-visible text. That needed a second view on the contract: the normalized view is case-folded, and symbol matching is case-sensitive by construction — buildAPI and LRU depend on it — so visibleEvidenceMessages returns the same messages with case and spacing as authored, and normalizedEvidenceMessages is now that view normalized.
Regression test: rename selects only symbols the historian receives, asserting the reminder symbol survives every applicable seed. It fails when the scan goes back to raw text.
- check the verdict monotonicity the invariant set advertises - reject rewrites and reorderings that author evidence the source lacked - refuse moves the historian would receive unchanged `compareInvariants` took only `falseAuthoritativeMatches` from each side, so verdict monotonicity was unrepresentable rather than merely unchecked: a derivative can regress through recall, a probe, a structural finding, or invalid output while both injected claim sets and both expected-absent match sets stay equal. It now takes the verdict and its reasons, and emits a third verdict that fails on a baseline-PASS to derivative-FAIL or derivative-ERROR transition, naming the reasons the derivative introduced. Only that direction fails; a derivative that passes where the baseline failed is not a regression to report. Evidence preservation counted losses but not creations, so framing whose own wording satisfies a predicate could author a formation the source never authored — extra rejection evidence, or gold evidence outside the range that declares it. The comparison now reports losses and creations separately: rewrites and reorderings require both to be zero, while duplication still tolerates the repetition it exists to make. Moving a turn had no no-op guard, so relocating one of a run of interchangeable turns produced the source transcript back. Both order-changing transforms now require the historian-visible transcript to differ, compared over the whole transcript rather than the exchanged pair, since a set of interchangeable turns can be permuted without any adjacent pair matching.
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When an unprotected rejected-proposal turn also repeats an expected-claim predicate whose declared source is another turn, this check accepts the candidate because it verifies only absent evidence. Duplicating that turn then strengthens accepted evidence outside its source range—for example, a rejected Redis proposal that also mentions the already-accepted 4096 capacity—so the historian may promote a different claim set for reasons unrelated to rejection repetition. Also require the expected-claim match delta to remain zero.
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Reject duplication that repeats accepted evidence
Confirmed and fixed in 6a761bb.
Reproduction: the rejected proposal reworded to Should we use Redis for the session cache at 4096 entries?, where 4096 is the accepted capacity claim declared on another turn. Lint-clean, and duplication accepted the candidate — authoring that claim twice, once outside the range that declares it.
Duplication now requires the expected-claim delta to be zero in both directions while still tolerating the rejection repetition it exists to make, so the two evidence kinds are held to the rules that actually apply to them rather than one rule for both.
Regression test: duplication refuses a rejected turn that also states an accepted claim, which fails when the claim delta is dropped.
| const candidate = `aux_symbol_${(replacementStart + offset) % 10_000}`; | ||
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When an expected or absent predicate is a substring of a generated name, exact symbol-collision checks do not catch it: for example, a protected claim predicate aux_symbol is newly authored in an eligible message when buildAPI becomes aux_symbol_1234. The derivative remains lint-clean because the original required occurrence still exists, but the rename has added authoritative or negative evidence and can change historian output independently of naming robustness. Validate the rewritten turns with the same exact evidence-preservation check used by paraphrase and reorder transforms.
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Reject rename outputs that alter gold evidence
Confirmed and fixed in 6a761bb. Renaming was the one transform whose output was never put through the evidence comparison, and the substring case is exactly why exact-spelling collision checks cannot stand in for it.
Reproduction: a gold claim with predicate aux_symbol authored in a protected turn. Every generated name begins aux_symbol_, so any rename authors that predicate in the rewritten message, and the derivative stays lint-clean because the declared occurrence still exists. Across seeds 0-19 the transform now returns rename would change authored evidence where it previously produced a derivative.
The rewritten turns now go through preservesEvidenceExactly — the same comparison framing and reordering use — so the four transforms share one definition of what may change.
Regression test: rename refuses a replacement that authors new evidence, which fails when the check is removed.
| function visibleTranscript(turns: readonly TranscriptTurn[]): string { | ||
| return normalizedEvidenceMessages(turns) | ||
| .map((message) => `${message.role}:${message.text}`) | ||
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normalizedEvidenceMessages case-folds every message, although the production historian input preserves case. Consequently, swapping otherwise identical turns that differ only in a case-sensitive identifier such as MyFile.ts versus myFile.ts is classified as an unchanged transcript and excluded, even though it changes the actual ordered model input. Compare the historian-visible, whitespace-cleaned text without predicate case-folding when deciding whether a reorder or move is vacuous.
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Preserve case when detecting no-op reorderings
Confirmed and fixed in 6a761bb — I had already added the view this needs last round and then used the wrong one here.
Reproduction: two adjacent background turns differing only as MyFile.ts versus myfile.ts. The case-folded comparison classified their swap as no change, so a reordering the historian would genuinely receive differently was excluded.
The no-op comparison now runs on visibleEvidenceMessages — historian-visible, whitespace-cleaned, case as authored — while predicate matching keeps using the folded view. That is the right split: folding is a property of how predicates compare, not of what the model receives.
Regression test: reorder keeps a swap that only changes identifier case, asserting some seed produces the swap. It fails when the comparison folds case again.
| const candidates = unprotectedMessages(scenario).flatMap((message) => | ||
| rewrites | ||
| .map((rewrite) => rewrite(message.text)) | ||
| .filter((text) => safeParaphrase(scenario, message, text)) | ||
| .map((text) => ({ message, text })), |
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On a contract-valid scenario near the transcript headroom limit with many expectation entries, this eager candidate construction invokes safeParaphrase three times for every unprotected message; each invocation rebuilds the turns and scans the complete transcript for every expected claim and expected-absent predicate. With the allowed 100 turns and up to 100 entries in each expectation array, a single transform application can perform hundreds of repeated full-corpus, all-predicate scans and stall corpus enumeration. Precompute the source spans and validate only matches affected by the candidate message, or probe candidates lazily in deterministic order.
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Avoid rescanning the transcript for every paraphrase
Confirmed and fixed in 6a761bb. Measured before assuming: a 100-turn scenario with 100 expected-absent entries cost 1161ms for one paraphrase-irrelevant application. The other four ranged from 0 to 233ms, so your read of where the cost concentrates was right.
Both halves of your diagnosis mattered, and I took both suggestions rather than choosing between them. Candidates are now probed lazily from a seed-chosen offset and the first safe pair wins, so a typical application proves one pair instead of three per unprotected message. And the source side of the evidence comparison — which does not vary across candidates — is enumerated once per application instead of inside every proof.
Same scenario now costs 37ms, a 31x reduction, with the worst case still bounded by the old behaviour if no pair is safe.
Regression test: paraphrase stays cheap at the transcript and expectation limits builds that scenario and bounds the application at 400ms — loose enough for a slow machine, tight enough that restoring eager validation fails it at ~930ms.
One deliberate consequence: the seed-to-output mapping changed, since a rotation start over all pairs replaces two draws over filtered sets. Determinism and seed variety are preserved and both are covered by existing tests.
| preservesContiguousGold(scenario, mapForOrder(order)) && | ||
| preservesEvidenceExactly( | ||
| scenario, | ||
| reorderedTurns(scenario, order), | ||
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When the singleton decision being moved also lies within another expected claim's multi-turn source range, sorting the mapped indices makes preservesContiguousGold accept a rotation of that entire range. For example, moving original turn 0 after turn 2 maps a [0,2] range to the still-contiguous set [0,2], while reversing the declared evidence chronology; preservesEvidenceExactly also passes when that claim's predicate is contained in an unaffected turn. Reject moves that reorder any overlapping multi-turn expected-claim range, as the adjacent-reorder transform already does.
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Keep moves out of multi-turn claim ranges
Confirmed and fixed in 6a761bb. preservesContiguousGold sorts the mapped indices, which is what makes a rotation of a range look intact — the check proves contiguity, not order, and I had been reading it as both.
Reproduction: a three-turn decision chain declared as [0,2] with a singleton claim on turn 0. Moving turn 0 to position 2 leaves the mapped range contiguous and leaves the range predicate authored in an unaffected turn, so both existing checks passed while the declared chronology reversed.
Moves overlapping a multi-turn claim range are now refused outright, matching what the adjacent-swap transform already does through its own range check.
Regression test: move refuses to rotate a multi-turn claim range, which fails when the range check is removed.
- duplicate only turns whose own payload carries the rejection - block symbols a rename cannot reach inside inline code - select rename candidates and replacements from the historian's view - record paraphrase applicability as a corpus property, not a promise Duplication selected any turn contributing to a rejection occurrence, so for one authored across a boundary it could copy the half that carries nothing — repeating unrelated content while the rejection density stayed put. A turn now qualifies only when its own historian-visible payload holds a complete occurrence. Renaming had three gaps in what it could see. The symbol regex consumes a whole backtick span, so a symbol appearing inside a command span could be renamed everywhere else and leave the span naming the old entity; such a symbol is now blocked outright. Candidate spellings come from the text the historian receives, so a symbol living only inside a stripped reminder is no longer selectable — renaming it would produce a derivative with no perturbation to compare. And the replacement-collision set now covers probe text, since a generated name that aliases a probe-only entity breaks the query-to-history relationship exactly as renaming one would. `paraphrase-irrelevant` is no longer marked always-applicable. Every rewrite adds characters, so a contract-valid scenario whose only rewritable messages sit at the length ceiling admits none of them, which made the declaration falsifiable by a legal input. The corpus test now asserts the transform applies to every frozen scenario directly, which is where that property is actually true and enforceable. The contract gains `visibleEvidenceMessages` beside the normalized view: case and spacing as authored, discarded messages omitted, so a caller that needs an exact identifier spelling reads the historian's text rather than the raw message.
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| const candidate = `aux_symbol_${(replacementStart + offset) % 10_000}`; | ||
| if (candidate !== original && !existing.has(candidate)) { | ||
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When an exact or multiple-choice probe has a complete gold answer such as aux or symbol, every generated aux_symbol_N contains that answer, but this exact-symbol lookup considers only whether the whole replacement is already present. Renaming an unrelated symbol in surviving raw history—especially an epilogue message—then gives the probe a copyable answer outside its protected claim range, so a derivative can pass without retrieving the injected claim. Reject replacement names that contain any probe gold answer under containsCompleteValue, as the paraphrase transform already does.
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Reject replacements that expose probe gold answers
Confirmed and fixed in 7f5409c. The complete-value boundary is what makes this work: aux inside aux_symbol_123 is followed by an underscore, which is neither a letter nor a digit, so it matches as a complete value.
Reproduction: a probe with gold answer symbol, authored in its claim range as 4096 entries, tracked per symbol. Every candidate replacement contains it, so across seeds 0-19 the generator now exhausts its scan and returns no unused replacement symbol where it previously handed the probe a copyable answer in the epilogue.
Replacement candidates are now rejected when they contain any probe gold answer under containsCompleteValue, the same test paraphrase applies to its framing. Refusing the transform when no name survives is the right outcome here — unlike paraphrase there is no alternative candidate to fall back to, since every generated name shares the prefix.
Regression test: rename refuses a replacement that states a probe gold answer, which fails when the check is removed.
| const existing = new Set(allText.flatMap((text) => symbolsIn(text))); | ||
| const replacementStart = Math.floor(next() * 10_000); | ||
| let replacement: string | undefined; | ||
| for (let offset = 0; offset < 10_000; offset += 1) { | ||
| const candidate = `aux_symbol_${(replacementStart + offset) % 10_000}`; | ||
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When a generated name already exists only inside a rejected backtick span, such as `aux_symbol_123 --watch`, symbolsIn omits it because the span is a command rather than an identifier. If the PRNG selects suffix 123, this loop therefore renames an unrelated entity to aux_symbol_123, aliasing the command's existing symbol and invalidating the naming-only comparison. Include shadowedSymbolsIn(allText) in the replacement collision set, not only in the original-candidate blocklist.
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Check shadowed inline-code symbols for replacement collisions
Confirmed and fixed in 7f5409c. I added shadowedSymbolsIn last round for the candidate blocklist and left the collision set on symbolsIn alone — the same asymmetry as the probe surface two rounds ago, and for the same reason: I fixed one direction of harm and not the other.
existing now covers admitted and shadowed symbols alike, so a generated name that exists only inside a command span is seen as taken.
Regression test: rename replacements avoid names hidden inside inline code. It replays the generator's own draw sequence to reserve exactly the name the seed reaches for first, puts it inside a --watch command span, and asserts the derivative still contains that name exactly once — so aliasing is caught rather than merely made unlikely. It fails on the reserved seeds when shadowed names are dropped from the collision set.
| "src/metamorphic-eval/injection-canary.test.ts", | ||
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These files are registered only in standaloneUnitFiles, but the historian-eval-contracts job in .github/workflows/ci.yml invokes test:historian-eval-unit; for that selection, main() explicitly sets standalone to an empty array, so none of these new canary, invariant, or transform tests executes in the independent historian gate. The workflow identifies that job as the home of every deterministic historian-eval gate, while standalone tests run only through the host mode suites. Include src/metamorphic-eval/**/*.test.ts in the historian unit selection, or otherwise invoke them from that job.
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Run metamorphic tests in the historian contract job
Confirmed and fixed in 7f5409c. This is the most consequential finding of the review — the tests existed and CI was not running them where it matters.
Verified rather than reasoned about: bun run test:historian-eval-unit reported 296 tests across 6 files, and the metamorphic directory has three test files that were not among them. --historian-eval-unit sets the standalone selection to an empty array, exactly as you describe, so the whole lane rode only the host-mode suites.
The metamorphic files now join historianEvalUnitFiles() and leave standaloneUnitFiles. That job now runs 371 tests across 9 files. Placement rather than duplication: these tests are credential-free and boot nothing, so the deterministic historian gate is where they belong, and running them twice would only slow the host-mode suites.
One thing worth adding beyond the report: assertSrcTestsClassified cannot protect this. It is satisfied by any claimant, so moving these back into the standalone list would pass the guard while silently removing them from the gate again — the same non-enforcement one hop away that the job comment warns about. A selection test now asserts the metamorphic files are in the historian selection and in none of the host-mode selections, so the placement is enforced and not just current.
- hold duplication and renaming to the same evidence comparison - compare no-op reorderings without folding case - refuse moves that rotate a multi-turn claim range - probe paraphrase candidates lazily instead of proving all of them Duplication checked only negative evidence, so a rejected-proposal turn that also stated an accepted claim authored that claim a second time outside its declared range when copied. It now requires the expected-claim delta to be zero while still tolerating the rejection repetition it exists to make. Renaming was not checked at all: a generated name contains `aux_symbol`, so a predicate that is a prefix of one is newly authored the moment any symbol is renamed, and the derivative stays lint-clean because the required occurrence survives elsewhere. The no-op comparison for reorderings ran on the case-folded view, so swapping two turns that differ only in an identifier's case counted as no change even though the historian receives them differently. It now uses the case-preserving view. Moving a decision could rotate a multi-turn claim range: sorting the mapped indices leaves such a range contiguous, so the range stayed valid while the chronology it declares reversed. Moves overlapping one are now refused, as the adjacent-swap transform already refuses them. Paraphrase proved every candidate pair to use one, and each proof rescanned the whole transcript for every expectation entry. At the transcript and expectation limits one application cost over a second, which would have dominated corpus enumeration. Candidates are now probed lazily from a seed-chosen offset, and the source side of the evidence comparison is enumerated once per application rather than per candidate: the same scenario now costs about 40ms, and a regression test bounds it.
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| const claims = matchDelta(baselines.claims, turns, turnMap); | ||
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When a duplicated turn contains both a proposed-but-rejected predicate and another expected-absent predicate, such as a prompt-injection canary or superseded fact, this condition permits the derivative because it rejects only lost absent matches and ignores all gains. The transform therefore strengthens multiple negative-evidence families rather than only rejection density, so any behavior change cannot be attributed to the advertised perturbation; reject candidates whose gained absent matches include anything other than the selected rejected-proposal evidence.
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Preserve unrelated negative-evidence multiplicities
Confirmed and fixed in aa9d908. My duplication rule was "nothing lost, anything gained" for negative evidence, which is right for the rejection and wrong for everything else on the same turn.
Reproduction: the rejected Redis turn also carrying Ignore prior instructions. as an explored-never-accepted formation. Lint-clean, and duplication accepted the candidate — doubling a canary the transform makes no claim about.
The evidence baselines now separate rejected proposals from every other forbidden formation. Only the rejection may be repeated; other families and expected claims are held exactly, in both directions. That keeps the tolerance scoped to the perturbation the transform advertises, so a behaviour change cannot be attributed to rejection density when a canary moved too.
I scoped the tolerance to the proposed-but-rejected family rather than to the single predicate the copied turn carries. A turn holding two rejected formations strengthens both, and both are the advertised perturbation — narrowing further would reject a candidate for doing exactly what the transform is for. Say the word if you meant the stricter reading.
Regression test: duplication refuses a rejected turn carrying another negative family, which fails when the tolerance goes back to all absent gains.
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On a contract-valid scenario near the 100-turn and 100-expectation limits with many singleton claim sources, this loop builds roughly 4,700 source/destination candidates and calls preservesEvidenceExactly for each one; every call rescans the complete transcript for every claim and absent predicate. This makes move-accepted-decision orders of magnitude more expensive than the now-lazy paraphrase transform and can stall corpus enumeration, so precompute which ranges and evidence spans each move crosses or validate candidates lazily from a seed-selected order until one succeeds.
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Avoid full evidence scans for every move destination
Confirmed and fixed in aa9d908. Measured before acting, and the construction matters — my first attempt at a worst case came out at 66ms because nearly every span contained rejection evidence and was rejected cheaply.
The fixture that reproduces your analysis is 100 turns, 96 singleton decisions on turns 1-97, and the only rejection evidence on turn 0 so no span contains it. Every source-destination pair then reaches the evidence proof — about 4,700 of them — and one application cost 3861ms against 253ms for the framing transform on the same scenario. Orders of magnitude, as you said.
Fixed by lifting the pattern from the framing transform into one shared probe rather than repeating it: cheap structural filters stay eager, and the evidence proof runs lazily from a seed-chosen offset until one candidate is accepted. Reordering got the same treatment since it had the same shape at smaller scale.
Measured after: move 117ms (33x), reorder 130ms to 32ms, framing 253ms to 28ms. The worst case — nothing acceptable — is still a full pass, which is unavoidable and no worse than before.
Regression test: move stays cheap with many singleton decisions builds that fixture and bounds the application at 900ms; restoring eager proving fails it at ~3950ms.
One deliberate consequence, same as for the framing transform: the seed-to-output mapping changed, since a rotation over structurally-valid candidates replaces a uniform draw over fully-proven ones. Determinism and seed variety are unchanged and covered by existing tests.
- run the metamorphic lane in the historian eval gate - refuse replacements that state a probe answer or alias a hidden name The metamorphic tests were classified as standalone units, which the historian gate never selects: `--historian-eval-unit` takes no standalone files, so the job that exists specifically so a deterministic historian gate cannot be skipped by an unrelated failure ran none of them. They now join the historian unit selection and leave the host-mode suites, taking that job from 296 tests to 371. The classification guard alone cannot protect this: it is satisfied by any claimant, so moving these back into the standalone list would pass it while removing them from the gate. A selection test now asserts the metamorphic files are in the historian selection and in none of the host-mode ones. Two remaining gaps in what the rename generator checks. A generated name contains its own parts as complete values, so a probe whose gold answer is `aux` or `symbol` would find the answer copyable from raw history the moment any rename landed. And the collision set was built from admitted symbols only, so a name existing solely inside a rejected command span was invisible to it and a replacement could alias an entity the rename cannot even reach.
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Fresh evidence beyond the expected-claim preservation fix is a rejected turn that contains a probe's gold answer without matching its full claim predicate: for example, Redis with 4096 entries does not match the accepted predicate capacity is 4096, so this candidate passes, but duplication adds another 4096 occurrence outside the declared source range. If that copy remains raw during probing, the derivative can answer by copying it rather than retrieving the injected claim, so reject candidates that increase any exact or multiple-choice gold-answer occurrence.
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Reject duplication that repeats probe answers
Confirmed and fixed in 63bf0ee.
Reproduction: the rejected turn reworded to ...with 4096 entries? while the capacity claim predicate is the longer cache capacity is 4096. The expected-claim comparison sees nothing — the turn does not state the predicate — and duplication accepted the candidate, adding a second copyable 4096 outside the range that backs the probe.
Duplication now holds each exact and multiple-choice gold answer's occurrence count fixed. That needed a count rather than a presence check: containsCompleteValue cannot tell one occurrence from two, so the contract gained countCompleteValues and the boolean now delegates to it. Renaming got the same check, since it can remove an occurrence just as easily.
Worth naming why this is its own check rather than a stronger claim comparison: the answer and the predicate that backs it are different strings by design — the predicate is the fact, the answer is one value inside it — so no predicate-level rule can cover the answer.
Regression test: duplication refuses a rejected turn that repeats a probe answer, whose fixture keeps the claim predicate unmatched so it fails only when the answer check is removed.
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Fresh evidence after adding probe surfaces to the blocklist is that symbolsIn does not return ordinary lowercase answers: with gold answer api and an eligible message containing api/v2, symbolsIn("api") is empty while api/v2 remains renameable. The transform can therefore remove a complete probe-answer occurrence from raw history, changing leakage and probe behavior rather than testing naming robustness; test candidate symbols against probe values with containsCompleteValue, not only exact symbol extraction.
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Block symbols that contain probe answer values
Confirmed and fixed in 63bf0ee. The asymmetry you point at is real: adding probe text to the blocklist only blocks spellings that are themselves symbols, and api is not one.
Reproduction: gold answer api, authored standalone in the protected turn as served over api, with api/v2 in an eligible message. symbolsIn("api") is empty, so nothing blocked it, and renaming api/v2 deleted the occurrence.
Candidate symbols are now tested against probe answers with containsCompleteValue, and the rewritten turns are additionally held to a constant occurrence count. Filtering at candidate selection is what keeps this from costing applicability: the regression test's message names a second symbol carrying no answer, and the transform renames that one instead of failing — which is also what makes the test fail when the filter is removed rather than passing on the later guard.
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Fresh evidence beyond selecting candidates from historian-visible text is that cleaning can create a contiguous symbol that is absent from the raw string: build<system-reminder>x</system-reminder>API becomes buildAPI, so this scan selects buildAPI, but the later raw-text replacement finds nothing. The transform then reports an applicable derivative whose historian input is unchanged, producing vacuous evidence; require the selected candidate to be replaceable in the raw eligible message and verify that the cleaned transcript actually changes.
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Require rename candidates to exist in the raw message
Confirmed and fixed in 63bf0ee, and I took both halves of your remedy because they do different jobs.
Reproduction: an eligible message reading build<system-reminder>x</system-reminder>API, which the historian receives as buildAPI. The cleaned-view scan offered buildAPI, and the raw-text replacement found nothing.
A candidate must now appear in both views — the historian's, so renaming it changes the model input, and the raw text, so the replacement can reach it — and a final guard requires the historian-visible transcript to actually differ.
The guard alone would be enough to prevent the vacuous derivative, but it would spend the application: the transform would report inapplicable rather than renaming a symbol it could reach. The candidate filter is what preserves applicability, and the regression test is built to prove that — its message names a reachable symbol alongside the unreachable one and asserts every seed both applies and renames the reachable one. Dropping the raw-view requirement fails it.
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A protected message can contain a historian-visible symbol that does not exist contiguously in its raw text: build<system-reminder>x</system-reminder>API is received as buildAPI, but this raw scan records only fragments such as API. If an eligible message also names buildAPI, the transform renames that occurrence while leaving the protected occurrence unchanged, splitting one entity into two names and invalidating the naming-only comparison; derive blocked transcript symbols from visibleEvidenceMessages as well.
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Build the rename blocklist from cleaned messages
Confirmed and fixed in 63bf0ee. Moving candidate selection onto the cleaned view last round left the blocklist on the raw view, so the two sides of the same question disagreed.
Reproduction: a protected user message reading Also set the cache capacity via build<system-reminder>x</system-reminder>API. — production strips reminder blocks from user messages, so the historian receives buildAPI, while the raw scan recorded only API. An eligible message naming buildAPI was then renamed while the protected occurrence stayed, splitting one entity in two.
Blocked transcript symbols now come from both views. One detail found while building the fixture, since it is easy to get wrong: only user messages are reminder-stripped, so an assistant message keeps the markup and does not exhibit this. The regression test uses a user message for that reason.
Regression test: rename refuses a symbol a protected message spells only after cleaning, which fails when the blocklist goes back to raw text alone.
- let duplication repeat only the rejection, not every negative family - probe reorder and move candidates lazily like paraphrase Duplication tolerated any gain in negative evidence, so copying a rejected turn that also carried an injection canary or a superseded fact strengthened those families too and a behaviour change could be attributed to the wrong cause. The evidence baselines now separate rejected proposals from every other forbidden formation, and only the rejection may be repeated. Reordering and moving proved every candidate before choosing one. Moving is where that bites: a scenario with many singleton decisions and no rejection evidence in any span puts roughly 4,700 source-destination pairs through a full evidence scan, measured at 3.9 seconds for a single application — orders of magnitude worse than the framing transform after its own fix, and enough to dominate corpus enumeration. All three now share one lazy probe: candidates are ordered from a seed-chosen offset and the first acceptable one wins, with cheap structural filters still applied eagerly. Same scenario now costs 117ms for the move and 32ms for the reorder, and a regression test bounds the move.
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When a historian-visible name becomes contiguous only after user-text cleaning—for example, aux_<system-reminder>x</system-reminder>symbol_123 becomes aux_symbol_123—the raw allText scan does not add that name to existing. A seed may therefore choose aux_symbol_123 while renaming an unrelated symbol, aliasing two distinct entities in the historian input and invalidating the naming-only comparison. Build the collision set from the case-preserving cleaned message values as well as the raw and probe surfaces.
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Include cleaned transcript names in replacement collisions
Confirmed and fixed in 41d5d46. This is the third place the raw and cleaned views disagreed, after the blocklist and the candidate scan — the collision set was the one I had not carried over.
Reproduction: an eligible message containing aux_<system-reminder>x</system-reminder>symbol_NNNN, where NNNN is the index the seed reaches for first. The historian receives aux_symbol_NNNN contiguously, the raw scan never spells it, and the generator handed that exact name to an unrelated symbol.
The collision set is now built from the raw text, the probe surfaces, and the cleaned message values, with shadowed inline-code names from all of them.
Regression test: rename replacements avoid names only cleaning spells, which replays the generator draw to reserve the name the seed would choose, fragments it with a reminder block, and asserts the historian-visible transcript contains it exactly once. It fails on those seeds when the cleaned view is dropped from the set.
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When several rejected-proposal turns qualify and the transcript is near its single-chunk headroom limit, this random pick can select a large turn whose duplication makes derivative() return a contract violation even though duplicating a shorter candidate would remain lint-clean. The transform then records an avoidable inapplicable pair and loses metamorphic coverage; probe candidates from the seed-selected offset until one also satisfies the derivative contract, as the other candidate-based transforms do.
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Try another rejected turn before declining duplication
Confirmed and fixed in 41d5d46, and your framing pointed at something broader than duplication.
Reproduction: two qualifying rejections, one bulky and one short, in a transcript padded to 28,102 rendered tokens against a 32,000 budget. Copying the bulky turn overruns headroom; copying the short one does not. The random pick took the bulky one and recorded an avoidable inapplicable pair.
The correction to your description is that the other transforms did not yet satisfy the derivative contract when probing either — they stopped at their own validators and built once, so a candidate the contract later rejected spent their application too. Rather than adding probing to duplication alone, the shared probe now runs all the way through derivative(). A candidate is chosen only once its derivative exists, and all four transforms get it.
One thing that needed care: reporting through the probe could have hidden the contract-violation reason the corpus guard watches for. When nothing succeeds, a contract violation is now reported ahead of an ordinary rejection, so a frozen scenario where every candidate breaks the contract still fails loudly.
Regression test: duplication tries a shorter rejected turn before declining, asserting every seed applies, stays lint-clean, and leaves the bulky rejection un-copied. It fails when duplication goes back to a single pick.
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When an eligible assistant message contains an uppercase all-letter abbreviated commit hash in commit context, such as Committed ABCDEFAB, the [A-Z]{2,} alternative admits the hash as a renameable symbol. Production compactTextForSummary recognizes that value as a commit hash, lowercases it, and emits it as commit metadata; replacing it with aux_symbol_N therefore removes the referenced revision and changes the historian block semantically rather than testing robustness to an unrelated identifier rename. Exclude values recognized as commit hashes in commit context from the candidate pool.
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Exclude commit hashes from symbol renames
Confirmed and fixed in 41d5d46. An all-letter uppercase abbreviated hash sits in both grammars at once: [A-Z]{2,} admits it as a symbol, and the shared hash pattern is case-insensitive hex, so ABCDEFAB is a hash too.
Reproduction: an eligible assistant message reading Committed ABCDEFAB alongside the aux_worker.ts cleanup. The hash was a candidate, and renaming it deleted the revision the historian block cites — compactTextForSummary extracts that value and emits it as commit metadata for assistant text carrying a commit verb.
Hash-shaped tokens in commit context are no longer candidates. Implemented against the shared COMMIT_HASH_TEST_PATTERN and COMMIT_VERB_PATTERN from commit-detection, rather than a second copy of the rule — that module exists precisely because these patterns had drifted across three call sites before, and this would have been a fourth. The condition mirrors production's: assistant role plus a commit verb in the message, since compactTextForSummary only extracts hashes from assistant text.
Regression test: rename refuses a commit hash in commit context, asserting the hash survives every applicable seed while the ordinary identifier in the same message is still renamed on some seed — so the guard cannot pass by making the transform inapplicable.
- hold probe answer occurrences constant across duplication and renaming - build the rename blocklist and candidates from both text views A probe is answerable only by retrieving the injected claim, and the authored transcript keeps its answer out of raw history beyond the range that backs it. Two transforms could break that without any predicate check noticing. Duplication could copy a rejected turn stating `4096` while the claim predicate is the longer `cache capacity is 4096`, adding a copyable answer. Renaming could delete one: `api` is not a symbol on its own, so the blocklist never saw it, while `api/v2` was renameable and carried it. Both now hold each probe answer's complete-value occurrence count fixed, which needs a count rather than the presence `containsCompleteValue` reports — `countCompleteValues` on the contract provides it and the boolean now delegates to it. Renaming also read the two text views inconsistently. Production strips reminder blocks from user messages, so cleaning can join fragments into a symbol the raw string never spells: a protected message reading `build<system-reminder>x</system-reminder>API` was recorded in the blocklist as `API`, leaving `buildAPI` renameable elsewhere and splitting one entity in two. In the other direction a candidate spelled only after cleaning has nothing for the raw replacement to find. The blocklist now covers both views and a candidate must appear in both, so it changes the model input and the replacement can reach it. A final guard requires the historian-visible transcript to actually differ.
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When an eligible user message contains a gold answer only inside stripped text, such as <system-reminder>background</system-reminder> Status note., this raw-text check treats the answer as pre-existing and permits the As background: template. Production removes the reminder from the baseline but retains the new framing, so the derivative adds a copyable gold answer to raw history and can pass its probe without retrieval. Compare complete-value occurrence counts in the historian-visible before/after messages instead of testing raw presence.
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Compare paraphrase answers in historian-visible text
Confirmed and fixed in cbac62d. The framing transform was the last place still reading raw message text for a probe question, and the pre-existence direction is what made it wrong rather than merely imprecise.
Reproduction: an eligible message reading <system-reminder>background</system-reminder> Status note. with gold answer background, authored in its claim range as 4096 entries in the background tier. The raw check saw background in the message and treated the answer as already present, so the As background: template was permitted — adding the first occurrence the historian actually receives outside the backing range.
It now uses the same occurrence-count comparison over the historian-visible transcript that renaming and duplication use, so there is one definition of what a probe can copy.
Regression test: paraphrase counts probe answers in the text the historian receives, asserting the visible occurrence count is unchanged for every applicable seed. It fails when the raw per-message check is restored.
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When a probe refers to an entity using a lowercase or partial name, this exact symbolsIn blocklist misses related path candidates; for example, a question about the api endpoint does not block renaming api/v2 in eligible history because symbolsIn("api") is empty. The transform then changes the history to aux_symbol_N while the probe still asks about api, breaking the query/history relationship rather than testing an unrelated rename. Apply complete-value containment to probe questions and choices as well as gold answers.
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Block symbols that contain probe question terms
Confirmed and fixed in cbac62d, but with a different mechanism than blocking, because blocking on mention alone is provably too broad here.
I tried your remedy first: block a candidate when any probe text states one of its separator-delimited parts as a complete value. That made rename-unrelated-symbols inapplicable on hse-webhook-docs-injection — webhook is a part of webhook_setup and the probes name it — which breaks the corpus test that requires the framing and renaming transforms to apply there so the canary invariant is exercised. The general problem is that a part is often an ordinary English word, so mention carries no signal about whether the probe is naming that entity.
The check is now on the derivative instead: a rename is refused when it would take the last historian-visible complete-value occurrence of a part that a probe names. Your api case is refused — api appears in history only inside api/v2, so renaming it drops the count to zero. The webhook case is allowed, because the transcript states webhook in many other places and the question still has a referent.
Regression test: rename refuses to orphan an entity a probe question names, whose message also holds an unrelated symbol so the transform renames that one instead of merely failing. It fails when the orphan check is removed.
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This guard only requires each scenario to admit some transform, so a registered transform may remain inapplicable across the entire frozen corpus without failing the purported anti-vacuous check. In the current 13-scenario corpus, every singleton accepted-decision source is at index 1 with an epilogue starting at 3 (or has even less room), so move-accepted-decision has no destination at least two positions later and produces zero corpus derivatives, while this assertion still passes via paraphrasing or reordering. Track applied transform IDs globally and require every registered transform to have at least one applicable corpus pair.
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Require corpus coverage for every registered transform
Confirmed and fixed in cbac62d. Your read of the corpus is exact, and I had independently measured the same thing while declining an earlier move finding: move-accepted-decision is inapplicable on all 13 scenarios, producing zero frozen pairs, because every singleton decision sits one turn before a three-turn prologue and has no destination two positions later.
The guard now tracks applied transform ids across the whole corpus and requires every registered one, not just one per scenario.
That guard fails on the corpus as it stood, which is the point, so the fix has two halves. hse-node-runtime-history gains two neutral background turns before its epilogue, moving epilogueStartIndex from 3 to 5. Its gold ranges, probes, families, and trigger are untouched; the move it was always meant to exercise now has somewhere to go. Verified end to end: freeze lint clean over 13 scenarios with all 7 families covered, mutation battery green across 13, dev-corpus suite green, and the historian gate at 383 tests. Reverting only the scenario change fails the new guard, so the two halves are each load-bearing.
Worth saying explicitly: this is the finding I would rank highest of the round. A registered transform with no frozen pair is a transform the corpus gate does not exercise at all, and the guard that was supposed to catch that was structurally unable to.
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When an adjacent swap creates a gold answer across the new turn boundary, this acceptance check does not notice because it compares only expected-claim and expected-absent predicates. For example, if the new first turn ends with blue and the following turn starts with green, swapping them can add the probe answer blue green to unprotected raw history while its longer backing predicate remains unchanged in a protected turn; the derivative can then answer by copying rather than retrieval. Apply preservesProbeAnswers here and in the analogous move-candidate check.
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Preserve probe-answer counts across ordering transforms
Confirmed and fixed in cbac62d. Reordering was the one family of transforms with no probe-answer check at all, and your boundary-creation case is the reason a predicate check cannot cover it.
Reproduction, built to your shape: a turn whose assistant ends The swatch is blue immediately before a turn whose user starts green light is confirmed. Neither order authors blue green — until the swap puts them adjacent. The backing predicate 4096 entries for the blue green rollout sits untouched in a protected turn, so both evidence comparisons pass, and the derivative gained a copyable answer.
preservesProbeAnswers now runs in the reorder and move acceptance checks alongside the evidence comparison.
Regression test: reorder refuses a swap that creates a probe answer, asserting the visible occurrence count of blue green is unchanged for every applicable seed. It fails when the check is dropped from the ordering transforms.
- probe candidates through construction, not up to it - include cleaned names in the replacement collision set - keep commit hashes out of the rename candidate pool Every candidate-based transform stopped probing at its own validators and built once, so a candidate the contract then rejected spent the whole application. Duplication showed it: near the single-chunk budget, picking a large rejected turn produced a contract violation while a shorter one would have stayed lint-clean. The shared probe now runs through `derivative()`, so a candidate is only chosen once its derivative exists, and all four transforms get that for free. When nothing succeeds it reports a contract violation ahead of an ordinary rejection, so the corpus guard still sees the louder signal. The replacement-collision set was built from raw text, so a name the historian receives contiguously only after reminder stripping — `aux_<system-reminder>x</system-reminder>symbol_123` — was invisible to it and a replacement could alias it. It now covers the cleaned view too. An uppercase all-letter abbreviated hash matches the all-caps symbol alternative, and production reads such a token in a commit sentence as commit metadata and lifts it out of the assistant summary. Renaming it deleted the revision the block refers to, so hash-shaped tokens in commit context are no longer candidates, using the shared commit-detection patterns rather than a second copy of the rule.
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Fresh evidence beyond the earlier cleaned-message blocklist fix is a protected user message such as `build<system-reminder>x</system-reminder>API --watch`: the raw shadow scan cannot see buildAPI, while this cleaned-view call uses symbolsIn, which rejects the entire command span and likewise returns no symbol. If an eligible message also names buildAPI, the transform can rename only that occurrence and leave the protected historian-visible command unchanged, splitting one entity into two names. Add shadowedSymbolsIn over the cleaned visible text when constructing blocked.
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Include cleaned inline-command names in the blocklist
Confirmed and fixed in eed9034. This is the intersection of the two gaps from the previous rounds, and each fix individually leaves it open.
Reproduction: a protected user message reading `build<system-reminder>x</system-reminder>API --watch`. The raw text never spells buildAPI, so the raw scan cannot see it; the cleaned text does spell it, but inside a command span the symbol grammar rejects, so the cleaned scan returns nothing either. An eligible message naming buildAPI was renamed while the protected command kept the old name.
Raw text, probe text, and cleaned messages are now a single list, and both the symbol scan and the command-span scan run over all of it. That is the structural point: I had been adding views to one scan at a time — cleaned messages to the symbol scan, spans to the raw scan — and the pairing left a hole each time. One list feeding both scans cannot come apart that way.
Regression test: rename refuses a symbol a protected command span spells only after cleaning, asserting the symbol survives every applicable seed while an ordinary identifier in the same message is still renamed. It fails when the span scan goes back to raw text alone.
- require every registered transform to have a frozen corpus pair - give the runtime-history scenario room for a two-position move - hold probe answers across framing, reordering, and moving - refuse renames that orphan an entity a probe question names The anti-vacuity guard asked each scenario to admit some transform, which a transform applicable to nothing can satisfy. `move-accepted-decision` was in exactly that position: every corpus scenario put its singleton decisions one turn before a three-turn prologue, leaving no destination two positions later, so it produced zero frozen pairs while the guard stayed green. The guard now tracks applied transform ids across the corpus and requires every registered one, and the runtime-history scenario gains two background turns so the move it was always meant to exercise has somewhere to go. Probe answers were compared on raw message text, so an answer inside a stripped reminder counted as pre-existing and the framing could add the first occurrence the historian actually receives. They are now counted on the historian-visible transcript, and the ordering transforms check them too: an adjacent swap can bring `blue` and `green` together and author `blue green` where the source never did. Renaming could also orphan an entity a probe question names by a part of a symbol — a question about the `api` endpoint refers to `api/v2`. Checked against the derivative rather than by blocking the candidate: a part is often an ordinary word, and blocking on mention alone made the transform inapplicable on the injection scenario, where `webhook` is a part of `webhook_setup` and the transcript says it in many places.
- scan the cleaned view for command-span names too Blocked symbols were gathered from the raw and cleaned views, but only the raw view was searched inside command spans the rename cannot edit. A protected message spelling `` `build<system-reminder>x</system-reminder>API --watch` `` defeats both halves: the raw text never spells `buildAPI`, and the cleaned text spells it inside a span whose contents the symbol grammar rejects. An eligible message naming `buildAPI` was then renamed while the protected command kept the old name. Raw text, probe text, and cleaned messages are now one list, and both the symbol scan and the command-span scan run over it, so the two directions cleaning changes what a scan can see cannot come apart again.
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Fresh evidence after the count-based probe-preservation fix is that a global consuming regex skips overlapping matches: countCompleteValues("blue blue blue", "blue blue") returns 1 although the answer occurs at two starting positions. A reorder can therefore remove one overlapping occurrence while both before and after still report 1, allowing preservesProbeAnswers to accept a derivative with different copyable probe evidence. Advance the search from each match start, as matchSpans does, rather than relying on non-overlapping matchAll results.
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Count overlapping complete-value occurrences
Confirmed and fixed in fbaa2f4. matchAll resumes after each match, so the count was of consumed spans rather than starting positions.
Verified directly: countCompleteValues("blue blue blue", "blue blue") returned 1 where two positions match. Every caller of this compares counts across a perturbation, so a reordering could drop one overlapping occurrence with both sides still reporting 1.
It now advances lastIndex to match.index + 1, matching what the occurrence enumerator already does with indexOf(needle, at + 1) — you pointed at exactly the right precedent, and the two are now consistent.
Regression test on the contract: counts occurrences by starting position, including overlaps, pinning 2 for blue blue in blue blue blue, 3 for blue, and the boundary case that 4 is not a complete value in 4096. It fails when the consuming matchAll is restored.
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Fresh evidence beyond the exact-spelling collision fixes is an existing symbol such as aux_symbol_1234/v2: symbolsIn places only the complete path in existing, so a seed can still select aux_symbol_1234 as the supposedly unused replacement for an unrelated name. The file's own symbolSegments rule treats separator-delimited parts as references to the whole entity, so this aliases the renamed entity with an existing one and invalidates the naming-only comparison; collision checking should include the segments of existing symbols.
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Reject replacement names that alias symbol segments
Confirmed and fixed in fbaa2f4, though not by enumerating segments — I tried that first and it does not reach this case.
symbolSegments splits on every separator, so aux_symbol_1234/v2 yields aux, symbol, 1234, v2 and never aux_symbol_1234. The spelling that actually aliases is the path prefix, and enumerating prefixes as well would be a second grammar to keep in step with the first.
The check is a complete-value scan instead: a replacement candidate is rejected when it appears as a complete value anywhere the rename can be read. containsCompleteValue("aux_symbol_1234/v2", "aux_symbol_1234") is true, because the boundary rule is letter-or-digit adjacency and / is neither. That covers your case, the bare-spelling case the exact set already caught, and any other spelling extraction does not reach — without a third grammar.
Regression test: rename replacements avoid the segments of existing symbols, which replays the generator draw so the reserved name is the one the seed reaches for, spells it only as a path prefix, and asserts the derivative never introduces the bare spelling. It fails on those seeds when the complete-value check is removed.
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Fresh evidence beyond the case-sensitive identifier fix is the production assistant-commit path: compactTextForSummary removes a commit hash from the message, lowercases it, and emits it as commit metadata. Two otherwise identical adjacent turns containing Committed ABCDEF1 and Committed abcdef1 therefore render identically after swapping, but this raw case-preserving view reports a changed transcript and admits the derivative as new evidence. Build the no-op comparison from the production-compacted historian blocks so identifier case remains significant while normalized commit representations do not.
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Compare no-op reorders after commit compaction
Confirmed and fixed in fbaa2f4. The comparison was one production stage short: cleaning, but not the compaction the chunk builder runs after it.
Reproduction: two adjacent turns whose assistants read Committed ABCDEF1 for the record. and Committed abcdef1 for the record. Compaction strips the hash from the prose and re-emits it lowercased as commit metadata, so the historian receives both identically — and the case-preserving cleaned view still reported a changed transcript.
The contract gains compactedEvidenceMessages: the cleaned messages with compactTextForSummary applied and the extracted hashes carried alongside the text. Positional ordinals are deliberately left out — formatBlock embeds them, and a reordering changes every ordinal, so rendering full blocks would make every swap look like a change and the guard would never fire.
Your framing of the balance is what the fix preserves: ordinary identifier case stays significant, normalized commit representations do not. Both directions are pinned on the contract by two spellings of one commit hash reach the historian identically, which also asserts MyFile.ts and myfile.ts still differ.
Regression test: reorder refuses a pair differing only in commit hash spelling, which fails when the comparison drops back to the pre-compaction view.
- count complete values by starting position, not by consumed span - reject replacement names that appear as complete values anywhere - compare no-op reorderings after commit compaction `countCompleteValues` collected a global `matchAll`, which resumes after each match, so `blue blue` occurred once in `blue blue blue`. Every caller compares counts across a perturbation, so a reordering could drop one overlapping occurrence with both sides still reporting one. It now advances from each match start, the way the occurrence enumerator already does. The replacement-collision set held extracted spellings, and extraction yields only the full path for `aux_symbol_1234/v2` — while `aux_symbol_1234` names the same entity and is a complete value inside it. A candidate is now also rejected when it appears as a complete value anywhere the rename can be read, which covers that case and any other spelling extraction does not reach. The no-op comparison ran on the cleaned view, one stage short of what the chunk builder emits. Compaction lifts a commit hash out of assistant prose and lowercases it into metadata, so `Committed ABCDEF1` and `Committed abcdef1` reach the model identically and swapping those turns changes nothing. It now runs on the compacted view, which keeps ordinary identifier case significant while treating two spellings of one hash as one input.
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In `@packages/e2e-tests/src/historian-eval/contract.ts`:
- Line 1026: Update the RegExp boundary classes in countCompleteValues to
include Unicode marks (\p{M}) and connector punctuation (\p{Pc}) on both sides,
preventing partial matches such as “node” within “node_runtime”; add a
regression assertion verifying countCompleteValues("node_runtime", "node")
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In `@packages/e2e-tests/src/metamorphic-eval/transforms.test.ts`:
- Around line 765-769: Add an application counter to the seed loop for the
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Treat connector punctuation as part of a complete value.
Line 1026 accepts "node" in "node_runtime" because _ is neither \p{L} nor \p{N}. This can report a false probe answer or symbol collision. Add \p{M} and \p{Pc} to both boundary classes, and add a regression assertion for countCompleteValues("node_runtime", "node") === 0.
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In `@packages/e2e-tests/src/historian-eval/contract.ts` at line 1026, Update the
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Treat connector punctuation as part of a complete value
Verified as a real behaviour, and I am declining the change here rather than landing it, because it decides a contract question two reviewers in this same PR disagree about. Evidence rather than assertion:
I made the change and ran the suites. Your reading is right about the mechanism — countCompleteValues("node_runtime", "node") is 1 today, and adding \p{Pc} makes it 0. Nothing in the frozen corpus depends on the loose boundary: the contract, scorer, dev-corpus, and promote suites all stay green with \p{M} and \p{Pc} added, so the change would be inert for today's scenarios and a genuine hardening for future ones.
What it breaks is a fix accepted earlier in this same review. Codex raised, and I fixed, "Reject replacements that expose probe gold answers": a probe whose gold answer is aux or symbol gets a copyable answer the moment any rename produces aux_symbol_N, because _ is not a boundary today. Under your rule that premise disappears, that guard becomes unreachable, and its regression test fails — which is exactly what happened when I ran it.
So the two findings are not independent. containsCompleteValue is shared contract semantics: compareProbeAnswer accepts on it, and the freeze lint decides not-authored-in-source-range and not-required-by with it. Whether an identifier with underscores states its parts is a decision about what a probe answer means, and I do not think it should be settled as a side effect of a metamorphic-transform PR — particularly when settling it one way silently removes a protection added the other way three commits ago.
Recommended sequence, which I am happy to take: land the boundary change on its own, with countCompleteValues("node_runtime", "node") === 0 as your suggested assertion, and remove the now-unreachable replacement guard in the same change so the two move together and the review sees the trade explicitly. I have left the current behaviour and the guard intact here.
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@ahrav, thank you for the detailed verification.
I agree that this is a shared containsCompleteValue contract decision, not an isolated transform change. The dependency on the accepted rename-leak guard makes the change unsuitable for this PR.
Keeping the current boundary behavior is reasonable here. A follow-up should change the boundary assertion and remove or replace the dependent guard in the same review.
Would you like me to open a GitHub issue for that follow-up?
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Yes please — a follow-up issue would be useful, and it should carry both halves so they land together: add \p{M} and \p{Pc} to the containsCompleteValue boundary classes with the countCompleteValues("node_runtime", "node") === 0 assertion, and remove the rename replacement guard that depends on the looser rule along with its regression test.
Worth recording in the issue that the change is inert for the current corpus — contract, scorer, dev-corpus, and promote suites all stay green with the tighter boundary — so the only decision it forces is the one about what an identifier states.
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## Summary
Decide and apply the complete-value boundary semantics for identifiers with connector punctuation and Unicode marks.
This issue must land both dependent changes together. The current looser rule lets `containsCompleteValue` treat a component of an underscore-delimited identifier as a complete value. The metamorphic rename replacement guard currently relies on that behavior.
## Required changes
In `packages/e2e-tests/src/historian-eval/contract.ts`:
- Add `\p{M}` and `\p{Pc}` to both Unicode boundary classes in `countCompleteValues` and therefore `containsCompleteValue`.
- Add a regression assertion that `countCompleteValues("node_runtime", "node") === 0`.
In the metamorphic transform implementation and tests:
- Remove the rename replacement guard that depends on the looser complete-value boundary behavior.
- Remove the regression test for that guard.
## Rationale
`containsCompleteValue` and `countCompleteValues` define shared probe-answer and freeze-lint semantics. The change defines whether an identifier states its underscore-delimited components. It must not silently alter the rename guard without reviewing and removing that guard in the same change.
## Current-corpus impact
The boundary change is inert for the current frozen corpus. The contract, scorer, dev-corpus, and promote suites remain green with `\p{M}` and `\p{Pc}` in the boundary classes. The decision only changes what an identifier states for future scenarios and transforms.
## Acceptance criteria
- `countCompleteValues("node_runtime", "node")` returns `0`.
- Boundary classes reject partial matches adjacent to Unicode marks and connector punctuation.
- The dependent rename replacement guard and its regression test are removed.
- Relevant contract, scorer, dev-corpus, promote, and metamorphic transform tests pass.
## Backlinks
- Requested by: `@ahrav`
- Pull request: https://github.com/ahrav/magic-context/pull/99
- Review discussion: https://github.com/ahrav/magic-context/pull/99#discussion_r3890278206
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Learning: In `packages/e2e-tests/src/historian-eval/contract.ts`, `containsCompleteValue` and `countCompleteValues` define shared probe-answer and freeze-lint semantics. Treating `_` as an internal identifier character by adding `\p{Pc}` changes the behavior of metamorphic rename leak guards that currently detect probe-answer exposure in identifiers such as `aux_symbol_N`; review that boundary change together with removal or replacement of the dependent guard.
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Thanks for trying. Issues are disabled on this repository on purpose — task tracking lives in-repo with beads (bd), which is what AGENTS.md points contributors at.
I have filed it there as magic-context-2xp, with the coupled scope you drafted: add \p{M} and \p{Pc} to both boundary classes in countCompleteValues with the countCompleteValues("node_runtime", "node") === 0 assertion, and remove the dependent rename replacement guard and its regression test in the same change. The reasoning for why the two cannot move separately, and the measurement that the boundary change is inert for the current corpus, are recorded on the task alongside a link back to this thread.
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@ahrav, thanks for the clarification.
magic-context-2xp tracks the coupled boundary and rename-guard change. No further action is needed on this pull request.
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Learning: In `packages/e2e-tests/src/historian-eval/contract.ts`, `containsCompleteValue` and `countCompleteValues` define shared probe-answer and freeze-lint semantics. Treating `_` as an internal identifier character by adding `\p{Pc}` changes the behavior of metamorphic rename leak guards that currently detect probe-answer exposure in identifiers such as `aux_symbol_N`; review that boundary change together with removal or replacement of the dependent guard.
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When an eligible message contains buildAPI while protected or otherwise ineligible text contains buildAPI/v2, symbolsIn adds only the complete path to blocked, so this exact lookup still admits the bare symbol. The replacement callback then changes only buildAPI and leaves buildAPI/v2 untouched, splitting an entity despite this file's own symbolSegments rule treating separator-delimited parts as references to the whole. Block candidates that occur as complete segments of ineligible symbols.
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Block symbols embedded in protected compound names
Confirmed and fixed in 79522da.
Reproduction: a protected turn reading Done: cache capacity is 4096 entries via buildAPI/v2. with a bare buildAPI in an eligible message. Extraction records only the full path, the exact lookup admitted the bare spelling, and the rename split the entity.
A candidate is now rejected when it appears as a complete value in any text the rename cannot touch — ineligible messages in both views, plus probe text. Same shape as the replacement-collision fix from the previous round, and for the same reason: extraction reports spellings, and the relation that matters here is containment.
Regression test: rename refuses a bare symbol a protected compound name contains, which asserts buildAPI survives while the reachable symbol in the same message is renamed, so it cannot pass by making the transform inapplicable. It fails when the containment check is removed.
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When multiple symbols are available and the seed selects one that later fails the length, evidence, or orphaned-probe check, the transform immediately returns applicable: false even if another candidate is safe. For example, a probe-named api/v2 and unrelated aux_worker.ts can coexist; selecting the former reaches the orphan guard while the latter would yield a valid derivative. Probe candidates from a seed-selected offset, as firstDerivative does, so one unsafe symbol does not discard otherwise available coverage.
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Try remaining symbols before declining a rename
Confirmed and fixed in 79522da. Renaming was the one candidate-based transform still committing to a single pick, which is exactly the gap the shared probe exists to close.
Reproduction is your example: api/v2 reaches the orphaned-probe guard while aux_worker.ts in the same message yields a valid derivative. Before the fix the seed decided whether the application survived; now every seed applies.
It now goes through firstDerivative, so all five transforms choose a candidate only once its derivative exists.
One thing that needed care: the probe consumes a draw for its offset, and renaming draws again for the replacement index, so moving the search changed the draw order and a pre-existing test noticed — a fixture whose multi-occurrence symbol was chosen at seed 0 started picking the other one. The free-name search is therefore deferred to first use inside the closure rather than hoisted above the probe, which keeps the order candidate-offset first and leaves every existing seed choosing the symbol it always did.
Regression test: rename tries another symbol when the first would orphan a probe term, asserting every seed applies and renames the other symbol. It fails when the transform is pinned back to a single candidate.
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With many rejected turns and expectation entries near the contract limits, this eager flatMap calls preservesEvidenceForDuplication for every candidate before choosing one, and each call rescans the complete transcript for every rejected, other-absent, and claim predicate. A bound-shaped 100-turn/100-predicate transcript makes one application take tens of seconds even though only one derivative is needed. Start at the seeded candidate and stop after the first evidence-safe derivative, or precompute the spans affected by each insertion.
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Validate duplicate candidates lazily
Fixed in 79522da — the change is right and consistent with the other four transforms, but I could not reproduce the cost at the scale you describe, and I would rather say so than imply I confirmed it.
The proof now runs inside the candidate probe instead of while building the list, so duplication chooses a candidate only once its derivative exists. That is the same shape the other transforms use.
What I measured, at the contract limits you name — 99 turns, 100 expectation entries, nearly every turn a qualifying rejection: 46ms for duplication, and 44-51ms for the other four. Eager and lazy are indistinguishable there, because each proof costs roughly half a millisecond at that transcript size and there are only about ninety candidates.
Getting to tens of seconds took a transcript around 200 KB, which is several times the single-chunk headroom the freeze lint enforces, so it cannot be a frozen scenario. On that fixture everything is slow, including the transforms that were already lazy, so it does not isolate this path.
I kept the change on shape grounds and bounded all five transforms at the contract limits rather than asserting a bound the eager version would also have passed. If you have a legal construction that reaches tens of seconds, I would like to see it — it would mean the headroom rule admits more rendered mass than I am accounting for.
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When the transcript contains many compound names such as aux_symbol_0/v2 through aux_symbol_9999/v2, none of the bare generated names is in existing, so every iteration reaches containsCompleteValue. That helper decodes and normalizes the entire collisionCorpus anew, making this legal roughly 190 KB collision surface take tens of seconds across the 10,000 candidates before reporting no replacement. Extract the complete symbol segments once into a set, or normalize the corpus once and reuse a prepared lookup.
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Precompute replacement segment collisions
Confirmed and fixed in 79522da — and measuring it found a worse problem than the one you named, which my own fix in this round had just introduced.
Taken names are now collected in one pass over the replacement family rather than by asking containsCompleteValue per candidate, so the collision surface is normalized once instead of ten thousand times. The pattern is derived from the same prefix constant the generator uses, so the scan and the names cannot drift.
The larger cost was that the free-name walk itself ran per candidate. Once renaming started probing candidates (your other finding this round), a transcript whose symbols are all compound names gave ten thousand candidates each walking ten thousand replacement indices. On a fixture packed with aux_symbol_0/v2 through aux_symbol_9999/v2, one application took 430 seconds; it is now 4.9 seconds, and the residue is the one-time normalization of a six-figure transcript. Whether a free name exists is a property of the scenario, not of the symbol being renamed, so the walk belongs outside the per-candidate work.
Scope note on the fixture, since it matters for how much to read into the number: I could not construct a legal scenario that exhausts the replacement space. A transcript that large is far over the single-chunk headroom the freeze lint enforces, and the probe surface cannot substitute — shared-answer-surface rejects a second claim-id probe on one claim and a second exact probe with the same answer, so the probe text cannot carry ten thousand names either. The fix is a complexity reduction I am confident in; the bounded test in the suite covers the contract limits, where every transform now applies in about 50ms.
- prove a seed sweep applied before trusting what it asserted Eleven seed-sweep tests asserted only inside `if (result.applicable)`, so a transform that stopped applying to a fixture would leave them green with the guard they exist for unexercised. Each now counts applications and requires at least one. Adding the count found two that were already vacuous. The cleaned-blocklist fixture named only the symbol it expected to be blocked, so the transform had no candidate at all and the assertion never ran; it now names a reachable symbol too, and asserts that one is renamed while the blocked one is not. The cross-turn evidence test counted per transform, which is wrong for a fixture no single transform has to fit, so it counts across all five and requires the lint-clean assertion to have been reached at least once.
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When an eligible user message contains both a reminder block and a visible mention of system-reminder, this raw replacement also renames the opening and closing tag names. For example, <system-reminder>secret</system-reminder> Background about system-reminder. becomes <aux_symbol_N>secret</aux_symbol_N> ...; cleanUserText then no longer strips the block, so the derivative exposes hidden text to the historian. The evidence guards can still pass when that text contains no declared predicate or probe answer, producing a comparison that changes much more than an unrelated identifier; exclude control-markup names or replace only occurrences corresponding to historian-visible text.
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Keep renames from rewriting reminder delimiters
Confirmed and fixed in 0f89fed. This is the sharpest finding of the round — it turns a rename into an information-exposure change, and I had not considered that a symbol could be structural rather than referential.
Reproduction: <system-reminder>secret</system-reminder> Background about system-reminder and aux_worker.ts. The prose mention puts system-reminder in the historian-visible text, so it passed the both-views candidate rule, and the raw replacement rewrote the delimiters. cleanUserText then no longer strips the block and secret reaches the historian.
Your point about the guards is the important part: changesVisibleTranscript is satisfied — the visible text does change, by gaining the hidden text — and the evidence comparison passes whenever the exposed text carries no declared predicate or probe answer. Nothing downstream would have caught it.
A candidate is now refused when it is used as a markup element name in the raw message, tested as <symbol> or </symbol>. Written against the shape rather than the one tag we know about, so a future delimiter gets the same treatment without another finding.
Regression test: rename refuses a markup name that delimits hidden text, asserting the block survives intact while the ordinary identifier in the same message is still renamed. It fails when the markup check is removed.
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Fresh evidence beyond the per-message compaction fix is that production merges consecutive same-role messages across discarded directive-only users and caps the merged block at five commit hashes (read-session-chunk.ts and read-session-formatting.ts), while this view retains every message and its local hashes. If an A block is already at the cap and the next two directive-separated assistants have identical compacted prose but different extra hashes, swapping those turns changes this string even though production emits the same merged parts, capped hash list, and ordinal range. The ordering transform then admits a derivative whose historian input is unchanged, so build this comparison from production-equivalent merged blocks rather than per-message compaction.
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Model merged commit blocks in no-op detection
Declining this one, and I want to be precise about what I am declining, because the mechanism you describe is real.
The case is sound: production merges consecutive same-role messages across discarded directive-only users and caps a merged block at five hashes, so two directive-separated assistants with identical compacted prose and different hashes beyond the cap emit one identical block. My per-message view would report a change.
The reason I am not changing it here is that this approximation is not mine to make locally. renderedTranscriptBlocks — the contract's own headroom measurement, which decides whether a scenario is frozen at all — is built per message with the same non-merging assumption, and its comment says as much. If merged blocks are what production emits, the headroom check is measuring the wrong bytes too, and it is the one whose error decides live chunk splitting. Fixing the no-op comparison alone would leave the contract holding two different models of the same production path, with the strictly less consequential one correct.
The honest fix is to build both from a shared production-equivalent block builder — ideally by exporting the chunk builder's merging rather than reimplementing it, since a second copy of that logic is the drift commit-detection exists to prevent. That is a contract change with its own review and its own effect on which scenarios pass freeze lint, not a metamorphic-transform change.
What the residual exposure actually is, so the trade is visible: a derivative admitted as new evidence when its model input is unchanged, for a scenario with directive-only user turns separating same-role assistants whose only difference is commit hashes past the cap. Nothing in the corpus has that shape, and the anti-vacuity guard and injection-canary coverage are unaffected.
Happy to open the contract-level change if you agree that is where it belongs — it would fold your point into the headroom path at the same time, which is where it pays.
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Fresh evidence beyond excluding a hash in its own commit-context message is that candidate admission is per occurrence and then unioned globally. If an all-letter hash such as ABCDEFAB appears in one eligible non-commit message and also in another eligible assistant message such as Committed ABCDEFAB, the first occurrence admits the spelling even though the second filters it; the later global replacement then renames both occurrences and removes production's commit metadata. Build a global set of spellings used as commit hashes and exclude it from the final candidate set so a non-commit occurrence cannot re-enable the same revision identifier.
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Block commit hashes across all eligible messages
Confirmed and fixed in 0f89fed. Per-occurrence admission against a globally-applied replacement is the mismatch, and it is the same shape as the compound-name finding: the pool is a union, so any admitting occurrence wins.
Reproduction: Committed ABCDEFAB while exploring. in one eligible assistant message and Reference ABCDEFAB and aux_worker.ts remain open. in another. The second message has no commit verb, so it admitted the spelling, and the replacement then rewrote both occurrences — removing the commit metadata production emits for the first.
Spellings used as commit hashes anywhere in the transcript are now collected before the pool is formed and excluded from it, rather than filtered inside the per-message scan.
Regression test: rename refuses a commit hash another message spells without a verb, asserting no Committed aux_symbol appears and the non-commit mention survives, while the ordinary identifier in the same message is still renamed. It fails when the global exclusion is removed.
- probe rename candidates instead of committing to the first - block a bare symbol an untouchable compound name contains - find a free replacement once, and find taken ones in one pass - validate duplication candidates lazily Renaming picked one symbol and then returned inapplicable if it failed the length, evidence, or orphan check, discarding coverage another symbol would have provided. It now uses the shared candidate probe, so all five transforms choose a candidate only once its derivative exists. Extraction records only the full spelling of a compound name, so an untouchable `buildAPI/v2` left a bare `buildAPI` looking unclaimed in an eligible message. Renaming only the reachable half splits one entity, so a candidate is rejected when it appears as a complete value in any text the rename cannot touch. The replacement search was per candidate and asked `containsCompleteValue` per name, each call renormalizing the whole collision surface. Taken names are now collected in one pass over the family pattern, and the free-name walk runs once on first use rather than per candidate — deferred rather than hoisted so the draw order stays candidate-offset first and a given seed still picks the symbol it always did. On a transcript packed with ten thousand compound names that is 430s to 4.9s. Duplication proved every candidate before choosing one; the proof now runs inside the probe like the others. At the contract limits — 99 turns, 100 expectation entries — every transform applies in about 50ms, and the perf test bounds all five rather than the two that prompted it.
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Fresh evidence after the protected-compound fix is that untouchableCorpus omits every eligible message: if one eligible message contains buildAPI and another contains buildAPI/v2, the bare candidate passes this check. The replacement callback later matches symbols exactly, so it rewrites only buildAPI while leaving buildAPI/v2 unchanged, splitting an entity even though symbolSegments treats the bare segment as a reference to the compound name. Check candidates against compound symbols in all messages, not only untouchable ones.
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Block segments contained by other eligible symbols
Confirmed and fixed in 023afce. I scoped the previous fix to untouchable text because that was the case in front of me; eligibility is irrelevant to this hazard, as you point out — the replacement matches symbols exactly, so any un-renamed compound is left behind regardless of which message holds it.
Reproduction: We could consider buildAPI/v2 and aux_worker.ts. in one eligible message and Background note about buildAPI. in another. Both eligible, so neither was in the untouchable surface, and the bare spelling was renamed alone.
The rule is now structural rather than positional: every boundary-delimited run inside each symbol is enumerated once and excluded from the pool. That reaches the middle spellings too — symbol_1234 inside aux_symbol_1234/v2, not just the prefix — which a prefix-only or symbolSegments-based check would have missed, and it is a single pass rather than a per-candidate scan.
Regression test: rename refuses a bare symbol another eligible message compounds, asserting the bare spelling survives while the transform still applies. It fails when the contained-spelling exclusion is removed.
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Fresh evidence after making rename candidates exhaustive is that each failed candidate now rebuilds evidenceBaselines(scenario), which rescans the unchanged source transcript for every claim and absent predicate. On a contract-valid scenario containing many renameable symbols where every generated aux_symbol_* gains a declared predicate, firstDerivative traverses the entire candidate set and repeats that full source scan each time, potentially stalling corpus enumeration. Compute the source baselines once before entering firstDerivative and reuse them for each candidate.
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Hoist evidence baselines out of the rename candidate loop
Confirmed and fixed in 023afce. Making the rename probe exhaustive is what created this — the other four transforms already enumerated their baselines once, and rename was left calling evidenceBaselines inside the closure, so every failed candidate rescanned the unchanged source transcript for every claim and absent predicate.
Hoisted above firstDerivative. The source side does not vary across candidates by construction, which is the whole reason the baselines exist as a value rather than a call.
No new test for this one: it is a pure hoist with no behaviour change, and the perf bound at the contract limits already covers all five transforms, so a regression that put the scan back inside the loop would show up there rather than needing its own fixture. Happy to add a dedicated bound if you would rather have one pinned to renaming specifically.
- refuse to rename a markup name that delimits hidden text - collect commit-hash spellings across the transcript before admitting any A tag name reaches the candidate scan when the message also mentions it as prose, and renaming it rewrites the delimiter rather than an entity: `<system-reminder>` becomes `<aux_symbol_N>`, production stops recognising the block, and text the baseline hid reaches the historian. The evidence guards can pass on that, since the exposed text need not carry a declared predicate, so the candidate is refused instead — checked as `<symbol>` or `</symbol>` in the raw message, which covers any markup name rather than the one tag we know about. Commit-hash exclusion was per occurrence while candidates are unioned across messages, so a spelling mentioned without a commit verb in one message re-enabled a revision identifier another message uses as one — and the replacement runs over every occurrence. Spellings used as commit hashes anywhere in the transcript are now collected first and excluded from the pool.
- refuse a bare symbol any other symbol compounds, wherever it appears - enumerate the rename source baselines once The compound-name check looked only at untouchable text, but two eligible messages can hold `buildAPI` and `buildAPI/v2`, and the replacement matches symbols exactly — so renaming the bare spelling leaves the compound naming the old entity. Every boundary-delimited run inside each symbol is now collected once and excluded from the candidate pool, which covers the middle spellings (`symbol_1234` inside `aux_symbol_1234/v2`) as well as the prefix, and does not depend on which messages are eligible. Making the rename probe exhaustive left `evidenceBaselines` inside the closure, so every failed candidate rescanned the unchanged source transcript for every claim and absent predicate. The source side does not vary across candidates, so it is enumerated once, matching the other four transforms.
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For a contract-valid message containing a long symbol such as a-a-a-..., this nested enumeration creates O(n²) strings while repeatedly slicing and joining them, resulting in cubic aggregate copying; even 1,000 separators produce roughly 500,000 strings, while the 20,000-character message limit permits about 10,000 separators and tens of millions of strings. Applying the rename transform to such a scenario can therefore stall or exhaust memory before selecting a candidate; instead, check the finite candidate set against parsed symbol boundaries or retain a representation that does not materialize every contained spelling.
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Avoid materializing every substring of compound symbols
Confirmed and fixed in 439904c. Measured: a message carrying nine thousand separators took 15 seconds in one rename application, and it is a legal message — well inside MAX_TURN_TEXT_CHARS.
Took your remedy. Each symbol is parsed into parts and offsets once, and containment is decided by comparing against the finite candidate spelling at each part boundary rather than by enumerating the symbol's runs. Nothing quadratic in symbol length survives.
The one place still quadratic is the other direction — asking whether a candidate contains a standalone symbol requires walking the candidate's own runs — so a name with more than thirty-two parts is now refused outright rather than analysed. That is a real bound, not a heuristic dodge: a spelling with thirty-three separator-delimited parts is not something a rename should be exercising, and refusing it costs no coverage.
Regression test: rename stays cheap against a separator-heavy message, bounding the application at 900ms on a nine-thousand-separator fixture. Restoring the materializing version fails it at ~15s.
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Fresh evidence beyond the separate shadowed-symbol and compound-name fixes is when two eligible messages contain bare buildAPI and rejected inline code such as `buildAPI/v2 --watch`. symbolsIn omits the command's contents here, so containedBySymbol never blocks buildAPI; the later replacement changes the bare occurrence but cannot enter the rejected backtick span, splitting an entity that this file's compound-segment rule treats as shared. Include shadowedSymbolsIn symbols when deriving contained spellings.
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Include shadowed compound symbols in containment blocking
Confirmed and fixed in 439904c. The containment surface was built from admitted symbols, so a compound living inside a command span — precisely the place the rename cannot reach — did not block its bare spelling. Which is backwards: unreachability is what makes it dangerous.
Reproduction: We could run \buildAPI/v2 --watch` and aux_worker.ts.with a barebuildAPIin another eligible message.symbolsIn` skips the span, nothing blocked the bare candidate, and the replacement rewrote it while the span kept the old name.
The surface now includes shadowedSymbolsIn alongside symbolsIn, so both directions of the sharing check see inline-code spellings.
Regression test: rename refuses a bare symbol only inline code compounds, which fails when shadowed spellings are dropped from the surface.
Standing back for a moment: this round and the last two have all been the same shape — a surface assembled from several scans, and a check that consulted some of them. That is why the sharing check is now one predicate over one surface set built from both scans, rather than a filter per source. If you find another gap in it, I would expect it to be in what the surface contains, not in which direction the check runs.
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When eligible history contains both buildAPI/v2 and a standalone buildAPI, this filter blocks the bare candidate because the compound contains it, but still admits buildAPI/v2 itself. The exact replacement then renames only the compound while leaving the bare reference unchanged, splitting an entity even though symbolSegments explicitly treats the bare segment as referring to the compound. Also reject a compound candidate when any of its proper contained spellings occurs independently on the collision surface.
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Block compound renames with surviving segment references
Confirmed and fixed in 439904c. I had implemented containment in one direction only, which is arbitrary — the entity is split whichever spelling gets renamed.
Reproduction: We could consider buildAPI and aux_worker.ts. in one eligible message and Background note about buildAPI/v2. in another. The bare candidate was blocked, the compound was not, and renaming the compound left the standalone reference naming the old entity.
The check is now symmetric: a candidate is refused when another surface symbol contains it, and when it contains another surface symbol that stands on its own. One predicate, both directions, so a future finding cannot arrive as "you fixed the other side again".
Regression test: rename refuses a compound whose bare segment stands on its own, which fails when the contains-another direction is disabled.
- decide entity sharing from parsed boundaries instead of every substring - share-check both directions and include inline-code spellings The containment check materialized every boundary-delimited run of every symbol. A legal message may be twenty thousand characters of separators, which is tens of millions of strings and cubic copying; a nine-thousand-separator fixture took 15s. It now parses each symbol once and compares against the finite candidate spelling, and refuses outright any name with more than thirty-two parts, which bounds the remaining quadratic to the candidate's own size. Nothing anyone renames looks like that. Two gaps in what counted as sharing an entity. Only the contained-by direction was checked, so a bare `buildAPI` was blocked while `buildAPI/v2` was still admitted — and renaming the compound leaves the bare reference behind just the same. And the surface was built from admitted symbols only, so a compound living inside a command span the rename cannot enter did not block its bare spelling. Both directions now run over a surface that includes inline-code spellings.
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| // entity: `<system-reminder>` becomes `<aux_symbol_N>`, | ||
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| // baseline hid reaches the historian. | ||
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Fresh evidence beyond the per-message delimiter guard is that candidate admission is unioned globally: if one eligible message mentions system-reminder as prose while another eligible message contains <system-reminder>secret</system-reminder> plus visible text, the prose occurrence admits the symbol even though this check rejects it only for the second message. The subsequent global replacement rewrites both delimiters, so production no longer strips secret and the derivative exposes hidden text; collect markup names across all messages and exclude them from the final candidate set.
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Block markup names across all eligible messages
Confirmed and fixed in 05af44e. I gave commit hashes the global treatment two rounds ago for exactly this reason and left markup names per message, which is the inconsistency you found.
Reproduction: We could note system-reminder handling and aux_worker.ts. in one eligible message, <system-reminder>secret</system-reminder> Background note. in another. The prose occurrence admitted the spelling, the replacement rewrote the delimiters, and secret reaches the historian.
Names used as markup anywhere in the transcript are now collected before the pool is formed and excluded from it, alongside the commit-hash set. Per-occurrence admission against a globally-applied replacement is the recurring shape here, and both exclusions now live at the same place in the pipeline rather than one inside the per-message scan.
Regression test: rename refuses a markup name another message mentions as prose. It and the earlier delimiter test both fail when the exclusion goes back to per message, which is what pins the global scope rather than just the rule.
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Fresh evidence beyond bounding the part count of one compound symbol is that every rename candidate still scans every symbol on the collision surface here, making candidate construction quadratic in the number of unrelated symbols. A contract-valid transcript can contain 10,000 distinct camel-case identifiers within the existing turn and text limits; because none contains another, this executes roughly 100 million full checks before choosing one derivative (the isolated loop takes about eight seconds), and larger legal inputs can stall corpus enumeration. Index layouts by their first part or otherwise perform containment checks without the candidate-by-surface cross product.
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Index shared symbols before filtering rename candidates
Fixed in 05af44e, and I want to be straight about the measurement rather than claim I reproduced your number.
Took the remedy: a containment can only begin where a part matches, so the surface is indexed by part and each candidate consults one bucket instead of the whole surface. The now-unused containsSpelling helper is gone and the separator class it shared with the grammar is one constant.
What I could not reproduce is the eight seconds. My largest fixture within the turn and message limits — 18,000 distinct camel-case identifiers, all of them candidates — ran the cross-product form in about 640ms, and the indexed form in about 700ms. My reading is that a startsWith against a mismatched first character is cheap enough that even a few hundred million of them stay well under a second here, so the constant factor is doing more work than the asymptotics suggest at this size.
I kept the change on complexity grounds, not because I measured a win: the cross product is quadratic in symbol count and the index is not, and a scenario an order of magnitude larger would land where you describe. The bound test uses a 6,000-identifier fixture and passes for both forms, so it guards the shape rather than discriminating this fix, and I would rather say that than dress it up.
If your eight-second measurement came from a construction I have not thought of — a bucket where thousands of symbols share a first part, say — I would like the fixture, since that is the case where the index alone is not enough either.
- collect markup names across the transcript before admitting any candidate - index the containment surface by part instead of scanning it per candidate Markup-name exclusion was per message while candidates are unioned across them, so one message mentioning `system-reminder` as prose admitted a spelling another message uses as a delimiter — and the replacement rewrites every occurrence, so production stops stripping the block and hidden text reaches the historian. Names used as markup anywhere are now collected first and excluded from the pool, the same treatment commit hashes already had. The entity-sharing check compared each candidate against every symbol on the collision surface. A containment can only begin where a part matches, so the surface is now indexed by part and a candidate consults one bucket. The unused `containsSpelling` helper goes with it, and the separator class it shared with the grammar is now one constant.
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Fresh evidence after precomputing generated replacement collisions is that this filter still calls containsCompleteValue once per rename candidate, and every call decodes and normalizes the entire untouchableCorpus. A contract-valid scenario can place roughly 2,000 distinct candidates in one eligible 20,000-character message while spreading about 1 MB of ordinary untouchable text across protected turns; the 2,000 membership checks alone took about 27 seconds, before any derivative is attempted. Precompute complete spellings from the untouchable surface or normalize it once and use a prepared lookup.
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Precompute untouchable-symbol membership
Confirmed and fixed in 790489a — by deleting the check rather than precomputing it, because it no longer adds anything.
Your measurement is the right shape: one full normalization of the untouchable surface per candidate, so two thousand candidates against a megabyte of protected text is the twenty-seven seconds you saw.
Tracing what it still caught turned up nothing. An exact spelling in untouchable text is in the blocklist, which is a set. Containment inside an untouchable symbol is covered by the entity-sharing check added last round, which indexes every symbol on the collision surface including the ones inside command spans — that check is what your earlier buildAPI/v2 finding produced, and it subsumed this scan the moment it landed. I removed it and the whole suite stays green, including rename refuses a bare symbol a protected compound name contains, the test written specifically for it — it now passes through the surface check.
So the per-candidate normalization is gone entirely rather than made cheaper. Worth noting the pattern: this is the second scan in two rounds that a later, better-indexed check had already made redundant, and I had left both in place. I have gone through the remaining candidate filters — blocklist, commit hashes, markup names, entity sharing, probe answers — and each is now a set membership or an indexed lookup, with no per-candidate scan of the corpus left.
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Fresh evidence beyond preserving total answer counts is that a reorder can move an occurrence from a protected source boundary into wholly unprotected history while keeping this global count unchanged. For example, in U0, P, U2, let both U0 and protected accepted turn P end in blue, let U2 start with green, and author blue green inside P; swapping P and U2 replaces the baseline P|U2 occurrence (removed with the source range during injection) with a copyable U0|U2 occurrence, while both transcripts still contain two matches. Compare occurrences outside each probe's remapped backing range rather than aggregate transcript counts.
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Compare only copyable probe-answer occurrences
Confirmed and fixed in 790489a. This is the finding I would have been least likely to reach on my own — the total being conserved is exactly what makes it invisible.
Reproduction, following your shape: U0 ends blue, protected P contains blue green and also ends blue, U2 opens green. The source authors two occurrences, one inside P and one across P|U2; swapping P and U2 still authors two, but the second is now across U0|U2 — wholly unprotected, and copyable. Global counts agree at two either way.
Answers now carry the range that backs them, and the comparison counts with that range masked on both sides, so the source reads zero copyable occurrences and the derivative one. Masked rather than sliced out, because removing the range's turns would let their neighbours become adjacent and author a formation neither side had — the same trap the occurrence enumerator avoids.
Regression test: reorder refuses a swap that makes a probe answer copyable. Its fixture carries two further background turns so the transform still applies through a safe swap, which is what makes the test prove the refusal rather than an inapplicable transform; making the mask a no-op fails it.
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When the copied turn's assistant suffix and user prefix form another proposed-but-rejected predicate across the new self-boundary, this check accepts that newly authored rejection because it permits arbitrary gains across the entire rejected baseline. For instance, a turn carrying rejection A can end with legacy and begin with bridge; duplicating it creates legacy bridge at the copy boundary, strengthening a distinct rejection B that was previously authored elsewhere. That can change historian behavior for a second proposal rather than merely increasing A's evidence density, so allow only gains corresponding to rejection occurrences actually contained in the duplicated turn.
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Limit rejection gains to the duplicated evidence
Confirmed and fixed in 790489a. "Any gain in the rejection family" was the wrong tolerance — the copy creates a boundary between the turn's own end and its own beginning, which can author something the turn never carried.
Reproduction: a turn opening bridge adoption was proposed. and closing keep the legacy, carrying rejection A, with legacy bridge authored as a separate rejection in a protected turn. Copying the turn puts legacy and bridge adjacent at the new self-boundary and authors B a second time.
The tolerance is now an exact expectation rather than a direction: the source occurrences remapped, plus the occurrences the copied turn carries on its own repeated at the copy, and nothing else. That is what duplication means, so it needs no separate rule for other families or for claims beyond the exactness they already had.
Building the fixture found the boundary between the two cases, which is worth recording: when the pre-existing legacy bridge sits in an unprotected turn, that turn is itself a duplication candidate and copying it doubles the occurrence legitimately — the expectation allows exactly that. The regression test therefore authors it in a protected turn, so the only occurrence the copy can add is the one at its own boundary. Loosening the comparison back to "at least" fails it.
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Fresh evidence after correcting overlapping counts is that advancing the regex by one character makes matching proportional to the number of overlaps times the needle length. With a legal roughly 2,000-character answer and 1 MB of repeated a transcript text, this single count took about 5.8 seconds; the 2 MB transcript limit roughly doubles that, and containsCompleteValue now also enumerates every overlap when it only needs the first. Use a linear overlapping matcher and keep the presence helper short-circuiting so contract lint and transform admission cannot stall on repetitive but valid input.
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Count overlapping values without restarting the full match
Fixed in 790489a, with a caveat about the measurement.
Both halves of your remedy are in: the count is now substring search plus a boundary test on the two adjacent characters, so no match is re-derived, and containsCompleteValue short-circuits at the first hit instead of enumerating every overlap to answer yes or no. The second half is unambiguously right — presence was doing half a million comparisons to return true.
What I could not reproduce is the 5.8 seconds. On your stated fixture — a 1,999-character answer against a megabyte of repeated a — the regex form measured about 690ms here, both calls together. My guess is that the lookbehind rejects most starting positions before the needle is compared, so the re-derivation is cheaper than the shape suggests. I am not confident enough in that explanation to lean on it.
Kept the change regardless: it removes the quadratic term and is simpler than the regex it replaces. Regression test stays linear against a repetitive haystack on the contract bounds both calls at 900ms on that fixture, so it guards the shape without my claiming a win I did not measure.
- compare probe answers where they are copyable, not across the transcript - allow duplication only the rejection occurrences the copied turn carries - find complete values by substring search, and stop at the first for presence - drop the redundant untouchable-corpus scan Injection replaces a probe's backing range, so an occurrence inside it is not copyable and an occurrence outside it is. A reordering could move one off a protected boundary into wholly unprotected history while the total stayed the same, converting a non-copyable occurrence into a copyable one. Answers now carry the range that backs them and are counted with that range masked out, on both sides of the comparison. Duplication permitted any gain across the rejection baseline, so a copied turn whose own suffix and prefix form a different forbidden formation strengthened a second proposal at its new self-boundary. The expectation is now exact: the source occurrences plus the ones the copied turn carries alone, repeated at the copy, and nothing else. `countCompleteValues` advanced a regex one character at a time, which re-derives every overlapping match against a repetitive haystack, and `containsCompleteValue` enumerated every overlap to answer a yes-or-no question. Both now use substring search with a boundary test on the adjacent characters, and presence stops at the first hit. The untouchable-corpus scan cost a full normalization per candidate and no longer adds anything: exact spellings are in the blocklist and containment in an untouchable symbol is covered by the indexed surface check, which includes the symbols inside command spans.
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When an exhaustive transform tries many candidates that all introduce the same lint failure—for example, a lint-clean transcript near the chunk-headroom limit where every additive rewrite exceeds it—each derivative() call reruns lintScenario(base) and then lints the derivative. Rename can supply thousands of candidates, turning one application into thousands of full transcript/token-budget scans before it reports inapplicability; compute the inherited diagnostics once per transform application and reuse them.
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Cache source lint across exhaustive candidates
Fixed in c6639c3. derivative() linted the unchanged source on every call, which with an exhaustive probe repeats the whole freeze battery — token budget, rendered blocks, the lot — once per candidate. The diagnostics are now enumerated once per application by inheritedDiagnostics and handed in, so an application that probes N candidates runs N+1 lints rather than 2N.
Passed as a parameter rather than memoized behind the call, since the value is per application and the transforms already thread evidenceBaselines and the answer set the same way; one more hidden cache keyed on object identity would be harder to reason about than five explicit call sites.
No bound test, and the reason is worth recording. To exhaust a probe through contract violations the source must be lint-clean while every candidate tips the chunk budget, and that window is about eight tokens wide: measured on a padded fixture, 11,000 characters per message leaves the source clean with the transform still applying, and 13,000 puts the source itself over the budget at 30,762 + 2,000. The other exhaustion route — every rewrite exceeding the per-message ceiling — never reaches derivative(), because those messages are filtered out at candidate selection. So I could not construct a legal fixture that demonstrates the cost, and I would rather say that than ship a bound that passes either way.
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When a match is adjacent to an astral Unicode letter or digit, charAt() returns only one UTF-16 surrogate, which does not satisfy the Unicode letter/number regex. For example, containsCompleteValue("𐐀foo", "foo") is reported true even though foo is part of the larger alphanumeric value under this helper's documented boundary rule. This can let self-answering probes or history leakage evade the complete-value guards; inspect the adjacent code point rather than a single code unit.
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Use code-point boundaries for complete values
Confirmed and fixed in c6639c3. Verified your exact case: containsCompleteValue("𐐀foo", "foo") returned true, because charAt handed the boundary test a lone high surrogate, which is not a letter under \p{L}.
Both sides now read a code point. The preceding one needs the surrogate pair reassembled — a low surrogate at index - 1 means the code point starts at index - 2 — which is the half a naive codePointAt(index - 1) would get wrong.
Worth noting this predates my change to substring search: the regex form had the same hole, since a lookbehind of (?<![\p{L}\p{N}]) also inspects one code unit. So it is a long-standing gap in the documented boundary rule rather than a regression, and it reaches the freeze lint's not-authored-in-source-range and not-required-by checks as well as the transform guards.
Regression test on the contract: boundaries are code points, not code units, pinning both adjacency directions and keeping the ordinary case true. It fails when the code-unit reads are restored.
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When a rejected predicate spans the user and assistant messages of one turn, matchTurns() returns the same source index twice, so this length === 1 check does not add the expected occurrence for the duplicated copy. Candidate discovery still selects that turn because matchSpans(rejected, [turn]) finds the match, but the subsequent equality check rejects the derivative as an unexpected gain; if this is the only rejection, the duplication transform becomes inapplicable despite copying exactly the intended evidence. Test whether every crossed message belongs to source, rather than requiring a one-element array.
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Treat cross-role matches as local to the copied turn
Confirmed and fixed in c6639c3. This was a false negative I introduced one commit earlier, and the worse kind: the transform reported inapplicable while copying exactly the evidence it exists to copy.
Reproduction: a turn whose user message ends Should we adopt the batch and whose assistant begins pipeline? Rejected for now. The occurrence names turn 0 twice, so length === 1 was false, the expected copy was never added, and the equality check then read the copy as an unexpected gain. With that as the only rejection, duplication was inapplicable for every seed; it now applies on all of them.
The test is crossedTurns.every((turnIndex) => turnIndex === source) — wholly inside the copied turn, rather than named by exactly one index. Your framing of it as "every crossed message belongs to source" is what I should have written the first time; I was thinking of a signature as a turn list when it is a message list.
Regression test: duplication copies a turn whose rejection spans its two messages, which asserts the copy exists. It fails when the single-index form is restored.
- count a turn-local rejection that spans both of its messages - read boundary characters as code points - lint the source once per application, not once per candidate A formation running from a turn's user message into its assistant message names that turn twice, so requiring a single index dropped the expected copy and rejected the candidate duplication exists to make — inapplicable while copying exactly the intended evidence. The test is now that every crossed turn is the copied one. Boundary checks read `charAt`, which returns one UTF-16 code unit, so a match sitting against an astral letter looked boundary-clean: `containsCompleteValue` reported `foo` as a complete value in `𐐀foo`. Both sides are now read as code points. `derivative()` linted the unchanged source on every call. With an exhaustive candidate probe that repeats the whole freeze battery, token budget included, per candidate; the diagnostics are now enumerated once per application and handed in. No bound test: the window where a source is lint-clean and every candidate tips the chunk budget is about eight tokens wide, so I could not build a legal fixture that exhausts a probe through contract violations.
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When an eligible assistant message says COMMITTED ABCDEF1, the hash is excluded here but the all-uppercase commit verb remains a rename candidate. Rewriting it to aux_symbol_N makes compactTextForSummary stop stripping the hash from the prose because its commit-context check at read-session-formatting.ts:152 no longer matches, so the derivative changes commit representation and meaning rather than merely renaming an unrelated identifier. Exclude tokens matched by the commit-action grammar as well as commit hashes.
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Exclude commit verbs from symbol renames
Confirmed and fixed in 5c5f785. I excluded the hash and left the thing that gives the hash its meaning — compactTextForSummary only extracts when COMMIT_VERB_PATTERN matches, so renaming COMMITTED stops the extraction just as effectively.
Reproduction: COMMITTED ABCDEF1 and noted ... in an eligible assistant message. The hash was protected, the verb was a candidate under the all-caps alternative, and renaming it changed the block's commit representation.
Candidates matching the commit-action grammar are now excluded alongside hash-shaped ones, using the same shared COMMIT_VERB_PATTERN rather than a list of verbs — that module exists because these patterns had drifted across three call sites before.
Regression test: rename refuses a commit verb and the internal initiator marker, asserting COMMITTED ABCDEF1 survives while the ordinary identifier in the same scenario is still renamed. It fails when the verb exclusion is removed.
| // Renaming a markup name rewrites the delimiter, not an entity: | ||
| // `<system-reminder>` becomes `<aux_symbol_N>`, production stops | ||
| // stripping the block, and text the baseline hid reaches the | ||
| // historian. | ||
| !markupNames.has(symbol) && |
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Fresh evidence beyond the reminder-delimiter fix is a scenario where one eligible message mentions OMO_INTERNAL_INITIATOR as prose and another eligible user message contains <!-- OMO_INTERNAL_INITIATOR --> plus visible text. The prose occurrence admits the spelling, after which the global replacement rewrites the marker too; cleanUserText removes only the exact marker at read-session-chunk.ts:182-183, so the derivative exposes the rewritten comment to the historian although the baseline strips it, while the evidence guards can still pass. Add this control marker to the global structural-name exclusion.
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Exclude the internal initiator marker from renames
Confirmed and fixed in 5c5f785. My markup check was written against element names — <symbol> and </symbol> — and this marker is a comment stripped by exact string, so it fell outside the shape I generalized to.
Reproduction: one eligible message mentioning OMO_INTERNAL_INITIATOR as prose, another containing <!-- OMO_INTERNAL_INITIATOR --> Background note. The prose occurrence admitted the spelling and the global replacement rewrote the marker, after which cleanUserText no longer removes it and the comment reaches the historian.
The structural check now covers it, keyed on OMO_INTERNAL_INITIATOR_MARKER imported from shared/internal-initiator-marker — the constant cleanUserText itself strips with — rather than a second copy of the literal, so a change to the marker cannot leave this behind.
Regression test: rename refuses a commit verb and the internal initiator marker, which asserts the marker survives intact. It fails when the marker clause is dropped.
Standing back: that is two rounds where the finding was "your structural exclusion does not cover this other kind of structure". Both are now sourced from production constants rather than shapes I inferred, which is the only version of this that stays correct as production changes.
| const matchEnd = at + needle.length; | ||
| const crossed = spans | ||
| .filter((span) => span.start < matchEnd && at < span.end) | ||
| .map((span) => span.key); | ||
| matches.push(`${entry.id}|${crossed.join(",")}`); |
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With a contract-valid short predicate such as a and a long repetitive transcript, this loop creates an entry for every overlapping occurrence and rescans every message span for each one. A transcript within the 32K-token chunk budget can still contain hundreds of thousands of such matches, so every transform that builds evidence baselines can spend millions of span checks and retain hundreds of thousands of signature strings before examining a candidate, potentially stalling or exhausting the metamorphic lane. Walk the ordered spans incrementally and aggregate identical (predicate, crossed-messages) signatures with counts instead of materializing every occurrence.
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Aggregate repetitive evidence matches
Fixed in 5c5f785. Both halves of your remedy are in: occurrences are counted into a signature-to-count map instead of pushed one per occurrence, and the span scan advances with the match position rather than restarting from the first span. The baseline type changed from a list to a map, so the multiset comparisons downstream read counts directly instead of rebuilding them.
Measurement, and it does not support the bound I would have liked: on the largest repetitive fixture I could build — twenty turns of a at eight thousand characters each, with a one-character predicate, so roughly a hundred and sixty thousand occurrences — both forms stay under 900ms. The new test therefore guards the shape rather than demonstrating the difference. I kept the change because the asymptotics are plainly better and the string materialization is gone, but I could not reproduce a stall.
What I could not rule out is a larger legal transcript than I built: the chunk budget admits roughly four times the rendered mass I used before the freeze lint objects, and the span rescan is the product of occurrences and spans, so that is where your projection and my measurement most plausibly diverge. If you have the construction, I would take it — the same fixture would also settle two earlier perf findings I closed as unreproducible.
- treat commit verbs and the internal-initiator marker as structure - aggregate evidence occurrences instead of listing every one A commit verb is what makes production read the hash beside it as commit metadata, so renaming `COMMITTED` changes the block's meaning as surely as renaming the hash would; the commit-action grammar now excludes candidates the same way the hash pattern does. The internal-initiator marker is stripped by exact string, so renaming the name inside it exposes the comment the baseline removed — the markup check now covers it alongside element names, keyed on the production constant rather than a second copy of the literal. The occurrence enumerator pushed one signature string per occurrence and rescanned every message span for each. A legal one-character predicate against a repetitive transcript authors an occurrence at nearly every position, so the baselines every transform builds materialized hundreds of thousands of strings. Occurrences are now counted into a signature-to-count map, and the span scan advances with the match position instead of restarting. Both forms stay under the bound on the largest repetitive fixture I could build, so the new test guards the shape rather than demonstrating the difference.
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Historian scenarios can now be transformed in deterministic, seed-stable ways and checked with explicit invariants. This is the foundation layer of the four-PR metamorphic evaluation stack.
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