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Guard against correctable misspellings in completions - #814

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Guard against correctable misspellings in completions#814
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Summary

  • Extend the completion seam guard to inspect the first generated word at a word boundary.
  • Suppress only when the native spell checker identifies a typo and offers a correction.
  • Keep names, jargon, and words without an actionable correction fail-open.
  • Add regression coverage and mirror the guard in the llama evaluation harness.

Why

Cotabby already protects mid-word seams, but a newly generated misspelled word after a space could still be shown. This is related to #811.

Validation

  • swiftc parse checks passed for all modified Swift files.
  • Focused CompletionSeamGuard harness passed.
  • Full xcodebuild tests were not available because this environment has only Command Line Tools, not Xcode.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved streamed suggestions by waiting for complete leading words before spelling checks.
    • Suppressed suggestions containing correctable misspellings while allowing valid and uncorrectable words.
    • Improved handling of punctuation, capitalization, contractions, hyphens, digits, and CJK text.
    • Enhanced final-result validation for leading-word errors, seam misspellings, and invalid punctuation.
    • Preserved valid suggestions across streaming updates and generation resets for more consistent results.
    • Improved model download reliability by ensuring output and error messages are fully captured after completion.

Greptile Summary

The PR extends completion validation to suppress correctable misspellings in the first generated word while preserving names and uncorrectable vocabulary.

  • Adds generation-scoped buffering and caching for streamed leading-word checks.
  • Applies the same spelling assessment to authoritative final results and the llama evaluation harness.
  • Adds regression coverage for punctuation, connectors, capitalization, digits, CJK text, and streaming resets.
  • Serializes aria2 pipe reads and drains remaining output when the process terminates.

Confidence Score: 5/5

The PR appears safe to merge.

No blocking failure remains.

Important Files Changed

Filename Overview
Cotabby/Support/Suggestion/Output/CompletionSeamGuard.swift Adds leading-word extraction and separate streamed and final spelling verdicts, with conservative exemptions for ambiguous token classes.
Cotabby/App/Coordinators/Suggestion/SuggestionCoordinator+Prediction.swift Integrates the leading-word gate into streamed partial handling and applies the unified spelling assessment to final results.
Cotabby/Support/Suggestion/Streaming/SuggestionStreamingState.swift Caches a terminal leading-word decision per generation and resets it across generation and session boundaries.
Cotabby/Services/ModelManagement/Aria2DownloadService.swift Serializes pipe consumption and drains output at process termination to preserve final progress and error bytes.
CotabbyTests/Support/Suggestion/Output/CompletionSeamGuardTests.swift Adds focused coverage for leading-word spelling policy and streamed word-boundary behavior.

Flowchart

%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
flowchart TD
    A[Generated partial] --> B{Junk punctuation?}
    B -->|Yes| X[Suppress]
    B -->|No| C{Leading word complete?}
    C -->|No| W[Buffer partial]
    C -->|Yes| D{Correctable typo?}
    D -->|Yes| X
    D -->|No| E[Cache allow and render]
    A --> F[Final result]
    F --> G{Full seam verdict allows?}
    G -->|Yes| H[Present suggestion]
    G -->|No| X
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The change adds shared spelling assessments for completion seams and generated leading words. Streaming suggestions now wait for word boundaries, suppress correctable misspellings, and retain a per-generation gate state. Process output reads are serialized and drained before termination snapshots.

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Leading-word spelling validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Unified seam and spelling verdicts
Cotabby/Support/Suggestion/Output/CompletionSeamGuard.swift
Adds spelling assessment types, leading-word probing, final verdict handling, and streamed wait/allow/suppress results.
Streaming gate integration
Cotabby/Support/Suggestion/Streaming/SuggestionStreamingState.swift, Cotabby/App/Coordinators/Suggestion/SuggestionCoordinator+Prediction.swift
Tracks leading-word gate states, resets them between generations, adapts native spell-check results, and records distinct suppression reasons.
Spelling gate validation
CotabbyTests/Support/Suggestion/Output/CompletionSeamGuardTests.swift, CotabbyTests/Support/Suggestion/Streaming/SuggestionStreamingStateTests.swift, CotabbyTests/Evals/LlamaSuggestionEvalTests.swift
Tests correctable, uncorrectable, capitalized, punctuated, contracted, incomplete, digit-containing, and streamed leading words.

Process output handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Serialized pipe reads and termination drain
Cotabby/Services/ModelManagement/Aria2DownloadService.swift
Serializes stdout and stderr reads, shares parsing closures, and drains both pipes before capturing the final error message.

Launch log formatting

Layer / File(s) Summary
Launch log call formatting
Cotabby/App/Core/AppDelegate.swift
Reformats the launch log call without changing its message or behavior.

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to e29ee

This change adds spelling-aware suppression for generated completion words and makes download-process output capture more reliable at termination. Current coverage and review findings show no remaining merge-blocking risk.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant SuggestionCoordinator
  participant CompletionSeamGuard
  participant SuggestionStreamingState
  SuggestionCoordinator->>CompletionSeamGuard: evaluate streamed leading word
  CompletionSeamGuard-->>SuggestionCoordinator: return wait, allow, or suppress
  SuggestionCoordinator->>SuggestionStreamingState: resolve terminal gate state
  SuggestionStreamingState-->>SuggestionCoordinator: retain gate state
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In `@Cotabby/Support/Suggestion/Output/CompletionSeamGuard.swift`:
- Around line 208-238: Update the completion scan around wordStart and wordEnd
to detect a numeric character after the word start and return .notApplicable for
the entire token, rather than evaluating the preceding letters as a candidate.
Preserve existing connector and incomplete-word behavior, and add final and
streamed regressions covering a letter-and-digit token such as ecrir2.
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Comment thread Cotabby/Support/Suggestion/Output/CompletionSeamGuard.swift
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@BaptisteGarcin See SwiftLint failure please

akramj13 and others added 2 commits September 3, 2026 18:57
The nested leading-word gate switch pushed applyStreamedPartial to a
cyclomatic complexity of 11, failing the strict lint gate. Move the gate
into passesStreamedLeadingWordGate, mirroring how handleTypoGate keeps
generateFromCurrentFocus within budget. Behavior is unchanged: a pending
gate consults the seam guard once, a settled gate answers without another
spell lookup.

Also fix the CompletionSeamGuard header, which still said "Both rules"
after the leading-word rule made three.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Cover the cases that were easy to misread while reviewing the guard: the
final verdict suppresses a correctable last word with no trailing boundary
(only the streamed verdict waits for one), a connector continuing the
caret word stays in the mid-word rule, hyphenated tokens are assessed
whole, and words under four letters skip the lookup entirely.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
akramj13 and others added 2 commits September 4, 2026 20:30
Two main-branch failures surfaced on every open PR once the macos-latest
image moved from SwiftLint 0.65.0 to 0.65.1.

SwiftLint 0.65.1 fixed `ignores_urls` so that property accesses whose
member names are valid top-level domains (`.app`, `.info`) no longer make
a line count as a URL. That exposed the 144-character launch log line in
AppDelegate, which 0.65.0 had silently skipped. Wrap it.

Aria2DownloadService read its stderr buffer inside the termination
handler while the readability handler, which runs on its own queue, could
still be holding the process's final write. On the slower runner the
buffer was empty and the error degraded to "Process terminated with exit
code 7", failing test_downloadSurfacesProcessExitAndStderr. Drain both
pipes to EOF in the termination handler before building the result; that
cannot block because the child's write ends closed with it. The parsing is
shared between the handlers and the drain so bytes are treated the same
either way.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Detaching a readability handler does not wait for a callback that is
already running, so one could have pulled the final stderr bytes with
availableData and not yet appended them when the termination handler
drained the pipe and read the buffer. Run every pipe read, callbacks and
drain alike, on one serial queue and snapshot the message on that same
queue: an in-flight callback finishes appending before the drain starts,
and a late callback finds the pipe at EOF.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Reviewed the guard end to end, including the follow-up commits now on this branch: the complexity fix with boundary tests, a merge of main, and the two CI fixes that are also in #824.

Design. The three-state SpellingAssessment is the right shape: mid-word seams reject any typo, newly generated words reject only correctable typos, and "typo with no correction" fails open for names and jargon. Buffering the first streamed word until its boundary and then caching one decision per generation keeps NSSpellChecker off the token path. leadingWordProbe handles the cases I tried to break it with: apostrophes and hyphens as connectors, dangling connectors, digits anywhere in the token, capitalized words, CJK.

Verified.

  • swiftlint --strict clean; full suite 1785 tests, 0 failures.
  • Llama eval harness (117 cases): 11 seam-guard suppressions, all from the pre-existing mid-word rule; the new leading-word rule fired 0 times, so eval scores are unchanged.
  • Live in Cotabby Dev against a stub endpoint streaming canned text: ecrir plus vite suppressed with leadingWordMisspelling(word: "ecrir") 5/5; hello there friend became acceptable only once the second chunk completed "hello", and Tab mid-stream accepted it.
  • Real model in TextEdit: shown, typed through, accepted.

Non-blocking notes.

  • The streaming path now performs one NSSpellChecker lookup per generation on the main actor (about 0.1 ms for a known word, about 9 ms for an unknown one through guesses), and the final apply repeats it with no shared memo.
  • The first render of a lowercase first word waits for its boundary token; a completion that is a single lowercase word never streams and only shows as the final result.
  • "Has a correction" is a weaker typo signal than it sounds. On a stock en_CA checker, lowercase changelog, webhook, hotfix, iterable, hashable, swiftlint, swiftui, openai, gguf, and cotabby are all correctable and would be suppressed as a first generated word; capitalized forms are exempt. Worth watching the leadingWordMisspelling suppression metric after this ships.

CI on the latest head is queued behind the fork-workflow approval.

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LGTM

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akramj13 merged commit ac2699e into FuJacob:main Sep 5, 2026
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