feat(adaptive): triage an errand instead of authoring a one-off - #69
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Some goals are not a procedure. "How much disk is this directory using" has nothing in it worth writing down, and the loop had no way to say so: selection declined, authoring paid a large planning call to produce a one-step graph, and `keep` then filed that graph where it dilutes every later selection with a row that matches once and never again. `select` gains a third answer. It costs nothing where it fires — the call was already being made — and `Approach::Errand` is deliberately the narrowest of the three: judged like any other attempt, but kept by nothing, repaired by nothing, and signed with a constant so a second errand in one episode is visibly a repeat. Three things were harder than they looked. The prompt has to separate "short" from "no procedure in it". A one-step workflow can be the most reused thing on the shelf, so brevity is not the test and the guidance says so with examples in both directions — without it the flag quietly eats the shelf. `select` short-circuited on an empty shelf, on the reasoning that with nothing to choose from the answer could only be "none". That stopped being true the moment there was a third answer, and a cold store is exactly where a trivial goal is most likely — so the short-circuit would have made the errand path unreachable where it pays most while every test of the *answer* still passed. It now returns early only when there is also no errand to offer. The cost is real and is stated in the test that used to assert the opposite: a cold-shelf episode that is not an errand pays one small triage call, against saving a full authoring call and its run whenever it is. The one-turn graph goes through `recipe::lower` rather than being built by hand. Hand-building two nodes looks simpler and would be a second, unexercised definition of what an `ask` compiles to — which is how the `item.json.text` envelope bug got in. Also: one errand per episode, enforced from the exclusion list rather than from the prompt, because "you already tried that" is the instruction a model talks itself out of on attempt three; and a plain satisfied errand skips consolidation, since paying a consolidator to be told a trivial goal taught nothing gives most of the saving back. Both new guards are falsified — restoring the old short-circuit fails the cold-shelf test, and dropping the spent-errand check fails the escalation test. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe adaptive loop now supports one-turn errands. It selects an errand when allowed, lowers and validates it as a one-step graph, prevents repeated errands, excludes errands from repair and workflow scoring, and skips consolidation after a satisfied single-turn errand. ChangesErrand support
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The PR adds a model-selected one-step errand path and prevents it from being kept or retried, but concurrent processing of the same episode can still execute multiple errands, while certain goal text can break prompt construction and mixed-version readers may reject the new serialized choice. These are bounded but actionable merge-readiness risks, so merge should wait for fixes or explicit owner acceptance. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Intake
participant Model
participant Driver
participant Ledger
participant Consolidation
Intake->>Model: request workflow or errand selection
Model-->>Intake: return errand decision
Intake->>Driver: provide validated one-step graph
Driver->>Ledger: record errand attempt
Driver->>Consolidation: close satisfied episode
Consolidation-->>Driver: return no lessons for plain errand
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In `@crates/adaptive/src/intake/recipe.rs`:
- Around line 320-327: Update jq_quote to serialize string values with
serde_json::to_string so all control characters, including U+0008, are escaped
before prompt resolution. Add a regression test covering an errand goal
containing "\u{0008}" and verify it produces a valid jq expression without
failing.
In `@crates/adaptive/tests/driver.rs`:
- Around line 934-937: Update the test around the Triage request flow to record
the request tiers received, then assert that the recorded tiers do not contain
"consolidate" rather than relying only on finished.lessons.is_empty(). Preserve
the existing assertion and test behavior for the plain errand case.
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…kept nothing Review feedback, and correct: `finished.lessons.is_empty()` is also what a consolidator that ran and found nothing returns, so the assertion passed whether or not the gate existed. It now reads the tiers the model was actually asked for. Removing the gate makes it fail with `["select", "", "judge", "consolidate"]`, which the old one did not. Also pins the control-character behaviour the same review raised as a suspected break. It is not one — every char in U+0000..U+001F survives `jq_quote` and resolves, because jaq's literal parser is laxer than strict JSON — but the errand path feeds raw goal text into that quoting, which is a wider door than an authored `ask`, so the property is worth holding a jaq bump to rather than rediscovering in a prompt. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@coderabbitai review Both findings are addressed in 3c4e4a4 and answered on their threads:
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The errand test now verifies the actual behavior. It records LLM tiers and fails if The control-character test covers all code points from 🧠 Learnings used
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selecta third answer. Some goals are not a procedure — "how much disk is this directory using" has nothing in it worth writing down — and the loop had no way to say so: selection declined, authoring paid a large planning call to produce a one-step graph, andkeepfiled that graph where it dilutes every later selection with a row that matches once and never again.Approach::Errandis deliberately the narrowest of the three. Judged like any other attempt; kept by nothing, repaired by nothing, signed with a constant so a second errand in one episode is visibly a repeat.The three parts that were not obvious
Short is not the test. A one-step workflow can be the most reused thing on the shelf, so the prompt separates "few steps" from "no procedure in it", with examples in both directions. Without that line the flag quietly eats the shelf.
selectshort-circuited on an empty shelf — correctly, while the answer could only be "none". That premise died with the third answer, and a cold store is exactly where a trivial goal is most likely, so the short-circuit would have made the errand path unreachable where it pays most while every test of the answer still passed. It now returns early only when there is also no errand to offer.The cost is real and is now stated in the test that used to assert the opposite (
an_empty_store_authors_without_asking_whether_to_select): a cold-shelf episode that is not an errand pays one small triage call, against saving a full authoring call and its run whenever it is. Ten tests moved with it; two of them (a_disabled_workflow_is_never_offered,a_workflow_already_tried_this_episode_is_not_offered_again) now assert on what the chooser was shown rather than on the call never happening, which is the claim they are named for.The one-turn graph goes through
recipe::lower. Hand-building two nodes looks simpler and would be a second, unexercised definition of what anaskcompiles to — the shape that produced theitem.json.textenvelope bug.Also
Verification
cargo test --all-featuresgreen (1133 engine + 268 adaptive lib + every integration suite),cargo clippy --all-targets --all-featuresclean,cargo fmt.Both new guards are falsified rather than merely asserted:
an_empty_shelf_is_still_asked_when_an_errand_is_possiblefailsa_spent_errand_is_refused_even_when_the_model_asks_for_onefailsa_failed_errand_escalates_to_authoring_instead_of_repeating_itselffails with "the second attempt must be a real plan, got errand"The errand prompt is checked by evaluating the jq expression, not by reading it — the defect class this surface exists to prevent.
Not included, and why
The companion idea was porting medulla-v2's
promotion.audit(the near-miss finder: "was there a lesson that should have fired?"). It is not here because it would be dead code.decideretrieves lessons withRECALL_LIMIT = usize::MAXand no kind filter, so every lesson is already shown to every planner — the categoryauditsearches, lessons in the store that were not retrieved, is empty by construction and the function would return[]forever. It becomes worth having the day a host passes a smallerk; the seam for that already exists onretrieve.Summary by CodeRabbit
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