post(v2.0): live atomic e2e test + 4 bug fixes + real integration check + journal #011

[ty13r]

Summary

Post-v2.0 polish pass — items 1, 3, 4, 5 from the backlog. Three commits:

• 43c531f post(1): live atomic e2e test + 4 bug fixes
• 977e4bf post(3): real cross-dimension integration check in assembly
• 2b97328 post(5): journal entry seed(elixir-oban-worker): SKLD-bench v2.1 challenge pool (100 challenges) #11 + PROGRESS.md notes

Item 4 (multi-generation breeding loops) landed inside the item 1 commit because both changes were in variant_evolution.py.

Item 2 (browser QA of the variant breakdown UI) is deferred to a follow-up — it has no code changes, just manual verification.

Item 1: Live atomic e2e test + 4 bug fixes

New tests/test_atomic_evolution_live.py gated behind SKILLFORGE_LIVE_TESTS=1. Runs the full v2.0 atomic pipeline against the real Anthropic API: Taxonomist classifies → variant evolution orchestrator → per-dimension Spawner + Competitor + judging pipeline → Engineer assembles composite → integration check → evolution_complete.

Took four attempts to go green. Each failure surfaced a real bug the mocked unit tests couldn't catch:

1. Taxonomist slug collision — LLM proposed a family slug that already existed in the DB; save_skill_family hit the UNIQUE constraint. Fix: classify_and_decompose now checks get_family_by_slug first and reuses existing families — symmetric to the _ensure_node lookup-or-create path for taxonomy nodes.

2. save_run cascade wipe — save_run used INSERT OR REPLACE, which triggers ON DELETE CASCADE on the row being replaced, silently wiping every variant_evolutions / challenges / generations / competition_results row for the run. Only visible when save_run is called twice during submission (which is what routes.py does when atomic mode persists variant_evolution rows between the first and second save_run calls). Fix: INSERT ... ON CONFLICT(id) DO UPDATE SET ... — updates in place without the DELETE cascade.

3. Spawner variant schema mismatch — spawn_variant_gen0's prompt asked the LLM to return frontmatter and skill_md_content as separate fields, but validate_skill_structure expects frontmatter embedded in skill_md_content. The existing spawn_gen0 schema embeds them; spawn_variant_gen0 now matches.

4. Atomic cost tracking gap — the atomic orchestrator never updated run.total_cost_usd. _estimate_generation_cost was only called in molecular mode. Fix: the same estimator is now wired into _run_dimension_mini_evolution, with cost_update events emitted per mini-generation.

The fourth attempt produced a real composite:

• run_id: run-atomic-live-test
• family: fam_5dbe2684831f
• best_skill: composite_d65549afe4bd — a real "Pytest Equivalence-Partition Test Generator" assembled by the Engineer from the foundation variant
• status: complete, 10:46 wall time
• Engineer's integration_notes visible in the composite's mutation_rationale

Budget spent: ~$4 across the four attempts, inside the authorized $5 live-test budget. The cost tracking fix (#4) is not separately validated by another live run to preserve the remaining ~$1 budget, but is unit-test covered by the existing mocked Phase 3 tests.

Item 4 (inside the item 1 commit): Multi-generation mini-evolution

_run_dimension_mini_evolution now runs a bounded for gen in range(num_generations) loop:

• gen 0: spawn → compete → judge → score
• gen 1..N-1: breed from previous gen → compete → judge → score
• pick the highest-fitness genome across ALL generations as the winner

When num_generations <= 1 the loop collapses to a single pass, matching the Phase 3 behavior. DEFAULT_VARIANT_GENS bumped from 1 to 2 but routes.py still creates VariantEvolution rows with num_generations=1 — users opt into breeding via the POST /api/families/{id}/evolve-variant endpoint or a post-v2.0 frontend toggle.

Item 3: Real cross-dimension integration check

Replaces the validate_skill_structure-only stub in assembly._run_integration_check with a layered check:

• Structural (always runs): validate_skill_structure catches frontmatter shape, body size, and ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR} path resolution failures.
• Behavioral (opt-in via enable_behavioral_check=True): runs the composite through the real Competitor against the foundation variant's original challenge, then scores via the judging pipeline. Passes only if aggregate fitness clears BEHAVIORAL_CHECK_THRESHOLD (0.5).

The behavioral check is opt-in because it doubles the API cost per assembly. Default is off so v2.0 production runs don't unexpectedly double in cost. Callers that want rigorous integration testing pass enable_behavioral_check=True to assemble_skill.

_find_foundation_challenge(run_id) looks up the foundation-tier variant_evolution's challenge_id and loads the corresponding Challenge row. This is the regression check: "does the composite still solve the foundation's original task after the capabilities were merged in?"

Item 5: Journal entry #11 + PROGRESS.md notes

journal/011-atomic-evolution-port-phases-2-5.md narrates the full Phase 2-5 port in the established journal voice: the Taxonomist agent + save_run regression, the orchestrator's no-recursion decision, the challenge-persistence FK bug, the Engineer's prompt engineering + _detect_conflicts pre-scan + integration check stub (that item 3 now replaces), Phase 5's Advanced UI + swap/evolve endpoints, the subagent pattern reprise, the PR-per-phase workflow, the two test isolation bugs + fixes.

PROGRESS.md appended with one entry documenting all four bug fixes, the behavioral integration check, and the breeding loop.

Quantitative signal

• 98 v2.0 unit tests still pass (no regressions from any of the changes; ruff clean on all touched files)
• Live atomic test went green on the fourth attempt after all four bug fixes landed (not gating CI — SKILLFORGE_LIVE_TESTS=1 required)
• Budget spent: ~$4 of the authorized $5 live-test budget

What's deferred to a follow-up

• Item 2 (browser QA) — needs dev servers running + manual click-through. No code changes. Will be a separate follow-up.
• Re-run the live test with the cost tracking fix — would cost another ~$1-2 to confirm total_cost_usd > 0 now reports properly. Deferred to preserve the remaining budget.
• Flip enable_behavioral_check=True as the default — post-v2.1 decision; needs cost analysis against real runs first.

Test plan

• uv run pytest tests/test_variant_evolution.py tests/test_engineer.py tests/test_assembly.py -q — 19/19 green
• uv run pytest tests/test_taxonomist.py tests/test_evolve_taxonomist_integration.py -q — 18/18 green
• uv run pytest tests/test_models_v2.py tests/test_db_v2.py tests/test_taxonomy_queries.py tests/test_taxonomy_api.py tests/test_report.py tests/test_swap_evolve_endpoints.py -q — 61/61 green
• uv run ruff check skillforge/agents/taxonomist.py skillforge/agents/spawner.py skillforge/db/queries.py skillforge/engine/variant_evolution.py skillforge/engine/assembly.py tests/test_atomic_evolution_live.py — clean
• SKILLFORGE_LIVE_TESTS=1 uv run pytest tests/test_atomic_evolution_live.py — attempt 4 produced a real composite end-to-end; the post-hoc cost tracking fix was not re-validated by a 5th live run but is unit-test covered

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