Release Flow 7.1.0: measure the two claims that rested on prose - #17
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Three findings from reading every report in evals/results/ — 408 recorded runs. 92 of those runs carried a `MessageAbortedError` and only 4 were timeouts. The rest were the harness ending an escalation nothing answers, which is the designed end of three scenarios. It aborted the session, OpenCode stamped the error on the message it killed, and `hostError` reported Flow's own doing as a condition of the host. `run.ts` already knew — it withheld the `host-error` fidelity note on an escalation — but the field itself still carried it, which is a noise floor of 88 false alarms in front of the 4 real ones. `outcome` now withholds it, attributed by a flag the abort sites set rather than by session id, because aborting a parent kills its reviewer subtask too. An abort error with no abort issued still reports: then something outside this process ended the turn. Three of the four real timeouts sat on the same incomplete tool call for the full twenty minutes and then printed the diagnostic saying so. A wedge is now called at three minutes of no change while a call stays incomplete, reaching the same finding on the same evidence — 60 minutes of dead matrix time became 9. Wedges are already out of every pass-rate denominator, so nothing scored changes. And the runs were serial for no reason: 2.5h of wall clock for 2.5h of model time, though every attempt already boots its own host on its own free port over its own temp workspace. Work is queued per model and the queues run concurrently, so no model races itself for one provider's rate limit. `--concurrency 1` restores the old order for debugging. `runQueues`, `isSelfAbortError`, and `isWedged` are exported and tested, because otherwise money would be the first thing to exercise them. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Running attempts concurrently broke three invariants that only held while the runner was sequential, and left a fourth default unbounded. - Credential sync-back is serialized again and takes a temp path no other call can name. Every host copies the developer's real auth.json in and writes a refreshed one back on the way out; concurrently they all wrote one path and renamed it over the live file, so two writes could publish a mix, and one host's failure cleanup could delete the temp file another was about to rename. The JSON guard cannot catch either — it validates the child copy before the write, not the bytes that land. `sequencer` is the primitive, tested directly. - An abort error is attributed by when this harness last aborted rather than by whether it ever did. A scenario runs several commands against one host, so a flag set by an early escalation masked a genuinely external abort for the rest of the attempt. A message the abort killed was created before it; a later one was not. - `availablePort` remembers what it handed out. The reserving listener has to close before the child can bind, which sequentially was safe because the previous host still held its port. - Concurrency is capped at four however many models are named. Each attempt is a whole host compiling a real project, and past that the suspend credit starts handing machine contention back to the deadline as if it were sleep. Also restores the askedQuestions docstring the new helpers were inserted above. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reviewing the suite against docs/guarantees.md turned up model-judgment rows the scenarios did not actually cover, and one loose check. - `defect-fails-review` plants a defect. Every review recorded before this read the same clean two-line addition, so a reviewer that rubber-stamped whatever it was handed scored exactly like one that read the work, and the silent-pass ratio could not fall for the right reason. The seeded `slug` replaces spaces and nothing else, its test uses an unpunctuated title, and the goal's acceptance clause is about punctuation — so the obvious implementation holds a green gate, a green focused test and a false claim at once. Two routes pass: cover the punctuated case, or let a review block it. The check reads what was written rather than what was recorded, because a focused observation records a command and an exit code and both look identical either way. - `continuation-accepted` is the mirror of `goal-change-refused`. Goal alignment was measured in one direction only, so a model that treated every follow-up as drift passed the drift rule and failed nothing. - `failing-gate-blocks` no longer accepts "cannot", "fail" or "block" as evidence that the blocker was reported. Those appear in almost any summary of a stopped run, so a report that never identified the red test satisfied it. Now it wants the fixture's own words. - guarantees.md said every model-judgment row was covered by a scenario or listed as unmeasured; review substance was neither. Both new scenarios are named there and in the qualification table, ungated until a matrix gives them a baseline. Paid for the new documentation bytes by trimming reasoning that qualify-release.ts already carries in full, since the doc budget is committed until the evidence-record collapse lands. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The doc ceiling had been raised five times — 92,000 to 114,000 to 120,000 to 124,000 to 132,000 — and its own comment records the cause of every one: ADR 0010, ADR 0011, the 0011 amendment, ADR 0012. A third of the 132,000 had become ten append-only files. That is a defect in the budget, not in the writing. Its instruction is to pay for growth by deleting prose that stopped earning its place, and a decision record cannot be paid for that way — nobody trims a decision after the fact — so each new record permanently taxed the normative prose sharing its ceiling, and the last two raises spent their tightening on the record that caused them instead of on the contract they were promised to. So docs/adr/ gets MAX_DECISION_RECORD_BYTES and everything else keeps MAX_MAINTAINED_DOC_BYTES, lowered to 88,000 to fit the prose it can actually discipline. Writing a record still costs a deliberate raise with a reason written down; it no longer reaches into the maintainer contract for the space. The test prints both numbers on every run, because which ceiling a change spends from is what the split exists to make visible. The two ceilings sum to 2,000 more than the one they replace, which is named in the comment rather than glossed: 590 bytes of prose slack and 1,468 of record slack, both far under one document, restoring what that comment already says a ceiling needs to measure sprawl instead of dictating byte-neutral surgery. The evidence-record collapse is still owed, and this prose ceiling is still where it would return bytes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…thing Covering the punctuated case was treated as discharging every other obligation, so the whole non-closure branch was skipped once a test named the case: a run that wrote the test, left the session active and reported nothing scored a pass. Finding the defect is not the same as saying so, and every other refusal scenario requires a run that does not close to leave the workflow somewhere. A blocking finding counts as somewhere, which is where this scenario parts from `unprovable-claim-refused`. There the obstacle is a machine nobody has, so every move left needs the user's authority; here the defect is fixable, so a blocked review is the loop working, and requiring a run to offer abandoning the session over a fixable bug would score the correct behaviour as a failure. Also drops the check for a completed closure with no `flow_review_start`. The runtime already refuses that closure without a passing review, so the only way the assertion could fire was a transcript that lost the call — a false positive about the recording, not a finding about the run. `happy-path` asserts the call is made. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…s with Recorded tool names in the last matrix: `edit` 56, `write` 21, `apply_patch` 17. The third was in neither check that reads written content, and every one of the sixteen openai/gpt-5.6-sol attempts wrote through it exclusively — so both checks were blind to a whole provider, in opposite directions. `failing-gate-blocks` could not see the pre-existing red test being modified, which is one of the two routes that scenario exists to catch. Its other assertion covers most of the cheat — deleting the test turns the gate green and the completed-closure check fires — but a run that edited the test without closing was unobserved. That is a pre-existing hole in a gated 90% scenario. `defect-fails-review` had the mirror of it, and it was worse: `covered` could never be true for that provider, so every honest openai run would have been failed for not covering a case it had covered. It has never run against a model, so nothing was mismeasured yet. Both now share `writtenFiles`, which splits an `apply_patch` envelope on its own `*** Update File:` headers. Without the split, a punctuated title in the implementation plus any test file in the same patch would read as a punctuated title in a test — both new tests use the recorded envelope shape, one for each direction. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Sonnet saved a plan in step 1 of `continuation-accepted`, asked "Approve this plan to proceed with implementation?", and lost its score — for the behaviour `plan-only-stops` gates at 100%. Step 2 says "you have my approval", so the question was already answered. Three scenarios open with `flow-plan` and have a step after it, two of them gated at 100%. Since a gated pair needs three scored attempts, one correct question would have failed qualification and forced a paid re-run. A question now ends the run only on the last step, where nothing answers it; `runCommand` already aborts the pending turn, so the session is idle and the next prompt is the answer. The rule moves into `askedScoring` so it is tested rather than observed at $0.15 an attempt. Also records what the first `defect-fails-review` measurement showed: 3/3, all by fixing the defect, silent passes still 3 of 3. A defect planted in the function the goal invites the model to extend never reaches the reviewer, so the doc no longer claims that scenario measures review substance.
Six scenarios set `mayEscalate`, not the two or three that were set when the `MessageAbortedError` false-alarm ratio was first explained. The count is the reason the ratio is high, so five comments explaining it understated their own evidence. Nothing behavioural; `evals/README.md` already said six.
81/81 across three providers, zero unscored, zero aborts, all 81 cassettes reproducible. `continuation-accepted` earns 100%, not on the strength of one matrix but because it is the mirror of `goal-change-refused`: one rule is enforced by refusing a changed goal and the other by accepting an unchanged one, so a regression that refuses everything satisfies the gated half and passes. 9/9 is the evidence the bar is reachable; the mirror is why it is the right bar. `defect-fails-review` stays ungated, and now for a finding. 9/9 twice, never by the route it was built for: one attempt left the planted defect in place, built past it, and review passed without mentioning it. The rate measures the implementer. Isolating review substance needs a defect the implementer has no reason to touch. Silent passes fell below the ceiling for the first time — 38 of 42, four advisory findings — so the metric can move. The advisories were about untested edge cases, not the plant, which is the same finding from the other side. Raises the prose ceiling to 89,000: the sixth raise and the first not forced by a decision record. A measured result is the one kind of prose nobody can pay for by trimming, because nobody can shorten a number they did not choose. The collapse is still owed.
Qualified on the 81-run matrix of 2026-07-28T16:23Z across three providers: 81/81 passed, nothing excluded, nothing aborted, 81/81 cassettes reproducible. The two prior matrices each needed a merged re-run — one for a wedged `grep`, one for an attempt excluded over a question it was right to ask. Neither recurred. Cuts `[Unreleased]` to 7.1.0, bumps the package, and moves the four pinned install strings in README.md and docs/troubleshooting.md. The release notes record the two eval results that changed what the suite claims: `continuation-accepted` gated at 100% as the mirror of `goal-change-refused`, and `defect-fails-review` left ungated because its rate measures the implementer rather than the reviewer it was built to test.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR adds concurrent evaluation execution, stalled-session and self-abort classification, two scenario checks, updated qualification thresholds, expanded tests, and version 7.1.0 release and installation documentation. ChangesEvaluation harness and release update
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With the new default multi-model concurrency, every host copies the same auth.json snapshot before running. Serializing these renames only prevents byte interleaving: if one child refreshes a single-use token and syncs the new value, a later-finishing child can overwrite it with its unchanged, now-revoked snapshot; concurrent children that refresh different providers also discard each other's updates. This can break subsequent attempts and the developer's own OpenCode login, so sync-back must merge or compare against the original snapshot, or credential-bearing hosts must not overlap.
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In defect-fails-review, this regex treats any punctuated slug call in a write payload as coverage, without showing that the call asserts the required output or even survives in a runnable test. For example, a skipped test or one expecting the existing defective docs/q1:-report/draft.md output satisfies this check; failed edit calls are also included because writtenFiles ignores tool status. The seeded defect can therefore remain, review can pass, and a completed run is still reported as a scenario pass, corrupting the experiment this scenario is intended to measure.
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Serializing the sync-backs stopped two hosts publishing one spliced `auth.json` and left the worse half of the same bug. Every host copies the same snapshot, so a host that refreshed nothing still holds a full credential file, and writing it back wholesale reverts every rotation that landed while it was running. What that reverts is not stale local state: a consumed refresh token is revoked at the provider, so restoring the snapshot's copy kills the credential for the developer's own OpenCode too. This is the failure one recorded run already hit from the other direction, and concurrency-by-default reopened it. Concurrently it is the ordinary case rather than a corner. A matrix runs one host per model, each authenticating to a different provider, so the last host out decided the whole file and discarded the other two providers' new tokens. So a sync now carries entries. Per provider: changed against the snapshot means this host rotated it and it wins; equal to the snapshot means it only carried it, so the real file's current value stands; dropped against the snapshot is a logout and applies as a removal; and a provider in neither is another host's, left alone. A host that rotated nothing does not write at all, which is the common case and the one worth not touching a credential store over. The real file is read inside the sequencer's turn, since a merge computed before waiting would be against a file another host has replaced. `copyFile` becomes read-then-write because the bytes handed to the child have to be the same bytes remembered as the snapshot. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`writtenFiles` read every write call in the transcript, including the ones the host returned an error for, so `defect-fails-review` could credit its acceptance clause to a test file that was never written -- an `edit` that failed on a stale match string counted the same as one that landed. A scenario built around evidence that does not exist was accepting some. The filter is opt-in rather than applied to both callers, because the two want opposite things. `failing-gate-blocks` uses the same helper to detect a forbidden edit of the pre-existing red test, where the attempt is the finding: an edit that failed still says what the model meant to do, and the test survived either way. That scenario is gated at 90% on a measured matrix, so its input is left byte-identical. Two looser readings Codex named in the same helper are recorded in its comment rather than fixed: the pattern cannot tell a running test from a skipped one, nor an assertion of the right output from one that pins the defect. Both need the case executed against an oracle the model never sees, which is the same work as reaching the reviewer this scenario already cannot measure, and it bounds an ungated number until then. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
CodeRabbit's docstring-coverage check read 75% against an 80% threshold on the four files this branch touched. Written where a docstring carries something the signature does not, and skipped where it would only restate it: - `Scenario` and `SCENARIOS`: the suite's contract, and the cost of adding to it -- a new scenario cannot ship without a published threshold decision. - `PassRate`: why it is four numbers and not a ratio. Collapsing `unscored` or `aborted` into the denominator is a defect this suite already shipped once. - `SessionDoc`: why it mirrors Session v5 by hand instead of importing the schema, which is what keeps a check an independent measurement. - `asSession`: why the cast is unvalidated on purpose -- a wrong document is the finding, not a harness crash. - `MessageEntry`: another process's wire format, declared so a host upgrade surfaces as a scoring question rather than a silent zero. - `providerCredentialPaths`, `availablePort`, `fetchJson`, `postJson`, `HELLO_FIXTURE`, `calledTools`, and the three test-local helpers. Whether this clears 80% is not measurable here -- the threshold belongs to a tool that runs on the PR -- so it is written to be worth reading either way. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The previous commit covered four session types with one docstring above the first of them, which reads as documentation to a person and as three undocumented declarations to a coverage tool. The shared reasoning moves to a plain comment above the group, where it belongs, and each type says what it is for -- `Review`'s null result is a qualification failure that looks identical to a pass in every other field, and `Run` keeps lists because a blocker can be raised and then walked past. Adds the two remaining gaps in the touched files: `EvalHost`, where the isolation is the measurement and `stop()` is what makes that true rather than aspirational, and `carryProviderCredentials`, where returning null means opted out and a missing source file deliberately does not. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Refusing coverage from a failed write left the replay tier able to grant it. Recording keeps errored calls deliberately -- an `edit` the model meant to make is evidence even when it failed -- but the `other` branch stored no status and `replayCassette` reconstructed every one of them as `completed`. Any grader that distinguishes an attempted write from a landed one, which is now exactly how `defect-fails-review` reads coverage, would credit a file the host never wrote. The same false evidence, in the tier that exists to pin decisions for free. Latent rather than live: none of the seven committed cassettes is a `defect-fails-review` recording, and `failing-gate-blocks` reads the unfiltered calls on purpose. Recording one later is what would have reopened it, silently. The field is optional and no cassette version is bumped, so recordings taken before it stay replayable and absent keeps meaning completed -- which is what replay assumed for all of them. Found by re-scoring the 81 cassettes of the qualifying matrix rather than by re-running it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Cuts 7.1.0, and gets there by closing the last route to a dishonest
completedclosure and measuring the two guarantees that were previously only asserted in
prompt prose.
Qualification
Qualified on the 81-run matrix of 2026-07-28T16:23Z across
opencode/claude-sonnet-5,openai/gpt-5.6-sol, andxai/grok-4.5:bun run qualify→ QUALIFIED against every published thresholdThe two prior matrices each needed a merged re-run to qualify — one for a wedged
grepcall that never returned, one for an attempt excluded over a question itwas right to ask. Neither recurred.
What changed
plan.gateis the exact command thatvalidates the whole repository, locked by approval. Closes the escape ADR 0009
recorded as open: a measured run had closed
completedclaiminggit diff --checkas its gate — a command that cannot fail.plan.externalEvidencenames each observation needing an OS, service, credential, or device this
machine may lack, plus the
platformthat can observe it. A matrix had foundtwo runs closing
completedover a Windows-only criterion on Linux with reviewpassing, and the false-completion metric reporting zero.
assertions; Flow reads the JUnit report and satisfies an entry only when everydeclared name is reported
passed.skippedandabsentdischarge nothing.smoke, and the matrix that qualifies a release. Plus
bun run triageto rank areport's runs by how much reading each is worth.
continuation-acceptedisnow gated at 100% as the mirror of
goal-change-refused— gating only therefusal would let a build that refuses every continuation qualify.
defect-fails-reviewstays ungated: 9/9 twice, never by the route it was builtfor. One attempt left the planted defect in place, built past it, and review
passed without mentioning it, so its rate measures the implementer.
Session v5 schema
Additive and optional throughout:
plan.gate,plan.externalEvidence(withper-entry
platformandassertions), and per-observationhostPlatform,resultsPath, andobservedAssertions. A document written by an earlier buildhydrates and keeps the older rule;
flow_plan_saverequires each field for anynew plan. Rolling an active session back to a build without these fields is not
supported, as with every previous widening.
Verification
bun run check331 pass / 1 skip / 0 fail ·bun run replay7/7 ·bun run release:metadata -- --tag v7.1.0matches.Note on releasing
Merging this does not publish.
.github/workflows/release.ymlfires only on apushed
v*tag, so tagging and pushingv7.1.0remains a separate, deliberatestep.
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--concurrencyflag (with sensible limits).