feat(skills): baseline authoring and recipe confirmation when the user has no existing DGD - #13625
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WalkthroughThe changes add an interview-time baseline-source ladder, authoring rules for unmatched deployments, provenance fields and artifacts, and optimization controls for confirmed non-user-origin baselines. Benchmark concurrency requests now follow selected-concurrency and measurement-window limits. ChangesBaseline provenance and optimization
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In @.agents/skills/synthesize-user-workload/SKILL.md:
- Around line 118-119: Update the canonical-copy validation in the
synthesize-user-workload instructions to require exactly one YAML mapping
document with kind DynamoGraphDeployment before writing the contract and hash;
reject files containing zero or multiple matching documents.
In `@agent-docs/rules/execution/user-workload.md`:
- Around line 56-57: Update the deployment validation rules for origin and
origin_source: restrict deployment.origin to exactly user, recipe-confirmed, or
agent-authored; require origin_source to be empty when origin is user; and
require it to be non-empty for recipe-confirmed and agent-authored. Use the
existing deployment fields and preserve the documented provenance semantics.
In `@agents/user-interviewer/AGENTS.md`:
- Around line 25-38: Update the user-interviewer launcher configuration
referenced by .codex/config.toml so its prompt permits the baseline-source
ladder: accept a user DGD, propose and obtain confirmation for an exact or
adapted catalog recipe, or invoke author-baseline-dgd and capture explicit
confirmation. Remove conflicting prohibitions on catalog lookup and
author-baseline-dgd while preserving the requirement that selection occurs only
during the interview and unconfirmed baselines are never used.
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One SPDX gap that this PR introduces, plus a heads-up on file overlap.
.agents/skills/author-baseline-dgd/SKILL.md is a new file and has no SPDX header — inline suggestion below.
Five files here already lack one, but that's inherited from #13557, not something this PR introduces: perform-adversarial-review/SKILL.md, synthesize-user-workload/SKILL.md, agent-docs/guides/optimization/optimize-loop.md, agents/hypothesis-generator/AGENTS.md, agents/user-interviewer/AGENTS.md. #13639 adds the header to all five (among 15 total from #13557), so those five are exactly the overlap between these two PRs. My change to each is the SPDX block and nothing else, so whichever lands second should be a trivial rebase — no need to duplicate the work here.
Placement, since it isn't obvious. A .md with frontmatter can't carry the block at line 1, and the repo has two forms: 217 files (essentially all of docs/fern/) put it inside the frontmatter as # YAML comments, and 15 — every SKILL.md that has one — put it below the H1 title. I got this wrong myself on the first pass of #13639 and had to move them. Following the SKILL.md form below.
Worth knowing that none of this is gated: .md sits in $ignored_types in .github/workflows/copyright-check.ps1, which makes that script's own markdown matcher unreachable, and no pre-commit hook covers SPDX. That's how #13557 merged with 15 files missing one.
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Validation record, updated: dual-harness matrix completePer our validation standard, every path is now exercised on BOTH supported harnesses in isolated clean-room sessions:
Cross-harness parity held on every invariant: rung determination, evidence tables, the confirmation gate, provenance capture, and the loop-never-selects rule. Room transcripts and run artifacts retained. Posted with Claude Code. |
…d baselines The interview may now produce the baseline when the user has none, with the user's explicit confirmation as the invariant at every rung: 1. user provides a DGD (origin: user) 2. exact/close catalog recipe proposed with an explicit adaptation diff (origin: recipe-confirmed) 3. no close recipe: new author-baseline-dgd skill drafts one from the interview facts and the model-sizing/knob-tuning guides, presented with a per-decision evidence table (origin: agent-authored) Selection and authoring happen ONLY at interview time; the loop still never selects. Provenance recorded as deployment.origin/origin_source; inputs/baseline-evidence.md carries the proposal, evidence table, and confirmation for rungs 2-3. Non-user origins calibrate downstream: iteration 0 is pure characterization, and the generator/challenger treat the baseline itself as a hypothesis (topology families start untested). The incompatible-baseline graceful end now offers the ladder for the follow-on engagement. Gate: two adversarial verification rounds (9 findings first round, 1 second round - all fixed); 26 skills validate. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…tions Found in the greenfield validation room: a headless -p agent parked the engagement on a background-job notification that can never arrive in a single-shot harness. The long-running-runs guidance now distinguishes harness types explicitly. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Review feedback on #13557 (landed here to avoid dismissing its fresh approvals): SKILL.md files self-discover, but the orchestration guide with the sequencing and stopping rules does not - the dispatch section now requires the top-level agent to read it first. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ncy-grid The rule said 'at most 4x the concurrency' while its example said c=4 means at most 4 requests (1x). An agent following the example produces 4-request measurements that cannot support the noise-floor rules. Found by automated review on #13557; landed here to preserve that PR's approvals. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…terviewer contract - require exactly one DGD document at capture (multi-DGD files rejected) - enforce deployment.origin enum and conditional origin_source in rules - align .codex/agents/user-interviewer.toml with the baseline-source ladder - add SPDX header to author-baseline-dgd SKILL.md Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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There's a ton of references to the baseline-source ladder but I don't think its actually clear what that ladder is, I guess the implication is that it is the list of three things in user-interviewer/AGENTS.md but I think it could be made more explicit
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SPDX applied as suggested in f9fa53a793, thread resolved. Also spot-checked the other three fixes in that commit: the exactly-one-DGD rule now matches author-baseline-dgd, the Codex launcher no longer contradicts the ladder, and the origin enum values are all genuinely consumed by optimize-loop.md and hypothesis-generator/AGENTS.md. LGTM.
Review notesCI is fully green here — Two things I verified that are clean, so you can skip re-checking them:
Five findings, ordered by how much acting on them changes the outcome. 1. The park/poll fix is incomplete —
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Review: baseline-source ladder
12 files changed, all agent instructions (.agents/skills/, agents/, agent-docs/, .codex/, AGENTS.md). No docs-site, code, or CI-config files, so those passes were skipped. Repo gates pass. 2 must-fix, 4 consider.
The most important item: inputs/baseline-evidence.md is required by the schema and pointed at by deployment.origin_source, but the interviewer's Output contract never lists it as a file to write.
Must-fix
1. agents/user-interviewer/AGENTS.md:98-103 -- the Output block omits baseline-evidence.md, so origin_source can point at a file no contract requires.
Line 56 tells the interviewer to write the proposal, evidence table, and confirmation to <EXP_ROOT>/inputs/baseline-evidence.md. agent-docs/rules/execution/user-workload.md:105-107 requires deployment.origin_source to be non-empty and names that path for agent-authored. agent-docs/guides/optimization/optimize-loop.md:64 makes the deployer require origin_source at the handoff. But the Output section, which is the role's write contract, lists only user_workload.yaml and user_provided_dgd.yaml.
Failure: a rung-3 engagement where the role follows the Output block literally. It writes the two canonical files, sets origin_source: inputs/baseline-evidence.md, and never creates the file. Step 2's handoff check sees a non-empty string and passes. The confirmation record that justifies an agent-authored baseline does not exist, and nothing downstream notices.
Write:
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<EXP_ROOT>/user_workload.yaml
<EXP_ROOT>/inputs/user_provided_dgd.yaml
<EXP_ROOT>/inputs/baseline-evidence.md # ladder rungs 2-3 only
(`manifest.yaml` is omitted from this block the same way today. That one is pre-existing and nothing validates a pointer to it.)
**2. Rung 2 has no match criteria, no diff format, and no reachable catalog.**
`agents/user-interviewer/AGENTS.md:29-31` and `:53` assign the interviewer the catalog scan, the exact-or-close judgment, and an adaptation diff. Nothing in the corpus defines any of the three. The frontmatter Required Readings at `:12-16` list `definitions.md`, `run-artifacts.md`, and `user-workload.md`; neither `recipes/README.md` nor `recipes/AGENTS.md` is reachable from the contract.
Neither of the role's two skills covers it. `.agents/skills/synthesize-user-workload/SKILL.md:19-20` states "Do not search for or select a recipe". `.agents/skills/author-baseline-dgd/SKILL.md:96` forbids authoring when rung 2 produced a viable base, and its Inputs at `:35` require "the recipe catalog scan that established rung 3" as something already handed to it.
Failure: a greenfield user asks for Llama-3-70B on 8xH100 and `recipes/llama-3-70b/` exists. Two interviewer sessions can land on rung 2 or rung 3 with no rule to appeal to, and the rung-2 path then emits an adaptation diff whose required fields are undefined. Rung 3's own contract assumes the scan it never specifies.
Fix: add `recipes/README.md` to Required Readings, and state the match test (model family and revision, GPU type and count, backend) and the adaptation-diff fields, either in the interviewer contract or in a rule under `agent-docs/rules/execution/`.
### Consider
**3. `.codex/config.toml:8` -- registry description is the sentence this PR replaced.**
`.codex/agents/user-interviewer.toml:5` was updated to the ladder wording. The registry entry Codex reads when dispatching still presumes a user-supplied DGD.
```suggestion
description = "First optimization role: establish the baseline DGD via the baseline-source ladder and synthesize the canonical workload contract."
4. agent-docs/references/definitions.md:64 -- Recipe Deployer entry not carried along.
Line 63 became "user-provided or user-confirmed". The next bullet still reads "deploys the user-provided baseline DGD".
- **Recipe Deployer**: deploys the user-provided or user-confirmed baseline DGD or a later challenger-approved DGD and verifies the
5. .agents/skills/synthesize-user-workload/SKILL.md:19-20 -- unscoped prohibition.
The Inputs and capture sections were updated for the ladder, but the opening still says "Do not search for or select a recipe" without qualification. The role that invokes this skill is now required to do exactly that at rung 2. Scope the sentence to the skill: this skill does not search or select; the ladder in the interviewer contract owns that.
6. baseline-evidence.md has a writer and no reader.
agents/user-interviewer/AGENTS.md:56 writes it. Nothing is told to read it. The downstream calibration in agents/hypothesis-generator/AGENTS.md:95 and .agents/skills/perform-adversarial-review/SKILL.md:125 keys on deployment.origin alone. Fine if it is a human-facing record, worth saying so; otherwise name a reader.
Verified clean
python3 scripts/validate_skills.pyatc3a58dc3:validated 26 skills: OK, exit 0. 26 matches the directory count. Proven live by flippinglicensetoMITin the new SKILL.md and confirming the error fires on that exact path, then restoring.- Every path the new skill instructs an agent to read exists: all three
agent-docs/guides/model-sizing/files,tuning-hierarchy.md, all three backend knob guides,dynamo.md,rate-matching/matching.md. - The 30-minute claim added to
concurrency-grid.mdmatchescomparison-uncertainty.md:8, and the noise-floor and comparison rules it cites are at:17-25. - The concurrency request-count correction is right. The prior text said at most 4 requests for
c=4where 4x concurrency is 16. originandorigin_sourceare reachable end to end: schema atuser-workload.md:56-57, validation at:105-107, written bysynthesize-user-workload:117,125,147, read atoptimize-loop.md:64,93,hypothesis-generator/AGENTS.md:95,perform-adversarial-review/SKILL.md:125.- No stale "greenfield is not supported" text survives anywhere in the corpus.
.codex/agents/user-interviewer.tomlparses. No trailing whitespace, tabs, or missing final newlines in any changed file.- CI: the change is inside the docs path filter, all build and test jobs skipped, nothing failing.
Earlier review rounds on this PR covered the multi-DGD capture rule, the provenance enum validation, the Codex launcher prompt, the SPDX header, the baseline-only scoping of the loop constraint, and the user origin no-op. All are addressed at the current head. Nothing above repeats them.
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Greenfield engagements, properly designed (the fast-follow cut from #13557): the interview may now produce the baseline when the user has none, with the user's explicit confirmation as the invariant at every rung:
origin: user) - unchanged.origin: recipe-confirmed).author-baseline-dgdskill drafts one from the interview facts and the model-sizing/knob-tuning guides, presented with a per-decision evidence table (origin: agent-authored).Selection and authoring happen ONLY at interview time; the loop still never selects. Provenance is recorded (
deployment.origin/origin_source;inputs/baseline-evidence.mdcarries the proposal, evidence, and confirmation). Non-user origins calibrate downstream: iteration 0 is pure characterization, and the generator/challenger treat the baseline itself as a hypothesis.Validation
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optimization-pack-v2; after #13557 merges this retargets to main.Reviewer starting points
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Note: continuation of #13621, which was auto-closed when its base branch (
optimization-pack-v2) was deleted at the #13557 merge. All five commits rebased cleanly onto main. Additional validation since that PR opened: isolated comprehension room 5/5 on the ladder contracts; decline-path behavioral probe passed (engagement correctly does not start, zero cluster resources created); re-gate on the post-room commits found zero contradictions.Summary by CodeRabbit