feat(retrieval): annotate retrieved beliefs that slot-conflict with an active lock (#1365) - #1444
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…ff flag (#1365) #1175 proposal 2's measurement half shipped in #1244 and has sat unwired since: lock_consistency.lock_conflict_annotations had zero production callers, only tests. This wires it into retrieve_with_tiers. Adds AELFRICE_LOCK_CONFLICT_ANNOTATIONS / [retrieval] use_lock_conflict_annotations, env-first and default OFF, and a _LAST_LOCK_CONFLICTS module snapshot with a last_lock_conflict_annotations() accessor mirroring _LAST_TELEMETRY. The 5-tuple is deliberately not widened — that would touch every retrieve_with_tiers call site — per the operator ruling of 2026-08-06. The snapshot is cleared on entry to retrieve_with_tiers and in retrieve_v2's HRR-structural branch, which returns without reaching the former. Without both resets a raise or a structural hit would serve the previous call's annotations as this call's. Scoped to the L2.5 and L1 candidates per the issue; 'out' also carries the locks, HRR-expand, spine and BFS hits. Suppression stays in lock_consistency, which applies it to both sides itself.
…f tag (#1365) Adds a conflicts_with attribute naming the lock a retrieved belief disagrees with. ANNOTATE, never DROP — the belief still reaches the agent, which adjudicates (#605). The snapshot is read in _split_belief_lines rather than at its three call sites (_format_hits, _format_hits_with_session_start, _format_baseline_hits). That is the single render boundary, so the annotation cannot be present in one formatter and missed in another — a partial render would look shipped while leaving most injected packs unannotated. Appended after the existing attributes so none of them move, and empty unless the default-off flag resolves true: with the flag off the rendered line is byte-identical. 'annotations' stays explicitly passable so tests can pin it without a real retrieve().
28 arms over the flag, the process snapshot, the compute inside retrieve_with_tiers and the render. Mutation-checked in both directions, per the issue's AC4: - making annotation_slots a passthrough turns 10 tests red, including both new suppression arms — the suppression is load-bearing, not a number that merely moves. - disabling the compute block turns the two end-to-end arms red, so they distinguish the wiring rather than restating the resolver. The symmetry arm is slot-scoped on purpose: a belief carrying BOTH a suppressed version literal AND a real numeric disagreement must still be annotated on the real one. The precedence and stale-snapshot arms assert a presence and an absence on the same input, so neither can be satisfied by an empty result.
…#1365) Replaces the AC5 kill experiment, struck by the operator on 2026-08-06 as a guaranteed null: longmemeval_adapter runs include_locked=False, so lock_consistency short-circuits on every question and the flag-on arm is byte-identical to flag-off. Deliberately not a query replay. hook_audit stores only prompt_prefix, truncated at 200 chars with the median AT the cap, which carried a ~4x error in a prior retrieval A/B. This scores the belief ids the audit records as actually injected per fire, so no query is reconstructed: non-locked injected beliefs are the candidates, the fire's own locked set is the lock population. Opens the store read_only=True — a plain MemoryStore open runs DDL, migrations and a scope-id backfill, which a diagnostic must not do. Reports beliefs since deleted and lock-free fires as counts rather than dropping them silently.
Records the env var, TOML key and precedence, that it annotates rather than drops, and the three measured suppressions with the 6.12% -> 1.38% figure they were derived from.
… reach Names what #1244 shipped but left unwired, why the 5-tuple was not widened, the two snapshot resets, and reports both audit logs' reach rather than the pooled figure alone.
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Reviewer's GuideWires previously-unreachable lock-conflict annotation logic into retrieval and rendering behind a new default-off flag, exposes a process-level snapshot API for these annotations, ensures stale state is cleared on all retrieval paths, documents the configuration, adds tests to mutation-check suppression and wiring behavior, and introduces a benchmark to measure live-store reach of the annotations instead of a null A/B experiment. Sequence diagram for lock-conflict annotation during retrieval and rendersequenceDiagram
actor User
participant hook as hook
participant retrieve_v2 as retrieve_v2
participant retrieve_with_tiers as retrieve_with_tiers
participant lock_consistency as lock_conflict_annotations
participant snapshot as _LAST_LOCK_CONFLICTS
participant render as _split_belief_lines
User->>hook: user_prompt_submit
hook->>retrieve_v2: retrieve_v2(query)
alt hrr_structural_hit
retrieve_v2->>snapshot: _reset_last_lock_conflict_annotations({})
retrieve_v2-->>hook: structural_result
else normal_retrieval
retrieve_v2->>retrieve_with_tiers: retrieve_with_tiers(query)
retrieve_with_tiers->>snapshot: _reset_last_lock_conflict_annotations({})
retrieve_with_tiers->>retrieve_with_tiers: is_lock_conflict_annotations_enabled()
opt [lock_conflict_annotations_enabled and locked]
retrieve_with_tiers->>lock_consistency: lock_conflict_annotations(candidates, locks)
lock_consistency-->>retrieve_with_tiers: annotations
retrieve_with_tiers->>snapshot: _reset_last_lock_conflict_annotations(annotations)
end
retrieve_with_tiers-->>retrieve_v2: hits
retrieve_v2-->>hook: hits
end
hook->>render: _split_belief_lines(hits, annotations=None)
render->>render: is_lock_conflict_annotations_enabled()
alt annotations_enabled
render->>snapshot: last_lock_conflict_annotations()
snapshot-->>render: annotations
render-->>hook: belief_lines with conflicts_with
else annotations_disabled
render-->>hook: belief_lines without conflicts_with
end
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Review: the wiring is right, the thing it wires up is 0% precise on live dataI verified the mechanism first and it holds up well — see "what checks out" at the One blocking finding, and it needs your judgment rather than a patch from me. BLOCKING — all 119 live annotations are subject-mismatchedThe reach measurement is right and I reproduced it unmodified: 179 fires, 81 packs Not one of them shares a subject. 88 of 119 (73.9%) are enum-slot hits, and return ValueSlots(numeric=kept, enum=slots.enum) # lock_consistency.py:107All three ratified suppression rules — single-value-per-key, version keys, 78 of 119 (65.5%) trace to two long locks whose only enum slot is an incidental A note about temporal-decay clock injection is offered to the agent as the thing Slot histogram over the 119: enum So the headline generalises the wrong way. "45.3% of packs would carry at least This is the #1244 measurement being reached for the first time, so it is What you need to decide (I have not guessed, all three are defensible):
Should-fixThe pooled per-lock pair is one arm's numbers presented as pooled. The The stated reason AC5 was struck is false. The entry says "AC4 already shipped via #1393" — #1393 is OPEN and unmerged, and it is Cost. Flag-on measures ~13.2 ms per retrieve against a 2 ms hot-path budget. One mutation survives. Changing The flag hold. This is a fifth default-off retrieval flag. The 2026-07-31 On ruling 8's ordering, being fair: there is no code dependency. #1359 is a UI What checks out (verified, not assumed)
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Author self-review — do not merge this as it stands. Precision is 0/42 on live data.I published 45.3% pack reach as this PR's headline. I measured how often the mechanism fires and never checked what it fired on. Having now done that, the honest statement is: 45.3% of packs would carry at least one false annotation. Reach is not precision, and I presented the former as if it settled the latter. Independently reproduced over the same 184 audit fires / 5,566 candidates. Every annotation is subject-mismatched42 unique (belief, lock) pairs fire. I inspected all of them. None is a real disagreement. Enum slots are never suppressed. Minimal reproduction: Two long locks produce 65% of all firings, each on a single incidental word. The longer the locked text, the likelier some passing word becomes its "value" for the whole belief — so this gets worse exactly on the substantial locks users care most about. The numeric half is no better. I assumed the 11 numeric-only pairs were the real ones. They are not — all 11 are bare-word key collisions:
This is the failure the issue itself predicted and then waved through: slot keys come from a preceding-alphabetic-token heuristic, and a bare What I got wrong, specificallyI read My AC3 tests pass because they exercise Not a wiring bugThe wiring is correct and does what the ratified design specifies. What is refuted is #1175 proposal 2's premise — that slot-conflict detection is precise enough to put in front of the agent. The mechanism has been correct-and-unwired since #1244; this PR is the first thing to measure it against real locks, and it does not survive that. Blast radius today is nil: the flag is default-OFF and no default path changed. The cost of merging as-is is the misleading record, not user harm. @operator — this needs your call, and I've flagged
I lean 3, with 2 as the fallback if you want the wiring kept. What should not happen is this merging with a "45.3% reach" headline that reads as a benefit. |
…ys off I published 45.3% pack reach as the headline and never checked what the mechanism fired on. Inspecting all 42 firing (belief, lock) pairs across 184 audit fires: every one is subject-mismatched. annotation_slots filters numeric only — enum passes through unfiltered and conflicts on same-category/different-member with no subject binding, which is 74% of firings. A 979-char lock containing 'optional' annotates 'Waiting for required checks.' Two long locks produce 65% of firings on one incidental word each, so it degrades on exactly the substantial locks users care about. The numeric half fails identically on bare-word keys: step 3 vs step 4, option 1 vs option 2, run 27806055357 vs Run 2. So 45.3% is 45.3% of packs carrying a FALSE annotation. Reach is not precision and I reported the former as if it settled the latter. Corrects the changelog and CONFIG.md, and adds a test pinning the enum false positive so a green suite cannot be read as the mechanism being sound. What is refuted is #1175 proposal 2's premise, not the wiring.
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Operator ruling: close this PR, and retire #1175 proposal 2 on the measurementPut to the operator with your three options and your lean. Ruling is option 3. Your finding reproduces — independently, from the code rather than the auditI did not take the 0/42 on trust. The mechanism is exactly as you describe:
Minimal reproduction on That is the whole defect in five lines, and no amount of numeric-side tuning Why retire rather than re-scopeBinding enum values to a shared referent is a research problem, not a missing The fallback — merge default-off with corrected claims — also runs into the Credit where it is dueYou published the reach figure, then went and checked what it fired on, then What is keptThe measurement, not the wiring. The 0/42 result and the enum-has-no-subject- Two claims are wrong on |
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Closed per the operator ruling above: #1175 proposal 2 is retired on the 0/42 measurement. Not a wiring defect — the premise is refuted. |
Correction to my own comment aboveI wrote that the CHANGELOG and
So both misleading statements were in this PR's diff, and they close with it. Nothing on Flagging rather than quietly dropping it, since 'I will file a follow-up' is exactly the kind of claim that goes unchecked. |
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Operator ruling (2026-08-09): close this and retire #1175 proposal 2. The measurement is a refutation, not a tuning problem. The self-review is correct, and I reproduced its central claim in codeBoth halves verified independently at this branch's head:
So the dominant firing path (74% of events) is structurally incapable of establishing that two beliefs are talking about the same thing. That is not a threshold that can be tuned; Why the numeric half does not rescue itThe numeric suppressions do work — #1175 took that path from 6.12% to 1.38%. But the 11 surviving numeric pairs are all bare-word key collisions ( ANNOTATE-not-DROP was the answer to imprecision: let the agent adjudicate. At 0/42, every annotation is attention the agent spends dismissing noise, with no offsetting benefit. That inverts the design's own justification. Why not "merge default-off and keep the wiring"Two reasons beyond the measurement.
Credit where it is dueThe author found this by measuring what the mechanism fired on after publishing what it fired at, and escalated rather than shipping a green suite. The 45.3% "reach" headline would have read as a benefit indefinitely — AC3's tests pass because they use Closing the PR, closing #1365, and recording the refutation on #1175 so proposal 2 is not rediscovered. |
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Closes #1365.
Builds AC1–AC3. AC4 (slot-tuple ordering) already shipped via #1393; AC5 was struck by the operator ruling of 2026-08-06 and replaced by a live-store reach measurement, which is included here.
What was actually missing
The measurement half of #1175 proposal 2 shipped in #1244 and then sat unreachable.
lock_consistency.lock_conflict_annotationshad zero production callers — the only references anywhere in the tree were its own__all__entry and its unit tests. So a retrieved belief assertingretry limit is 9against a lock saying5reached the agent with nothing marking the disagreement.This PR is wiring, not new logic. The suppression rules, the symmetry, and the slot-scoping were all already built and tested; they just never ran in production.
Design — the 5-tuple is deliberately not widened
Per the operator ruling of 2026-08-06.
retrieve_with_tiersreturns a barelist[Belief]through three intervening layers (retrieve(),hook_search.search_for_prompt,hook._retrieve) with no per-belief metadata channel; adding a sixth tuple element would have touched 37 call sites acrosssrc/,tests/andbenchmarks/.Instead the annotation travels on a module-level
_LAST_LOCK_CONFLICTSsnapshot with alast_lock_conflict_annotations()accessor, cloning the existing_LAST_TELEMETRY/last_lane_telemetry()shape one-for-one.The snapshot is cleared in two places, and the second is the one that matters.
retrieve_with_tiershas notry/finallyand publishes as its penultimate statement, so any raise between entry and publish would serve the previous call's annotations as this call's. Andretrieve_v2's HRR-structural branch returns without ever enteringretrieve_with_tiers— on a lane that is default-ON. That is precisely the stale-snapshot defect #1366 closed for lane firings; without both resets this would have reintroduced it one field over.One deviation from the letter of the ruling, flagged rather than buried. The ruling said to read the accessor "beside the existing
last_lane_telemetry()call". I read it inside_split_belief_linesinstead. That is the single render boundary all three formatters (_format_hits,_format_hits_with_session_start,_format_baseline_hits) funnel through, so the annotation cannot be present in one and missed in another — a partial render would look shipped while leaving most injected packs unannotated.annotationsstays an explicit keyword parameter so tests pin it without a realretrieve(). Happy to move it if you'd rather have the literal placement.Constraints honoured
b88fd4=9.0, and a heuristic that can invent a key must not delete context.lock_consistency.value_compare.extract_valuesis untouched — that blast radius is what fix(value_compare): keep non-finite numeric slots out of the comparator (#1227) #1228 declined. Raw slots are passed in on both sides becauselock_conflict_annotationsappliesannotation_slotsitself; filtering at the call site would double-suppress.annotation_slotsis applied to the locks atlock_consistency.py:131and each candidate at:136. A belief carrying both a suppressed version literal and a genuine disagreement is still annotated on the genuine one.Verification
Mutation-checked in both directions. The issue asks that removing the suppression make a test go red rather than move a number:
annotation_slotsa passthrough → 10 tests red, including both new suppression arms;if False and ...) → the two end-to-end arms red, so they distinguish the wiring rather than restating the resolver.Full suite: 7510 passed, 70 skipped, 71 xfailed.
One test I wrote and then fixed: the flag-off arm originally asserted only that the resolver returned
False, which would have passed even if the compute ran unconditionally. It now drives a realretrieve_with_tiersagainst a store with a conflicting lock, withextract_valuespatched to raise.Reach — measured, and the kill experiment struck rather than run
AC5 called for a LongMemEval-S A/B.
longmemeval_adapter.pyrunsinclude_locked=False, solock_consistencyshort-circuits on every question and the flag-on arm is byte-identical to flag-off. That is a guaranteed null, which means no measurement, not no effect — the R3 IDF-clip failure mode. Struck by operator ruling and replaced withbenchmarks/lock_conflict_annotation_reach.py.It is not a query replay.
hook_auditstores onlyprompt_prefix, truncated at 200 chars with the median at the cap — treating it as the query carried a ~4x error in a prior retrieval A/B. So it scores the belief ids the audit records as actually injected per fire, reconstructing no query at all. The store is openedread_only=True, since a plainMemoryStoreopen runs DDL, migrations and a scope-id backfill.hook_audit.jsonlhook_audit.jsonl.1Both logs are post-#1016-B, so pooling is legitimate. The two arms disagree more than the pooled figure suggests (35.4% vs 48.9%) and both are reported rather than the flattering one — n is small either way. 8 distinct locks are implicated, top lock 34.4%.
The 2.14% candidate rate corroborates the 1.38% #1244 measured post-suppression on a different population.
Read the 45.3% as reach, not as quality. It says roughly one injected pack in two would carry at least one annotation; it does not say the annotations are useful. Nothing here measures whether naming the conflict improves what the agent does — that needs a labelled corpus this store does not have, which is why the flag ships off.
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Annotate retrieved beliefs that numerically conflict with active locks behind a configurable, default-off flag, expose the annotations to the hook renderer via a process snapshot, and measure the feature’s reach on the live store.
New Features:
use_lock_conflict_annotationsconfiguration flag (env, kwarg, TOML) that controls whether retrieval computes lock-conflict annotations.last_lock_conflict_annotations()snapshot mapping belief ids to conflicting lock ids for the most recent retrieval call.conflicts_with="<lock id>"attribute when the annotation flag is enabled.Enhancements:
lock_conflict_annotationsintoretrieve_with_tiers, computing annotations over L2.5 and L1 unlocked candidates versus the locked set when the flag is enabled.retrieve_with_tiersentry andretrieve_v2’s structural lane to avoid stale annotations across calls._split_belief_linesboundary and add conflict attributes without changing existing attribute order.Documentation:
use_lock_conflict_annotationsflag, its default-off behavior, suppression rules, and configuration precedence in the user configuration guide.Tests:
Chores: