Owner round (2026-10-05): the same act (a human thinking in text) had two
visual languages — the quiz cards' quote block vs the practice container
with a collapsing chevron and raw pre-wrap text that read oversized.
- components/thinking-block.tsx: the quiz quote-block recipe verbatim
(rail + uppercase label + lh-prose at foreground/90) carried by a
faint user-side shell — ml-auto, max-w-[95%] mirroring the user
bubble's geometry, px-4/py-3 rhythm. Never collapsible. Rails reuse
the existing vocabulary: primary = committed register, muted =
working register.
- ThinkingCard becomes the practice adapter: 'Your solution' (primary)
/ 'Your thinking' (muted) — one component, two registers.
- The reading channel LIFTS out of the answered card: chronologically
prior to the question, it renders above it as its own user-side
block under the plain 'Your thinking' label; the in-card inset and
the 'while reading' phrasing are gone.
- lh-card-enter (globals.css): the one-shot 150ms fade+rise mount,
the app's motion register; honors reduced-motion.
Owner round (2026-10-05): the problem pose only really needs statement,
mode, target, modelSolution; conclude needs no reveal field.
- problemInputObject drops decisionPoints, expectedWrongMoves, strategy,
rationale. Halves the pose payload (the GLM incident's failing args
were 3.3KB — a direct weak-model hardening).
- concludeInputObject drops solutionReveal: the reveal is the
modelSolution committed at pose time, shown verbatim at conclude.
- Doctrine pass (00-base mechanics, 10-doctrine V.4/V.5): the commitment
is the solution alone; the reveal instruction points at it.
Fixtures slimmed to the new shapes (flow, agents, heal). ConcludeCard's
render of legacy solutionReveal input stays until the card redesign
lands (Slice C).
The bkt-practice record showed ONE turn in which the model concluded
(clean ack) and then every pose died on 'a problem is already active'
until it gave up ('the problem slot is stuck — the conclude calls report
success'). Two flaws, both fixed:
1. GATES READ A FROZEN RECORD. problem/conclude gates re-read the stored
record per execute — but the record freezes at the turn's write-ahead
(persistTurn lands only at turn END), so a mid-turn conclude → pose
pair could never see each other. practiceTools now builds ONE
turn-scoped gate (createPracticeGate) seeded once from the record;
the executes flip it. Fresh closure per turn (the agent is built per
request) — no cross-turn leakage.
2. PHANTOM ACTIVATION. activeProblemOf ignored tool RESULTS, so the
composer mounted from a pose the gate itself had refused (owner
ruling: 'either it goes through or it doesn't'). Honest activation:
a problem activates only on its clean ack; a conclude frees only on
its clean ack; errored and dangling calls are skipped. Retroactively
heals the BKT record (all its poses errored, all concludes clean →
no active problem). pendingProblemDismissalOf follows the same law
via the shared cleanToolCallIds helper.
Pinned: the mid-turn conclude→pose pair works in one toolset; the gate
re-arms after a successful pose; lone errored/dangling poses activate
nothing; a clean pose under a rejection stays active; an errored
conclude frees nothing.
The thinking-submission incident (owner report, 2026-10-05): two spinners
sandwiching the submitted thinking card, and the card doubling once tokens
flowed. Records on disk were clean — both bugs were live-view-only.
- view.ts LIVE IS POSITIVE EVIDENCE (owner ruling): a tool call renders
live (input-streaming) ONLY when its own message is streaming THIS turn
(streamingIds) — session busyness can never resurrect a settled call.
The pose turn's problem call kept flipping to a mid-transcript spinner
because the fallback keyed on live.inFlight. applyResultTo's placeholder
fork now also MARKS the settled ack (input-available) instead of leaving
the guessed state standing. Live cards now sit at the bottom by
construction, never mid-transcript.
- session-core.ts absorbed(): the custom role gets its identity key
(customType + details deep-equal) — the optimistic thinking marker is
dropped when the write-ahead's server copy lands, so the +400ms
adoption window can no longer double the card. Total over roles; types
that never appear optimistically never reach the branch.
Pinned: settled problem never live mid-turn; this turn's streaming call
stays shimmer; dangling-settled is input-available; absorbed by
customType+details (different details = different submission); model-level
adoption keeps exactly one marker.
The GLM incident (2026-10-04): glm-5.3 sent mode as a JSON-string-encoded
enum ('"recall"') on 19 consecutive problem calls; TypeBox's error never
named the expected values, so the model re-emitted the identical payload
until the dev server was killed. And mid-turn the learner was trapped:
Esc's question/problem rungs only dismissed — the dismiss route 409'd
against the turn-owned record and nothing could stop the running turn.
- healEncodedArguments (practice.ts, the prepareArguments seam): a STRING
where the schema expects a literal union / boolean / null / number /
array is JSON.parse-d and kept when it satisfies the schema. Valid args
pass through untouched (same reference); unhealable values stay for
validation to reject honestly. Wired on BOTH problem and conclude.
- dismissal-park.ts: the dismiss route parks a mid-turn dismissal (202);
the turn's settle path (onFinish, after persistTurn, before endTurn —
the same ordering law as the record write itself) applies it against
the persisted record, only if the dismissed thing really is pending.
- confirmAbort: question/problem discard while busy now ALSO aborts the
in-flight turn; the dialog line says so (busy prop).
No error-result cap (owner ruling). 16 new pins (heal incl. pi-ai
validateToolArguments end-to-end; park registry, apply paths, the 202
route contract).
Owner report, 2026-10-04: starting a session with map picks showed ONE
empty user bubble, no agent turn; a follow-up woke the agent with the
right material but the marker never rendered. Two breaks, one root —
the record no longer starts empty and user-side data parts had no
render lane:
- The first-send gate checked initialMessages.length === 0; the
graph-context marker at message[0] made that false, so the ?prompt
turn NEVER fired. New pure helper initialPromptOwed (the escAbortTarget
pattern): the prompt is owed while no user/assistant message exists —
scaffolding is not conversation. Pinned in tests/graph-context.test.ts.
- The transcript's user branch rendered text parts only; a data-only
message (graph-context, practice-thinking) fell through as an EMPTY
bubble — the data-practice-thinking case I anchored to lived in the
ASSISTANT switch, dead on arrival. Data-only user messages now hoist
to a bubble-free card lane (the subagent-steer precedent); the two
dead assistant-switch cases are gone.
Gates: 1296 pass / 0 fail; typecheck, lint, build clean.
The practice agent wrote wrong LaTeX delimiters — 40-formatting.md (the
\(...\)/\[...\) delimiter law, markdown, mermaid) lived in shared/,
which practice deliberately excluded. Owner ruling: formatting applies
in every setting. Practice now composes its own directory plus a
CURATED shared allowlist (40-formatting.md only — the question/
confidence/file mechanics stay out, practice has no such tools); the
composition test pins the appendix and the order.
The map picks no longer glue into the opening prompt as seed text
(owner, 2026-10-04 late). POST /api/chats accepts graphContext
{propositions}; the route resolves the picks against the live graph,
derives the reasoning chains among them (chainsForSelection →
formatChainLine), and writes a graph-context custom marker as
message[0] — before the learner's first user message, in either mode.
- Core: newGraphContextMessage (model-facing content = the
contextualization framing + proposition lines + chain lines;
details = the structured pick); toLlmMessages flattens it to a user
message like every marker, so the model reads it for free.
- View: projects to a user-side data-graph-context part.
- UI: GraphContextCard — minimal, muted, dashed, collapsed by default
(counts only); expand reveals name — statement rows and the chain
lines. Same compact-expandable pattern as the practice cards.
- Home: sends graphContext with the creation whenever picks exist;
the prompt param carries the learner's own words only.
Root cause of 'doesn't register': the slice-6 floating-bar edit never
landed (a silent no-match replace) — the Body accepted selectMode but
the bar ignored it, so the picker showed Clear + Delete and nothing
ever confirmed. Found by re-reading; the test suite never pinned the
select-mode bar.
The owner vision instead: the chain table's selection is PERSISTENT
and caller-owned.
- ChainTableOverlay gains controlledSelection/onSelectionChange (every
check, clear, and delete-prune reports up immediately; uncontrolled
fallback keeps the delete flow self-contained).
- Select mode's floating bar: Done (closes; the pick already
registered) — the delete fence never renders while picking.
- GraphView threads the lifted set through, resolving ids → nodes
against the live snapshot.
- Home: the pick bar above the composer shows 'N propositions
selected' + Clear in EITHER mode (dashed 'Pick propositions from the
map' hint only in practice mode with nothing picked); visible hover
(bg-accent) so the chip reads clickable. Practice sends still seed
from the pick set.
Drives handleChatRequest with the real practice agent + faux engine:
pose persists its ack and owes no continuation; a commit arrives as the
'Committed answer:' user message and the conclude turn continues to the
reveal; a nudge carries the 'Thinking trace' label and never concludes;
Esc's silent marker deactivates at once and the next input rides the
synthesized dismissed-conclude pair (shared CONCLUDE_ACK_TEXT).
- needsContinuation: a persisted problem-pose ack (terminate:true ended
the turn deliberately) owes no continuation — reloads after a pose no
longer wake a phantom turn; error results stay owed like any
interrupted tool.
- Chat header: practice sessions swap the phase chip for a quiet
Practice tag (no probe→teach arc applies) and hide the coverage ring
(practice never extracts — an ever-filling ring would lie).
- ChatSummary gains pendingProblem (activeProblemOf at projection); the
sidebar meta says 'Problem waiting' for a practice row with a posed
problem. Kind threads through Chat/[id] page.
- Home picker chip gains Clear (picks were otherwise irremovable).
- Sidebar: the three-way kind filter (Teaching/All/Practice, persisted
in localStorage) above the search; two new-session doors (Teaching →
/chat/new, Practice → /chat/new?mode=practice); practice rows carry
the dumbbell badge and 'Practicing…' busy meta.
- Draft: ?mode=practice swaps the copy (title, empty state, 'What do
you want to practice?') and startDraftSession posts kind:'practice'.
- Graph entry (home composer): teach|practice switch on the stats row's
left edge (StatsBar leadingSlot); practice mode shows the propositions
chip that opens the chain table as a picker (its floating bar becomes
'Practice these' — no delete fence); the picks seed the opening prompt
('Propositions from the map:…') while the title stays the typed text.
- PracticeDock (components/practice-dock.tsx): the active problem
replaces the composer — statement (markdown+LaTeX) above, the 'Your
thinking' composer-twin below with the two submit lanes (Nudge =
thinking without a commit; Commit = answer commit; ⌘/Ctrl+Enter
commits). Dictation claims the thinking field.
- Transcript cards (practice-cards.tsx + the artifact registry): the
problem card (compact-expandable statement — the commitment NEVER
renders), the conclude card (outcome + verdict + reveal; the
dismissal synthesis is one muted line), and the user-side thinking
register cards (Your thinking / Your solution).
- view.ts: the problem pose joins the placeholder fork (the ack never
flips the part); practice-thinking markers project as data parts;
problem-dismissed markers project nothing.
- chat.tsx: activeProblemOf drives the dock branch (question > problem
> composer), the esc layering gains the problem rung (below question,
above turn) with its discard confirm + the silent marker route; the
thinking submissions POST through the session's optimistic appends.
- tools/practice.ts: problem (terminate pose; commitment hidden in args)
and conclude (non-terminating; outcome/verdict/reveal/rung/missClass/
retest), gated by activeProblemOf — pose-while-active and conclude-
with-nothing-active both return invalidInputResult.
- prompts/practice/00-base.md (voice + accuracy + tool mechanics) and
10-doctrine.md (the owner's doctrine verbatim; one approved edit —
§I material arrival generalized). Practice composes its own directory
ALONE: no teaching base, no shared fragments.
- createPracticeAgent (teacher-agent.ts); chat-handler branch — kind
'practice' builds the practitioner from turn 1 and skips extraction.
- problemResult/concludeResult acks in tool-execute (conclude text
single-sourced: CONCLUDE_ACK_TEXT).
The native shapes beneath the practice tools (owner design 2026-10-04):
- activeProblemOf — the conclude-before-next-problem gate's fold (a
conclude call OR a dismissal marker deactivates; the pose-time ack
never does — nudges keep the card up).
- The thinking input: {problemCallId, commit, text} → practice-thinking
marker; the label (THINKING_HINT/COMMIT_LABEL, single-sourced in
contracts) is the only register difference the model sees.
- Ask-style problem dismissal: silent route appends the UI-only marker;
the user's NEXT input prepends the synthesized conclude pair (call
outcome:'dismissed' + shared ack) so the agent reads the discard in
its own vocabulary and the slot frees.
- toLlmMessages: dismissal marker filtered; pair passes natively.
Practice sessions (owner, 2026-10-04): the marker rides the record and
the normalized summary (absent field reads as teach — pre-practice
records never migrate); POST /api/chats accepts {kind: 'practice'}.
The agent branch, tools, and UI land in the following slices.
Owner ruling 2026-10-04: the module is a sunk cost, retrievable from
history if ever revisited. Removed: core practice contracts + pipeline
helpers, the PracticeStore port + adapter + data dir path, server
service + API routes (sets, clusters picker, practice aborts), the
practice pages + dialog/exam/list UI, chain-table's Generate handoff,
sidebar nav, activity-dock practice rows, and the partitioner/
problemGenerator/grader model roles (BACKGROUND_MODEL_ROLES 8 → 5).
Survivors, moved to core/chains.ts (pure + browser-safe): ReasoningChain,
chainsForSelection, formatChainLine — the chain table and graph
emission still consume them.
pi-ai 1.0's onProviderStreamEvent, at the layer our incident class lives
(GLM arg truncation, DeepSeek id resets) — env-gated (owner choice:
no app surface, off by default; raw events carry full prompts), one
JSONL per chat under data/debug/provider-events/ with a 20MB cap and a
run-start marker for record correlation.
Wired at every agent construction: teacher/prober turns (AgentBuildOptions.
chatId), jobs via LoopContext (researcher, demo-builder through
runSubagent; visual-maker + pdf-reader through their streamOnce), and
the extraction pipeline (extractor + auditor keyed by source id).
practice deliberately unwired (sunk-cost module).
Authoring refinements (quizInputProblems, nodeId checks, ask/explain
refinements, submit-agent pipeline laws) now return invalidInputResult —
same model-facing failure and retry semantics pi minted from the throw,
but details keeps {tool, problems} as data instead of the throw path's
empty {}. ToolInputError deleted; wire shape unchanged (verified against
pi's own thrown-error conversion in agent-loop).
Esc over a mermaid focus, the plan popup, or the setup dialog opened the
question-dismiss confirm underneath — KeyboardShortcuts' window listener
registers first, so the overlays' own self-closing Esc listeners could
never outrun the lh:kbd-abort-turn dispatch. The state gate in ChatView
is the defense (the architecture's own pattern from the abort dialog):
escAbortTarget, exported pure, rules priority by stacking order — abort
confirm (claimed by its dialog) > mermaid (paints above plan) > plan >
setup (self-closing) > question > turn. The gate closes the overlay; the
overlays' own listeners stay (idempotent). Pinned in esc-layering.test.
DeepSeek via OpenRouter returns tool-call ids that reset every response —
a one-call-per-turn session names every call call_0. Everything keys on
toolCallId (the fold's call↔result join, the pending gate, answer
routing, the option-shuffle seed), so the Lacan session corrupted: the
quiz answer overwrote the ask card, the ask question vanished, and the
order scrambled. Record itself was always intact.
- src/server/pi/call-ids.ts (new): ToolCallIdUniquifier at the wire
boundary — colliding ids remint once (orig~2, ~3…), the same mints at
settlement; tables key by message OBJECT IDENTITY (streaming messages
carry no ids; the message_end object is reference-identical to the
state object). History never rewrites; providers see paired ids, which
is protocol-legal (pi synthesizes ids for providers that send none).
- ui-stream: runPiTurn remaps events + settles through the uniquifier
(spec.usedToolCallIds, seeded by chat-handler from the record).
- view.ts: findToolPart scans newest-first — pre-fix duplicate-id
records (the existing Lacan session) heal on next render.
- tests: 9 unit pins (call-ids.test.ts) + the two-call_0 e2e (chat-flow):
ask answered as ask, quiz as quiz, ids unique in the record.
The teaching cycle gains its motivation question. The teach quiz schema
now carries a REQUIRED type field — predict (posed before the teaching,
arrives open, the learner predicts the next step) or check (posed after,
arrives collapsed behind the reveal). The prober's quiz stays role-less.
- core: quizInputObject.type union + normalizeQuizType + the reveal law
as pure quizNeedsReveal; QuestionData.questionType; note → thinking
rename (legacy reads fold back); readingThinking channel on answers;
compactAnswerForModel emits thinking / thinkingWhileReading
- tools: descriptions stripped to mechanics — QUIZ_OPTION_CRAFT and
EXPLAIN_DOCTRINE deleted, doctrine moved to the prompt layer
(reverses the 2026-09-27 placement, owner 2026-10-03); shared
quizDescription/explainDescription builders differ only in deltas
- prompts: shared/20-question-tools.md rewritten (option craft,
transcribed-speech leniency, the two thinking channels); new
teacher/28-predictions.md (cycle, roles, skip rule, resolution law);
20-teaching + 30-question-principles scoped to the new taxonomy
- UI: predictions render open with a Prediction eyebrow, verdict shows
but the explanation tucks behind a toggle; the reading-thinking field
mounts while a check waits (dictation claims it until reveal);
answered card separates thinking vs thinking-while-reading blocks
Root cause: doSteerOrSend branched on turnInFlight, but the local dedup
(chat.tsx ~370) clears that flag the moment the own stream takes over —
during our own turn busy was true and turnInFlight false, so Enter fell to
the plain-send path whose busy guard returned silently. Branch on busy:
own stream AND foreign/wake turns both have a live agent registered by the
time the send's POST resolved, so the steer lands (a raced settle 409s and
falls back to the plain send).
The button now follows the text: busy + typed text = Send (click steers —
steering must be clickable, not Enter-only); busy + empty = Stop. ESC keeps
its confirm-popup abort in every state, so stop is never unreachable.
STEERING, NOT FOLLOW-UPS — pi-agent-core's two rails, used deliberately:
agent.steer() injects at the next response boundary INSIDE the live run
(one logical turn, the model changes course); followUp() would only extend
an ended run — not built. The same rail job markers already ride
(steeringMode 'all', the 2026-09-26 doctrine).
- POST /api/chats/[id]/steer: 404/400 honest guards; no live turn → 409
and the client silently falls back to a plain text send (the settle
race); live → steerLiveChat hands the message to the live agent's
steering queue AND parks it in the userSteers registry — the stranding
safety net. A steer stranded behind a question termination or abort
stays parked and rides the chat's NEXT run (handOffEligible), the same
deliver-or-requeue lifecycle as job markers. Reconciliation at settle:
delivered ids drop (reconcileUserSteers).
- Client: steer(text) queues + POSTs without flipping any turn state;
the drain's verbatim message events upsert the real user card by the
client-minted id (steer_<localid>) and the indicator fold drops the
line. canSend no longer gates on turnInFlight — Enter mid-turn steers;
Enter with an empty composer still stops; the square button stays Stop.
- The queued-steer indicator (owner spec): quiet one-liners above the
composer shell — right-aligned to where its corner rounding starts,
truncated with an ellipsis, fixed max width, ~half opacity, no
background, no container. Tunable later.
- Verified from pi-agent-core source: steering drains per completed turn
inside the loop; injected messages emit message_start/end verbatim;
finishTurn {action:'end'} (our question stopper) exits BEFORE the
steering poll — hence the registry.
Live test finding: answer A then dismiss B woke the agent — the continuation
fold treated a mixed [answered, dismissed] trailing batch as 'reaction owed'
(all-dismissed rule only). Dismiss A then answer B and dismiss-both were
already correct.
The law now: the trailing batch's LAST resolution decides. Ending on a
dismissal = the user signaled stop — no wake, the answers' reactions ride the
next plain message. Ending on a real answer = the reaction is owed. One law
with the pump's pause (endsInDismissal reads the same last result), so
continuation, delivery-holding, and the pause can never disagree. The wrong
pin ('a real answer in the batch still demands the reaction') flipped.
The incident: deepseek batched quiz + ask_user_question in one assistant
message; the quiz executed first (sequential) and terminated the turn; the
answer to the quiz IMMEDIATELY woke a reaction turn (fork-1 design assumed
one dangling question max), the model complained about the unanswered ask,
and the ask became permanently unanswerable — its toolResult could only
append AFTER the intervening assistant message, a shape DeepSeek rejects.
The gate: for answer inputs, if a question call still dangles after the
append, persist write-ahead + emit record-changed + return the settled
terminal — no turn. The dock advances to the sibling; the LAST answer fires
the one reaction turn with every result adjacent to its calling message.
Nothing else generates while a question dangles (job wakes wait, continuation
folds refuse, the composer gates), so adjacency holds by construction.
Also repaired the stranded session data (ask call stripped from the batch;
backup at /tmp/chat_murkbeq2_backup.json).
- {type:"dismiss"} input event: parse + pure appends with the answer-event
orphan discipline (dangling-call 400, kind match, answer must be dismissed)
- POST /api/chats/[id]/dismiss: the no-turn composition — write-ahead append,
409 while a turn runs, emits record-changed (new bus word; idle views sync)
- needsContinuation: an all-dismissed trailing batch demands nothing;
endsInDismissal = the derived pause predicate (tail-based, no latch)
- wake pipeline: while the record ends in a dismissal the pump holds every
delivery in the steer queue — the user's next send is the wake (until the
text-turn steer claim lands, settlement re-pump delivers right after it)
- session-core.dismissQuestion: optimistic skipped card + silent POST;
chat.tsx confirmAbort question-mode swaps submitAnswer for it; ESC-abort
popup everywhere (AbortTurnDialog) with popup-Esc claimed via state gate
- parallel question calls dismiss call-by-call (results bind by id)
- requiresReveal gates on pending.tool === 'quiz' (owner: only graded quizzes
arrive collapsed; ask/explain always open)
- ESC-abort chain opens AbortTurnDialog everywhere (owner ruling); from a
pending question abort IS dismissal — dismissedAnswer rides the answer
path, the teacher acknowledges the skip in its next turn; popup-Esc is
claimed via the state gate (two window listeners fire per Esc)
- 25-confidence.md: stripped the slider/JSON/calibration mechanics — pure
reading doctrine remains
- toolQuestionKind named once in core (dock parity), dock switched to it
The rail paint is extracted to components/confidence-rail.tsx (ramp,
tick stack, geometry laws) and shared by both surfaces so they cannot
drift: the dock's live slider paints the rail under its disc, the
answered card renders it disc-less — the missing handle itself says
'record, not control'. Same look otherwise: thin rail, stop color,
solid ticks, % read-out on the right, dock-mirrored placement (below
the options, above the thinking).
Renders only where a confidence exists: quiz answers with one sent;
never on 'I don't know' (none was sent), never on explain/ask, never
on pre-feature records (optional field, absent).
Owner UI round 2026-10-01, three rulings on the slider plus one en-route
bug:
- GLOBAL ←/→, the ↑/↓ pattern: confidence adjusts wherever focus sits
(window keydown, typing-guarded), no click-in, no focus ring. The
slider itself takes NO focus — tabIndex -1, mousedown prevented,
removed from the Tab chain (rows → thinking directly again).
- Position = fraction: the thumb's scale is 0-100 with the rendered
value the stop's own percent, so 50 sits halfway; onChange snaps to
the nearest stop (magnet feel while dragged).
- Six-step ramp (owner pick over three bands): 0 red, 30 orange,
50 yellow (the coin flip), 70 lime, 90 green, 100 emerald — fill AND
handle wear the stop's color; taller 10px pill bar, custom track/thumb
(webkit + moz), muted remainder via --muted.
- Plan-flank phantom: gating the marginalia button on a JSX element
(always truthy) mounted an invisible clickable button in the
bottom-right whenever a question was pending with no plan.
planExists() now gates it (pinned in plan-window tests).
Owner design round 2026-10-01: every multiple-choice quiz answer now
carries the learner's stated probability that his selected answer is
correct — calibration data for the prober and teacher, the flow itself
unchanged.
Definition (owner ruling, after weighing chance-normalization): RAW
probability. Sub-chance reports are diagnostic gold, not dead space —
'picked an option, believes it wrong' is a real state. The agents get
the sophistication: new shared/25-confidence.md composes for both
agents (chance level, sub-chance = distrusts the pick, correct+low =
fragile, wrong+high = committed misconception, IDK = genuine gap).
- question-core: AnswerRequest/QuestionAnswerData.confidence (quiz
only, optional — old records valid), buildAnswer clamps and drops it
on dontKnow, formatAnswerMessage states the line, CONFIDENCE_STOPS +
DEFAULT_CONFIDENCE_INDEX exported.
- question-dock: snapped slider below 'I don't know', above 'Your
thinking' — native range over the stop INDEX so ←/→ step the uneven
grid cleanly, Tab chain rows → slider → thinking, Enter submits from
the slider too. Rests at 50 and always sends (owner: 50 must mean a
real coin flip, never 'untouched'). 'I don't know' GRAYS it out —
layout holds, no value sent.
Deliberately untouched: explain free-recall card (quiz-only scope),
answered-card rendering of confidence, ask flow.
The partitioner was told to reference chain ids, but no rendered line
ever showed one — chainLine emitted bare 'premises → conclusion', so
the model re-typed whole rendered lines into submit_partition and every
call failed 'unknown chain ids' validation (owner live report,
2026-09-30 evening). The generator's YOUR TARGET block had the same
blindness.
- chainLine now leads with the chain's id: [arg_x] n_a, n_b → n_c;
a bare proposition repeats its own id ([n_y] n_y (no premises)) —
mechanically teaching that its chain id IS its proposition id.
- PARTITIONER_INSTRUCTIONS rewritten to chains-primary vocabulary
(was still 'follows-edges, bijective re-encoding' — pre-chains
framing) with the id-only doctrine and singular propositions
first-class.
- partitionSchema/problemSchema gained field descriptions: ids
VERBATIM, never re-type, never invent.
- Generator OUTPUT bullet + target-block header say the same.
Design ruling en route: partitioner stays an LLM partitioning chains
(deterministic partitioning and propositions-as-targets both
considered and declined by the owner).
Owner live-test verdict on the spine (2026-09-30): no perceptible gain —
the real problems (restatement nodes, shallow re-derivations, same
conclusion from many angles) are mint-time issues a post-hoc chain
minter cannot fix. This arc moves assembly INTO the extractor and adds
the deterministic dedupe the owner specified:
- Digest-aware extraction: each stretch's extractor prompt carries THE
GRAPH SO FAR (its own source's merged propositions + chains, ids
verbatim); build on existing ids instead of restating, lean on
established conclusions as premises. Mixed-namespace chain endpoints
(fresh p-ids OR existing n_-ids) validated at the submit seam.
- Serialized per source: a source's batches/chunks run strictly in
order (each extract reads every earlier merge); cross-source runs
stay parallel; source-wide abort stops the loop. The spine stage,
role, phase, usage stage, cost row, and setup roster are gone.
- Core-ideas prompt: goal reframed as uncovering core ideas and showing
how everything derives from the foundations; direction upward, prefer
lean derivations, never re-derive what the graph already holds.
- Chain simplification (merger maintenance): simplifyChains drops
provably redundant chains at every merge — prefer-fewest-premises +
ancestry-cover ([A,B]⟹X with [X,C]⟹Y covers [A,B,C]⟹Y, transitive);
same-key provenance lines drop together; rewriteLedgers under the
audit lock; droppedChains counted separately in stats.
Chunk budget stays 8192 (owner: keep for now, maybe lower later).
Per-batch pipeline is now extract → spine → audit → merge (owner order,
2026-09-30), the spine inside the serialized audit section so it reads
the graph exactly as the following audit will. Measured motive: 0 of 133
chains in the live corpus crossed a stretch boundary — no stage minted
cross-stretch chains.
- src/agent/subagents/spine.ts: SESSION/NOTES spine preambles + shared
SPINE_CORE (span doctrine; extraction doctrines carried over), the
submit_spine TypeBox schema, validateSpine (mechanical span law: every
chain touches >=1 fresh endpoint AND >=1 existing digest endpoint;
unknown ids, self-reference, and id collisions are loud), the digest
prompt builder, and the runner (strong tier, retry-only).
- extraction.ts: 'assembling' phase, spine stage in the per-need gate,
usage/billing stage, assemble() inside withAuditLock for both front
doors; first stretch of a source skips the call (empty digest, no
spend); the audit sees COMBINED propositions (chunk + connectives),
never chains; merger receives the combined findings.
- core/graph.ts mergeFindings: chain endpoints resolve through the
job-local map OR pass through verbatim as existing n_ ids (the spine's
mixed namespace).
- EXTRACTION_CORE: steps-of-reasoning selection bar (examples, notation
glosses, and restatements that no argument needs are not steps).
- Factory chunk budget 4096 -> 8192 (fewer seams, more local context).
- healStringifiedArrays moved to the shared submit seam (submit-agent.ts).
- Cost panel: Assembly row; usage records carry a spine stage (optional
on legacy records).
- Tests +5: prompt pins, span-law matrix, digest rendering, seeded
end-to-end flow (spanning chain + connective, verbatim n_ endpoint,
spine billed as its own stage), non-spanning refused + retried.
Data analysis of the five-source corpus (490 nodes, 244 chains) found
three pathologies the goal-first core let through:
1. Narrative-adjacency chains — premises that occasioned rather than
entailed conclusions (concentrated in the polemical sources).
2. Session-scaffolding minted as knowledge — the source's own axiom
numbering (A1/F2/UT2), arc labels ('the crux') persisted as nodes.
3. Full-discourse volume — glossary and argument-arc material at equal
rank with load-bearing ideas (~200 nodes per source).
Three doctrine lines, same terse register as the core:
- entailment is the only link that earns a chain; historical/narrative
connections keep their pieces as bare propositions or drop them
- load-bearing ideas only (what a reference on the subject would teach)
- propositions must stand alone for a reader who never saw the source;
no leaning on the source's own scaffolding
Substring pins for all three; shared by session + notes extractors by
construction.
Owner ruling (2026-09-30, live-testing loop — supersedes 02a58db's
exemption): implication nodes ARE depth-anchored after all. Their anchor
is the average of the HIGHEST premise row and the conclusion's row —
depth(imp) = (max(premise depths) + depth(conclusion)) / 2 — so the
junction always sits strictly above every premise and strictly below
the conclusion (a conclusion is >= highest premise + 1 in the logical
graph). Uniform across modes: a half-row in vertical, a ring midway in
radial (owner confirmed both).
Implementation:
- layout.ts: new ImpLink type; SimOptions/incrementalLayout gain
impLinks (the derived chain linkage). The rank map is now computed
once alongside the orphan mask: proposition ranks via Tarjan over the
logical edges, then each supplied link adds its midpoint entry. An
imp node WITH an anchor is structured (leaves the orphan mask —
gravity projections treat it like any ranked node); WITHOUT supplied
links, arg_ ids keep the legacy 02a58db exemption (honest fallback
for callers that predate the field). The depth force reuses the
precomputed map — one pass, shared.
- deriveView (core/graph.ts) emits impLinks (one per multi-premise
live chain — single-premise chains mint no imp node); GraphSnapshot
carries them; graph-view maps them into CanvasData; settleGraphLayout
and replay-layout forward them (replay activates a junction's link
exactly when its chain is delivered).
Tests (+3, 1 rewritten): the 02a58db exemption pin became the MIDPOINT
pin (premises row 0, conclusion row -500, junction pinned to -250);
mixed-depth pin (premises at 0 and 1, conclusion 2, junction at the 1.5
half-row — highest premise, not average-of-premises); legacy fallback
pin (no impLinks = never depth-anchored); deriveView impLinks emission
pin (multi-premise only). The horizontal-pole and ORPHAN RULE pins from
5554c3a survive unchanged — proposition orphans are untouched.
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