DCS-S1 (proper-noun possession sub-shape expansion) investigation
revealed that the recognizer-injector path's `CandidateInitial`-only
return type is a substrate-level constraint blocking four Wave-Next
sub-shape categories — not just one.
## Two artifacts
1. **`docs/handoff/DCS-S1-FINDING.md`** — investigation result. Of
the 21 DCS-refused GSM8K cases, zero are pure S1-only blockers.
Acquisition-verb expansion (`collected`, etc.) conflicts with
ADR-0131.G.1's branch-disagreement discipline. The right fix is
the DCS injector emitting `CandidateOperation(add)`, but the
`inject_from_match` return type doesn't allow that.
2. **`docs/decisions/ADR-0170-injector-contract-widening.md`** —
scoping ADR. Names the contract change, the four categories it
unblocks (DCS-S1 acquisition, A1 currency, A3 multiplicative,
A4 temporal), the three load-bearing rules it must preserve
(ADR-0131.G.1, SentenceChoice union, admissibility gates), and
a 5-step implementation outline.
## Pattern recognised
Wave-Next surfaced four schema gaps. All four trace to the same
constraint: per-category injectors can only emit `CandidateInitial`.
The right next-capability work is ADR-0170 ratification, then a
small no-behavior-change PR widening the contract, then per-injector
follow-up PRs against the widened contract.
That is the actual lift-per-risk path for GSM8K Round-1 closure.
## Test plan
Docs-only. No code, no test, no eval, no pack change.
## Cross-references
- ADR-0163.D.2 — original parsed_anchors → solver-state ADR
- ADR-0131.G.1 — branch-disagreement discipline ADR-0170 preserves
- ADR-0167 — parallel teaching-corridor mechanism (independent)
- ADR-0167-FOLLOWUPS §7 — Wave-Next findings backlog
- WAVE-NEXT-REVISED — parent plan; ADR-0170 is the upstream blocker
- PR #369 — A2's schema-refusal artifact (first observation of gap)
The Wave-Next injector dispatch (A1-A4) surfaced findings that
invalidate three of the four briefs' lift assumptions:
- A1 currency_amount — sandbox-blocked; real lift potential intact
- A2 rate_with_currency — schema gap (Rate not in SentenceChoice
union); PR #369 documents the gap with concrete 4-step plan
- A3 multiplicative_aggregation — Operation(multiply) spec wrong;
correct emission is CandidateInitial(outer×inner); zero GSM8K cases
match canonical narrow form anyway
- A4 temporal_aggregation — needs apply_rate primitive not in algebra
Three of four are schema-extension ADRs masquerading as injector work.
Only A1 is a true injector + sandbox-fix scenario.
Deliverables:
1. `docs/handoff/WAVE-NEXT-REVISED.md` (new) — supersedes
WAVE-NEXT-INJECTORS.md. Pivots to DCS sub-shape expansion as the
actually-tractable next wave (21-case bucket, existing v1 injector,
#366 spec on main). Captures the three schema gaps + A1's
preserved lift potential for separate ADR work.
2. `docs/handoff/ADR-0167-FOLLOWUPS.md` §7 (new) — points to the
revised plan and summarises the four findings inline.
WAVE-NEXT-INJECTORS.md retained for history.
No code change. No runtime effect. Docs-only.
The wrong=0 fix in #359 changed the candidate-graph's refusal-reason
format when a ratified recognizer matches but its v1 injector returns
():
- Pre-#359: silently drop the recognized statement and admit a partial
graph from the rest — a wrong>0 hazard analogous to case 0050.
- Post-#359: refuse explicitly with reason "recognizer matched but
produced no injection" naming the statement and recognizer category.
Three tests in `test_candidate_graph_recognizer_wiring.py` were written
against the pre-#359 silent-drop behavior:
1. `test_empty_registry_preserves_existing_refusal_reason` — asserted
the old "no admissible candidate" was the only valid format. Updated
to accept either the legacy format OR the new explicit-refusal
format.
2. `test_recognized_rate_statement_no_longer_triggers_per_statement_refusal`
— asserted that recognized statements should NOT cause a per-statement
refusal (encoding the silent-drop premise). Inverted to assert the
correct post-#359 behavior: recognized-but-uninjectable statements
refuse EXPLICITLY, and the statement IS named in the diagnostic.
Renamed to `_refuses_explicitly_post_wrong_zero_fix`.
3. `test_recognized_descriptive_statement_no_longer_triggers_per_statement_refusal`
— same inversion + rename.
Renames preserve the original sites for git-blame continuity while
making the post-#359 contract the documented behavior.
No runtime change. wrong=0 invariant preserved.
Test plan:
- tests/test_candidate_graph_recognizer_wiring.py: 7 passed (was 3 fail / 4 pass)
- tests/test_candidate_domain_partition.py: 5 passed (no cognition regression)
- tests/test_brief_11b_audit_artifact.py + step2_lexicon + recognizer_skip_wrong_zero + brief_11_audit: 55 passed
- Total: 62 passed
Wave-Next A2 brief outcome: the Rate type (ADR-0122) DOES structurally
model a per-unit rate, but it is not a member of the per-sentence
injector contract's SentenceChoice union (CandidateInitial |
CandidateOperation). The injector therefore returns () and documents
the schema gap inline plus in audit_brief_11.md.
Lift count: 0 (expected — the brief explicitly anticipates this
outcome when the schema decision is "no"). Documenting the gap is
the deliverable.
- generate/recognizer_anchor_inject.py: new inject_rate_with_currency
+ dispatch-table entry routing ShapeCategory.RATE_WITH_CURRENCY.
- tests/test_injector_rate_with_currency.py: 16 tests pinning schema
evidence, schema refusal, dispatch wiring, case 0050 hazard,
determinism, and wrong=0 invariant.
- evals/gsm8k_math/train_sample/v1/audit_brief_11.md: appended
Wave-Next A2 section documenting the schema decision, eval delta
(3/0/47 unchanged), case 0050 hazard verification, and the
CandidateRate follow-up sequencing.
Case 0050 hazard pin: sentence 0 ("Mark does a gig every other day
for 2 weeks.") carries no currency symbol — rate_with_currency
never matches it; case stays refused at sentence_index=0.
Adds 3 drain_token lemmas to en_core_math_v1 closing 2 of 3 remaining
lexicon_entry refusals from the prior wave:
- path (case 0049, new lemma)
- journey (case 0049 follow-on after path resolved)
- sees → alias of existing "see" lemma (case 0040)
The third remaining lexicon_entry refusal (case 0001, '+') is
deliberately NOT closed: '+' is an arithmetic operator literal, not a
lexical token. Adding it as drain_token would silently drop arithmetic
content from problems like "5 + 3 apples", a wrong=0 hazard. Documented
in the PR body and audit artifact.
Refusal taxonomy shift:
- unknown_word: 5 → 3 (-2)
- unresolved_pronoun: 3 → 4 (+1) — case 0049's pronoun barrier surfaced
- incomplete_operation: 20 → 21 (+1) — case 0049's quantity gap surfaced
Hard invariants:
- wrong == 0 (admitted=0, verified)
- case 0050 hazard pinned (refused at sentence_index=0)
- manifest checksum unchanged (per-category source file edit)
- no teaching-store mutation; no reader runtime change
Five docs-only tasks GPT-5.5 can pick up via the GitHub connector while
the operator travels. Every task is read-only execution: spec / audit /
ADR drafting, never code or test changes. Risk profile: zero.
Tasks (each opens one PR):
1. ADR-0168 FrameClaim scoping draft (highest priority — next gate
after the LexicalClaim slice)
2. discrete_count_statement injector specification audit (highest-
leverage: 21/47 GSM8K refusals are this category)
3. Ratified-recognizer registry audit (informs Task 2 and future
injector work)
4. FOLLOWUPS §6 holonomy ablation test specification
5. Cognition contemplation partition fix specification (FOLLOWUPS §5a)
Each task carries:
- Files to read first (with paths)
- Deliverable shape (what the output doc must contain)
- PR body requirements
- Explicit out-of-scope list
Hard constraints enforced for the mobile-connector mode:
- One PR per task; explicit file staging; never git add -A
- Markdown-only (CLAUDE.md §Documentation Discipline)
- No code edits — flag in PR body if a task starts needing one
- No engine_state/ commits
- Cite filenames + line numbers; verify before committing
If all five complete, GPT-5.5 opens a meta-PR linking them into
ADR-0167-FOLLOWUPS.
No code change. No runtime effect. Docs-only.
Three small surgical anchors capturing the verified architectural
insight surfaced during the ADR-0167 wave (no new ADR — the gap claim
that prompted this resolved on verification; what remains is a sharper
residual question worth memorialising).
1. CLAUDE.md — new "Schema-Defined Proof Obligations" section between
Documentation Discipline and Validation Through CLI. Generalises
the wrong=0 invariant pattern: schema types that name structural
properties are real only when an executing test can meaningfully
fail under the violations it is written to catch. Three-step rule
for treating a schema as load-bearing.
2. language_packs/compiler.py — ARCHITECTURAL INVARIANT comment on
_apply_mounted_primary_domain_resonance naming it as the single
convergence-decision site for DEPTH_ROOT/DEPTH_RELATION packs.
Anchors the doctrine at the code site so any future modification
trips on the reference to the holonomy proof's coverage gap.
3. docs/handoff/ADR-0167-FOLLOWUPS.md §6 — captures the structural-vs-
blend convergence isolation question. HolonomyAlignmentCase IS
executed today (we verified), but the existing test doesn't
distinguish structurally-derived convergence from blend-induced
convergence. Ablation test or reframed claim — both acceptable
resolutions.
Verified before commit:
- All 13 architectural references in the Gemini analysis resolve
exactly: triliteral 0.30, root 0.40, prefix 0.03/(idx+1), stem 0.24,
_INFLECTION_PRIORITY case-near-last, _apply_mounted_primary_domain_resonance
with 40% English-prototype blend, HolonomyAlignmentCase defined
AND executed
- tests/test_alignment_graph.py: 8 passed (no behavioural change)
- Documentation discipline (#355) honoured: pure Markdown, no HTML
No code behaviour changes. No runtime effect. Drops the larger
ADR-0168-PROPOSAL idea — the gap claim that prompted it dissolved
under verification.
## Summary
Two test failures on origin/main both trace to PR #315 (ADR-0163.D.2 —
discrete_count_statement recognizer + admissibility-intent chain). Earlier
runs treated them as "pre-existing unrelated" — they are not unrelated.
The first is a real wrong>0 hazard.
## Failure 1: silent admission via recognized-but-uninjectable statement
The ratified `discrete_count_statement` recognizer over-matches: ANY
sentence containing a number + noun resolves it, irrespective of the verb.
When `inject_from_match` returns `()` (the round-2 default for v1
categories without an injector), the old code path used `continue` to
silently drop the statement — and the solver then answered from whatever
initial state remained.
Reproduction:
parse_and_solve("Sam has 5 apples. Sam contemplates 3 apples. "
"How many apples does Sam have?")
→ is_admitted=True, answer=5.0 (silent admission of partial graph)
This is exactly the case-0050-class hazard wearing a different hat
(silently admitting an incomplete graph at the problem level).
ADR-0167 / Brief 11 §"correct-count greed" established the principle on
the reader path; this commit extends it to the recognizer path.
Fix: when a recognizer matches but produces no injection, REFUSE.
generate/math_candidate_graph.py:
- Replaced the skip-only `continue` with a CandidateGraphResult
refusal carrying the recognizer category in the reason.
tests/test_math_candidate_graph.py:
- test_unparseable_statement now accepts either the legacy
"no admissible candidate" reason or the new
"recognizer matched but produced no injection" reason.
Both legitimately refuse; what matters is is_admitted=False.
tests/test_recognizer_skip_wrong_zero.py (NEW):
- 5 regression tests pinning the wrong=0 invariant:
* 3 parametrized verbs unknown to both regex parser and reader
(contemplates / ponders / memorises) — must all refuse
* Nonsense token — must refuse
* Anti-regression: known initial + known operation still admits
## Failure 2: cognition audit drop-reason taxonomy
The audit test hardcoded `dropped.reason.startswith("superseded_by:")`
as the only valid drop-reason prefix. Commit da70919 (ADR-0163.D.2)
ratified an admissibility-intent chain that the audit categorizes with
reason `unsupported_intent:admissibility`, which fails this assertion.
Fix: tests/test_teaching_audit.py — expand the allowed-prefix set to
include `unsupported_intent:` with a written rationale. Future drop
classes extend the allowlist deliberately rather than silently
broadening the assertion to any non-empty reason.
## Surfaced regression: partition-test allowlist (ADR-0167 FOLLOWUPS §2)
This PR modifies three test files that the
test_existing_cognition_tests_untouched assertion would reject under
its named-allowlist scheme. Added the three test paths to the allowlist
as the tactical fix; the architectural fix (retire / move to CI / move
to CODEOWNERS) is queued in docs/handoff/ADR-0167-FOLLOWUPS.md §2.
## Test plan
uv run pytest tests/test_recognizer_skip_wrong_zero.py \
tests/test_math_candidate_graph.py \
tests/test_teaching_audit.py \
tests/test_candidate_domain_partition.py \
tests/test_math_evidence_e2e.py \
tests/test_math_evidence_schema.py \
tests/test_math_contemplation_adapter.py \
tests/test_math_claim_signature.py \
tests/test_math_lexical_ratification.py \
tests/test_brief_11b_audit_artifact.py \
tests/test_brief_11b_step2_lexicon.py \
tests/test_brief_11_audit.py
→ 152 passed
## Hard invariants
- wrong == 0 — restored on the recognizer path (was silently violated on main)
- ADR-0166 — no new eval lanes
- No teaching-store mutation, no pack mutation
- The reader path was already correct (it refused these cases); this fix
brings the regex/recognizer path back in line
Captures the named follow-ups that surfaced during the ADR-0167 wave so
they don't drift. Five items, each with scope / why-deferred /
breadcrumbs / acceptance criterion:
1. Frame-opener sub-types (FrameClaim / CompositionClaim / ReferenceClaim
/ SlotClaim) — four additional handlers, each its own ADR
2. Partition test architectural fix — current git-status-at-test-runtime
assertion is structurally brittle (3 options outlined)
3. Two pre-existing main failures (test_unparseable_statement,
test_audit_real_corpus_runs_clean) — fix or quarantine, don't ignore
4. Workbench v1 math-candidate rendering — ADR-0167 §Q4
5. Cross-domain partition risks Gemini flagged (contemplation pack
indexing, replay gate default)
Includes leverage-based sequencing recommendation (no timelines per
project convention).
Docs-only. No code, no test, no eval, no pack change.
Wave 3, closes the LexicalClaim slice of ADR-0167. After this PR the
math reader's refusal taxonomy is evidence, not terminus: lexical
refusals flow through audit row → typed evidence → dedup signature →
HITL ratification (W2-D) → pack write → next-audit-pass-resolves.
Deliverables
------------
- tests/test_math_evidence_e2e.py (new, 7 tests):
* test_full_pipeline_from_audit_to_evidence
* test_e2e_replay_equivalence
* test_lexical_ratification_advances_unknown_word_row (case 0040 'sees')
* test_e2e_determinism_across_processes
* test_cognition_teaching_corridor_unaffected
* test_evidence_dedup_via_claim_signature
* test_audit_artifact_round_trip_with_signatures
- evals/gsm8k_math/train_sample/v1/audit_brief_11.md: Post-W2 baseline
table + cognition regression line + case 0050 hazard status + pointer
to the new e2e regression module.
- tests/test_candidate_domain_partition.py: minimal allowlist patch to
test_existing_cognition_tests_untouched so that future ADR-0167 PRs
can add their own evidence test files without tripping a structurally
brittle hard-coded whitelist (W2-C partition risk; recorded in PR body).
Hard constraints held
---------------------
- wrong == 0: case 0050 hazard still refuses at sentence_index 0
after the tmpdir-pack 'sees' ratification; no admission introduced.
- Cognition regression: zero modifications to cognition test bodies;
only the W2-C whitelist assertion was loosened.
- Determinism: in-process and cross-process evidence_hash byte-identical.
- No real-pack mutation: a per-test digest fixture asserts
language_packs/data/en_core_math_v1/ is byte-identical before and
after each test.
Out of scope
------------
- Frame/Composition/Reference/Slot ratification handlers (follow-up ADRs).
- Workbench v1 wiring of math candidates (ADR-0167 §Q4).
- Auto-ratification — HITL only, forever.
- The two partition risks Gemini flagged in W2-C (cognition pack indexing,
replay-gate default) remain follow-up.
With this PR merged the engine can ratify math-domain lexical claims
from its own refusal evidence through the existing HITL teaching
corridor — the thesis claim of ADR-0167 becomes a concrete green test.
Two docs-only updates capturing the day's work:
1. Appended a "Status update — 2026-05-27 EOD" footer to the Brief 11
handoff doc with the completion table (11A/11B-step-1/11B-step-2
docs+lexicon/11D merged; 11C absorbed into W3-A; 11D candidate E ADR
merged) and the current post-#348 baseline taxonomy.
2. New session doc SESSION-2026-05-27-adr-0167-parallel-dispatch.md
alongside the existing SESSION-2026-05-26-comprehension-reader.md.
Captures the architectural pivot (audit-as-teaching-evidence vs the
rejected refusal-class dispatch table), the parallel-dispatch
experiment (5 operators / 3 waves / 6 PRs), what worked, what
surfaced as load-bearing (case 0050 hazard), and what's deferred.
No code changes. No runtime effect.
Adds an explicit Documentation Discipline section between Semantic Pack
Discipline and Validation Through CLI. Encodes the stance that
text-diffable Markdown is the substrate for ADRs, session docs, audit
artifacts, and handoff briefs.
Sanctions two zero-cost adoptions inside the existing format:
- Mermaid fenced blocks for state machines / sequences / dependency
graphs that genuinely benefit from a picture
- <details> / <summary> collapsibles for long proofs, large tables,
generated logs
Out of scope (explicitly):
- Standalone HTML artifacts with embedded CSS / inline SVG / sidebars
- Dashboards / status pages / visualizers as substitute for a pinned
data artifact
Rationale: the "open in browser" model breaks git diff, determinism
(CSS / SVG element ordering), and cross-agent legibility — all
load-bearing properties for a deterministic cognitive engine.
No code changes. No runtime effect.
Adds `teaching/math_claim_signature.py` with `lexical_claim_signature()`:
sha256 hex of a normalised lexical token, collapsing two refusal cases on
the same surface token into one teaching-corpus candidate.
Normalisation pipeline (documented in module, breaking-change surface):
1. Lowercase surface
2. Strip string.punctuation from both ends (!"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~)
3. Extract token from refusal_detail via r"no primitive or lexicon match for '([^']+)'"
4. Fallback: use stripped-lowercase surface if regex doesn't match
5. Canonical: "lexical:" + extracted_token
6. sha256 hex of UTF-8 bytes → 64-char lowercase hex
Also adds `teaching/math_contemplation.py` (W2-A adapter included as
union-merge; W2-A worktree was not yet dispatched):
- `audit_to_evidence()`: AuditRow iterable → MathReaderRefusalEvidence tuple
- `audit_problem_to_evidence()`: convenience wrapper for tests and W3-A
- Lexical evidence: claim_signature filled; evidence_hash recomputed to include it
- Non-lexical sub_types: claim_signature stays "" (deferred per ADR-0167 §Q1)
Real-data result on audit_brief_11.json:
- 14 distinct lexical tokens → 14 distinct signatures (no false collisions)
- No duplicate tokens in the 50-case sample; dedup logic verified deterministic
Wave 2, parallel with W2-C/D; depends on W1-A branch.
wrong=0 verified by passing regression suite.
Wave 2, parallel with W2-B/C/D. Implements the type-A→type-B converter
from AuditRow to MathReaderRefusalEvidence per ADR-0167 W2-A brief.
Deliverables:
- teaching/math_contemplation.py:
- audit_to_evidence(audit_rows): pure deterministic adapter, uses
SUB_TYPE_FOR_OPERATOR for subtype assignment, skips rows where
missing_operator is None, leaves claim_signature="" (W2-B will fill)
- audit_problem_to_evidence(problem_text, case_id): convenience wrapper
that runs the reader and adapts the output
- tests/test_math_contemplation_adapter.py: 8 tests covering
determinism, input-order preservation, sub-type mapping
exhaustiveness, distinct hashes across cases, empty input handling,
None-operator skip, and round-trip from problem text
Invariants:
- Deterministic across reruns (verified by determinism rerun)
- No I/O in adapter path
- Input order preserved (no internal sort)
- claim_signature == "" for all W2-A records (W2-B coordination)
Validation:
- tests/test_math_contemplation_adapter.py: 8 passed
- tests/test_math_evidence_schema.py: 11 passed (W1-A regression)
- tests/test_brief_11b_audit_artifact.py + step2_lexicon + brief_11_audit:
45 passed (regression)
- Determinism rerun: identical results
* feat(ADR-0167/W1-A): MathReaderRefusalEvidence schema + canonical-bytes
Foundation type for routing comprehension-reader refusals into the
teaching corridor. Frozen dataclass with sha256 evidence_hash computed
from deterministic canonical bytes (mirrors state.to_canonical_bytes
pattern). Includes SUB_TYPE_FOR_OPERATOR mapping table covering all 13
missing_operator values in the current audit artifact.
Wave 1 only — no runtime mutation, no teaching-store integration, no
admission path. Downstream W2-A/B/C/D type-import from this module.
* feat(ADR-0167/W2-C): domain discriminator + cross-domain audit
- Links to the audit doc: docs/handoff/ADR-0167-W2C-cross-domain-audit.md
- Inventory details: 5 construction sites, 8 consumption sites
- Verification: 0 cognition test files were modified; all tests are green
- Downstream partition work flagged: contemplation indexing (in teaching/contemplation.py) and replay gate (in teaching/proposals.py)
Foundation type for routing comprehension-reader refusals into the
teaching corridor. Frozen dataclass with sha256 evidence_hash computed
from deterministic canonical bytes (mirrors state.to_canonical_bytes
pattern). Includes SUB_TYPE_FOR_OPERATOR mapping table covering all 13
missing_operator values in the current audit artifact.
Wave 1 only — no runtime mutation, no teaching-store integration, no
admission path. Downstream W2-A/B/C/D type-import from this module.
* docs(ADR-0167): audit-as-teaching-evidence (math reader → contemplation wire)
Scoping ADR for Brief 11D Candidate E. Routes math-reader refusal audit
rows into the existing contemplation/HITL teaching corridor as a new
candidate source (`MathReaderRefusalEvidence`).
Key decisions:
- Evidence-only — never directly admits a math fact; only ratification
through HITL queue can change runtime behaviour
- Five sub-types proposed (Lexical / Frame / Composition / Reference /
Slot claims) mapping to the audit taxonomy
- Scope first to LexicalClaim — lowest-risk, highest-count
- Six open questions called out for the implementation ADR
ADR-0166 three-question test passes; implementation passes only when
the six open questions are answered with LexicalClaim-first scope.
No code in this PR.
* docs(ADR-0167): parallel work plan — 6-PR/3-wave dispatch across 5 model operators
## Summary
Lexicon-entry closure track per Brief 11D recommendation (Candidate A,
sub-PR 1). Adds 12 drain_token lemmas + 1 alias to `en_core_math_v1`.
`unknown_word` row strictly decreases: **11 → 5** (-6 cases moved past
the first-pass vocabulary gap). `wrong == 0` preserved. `correct` does
not move because admitted=0 (the unblocked cases now refuse at
downstream frames — real new work becoming visible, not regression, per
Brief 11 §Gate 1).
## Additions (all category=drain_token)
| Lemma | Surfaced from |
|-----------|----------------------------|
| along | case 0049 (3rd-wave) |
| animals | case 0040 (3rd-wave) |
| decrease | case 0005 |
| jacks | case 0024 (jumping jacks) |
| length | case 0006 (3rd-wave) |
| previous | case 0006 |
| reach | case 0015 |
| stray | case 0040 |
| too | case 0039 |
| uphill | case 0049 |
| which | case 0001 |
| your | case 0001 (3rd-wave) |
| weight → weights (alias) | case 0021 |
All classified as `drain_token` (the only category that cannot open a
frame and therefore cannot create wrong admissions per Brief 11
§"correct-count greed" doctrine). Reclassifying any as
accumulation/depletion/transfer verbs would risk wrong>0 by opening a
malformed operation_frame.
## wrong=0 verification
- `assert audit_problem(case_0050)` returns `ReaderRefusal` at
sentence_index 0 (pinned by `test_hazard_case_0050_remains_refused_pre_frame`)
- 50-case audit: `admitted=0, refused=50` (pinned by
`test_no_case_admits_after_lexicon_closure`)
- No reader runtime changes; pack-only mutation in a single
per-category source file
- Manifest checksum unchanged: source-file edit doesn't regenerate the
compiled `lexicon.jsonl`; loader reads per-category sources for
alias-aware entries (see `generate/comprehension/lexicon.py:127`)
## Test plan
- 11 new tests in `tests/test_brief_11b_step2_lexicon.py`:
- 4 pack-additions pinning (categories, provenance, aliases, sort order)
- 4 reader-effect / hazard tests (admitted=0, case 0050 refused,
unknown_word row strictly decreased, manifest checksum unchanged)
- 2 loader-integrity tests (new lemmas + aliases resolve through
`load_lexicon` → `lookup`)
- 12 existing tests in `tests/test_brief_11b_audit_artifact.py` pass
(taxonomy counts updated to post-step-2 values)
- 23 existing tests in `tests/test_brief_11_audit.py` pass
## Hard invariants preserved
- `wrong == 0` — no admissions, no frame-opener miscategorisation
- ADR-0166 — no new canonical eval lanes; existing
`gsm8k_math/train_sample/v1/` artifact updated in-place
- No teaching-store mutation; pack mutation is explicit, single-file,
reviewed
- Manifest checksum unchanged (compiled lexicon.jsonl byte-identical)
## Follow-up
- 3 lexicon_entry refusals remain (case 0001 '+', case 0040 'sees',
case 0049 'path'). Not addressed in this PR: '+' is an arithmetic
literal (would change semantics of drain), 'sees' and 'path' have
many other downstream barriers. Address with next-bottleneck PR.
- The 6 cases now refusing at later frames feed directly into Brief
11D Candidate A sub-PR 2 (which bottleneck class to attack next).
Per Brief 11B-step-2 §Hard constraints: no safe runtime/pack change lifts
any of the 8 pre_frame_filler_sentence cases without violating wrong=0.
This PR publishes the verb-classification analysis as documentation and
leaves the reader runtime and en_core_math_v1 pack unchanged.
Per-case classification:
- 0002 (splits): drain_token; honest blocker is compound_numeric_literal
- 0016 (traveled): drain_token; honest blocker is multi_quantity_composition
- 0025 (go/picking): drain_token; no quantity in sentence (true filler)
- 0028 (opens): drain_token; no quantity (true filler)
- 0030 (decides/go): drain_token; no quantity (true filler)
- 0035 (decided/split): drain_token; no quantity (true filler)
- 0036 (studying): drain_token; no quantity (true filler)
- 0050 (does): modal_aux; HAZARD — naive drain produces wrong>0
because next sentence admits Operation(mark, add, 3, songs)
while the answer requires frequency-by-duration aggregation
(every other day for 2 weeks); blocker is out of scope.
Post-skip simulation: even with the offending sentence elided, every
case still refuses on a downstream bottleneck (lexicon_entry,
pronoun_resolution, unit_binding, fraction_percentage_literal). Zero
lifts are available in Brief 11B-step-2 scope.
wrong=0 verification: no change to lifecycle.py / lexicon.py / audit.py /
en_core_math_v1/**; parent invariants from test_brief_11b_audit_artifact
continue to hold (admitted=0, refused=50, wrong_count=0).
Tests: 11 new tests in tests/test_brief_11b_step2_verb_classification.py
pinning the 8-case enumeration, post-skip refusal taxonomy per case,
hazard case 0050 remaining refused pre-frame, and the 50-case
admitted=0/refused=50/wrong=0 invariant.
Closes the Brief 11 sequence with a decision artifact (not a roadmap)
selecting the next capability after GSM8K Phase 2 reader closure.
Four candidates compared against ADR-0166's three-question test:
- A. Continued GSM8K operator closure
- B. Cross-domain reader generalization
- C. Tool-use trace integration
- D. Workbench demo hardening
Recommendation: continued GSM8K operator closure, starting with the
`lexicon_entry` row of the Brief 11B audit. The only candidate that
passes Q1/Q2/Q3 cleanly today and has an explicit Round-3 finish line.
Docs-only. No code, no test, no eval, no pack change.
## Summary
PR 11B in the Brief 11 sequence. Closes the missing-operator inference gap
left by 11A (#343) and ships the per-case audit artifact that Brief 11 §Gate 2
identifies as "the main Brief 11 artifact."
## Why this PR does NOT touch the reader runtime
The naive closure fix for `pre_frame_filler_sentence` (drain
`statement_terminator` at pre-frame) lifts 2 cases from refused → admitted
but creates a `wrong > 0` hazard on `gsm8k-train-sample-v1-0050`:
```
Mark does a gig every other day for 2 weeks. For each gig, he plays 3 songs.
... How many minutes did he play?
```
With the drain enabled, the reader admits `Operation(mark, add, 3, songs)`
with unknown unit `minute` and would project to a wrong answer. The stricter
variant (`pending_entity_ref is None` + no quantities) fires on 0 of the 11
candidate cases. Per Brief 11 §"Failure modes to avoid §1 — Correct-count
greed," this PR rejects both variants and routes the closure fix to a
follow-up that adds the required verb vocabulary or sentence-intent
classifier.
## Deliverables
- `generate/comprehension/audit.py` — three new missing-operator labels:
- `pre_frame_filler_sentence` (8 cases)
- `descriptive_frame_question` (2 cases)
- `question_frame_slot` (1 case)
Closes the 11-case `None`-operator gap left by 11A.
- `evals/gsm8k_math/train_sample/v1/audit_brief_11.json` — per-case audit
artifact pinned by tests.
- `evals/gsm8k_math/train_sample/v1/audit_brief_11.md` — narrative summary
including the rejected-fix design tension and ranked Brief 11B-step-2
backlog.
- `tests/test_brief_11b_audit_artifact.py` — 12 tests pinning the new labels,
the per-case artifact, the wrong=0 invariant, and the refusal taxonomy.
## Bottleneck taxonomy (after Brief 11B labelling)
| missing_operator | count | category |
|-------------------------------|------:|------------------------|
| quantity_extraction | 9 | incomplete_operation |
| lexicon_entry | 9 | unknown_word |
| multi_quantity_composition | 8 | incomplete_operation |
| pre_frame_filler_sentence | 8 | unexpected_category |
| pronoun_resolution | 3 | unresolved_pronoun |
| fraction_percentage_literal | 3 | unexpected_category |
| unit_binding | 3 | unattached_quantity |
| descriptive_frame_question | 2 | unexpected_category |
| (others, 1 each) | 5 | various |
## Test plan
- 12 new tests in `tests/test_brief_11b_audit_artifact.py` pass
- 23 existing 11A tests in `tests/test_brief_11_audit.py` pass
- No runtime changes; reader byte-identical to main
## Hard invariants preserved
- `wrong == 0` — no runtime change, no new admissions
- ADR-0166 — no new canonical eval lanes added; existing
`evals/gsm8k_math/train_sample/v1/` artifact set extended
- No teaching store / pack mutation
## Follow-up
- **11B-step-2** — verb-vocabulary expansion or sentence-intent classifier
for `pre_frame_filler_sentence` (8 cases). See audit_brief_11.md §"design
tension" for the rejected one-line variants and why they fail wrong=0.
- **11C** — existing-lane capability snapshot (still gated on 11B-step-2 or
another closure pass).
Extend the comprehension reader from question-only scope to whole-
problem scope. Phase 1 (Brief 8 / #326) implemented question_frame;
this brief implements initial_state_frame, operation_frame, and
descriptive_frame, plus finalize() projection into a strict
ADR-0115 MathProblemGraph.
Architecturally correct under ADR-0164.3; not yet productive on
GSM8K train_sample. Below-floor measurement documented; specific
bottlenecks tabled for Phase 2.1 follow-up.
What landed
- Frame-opener dispatch in lifecycle.py for the three new statement
frames, plus rule handlers (_rule_op_*, _rule_preframe_*,
_rule_descriptive_*).
- finalize(state) -> MathProblemGraph | ReaderRefusal: pure
projection with closure checks (entity registry non-empty,
unknown target bound, every op/initial references a known entity,
Decimal precision projects losslessly).
- _classify extended to 3-tuple (category, surface, decimal_value)
with possessive strip retry. Brief 8.2's sentence-initial
lookup-first + gender-skip preserved AND extended to mid-sentence
(gender is enrichment everywhere, never admission).
- Whole-problem coexistence dispatch in math_candidate_graph.py
(config.comprehension_reader_questions=True): reader attempts the
whole problem; on any ReaderRefusal falls through to existing
regex parser. All-or-nothing per the brief.
- Lexicon expansion (carried into renamed proper_noun_gender_*
files): +2 accumulation_verb (adopt, invest), +2 currency_unit_noun
(dollar, cent), +6 capacity_verb (fill, lift, play, work, finish,
drive), +5 female names (allison, brooke, jan, marion, sidney),
+14 male names (bart, fernando, georgie, jake, jed, jeremie, jose,
orlando, rex, rudolph, steve, troy, xavier, yun), +numerous
count_unit_noun, drain_token, time_unit_noun.
- ADR-0164.4-phase2-statement-frame-reader.md — the architectural
rationale and acceptance contract.
Measurement (reader_phase2_delta.json):
flag-OFF: correct=3 refused=47 wrong=0
flag-ON: correct=3 refused=47 wrong=0
delta: 0/0/0
Below the brief's floor of correct >= 4. Architecture is sound — the
reader admits cases as graphs when the structure resolves, refuses
cleanly otherwise, preserves wrong=0 across both flag states.
Bottleneck table (from per-case attribution):
count refusal_class dominant cause
----- ---------------------- ------------------------------------
18 incomplete_operation multi-quantity ops; no-quantity op
11 unknown_word "hundred", "presently", "one-hour",
non-math verbs (compound numerics,
lexicon gaps)
6 unexpected_category fraction / percentage literals;
multi-subject sentences
6 unresolved_pronoun "them", "their", "his" with no
compatible entity
5 unattached_quantity quantity never bound to a unit
1 no_question_target question parsed but slot never set
Closing the gate to mixed-bounded [4, 24] is Phase 2.1 scope: extend
composition rules for multi-quantity ops, add fraction/percentage
primitives (per ADR-0164.1 amendment), expand lexicon for the
remaining unknown_word cases, extend pronoun resolution.
Invariants preserved
- wrong = 0 in both flag states ✓
- flag-OFF byte-identical to today ✓
- determinism (50/50 identical runs) ✓
- Capability axes G1-G5, S1 unchanged ✓
- Reader tests: 19 (Phase 2) + 18 (Phase 1, post-update) + 53 (pack)
+ 76 (lexicon + primitives) = 166 specific to this change; all pass
- core test --suite smoke -q: 67 passed
Rebase note
This PR was authored against an older base; rebased onto current
main to incorporate #333 (Brief 8.2 universal proper_noun_token
primitive) and #334 (ADR-0166 measurement discipline). The rebase
required:
- Lexicon files renamed proper_noun_entity_* -> proper_noun_gender_*
(with the Phase 2 additions merged into the gender_* files)
- Compiled lexicon.jsonl unchanged from #333's 207-entry state
(Phase 2's per-category additions are runtime-visible via the
source loader, not via the compiled file)
- _classify reconciled with Brief 8.2's sentence-initial dispatch +
Phase 2's 3-tuple decimal-value return
- All dispatch tables and category checks updated to reference
proper_noun_token (singular) instead of proper_noun_entity_{f,m}
- Three Phase 1 test expectations updated to reflect Phase 2
behavior (proper noun at position 0 now opens statement pre-frame
instead of refusing; pronoun resolution applies per ADR-0164.2)
Per ADR-0166's three-question test, this PR is honest measurement:
capability exists, at least one case admits, lane distinguishes
presence from absence — which the bottleneck table demonstrates.
Refs ADR-0164.3 §Phasing Phase 2, ADR-0164.1 amendment (Brief 8.2),
ADR-0166 §"Mixed (notable but not blocking)" — except here, below
floor.
Add the fourth governing principle to the family of structural-
invariant ADRs (alongside ADR-0114a anti-overfitting, ADR-0165 regex
scope rule, CLAUDE.md versor invariant). The rule, stated negatively:
do not author eval lanes ahead of the operators those lanes test, and
do not expand the eval surface ahead of the capability that produces
signal on it.
Three-question test for new eval lanes:
1. Does the capability this lane probes exist on main today?
2. Has at least one case admitted end-to-end through that capability?
3. Will running this lane distinguish capability-presence from
capability-absence?
A "no" on any defers the lane until the capability lands. Tier 3 TBD
rows are data debt; running existing lanes to populate them is
permitted (snapshot of current capability) but is NOT a substitute for
capability work.
Why now: a strategic-analysis exchange this session proposed authoring
spatial_geometry_ood, historical_sequence_ood, and other new lanes
while GSM8K-math sits at 3/47/0 and the comprehension reader (ADR-0164)
is mid-build. The proposal's "most impactful next commit is to run all
Tier 3 lanes" framing would have generated noise (lanes refusing
uniformly because their underlying operators don't exist) rather than
the diagnostic signal that justifies prioritization. ADR-0166 mechanizes
the constraint that prevents that pattern.
Session log SESSION-2026-05-27-tier3-sequencing.md captures the
narrative: what the analysis got right (geometry-first as strategic
bet, sequencing instincts), what it missed (GSM8K-math treated as
solved; comprehension reader pivot not in context), and the honest
re-sequence (Brief 10 first; Tier 3 snapshot in parallel; cross-domain
transfer after verifying whether the reader IS the requested
structural-pattern recognizer under a different name).
The session also surfaced a mid-flight diagnostic from PR #332: the
actual GSM8K bottleneck is the ADR-0163 recognizer injector emitting
incomplete graphs, which the reader correctly refuses to admit
(wrong=0 by construction via the new guard). Brief 10 (Phase 2 reader)
dominates here because it replaces the inadequate injector surface
entirely.
No code changes. ADRs only.
Refs ADR-0114a, ADR-0165, CLAUDE.md §"Non-Negotiable Field Invariant".
ADR-0164.1 amendment: replace name-whitelist entity admission with a
universal lexeme primitive that recognizes any capitalized token as a
proper noun. The gender-coded name lists are demoted from admission
criterion to enrichment-only lookup. A name outside the curated lists
still admits cleanly with gender="unknown" — ADR-0164.2's pronoun
resolution rules handle the unknown case via single-salient fallback
or refuse with ambiguous_pronoun_referent.
Universal at the primitive layer: the new proper_noun_token primitive
is domain-agnostic. It sits in the shared PRIMITIVE_REGISTRY and is
available to every current and future reader (math, narrative,
code-comment, multi-lingual). The math reader is its first consumer.
Pattern: ^[A-Z][A-Za-z'-]*[a-z][A-Za-z'-]*$
- requires capitalized first letter
- requires ≥1 lowercase letter (rejects all-caps acronyms)
- allows internal apostrophes (O'Brien) and hyphens (Mary-Anne)
- matches "Tina", "Bob", "Marnie", "McDonald" — rejects "TINA",
"123", "$5.00" (those go to their own primitives)
Sentence-initial lookup-first dispatch (lifecycle._classify):
- At token_index == 0: lookup() first, skipping proper_noun_gender_*
categories (treated as not-found so the primitive can fire). If
lookup misses, primitive scan picks up novel names. Inverts the
question from "is this a name?" to "is this a known common word?"
- At token_index > 0: primitive-first with UNIT_CATEGORY_TOKEN ceding
to operational lexicon for currency_unit_noun overrides.
Lexicon rename (per-category source files):
- proper_noun_entity_female.jsonl -> proper_noun_gender_female.jsonl
- proper_noun_entity_male.jsonl -> proper_noun_gender_male.jsonl
Compiled lexicon.jsonl: rename the two semantic_domain tags; drop
"marnie" (was only in proper_noun_entity_female, now absent from
the gender-coded sources). Net: 208 -> 207 entries. New manifest
checksum: 1fb9b0d790258736267d528e8e8a2436ce88b9ce690805fe2813ba077861ba2a
New helper gender_of_proper_noun(surface, lexicon) returns
Literal["female","male","neuter","unknown"] — pure enrichment lookup,
never gates admission.
Measurement (reader_phase1_plus_proper_noun_delta.json):
- pre-primitive baseline: correct=3 refused=47 wrong=0
- post-primitive measurement: correct=3 refused=47 wrong=0
- No regression on wrong=0
- No net admission increase observed in this train-sample harness;
the architectural value is for future text outside the curated
gender lists (Sonnet's #332 expanded those to cover GSM8K names).
Tests:
- test_lexeme_primitives.py: registry count 8 -> 9, proper_noun_token
fires + variants (Bob, Marnie, McDonald, O'Brien, Mary-Anne),
numeric/all-caps refusals, numeric-literal still wins overlap on "123"
- test_reader_question_frame.py: 5 new tests for sentence-initial
dispatch + unknown-gender pronoun resolution + novel-name admission
via primitive (Zelda)
- test_en_core_math_v1_pack.py: category counts updated; mutual-exclusion
between gender_female and gender_male preserved; total 208 -> 207
- test_lexicon.py: category list + lookup assertion updated to renamed
proper_noun_gender_female
- test_proper_noun_primitive_universality.py: new test module asserting
domain-agnostic property of the primitive
Validation:
- pack + lexicon + primitive tests: 147 passed
- reader + universality tests: 22 passed
- smoke lane: 67 passed
Closes the engine_state question by leaving those files untracked
(repo discipline: runtime artifacts never enter PRs).
Refs ADR-0164.1 amendment, ADR-0164.2 §EntityRegistry, ADR-0165
§Legitimate uses (the new primitive passes the three-question test).
Phase A — RuntimeConfig flag:
core/config.py: adds `comprehension_reader_questions: bool = False`
Default OFF preserves byte-identical behaviour with today.
Phase B — Hybrid wiring in candidate-graph path:
generate/math_candidate_graph.py:
- _try_reader_for_question() dispatches to the comprehension reader
BEFORE the regex question parser; refusal falls through to regex
- reader_trace: tuple[str, ...] field on CandidateGraphResult captures
JSON-encoded admit/fallthrough events for audit
generate/comprehension/lifecycle_runtime_adapter.py (new):
- build_problem_state_from_candidates(): converts regex-parser output
to ProblemReadingState for the reader's pronoun-resolution step
- invoke_reader_for_question(): tokenises sentence, drives lifecycle
- project_to_candidate_unknown(): QuestionTargetSlot → CandidateUnknown
- trace-event constructors for admit and fallthrough
Phase C — Capability-axis regression:
All existing tests pass with flag OFF and ON; zero new regressions.
Two pre-existing failures on main are unrelated to this PR.
Phase D — GSM8K train_sample measurement:
evals/gsm8k_math/train_sample/v1/runner.py: --use-reader flag triggers
baseline-off + reader-on runs and writes reader_phase1_delta.json
evals/gsm8k_math/train_sample/v1/reader_phase1_delta.json (new):
baseline-off: correct=3 refused=47 wrong=0
reader-on: correct=3 refused=47 wrong=0
delta: all zeros — Mixed result expected (Phase 2 scope)
wrong=0 invariant preserved in both modes.
Phase E — Coexistence tests:
tests/test_reader_coexistence.py (new): 13 tests covering
flag-OFF byte-identity, flag-ON determinism, wrong=0 invariant,
trace shape validation, Brief-8 target admission, and fallthrough
preservation for unknown-unit words.
Admission gate result: Mixed (correct=3, below the ≥10 bar).
All statement-side barriers remain in place; Phase 2 (reader for
statement sentences) is required to drive correct≥10. Documented in
reader_phase1_delta.json and train_sample/v1/runner.py docstring.
Adds the three lifecycle functions for the incremental compositional
reader per ADR-0164.3 §Lifecycle API:
- begin_sentence(problem_state, source_text_offset) -> SentenceReadingState
- apply_word(sentence_state, problem_state, word) -> SentenceReadingState | ReaderRefusal
- end_sentence(sentence_state, problem_state) -> ProblemReadingState | ReaderRefusal
Phase 1 scope is question sentences only. The update rules for the
question_frame live in a single readable table (_QUESTION_FRAME_RULES);
statement-side frames (initial_state_frame, operation_frame,
descriptive_frame) refuse with a Phase-2 diagnostic.
The five Brief-8 GSM8K target question sentences (0007, 0017, 0027,
0036, 0043) produce valid QuestionTargetSlot outputs end-to-end.
_interface_stubs.py provides a thin, functional surface for the
lexeme-primitive scanner (Brief 6) and lexicon loader (Brief 7) so
this PR does not block on them. The stub honours the en_core_math_v1
pack entries and adds a closed Phase-1 supplemental vocabulary marked
for fold-in to the pack once Briefs 6/7 land.
Tests cover determinism (byte-equal canonical bytes), the five GSM8K
target sentences with expected (entity, unit_class, kind) triples,
all token-level and sentence-level refusal modes, and lifecycle
invariants (registry preservation, sentence_index advance).
Stacked on feat/state-two-level-split (PR #323) per ADR-0164.3
§Naming — state types live in state.py.
Adds generate/comprehension/lexeme_primitives.py with the eight seed
primitives specified by ADR-0164.1:
decimal-currency-literal (priority 10)
currency-literal (priority 20)
percentage-literal (priority 30)
fraction-literal (priority 40)
time-amount-literal (priority 50)
ordinal-literal (priority 60)
mass-noun-token (priority 70)
numeric-literal (priority 100)
LexemePrimitive and LexemeMatch are frozen/slots dataclasses. scan()
runs primitives in priority order and returns the first hit wrapped in
a MappingProxyType over sorted-key extracted_values for canonical-bytes
stability. All patterns use explicit space characters ([ ]?, [- ]?) not
\s so the ADR-0165 compliance invariant holds.
55 tests cover: construction invariants, canonical fires (each
primitive on its own example), overlap precedence ($18.00, 1/2, 50%),
refusal on Tina/empty/verbs, determinism, sorted-key stability, and
the ADR-0165 compliance smoke test.
Ports the closed-set vocabulary from generate/math_candidate_parser.py and
generate/math_roundtrip.py into a new language pack en_core_math_v1, following
the manifest-checksum discipline of en_core_cognition_v1 and en_core_relations_v1.
208 lemmas across 11 semantic categories:
- accumulation_verb (17) — from ADD_VERBS + _COND_ADD_VERBS + _EARNINGS_VERBS
- depletion_verb (15) — from SUBTRACT_VERBS + _COND_SUBTRACT_VERBS
- transfer_verb (7) — from TRANSFER_VERBS; give/send/return removed from depletion
- currency_unit_noun (8) — from _MASS_NOUNS
- entity_pronoun (4) — from _Q_SUBJECT_PRONOUN
- proper_noun_entity_female (62) — from _FEMALE_NAMES
- proper_noun_entity_male (76) — from _MALE_NAMES
- possession_verb (1) — have/has/had collapsed to bare lemma
- capacity_verb (13) — from _CAPACITY_VERBS (pick/pack/make exclusive here)
- question_open (2) — how, what
- residual_modifier (3) — left, remaining, after (attested in _COND_OP_Q_RE)
Pack is NOT wired into any runtime path (ADR-0164 Phase 3).
Source constants in math_candidate_parser.py are unchanged.
Deferred categories documented in manifest.json `deferred` field.
53 contract tests cover: checksum, per-category counts, provenance,
mutual-exclusivity invariants (acc ∩ dep = ∅, acc ∩ cap = ∅, dep ∩ xfer = ∅),
and ≥2 semantic domains per compiled entry.
Proposed sub-ADR under ADR-0164 resolving Open question #3.
- Reviews existing _resolve_question_entity heuristic in
generate/math_candidate_parser.py: refuse-on-ambiguity is correct,
but flat-document whitelist scan misses recency, kinship entities,
group antecedents from conjunction, and names absent from the
closed name lists.
- Specifies EntityRegistry as a field on ProblemReadingState
(ADR-0164.3 companion): append-only entries with canonical name,
inferred gender + source, mention positions, and relational anchor
for kinship entities.
- Two refusal-first ambiguity rules: ambiguous_pronoun_referent (R1,
recency tiebreaker within RECENCY_GAP_MIN refuses) and
unresolved_pronoun (R2).
- Worked walk-through on five GSM8K train_sample cases (0001 Tina,
0010 Yun/Marion, 0027 Malcolm, 0017 Jason/Eric, 0033 Rachel + kin).
- Three policy-vs-heuristic disagreements (D1 Jason/Eric him; D2
Georgie he via single-salient back-fill; D3 Aaron/Carson they via
GROUP entry) all turn refusals into correct resolutions, plus one
counter-direction D4 where new policy is principled-conservative.
- Preserves wrong = 0 by construction at every branch.
Closes ADR-0164 §Open question #1. Enumerates the 8-primitive seed
registry for en_core_math_v1 (decimal-currency, currency, percentage,
fraction, time-amount, numeric, ordinal, mass-noun-token), fixes the
record schema (name/pattern/emits/extracted_fields/provenance/priority),
documents pairwise overlap precedence with rationale, and records 4
rejected temptations (rate phrases, compound entities, question stems,
compound numerics) so the ADR-0165 grammar/lexeme boundary doesn't get
relitigated by future authors.
Two-level state model for the incremental comprehension reader:
ProblemReadingState (outer, problem-scoped) carries the entity registry,
accumulated initial possessions, accumulated operations, the unknown
target slot, and the pronoun resolution history. SentenceReadingState
(inner, sentence-scoped) carries the current frame, expectation,
pending quantities, pending entity reference, pending verb, lookback
window, and the partial frame payload under construction.
Lifecycle API (signatures only): begin_sentence, apply_word,
end_sentence. All three pure / deterministic / no I/O. apply_word
reads from problem_state for pronoun resolution per ADR-0164.2 but
does not mutate it; only end_sentence produces a new
ProblemReadingState that folds in the just-closed sentence's
contribution.
Closed READER_REFUSAL_REASONS vocabulary across three lifetime
groupings (token-level, sentence-level, problem-level), mirroring
ADR-0134's admissibility-reason discipline.
Canonical-bytes serialization for both state levels matches existing
trace_hash and MathProblemGraph.canonical_bytes discipline.
Sorted-keys JSON, compact separators, Decimal-as-string for
precision, optional-None fields omitted.
Worked example: gsm8k-train-sample-v1-0001. Sentence 1 ("Tina makes
$18.00 an hour.") admits as a rate apply_rate operation; sentences 2
and 3 refuse at the leading "If" with unexpected_category
(conditional_frame is Phase-1 out-of-scope). The example demonstrates
the state model — that even when the reader refuses, the state at
the moment of refusal is what makes the refusal honest, typed, and
file-able as a teaching candidate.
Termination predicate is_terminable + finalize specified pure: a
ProblemReadingState becomes a strict ADR-0115 MathProblemGraph only
when entity registry is non-empty, unknown_target_slot is bound,
every accumulated op/initial references a known entity, and every
partial payload projects losslessly into the strict types.
Naming reconciliation: ADR-0164's sketched ComprehensionState is the
inner level under this ADR (SentenceReadingState). Brief 5 will
produce both types.
No code. ADR doc only.
Refs ADR-0164 §Open question #4.
Replace the regex sentence-template front-end of the math admissibility
layer with an incremental compositional reader. Lock the architectural
boundary that regex is permitted only at the lexeme level, never as
sentence-structure templates.
ADR-0164 (Proposed) — Incremental Comprehension Reader. Word-by-word
state accumulation over a closed set of semantic categories, with the
operational lexicon living as a pack-shaped data artifact under
language_packs/data/en_core_math_v1/. Reader output type matches the
existing regex parser's output, so the binding-graph admissibility
(ADR-0132/0133/0134/0135), the solver (ADR-0116), and the verifier
(ADR-0117) stay unchanged. wrong=0 is preserved by construction —
the reader produces inputs to the existing admissibility gate, not a
bypass around it. Phased coexistence with the regex layer during
transition; regex sentence templates removed in Phase 3.
ADR-0165 (Proposed) — Regex Scope Rule. Structural invariant: regex
matches one piece of orthographic material with a closed rule
(currency literal, fraction literal, percentage, time-amount, closed
unit-noun sets), never a sentence shape. Lexeme-primitive registry is
closed and grown through the same contemplation -> proposal -> HITL
review corridor that grows vocabulary (ADR-0150 / 0152 / 0155 / 0161).
The engine acquires new recognition tools through reviewed teaching,
not through operator edits to parser code.
ADR-0163's diagnosis (front-end is the bottleneck) is reaffirmed.
Its Phase B-E prescription (regex DerivedRecognizers via
recognizer_match.py) is partially superseded by ADR-0164. ADR-0136
and its S-family (S.1 / S.2 / S.3 / S.4) have the same disposition:
regex sentence-template prescription superseded; empirical refusal
taxonomies and closed-set vocabulary preserved as lexicon seed.
The HITL corridor architecture is preserved; what flows through it
changes from regex recognizers to lexicon entries, categories, and
lexeme primitives.
Session log SESSION-2026-05-26-comprehension-reader.md captures the
narrative of how this decision emerged from the post-D.2 train-sample
baseline review (correct=3 refused=47 wrong=0, 34/47 refusals at the
question gate).
No runtime code changes. ADRs only.
First PR plumbing recognizer parsed_anchors into the candidate-graph as
typed CandidateInitial primitives. Scope limited to discrete_count_statement;
other five round-2 categories route to the round-2 skip-only fallback until
follow-up D.2.x PRs.
Five-layer wrong=0 safety net:
1. Matcher narrowness — _try_extract_discrete_count_anchor refuses on any
ambiguity (multi-subject, pronoun subject, non-possession verb,
multi-count, clause-split, unobserved counted_noun, unobserved
count_kind).
2. Extraction correctness — refusal-preferring; populated parsed_anchors
only when ALL narrowness rules hold.
3. Injection correctness — _initial_admissible gates every constructed
CandidateInitial; failure to ground returns () (under-admit).
4. Replay gate — propose-time admissibility_replay_gate auto-rejects any
matcher change that would lift GSM8K wrong count.
5. Multi-branch decision rule — injected candidate disagreeing with
another branch triggers refuse path.
Re-baseline (GSM8K train_sample v1):
- Old (#309 alone): correct=3 refused=47 wrong=0
- New (#309 + D.2 v1): correct=3 refused=47 wrong=0
- Empirical lift in v1 = 0 cases; framework operational. No GSM8K
train_sample case has a discrete_count statement that simultaneously
meets all narrowness rules AND is missed by the existing parser.
Bottleneck moves to other recognizer categories (D.2.2+).
Validation:
- tests/test_adr_0163_d2_discrete_count_injection.py: 34 passed
- tests/test_recognizer_match.py + test_candidate_graph_recognizer_wiring
+ test_admissibility_replay_gate: 27 passed
- adr_0131_* (G1..G5 + S1 wrong=0 invariant): 222 passed / 2 pre-existing
report-comparison failures / 3 skipped — byte-identical to pre-D.2
- Solver code: unchanged
Operator caveat: round-1's ratified discrete_count_statement spec is
unchanged. Matcher behavior on the spec's canonical_pattern has been
extended from detection-only to populated parsed_anchors. Re-ratification
is not required; if policy requires it on matcher-behavior changes, the
registry digest provides byte-stable provenance.
