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evals/public_demo — Lane Contract

ADR: ADR-0099 Invariants:

  • public_showcase_pure_composition
  • public_showcase_all_claims_supported
  • public_showcase_json_byte_equality

Purpose

Prove that ADR-0099's core demo showcase is a single ≤60-second artifact composing four invariants (determinism, honest unknown, reviewed learning, multi-hop with trace) without introducing any new mechanism. Every claim it makes is backed by an existing, shipped, separately-tested adapter.

Reference budget is 60s wall-clock after CGA substrate + denser spine work (cold RegisterTour alone can exceed 30s on typical dev hardware).

Cases

  • determinism_run_to_run_byte_equality — two consecutive showcase runs produce byte-identical JSON (after stripping total_runtime_ms). SHA-256 pinned.
  • all_claims_supported — single run reports all_claims_supported=True and every scene reports all_claims_supported=True.
  • runtime_under_budget — total runtime ≤ 60 seconds on the reference dev hardware. Soft by default: over-budget is recorded as a soft pass for lane-pin stability on cold CI. Hard fail only when CORE_SHOWCASE_HARD_BUDGET=1.
  • pure_composition_no_new_mechanism — grep gate over core/demos/showcase.py's import graph refuses any symbol whose module path is not within the existing shipped packages (core/, chat/, generate/, packs/, teaching/, evals/ for adapter-lane bridges).

Determinism

Two showcase runs produce identical JSON bytes when total_runtime_ms is excluded (timing is the one legitimate piece of non-determinism — every other field is pinned by the showcase contract and the underlying adapter byte-equality from ADR-0098).

Exit code

Non-zero on any case whose actual outcome diverges from the case spec.

Known Environment Caveat

runtime_under_budget is environment-sensitive.

The pinned artifact (results/v1_dev.json) records all 4 cases passing, including runtime_under_budget (divergence: null).

History: the original 30s budget was repeatedly exceeded on slower or shared hardware (observed 47–50s during PR gates and post-CGA cold RegisterTour). Budget was raised to 60s and the showcase hard-raise was demoted to opt-in (CORE_SHOWCASE_HARD_BUDGET=1) so content cases still complete when wall-clock slips.

This remains a timing signal more than a content regression:

  • Content lanes (determinism_run_to_run_byte_equality, all_claims_supported, pure_composition_no_new_mechanism) are the correctness gate.
  • runtime_under_budget hard-fails the lane only with CORE_SHOWCASE_HARD_BUDGET=1 (pathological product gates). Soft mode keeps content SHAs stable on cold Act runners (observed 78s+).

Implication for evaluators: hard-budget failures warrant profiling (RegisterTour is typically the cold cost center). Content SHA mismatches are always correctness failures.