core/tests/test_determination_estimation_lane.py
Shay 7cb826a548 feat(determine): calibrated disclosed estimation — the engine earns the right to guess (Step E)
The final AGI-spine step (A INSTRUMENT → B WIRE → C DEEPEN → D CLOSE → E ESTIMATION).
The engine may now SERVE a DISCLOSED estimate for a query it would otherwise refuse —
but only for a predicate-class that has measured itself reliable, and never as fact.

This executes the ADR-0206 §5 cognition-path widening: the bridge's LICENSE node
(reliability_gate.license_for), previously "built — not yet called from serving", is now
called. govern_response returns APPROXIMATE iff a genuine licensed Action.SERVE
LicenseDecision is passed (STRICT for every other input — so every existing serving call
site is byte-identical); shape_surface DISCLOSES the estimate as "[approximate] …".

Mechanism:
- generate/determine/estimate.py — a BLIND converse-guesser: told p(a,b), asked p(b,a),
  it commits the converse. It never reads the pack's symmetry metadata; whether the guess
  is right is MEASURED, not assumed.
- evals/determination_estimation/ — the gold lane: run_practice (sealed, ADR-0199) folds
  the converse-guesser over symmetric (sibling_of) vs directed (parent_of) cases, scored
  against the pack's graph.edge.symmetric truth (gold independent of the solver). The gate
  DISCRIMINATES: sibling_of earns SERVE (660 correct → Wilson floor 0.990046 ≥ θ_SERVE),
  parent_of does not (660 wrong → 0.0). The license is earned by VOLUME — 657 perfect
  commits is the exact θ_SERVE=0.99 threshold (656 is below).
- generate/determine/data/estimation_ledger.json — the ratified committed ledger,
  hash-verified on load (a hand-edited ledger raises RatifiedLedgerError); it IS the
  deterministic sealed-practice output (a GSM8K-style --check test pins this).
- chat/runtime.py — when a converse query is refused and the class holds a SERVE license,
  the disclosed estimate is surfaced through the bridge (gated by config.estimation_enabled,
  default OFF; only meaningful with accrue_realized_knowledge).

Invariants:
- wrong=0 by construction — an estimate is ALWAYS disclosed ([approximate]), never a silent
  commit (UNVERIFIED_POSSIBLE is never in APPROXIMATE's admissible set), and only a genuine
  ratified license widens (a forged {"licensed":True} dict / a PROPOSE license / an
  unlicensed SERVE all stay STRICT). Defense-in-depth: type-gate ∧ admissible-set ∧
  hardcoded disclosed state.
- never self-authored — ceilings stay at safe defaults (θ_SERVE=0.99); the engine cannot
  raise its own bar. The ledger is sealed practice, hash-verified.
- session/serving only — no corpus/pack/identity/proposal/vault mutation; the HITL teaching
  path is untouched. Deterministic; no clock/random.
- byte-identical for every non-E turn (the 2643 govern_response call passes no license).

Out of scope (separate ADR-0206 §5 PRs): the math-serving seam (select_self_verified,
touches the sealed metric), SITUATE (stakes), and the live FEED-BACK loop.

Verified green: smoke (90), architectural invariants (56), response_governance (321,
incl. the new license-gated widening test), the determination-estimation lane (12), and
the B/D/determine regression net. Four-lens adversarial review (disclosure/wrong=0,
calibration integrity, byte-identity, boundary/determinism): all held. Design:
docs/analysis/E-estimation-design-2026-06-06.md.
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"""Step E — the converse-guess estimator + its calibration gold lane.
The estimator is BLIND (never reads symmetry metadata); the reliability gate decides
licensing from MEASURED commitment precision. The load-bearing properties: the gate
DISCRIMINATES (a symmetric predicate's converse-guess earns SERVE; a directed one does
not), the SERVE license is earned by VOLUME (the Wilson floor binds at 657), and the
serving-side estimator fires only on a told converse.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
from dataclasses import replace as _dc_replace
from pathlib import Path
import pytest
from chat.runtime import ChatRuntime
from core.config import DEFAULT_CONFIG
from core.reliability_gate import N_MIN
from evals.determination_estimation import (
LICENSED_PREDICATE,
REFUSED_PREDICATE,
build_ledger,
load_symmetric_predicates,
reliability_at,
run,
)
from generate.determine.estimate import ConverseEstimate, converse_class_name, estimate_converse
from generate.meaning_graph.relational import comprehend_relational, load_relational_pack_lemmas
from generate.realize import realize_comprehension
from session.context import SessionContext
_HIGH = 10**9
@pytest.fixture(scope="module")
def vocab_persona():
rt = ChatRuntime(no_load_state=True)
return rt._context.vocab, rt._context.persona
@pytest.fixture(scope="module")
def rel_lemmas():
return load_relational_pack_lemmas()
def _ctx(vocab_persona) -> SessionContext:
vocab, persona = vocab_persona
return SessionContext(vocab=vocab, persona=persona, vault_reproject_interval=_HIGH)
def _tell_relational(text: str, ctx: SessionContext, lemmas) -> None:
realize_comprehension(comprehend_relational(text, lemmas), ctx)
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
# The gate discriminates (the whole point of E)
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
def test_gate_discriminates_symmetric_from_directed() -> None:
report = run()
assert report["gate_discriminates"] is True
licensed = report["classes"][converse_class_name(LICENSED_PREDICATE)]
refused = report["classes"][converse_class_name(REFUSED_PREDICATE)]
assert licensed["serve_licensed"] is True
assert refused["serve_licensed"] is False
# The symmetric class is right every time; the directed class is wrong every time.
assert licensed["tally"]["wrong"] == 0 and licensed["tally"]["correct"] > 0
assert refused["tally"]["correct"] == 0 and refused["tally"]["wrong"] > 0
def test_serve_license_is_earned_by_volume() -> None:
# Below the Wilson volume floor a PERFECT symmetric record is still NOT SERVE-licensed.
assert reliability_at(LICENSED_PREDICATE, 656) < 0.99
assert reliability_at(LICENSED_PREDICATE, 657) >= 0.99
# And below N_MIN no reliability is claimed at all.
assert reliability_at(LICENSED_PREDICATE, N_MIN - 1) == 0.0
def test_run_is_deterministic() -> None:
a, b = run(), run()
assert a == b
def test_gold_symmetry_matches_pack() -> None:
sym = load_symmetric_predicates()
assert LICENSED_PREDICATE in sym # sibling_of — graph.edge.symmetric
assert REFUSED_PREDICATE not in sym # parent_of — graph.edge.directed
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
# The serving-side estimator
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
def test_estimate_fires_only_on_a_told_converse(vocab_persona, rel_lemmas) -> None:
ctx = _ctx(vocab_persona)
_tell_relational("Alice is the sibling of Bob.", ctx, rel_lemmas)
# Told sibling_of(alice, bob); the converse query sibling_of(bob, alice) gets a guess.
est = estimate_converse(ctx, "sibling_of", "bob", "alice")
assert isinstance(est, ConverseEstimate)
assert est.answer is True
assert est.basis == "estimate_converse"
assert est.subject == "bob" and est.object == "alice"
assert est.told_structure_key # ties the guess to the realized fact
# No told converse → no guess (the estimator never invents evidence).
assert estimate_converse(ctx, "sibling_of", "carol", "dave") is None
def test_estimate_is_blind_to_symmetry(vocab_persona, rel_lemmas) -> None:
# The estimator commits the converse for a DIRECTED predicate too — being wrong
# there is exactly what the gate measures and refuses to license.
ctx = _ctx(vocab_persona)
_tell_relational("Alice is the parent of Bob.", ctx, rel_lemmas)
est = estimate_converse(ctx, "parent_of", "bob", "alice")
assert isinstance(est, ConverseEstimate) and est.answer is True
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
# E-2 — the ratified ledger artifact + serving-side license
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
def test_ratified_ledger_matches_sealed_practice() -> None:
# Provenance (the GSM8K-style --check): the committed artifact IS the deterministic
# sealed-practice output, not a hand-edited ledger.
from generate.determine.estimation_license import load_ratified_ledger
committed = load_ratified_ledger()
fresh = build_ledger()
assert {k: (t.correct, t.wrong, t.refused) for k, t in committed.items()} == {
k: (t.correct, t.wrong, t.refused) for k, t in fresh.items()
}
def test_serve_license_from_ratified_ledger() -> None:
from generate.determine.estimation_license import serve_license
assert serve_license(LICENSED_PREDICATE).licensed is True # sibling_of — earned SERVE
assert serve_license(REFUSED_PREDICATE).licensed is False # parent_of — never
assert serve_license("nonexistent_predicate") is None # no committed evidence → refuse
def test_tampered_ledger_is_rejected(tmp_path, monkeypatch) -> None:
# A hand-edited ledger (counts changed without the matching hash) must be REJECTED,
# never silently trusted — only the sealed-practice output is admissible.
import json as _json
import generate.determine.estimation_license as mod
from generate.determine.estimation_license import RatifiedLedgerError, load_ratified_ledger
good = _json.loads(mod._LEDGER_PATH.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
good["classes"][converse_class_name(REFUSED_PREDICATE)]["correct"] = 999 # forge a SERVE
forged_path = tmp_path / "estimation_ledger.json"
forged_path.write_text(_json.dumps(good), encoding="utf-8")
load_ratified_ledger.cache_clear()
monkeypatch.setattr(mod, "_LEDGER_PATH", forged_path)
try:
with pytest.raises(RatifiedLedgerError, match="content_sha256 mismatch"):
load_ratified_ledger()
finally:
load_ratified_ledger.cache_clear() # don't poison other tests' cached load
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
# E-3 — the runtime wire (chat turn → disclosed estimate, license-gated)
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
def _estimation_runtime(tmp_path: Path, *, enabled: bool = True) -> ChatRuntime:
cfg = _dc_replace(
DEFAULT_CONFIG,
estimation_enabled=enabled,
accrue_realized_knowledge=True,
persist_session_state=True,
)
return ChatRuntime(config=cfg, engine_state_path=tmp_path)
def test_licensed_converse_is_served_disclosed_approximate(tmp_path) -> None:
rt = _estimation_runtime(tmp_path)
rt.chat("Alice is the sibling of Bob.") # told sibling_of(alice, bob)
resp = rt.chat("Is Bob the sibling of Alice?") # converse — DETERMINE refuses
assert resp.reach_level == "approximate"
assert resp.surface.startswith("[approximate]") # DISCLOSED, never asserted as fact
assert "bob" in resp.surface and "alice" in resp.surface
def test_unlicensed_converse_stays_strict_refusal(tmp_path) -> None:
rt = _estimation_runtime(tmp_path)
rt.chat("Alice is the parent of Bob.") # told parent_of(alice, bob) — DIRECTED
resp = rt.chat("Is Bob the parent of Alice?")
# parent_of's converse-guess is not SERVE-licensed → no widening, honest refusal.
assert resp.reach_level == "strict"
assert not resp.surface.startswith("[approximate]")
def test_estimation_flag_off_is_strict(tmp_path) -> None:
rt = _estimation_runtime(tmp_path, enabled=False)
rt.chat("Alice is the sibling of Bob.")
resp = rt.chat("Is Bob the sibling of Alice?")
assert resp.reach_level == "strict"
assert not resp.surface.startswith("[approximate]")