core/tests/test_volume_honesty.py
Shay 13a4b05d62 test(reliability): volume-honesty invariant + distinct-evidence audit
Phase B of the curriculum-license-loop arc. Stacked on the ADR-0264 branch.

The invariant: conservative_floor is a one-sided Wilson lower bound and Wilson
assumes INDEPENDENT trials. CORE's pipeline is deterministic, so replaying an
identical case is not a second trial -- it is the same trial with a guaranteed
outcome. A ledger's `committed` count is an upper bound on its evidence; the
defensible figure is its distinct-decision count.

Phase B was scoped as a precaution for a curriculum producer that does not
exist yet. Running the instrument against the producers that DO exist found it
already violated:

  21 of the 25 ratified deduction_serve bands do not clear theta_SERVE=0.99 on
  distinct evidence. Three inflate 28 distinct cases into 720 committed
  (honest floor 0.8084 vs claimed 0.9909). deduction_serving_enabled was
  ratified ON 2026-07-24 and is live.

The estimation producer (ADR-0175) is clean -- 660 committed, 660 distinct,
zero repeats, evidently chosen just above the 657 a perfect record needs. So
this is a regression from a standard already established in the repo, not an
architectural gap. `claimed` is identical for all 25 deduction bands because
every band commits 720 with a perfect record: the gate sees 25
indistinguishable passes while honest floors span 0.8084..0.9909.

NOT REPAIRED. The ledger is SHA-sealed, ratified, and gating a live flag, so
re-sealing it is Shay's ratification, not a test's. wrong=0 still holds -- no
band answered anything incorrectly. What is not established is reliability at
the volume claimed. Measured, pinned in both directions, written down.

Added:
- core/reliability_gate/evidence.py -- pure measurement, imported by no serving
  path. volume_for_theta() DERIVES 657 from conservative_floor rather than
  restating it, so a WILSON_Z change cannot leave a stale literal behind.
- tests/test_volume_honesty.py -- 13 tests. AUDIT_SOURCES is checked against
  CAPABILITY_LEDGERS, so a new licensed capability cannot ship unaudited; the
  curriculum entry is a declared None that fails the moment its ledger exists.
  That is Phase C's forcing function against repeating the pattern.
- docs/research/distinct-evidence-audit-2026-07-25.md -- full audit + the open
  outcome-mix ruling for Shay.
- ADR-0264 R9 amended with the measured exposure.

Decision key is case TEXT deliberately: a tighter key (normalized atom) would
collapse spelling variants and report MORE inflation, so text-identity
under-reports and every number is a floor on the real gap.

Outcome mix is deliberately NOT pinned. ClassTally has no verdict axis, the
deduction producer already balances 240/240/240 by construction, and imposing
a per-verdict-class floor would retroactively fail all 25 bands on a criterion
no ADR has ratified (smallest per-band class count is 120). Recorded for a
ruling with numbers instead.

[Verification]: uv sync --locked on canonical CPython 3.12.13; in-worktree
smoke 569 passed (556 baseline + 13), deductive 285 passed. Registered in the
`smoke` curated suite -- not left to `full`, which gates nothing. Mutation-
checked: doubling CASES_PER_BAND -> 2 failed; reporting committed as distinct
-> 4 failed; gating on `claimed` instead of `honest` -> 3 failed; tree restores
to 13 passed.
2026-07-25 16:03:10 -07:00

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"""The volume-honesty invariant — practice volume must be distinct evidence.
ADR-0264 R9. `conservative_floor` is a one-sided Wilson lower bound, and Wilson
assumes independent trials. CORE's pipeline is deterministic, so replaying an
identical case is not a second trial — it is the same trial with a guaranteed
outcome. A ledger's ``committed`` count is therefore an upper bound on its
evidence, and the honest figure is its distinct-decision count.
This file is the specification of that invariant, written before the curriculum
practice producer exists (Phase C). It is also the audit instrument, because the
exposure S6 predicted in the abstract
(`docs/research/curriculum-volume-quantification-2026-07-24.md` §1) turned out to
be live and measurable in the deduction ledger — see
:data:`DEDUCTION_DISTINCT_EVIDENCE` and
`docs/research/distinct-evidence-audit-2026-07-25.md`.
Three producers back the three entries in `core.ratified_ledger.CAPABILITY_LEDGERS`:
- **estimation** (ADR-0175) — clean. 660 committed, 660 distinct, inflation 1.0.
``CASES_PER_CLASS = 660`` was evidently chosen just above the 657 a perfect
record needs, on distinct cases. This is the standard the other producers are
measured against, and it is why the deduction finding is a regression from an
established practice rather than a gap nobody had thought about.
- **deduction_serve** (ADR-0256) — 21 of 25 bands do not clear θ_SERVE on
distinct evidence; the worst three inflate 28 distinct cases to 720 committed.
Recorded, pinned, and NOT silently repaired: the ledger is SHA-sealed, ratified,
and gating a live flag, so changing it is Shay's ratification, not a test's.
- **curriculum_serve** (ADR-0262/0264) — producer unbuilt. The registry pin below
fails the moment it is built without an audit source, which is the forcing
function that stops Phase C from repeating the deduction pattern.
Deliberately narrow. This pins evidence *distinctness*. It does not pin outcome
mix — whether each verdict class needs its own volume is an open ruling recorded
in the research note, and imposing it here would retroactively fail all 25
deduction bands on a criterion no ADR has ratified.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import json
from collections.abc import Callable, Hashable
from pathlib import Path
import pytest
from core.ratified_ledger import CAPABILITY_LEDGERS
from core.reliability_gate import conservative_floor
from core.reliability_gate.evidence import (
SERVE_VOLUME_AT_THETA_099,
EvidenceAudit,
audit_band,
audit_bands,
below_floor,
format_report,
volume_for_theta,
)
REPO_ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1]
#: θ the sealed-practice ledgers are gated at (both ledger notes state it).
THETA_SERVE = 0.99
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Audit sources, one per licensed-ledger capability.
#
# Keyed by the SAME capability names as `CAPABILITY_LEDGERS` and checked against
# it below, so a new capability cannot be added to the manifest without either an
# audit source or an explicit declaration that its producer does not exist yet.
# A hand-copied list here would fall behind the manifest exactly the way the
# workbench grounding whitelist fell behind `GROUNDING_SOURCES`.
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
def _deduction_keys() -> dict[str, list[Hashable]]:
"""Decision keys per band for the deduction practice corpus.
The key is the case TEXT. Two cases with identical text are indisputably the
same decision, so text-identity *under*-reports inflation (a tighter key —
the normalized atom tuple — would collapse spelling variants and report
more). Under-reporting is the correct direction: the measured gap is a floor
on the real gap.
"""
from evals.deduction_serve.practice.gold import all_gold_problems
out: dict[str, list[Hashable]] = {}
for problem in all_gold_problems():
out.setdefault(problem.class_name, []).append(problem.payload["text"])
return out
def _estimation_keys() -> dict[str, list[Hashable]]:
from evals.determination_estimation import all_gold_problems
out: dict[str, list[Hashable]] = {}
for problem in all_gold_problems():
payload = problem.payload
key = repr(sorted(payload.items())) if isinstance(payload, dict) else repr(payload)
out.setdefault(problem.class_name, []).append(key)
return out
#: capability -> keys provider, or ``None`` when the producer is not built.
#: ``None`` is a declaration, not an omission: :func:`test_every_licensed_capability_has_an_audit_source`
#: accepts it only while the capability's ledger is genuinely absent.
AUDIT_SOURCES: dict[str, Callable[[], dict[str, list[Hashable]]] | None] = {
"estimation": _estimation_keys,
"deduction_serve": _deduction_keys,
"curriculum_serve": None, # Phase C — see module docstring
}
#: Measured 2026-07-25 at main @ `6ada6f7a`. Every band is 720 committed.
#: This is an EXPOSURE INVENTORY, not an approved baseline: 21 of these 25 do not
#: clear θ_SERVE=0.99 on distinct evidence. It is pinned so the exposure cannot
#: grow or drift unnoticed while the ratification question is open.
DEDUCTION_DISTINCT_EVIDENCE: dict[str, int] = {
"atomic": 98,
"categorical": 294,
"conditional_chain": 294,
"conditional_single": 294,
"disjunctive": 294,
"en_atomic": 474,
"en_conditional_chain": 720,
"en_conditional_single": 474,
"en_condmem_chain": 52,
"en_condmem_conditional": 60,
"en_condmem_disjunctive": 28,
"en_condmem_fused": 60,
"en_disjunctive": 720,
"en_exist_chain": 28,
"en_exist_negative": 28,
"en_exist_universal": 46,
"en_exist_witness": 35,
"en_member_atomic": 60,
"en_member_chain": 52,
"en_member_negative": 52,
"en_member_single": 60,
"en_verb_chain": 308,
"en_verb_fact": 660,
"en_verb_negative": 308,
"en_verb_universal": 660,
}
#: The four that DO clear on distinct evidence. Derived below, not restated.
_EXPECTED_CLEAN = {"en_conditional_chain", "en_disjunctive", "en_verb_fact", "en_verb_universal"}
@pytest.fixture(scope="module")
def deduction_audits() -> tuple[EvidenceAudit, ...]:
return audit_bands(_deduction_keys())
@pytest.fixture(scope="module")
def estimation_audits() -> tuple[EvidenceAudit, ...]:
return audit_bands(_estimation_keys())
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# 1. The instrument itself must be correct, and must fail under mutation.
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
def test_serve_volume_is_derived_from_the_pinned_floor() -> None:
"""657 must be computed, never trusted as a literal.
If `WILSON_Z` ever moves, a hard-coded 657 becomes silently wrong in every
doc and test that repeats it. This asserts the derivation and the boundary.
"""
assert volume_for_theta(THETA_SERVE) == SERVE_VOLUME_AT_THETA_099 == 657
n = SERVE_VOLUME_AT_THETA_099
assert conservative_floor(n, n) >= THETA_SERVE
assert conservative_floor(n - 1, n - 1) < THETA_SERVE, (
"657 must be the SMALLEST perfect-record volume clearing theta"
)
def test_audit_detects_padding() -> None:
"""The mutation check. Pad a corpus and the instrument must catch it.
Both corpora below commit exactly 720 cases with a perfect record, so
`conservative_floor` returns the *same passing number* for each and the gate
as it stands cannot tell them apart. One exercised 720 decisions; the other
exercised 28. That gap is the whole point.
"""
honest = audit_band("honest", [f"case-{i}" for i in range(720)])
padded = audit_band("padded", [f"case-{i % 28}" for i in range(720)])
assert honest.committed == padded.committed == 720
assert honest.claimed == padded.claimed >= THETA_SERVE, (
"the existing gate must be shown to see these as identical"
)
assert honest.distinct == 720
assert honest.inflation == 1.0
assert honest.max_repeat == 1
assert honest.clears(THETA_SERVE)
assert padded.distinct == 28
assert padded.inflation > 25
assert padded.max_repeat > 25
assert not padded.clears(THETA_SERVE)
assert padded.honest < 0.81
def test_a_single_repeat_is_enough_to_move_the_honest_floor() -> None:
"""No dead zone: one duplicate in an otherwise-exact-threshold corpus drops it."""
exact = audit_band("exact", [f"c-{i}" for i in range(657)])
assert exact.clears(THETA_SERVE)
# Replace one distinct case with a duplicate: same committed, 656 distinct.
padded = audit_band("padded", [f"c-{i}" for i in range(656)] + ["c-0"])
assert padded.committed == 657
assert padded.distinct == 656
assert not padded.clears(THETA_SERVE)
def test_tighter_keys_can_only_report_more_inflation() -> None:
"""Key choice is safe in one direction only, and that is the direction used.
A coarser key (case text) merges fewer cases than a finer one (normalized
atom). So an audit over text is a lower bound on the audit over atoms, and a
finding built on it cannot be an exaggeration.
"""
coarse = ["Does a require b?", "Does a requires b?", "Does c require d?"]
fine = ["(a,requires,b)", "(a,requires,b)", "(c,requires,d)"]
assert audit_band("coarse", coarse).inflation <= audit_band("fine", fine).inflation
def test_audit_rejects_impossible_counts() -> None:
with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="cannot exceed"):
EvidenceAudit(band="b", committed=5, distinct=6, max_repeat=1)
with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="no distinct keys"):
EvidenceAudit(band="b", committed=5, distinct=0, max_repeat=0)
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# 2. Every licensed capability must be audited — the anti-silence guard.
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
def test_every_licensed_capability_has_an_audit_source() -> None:
"""Derived from `CAPABILITY_LEDGERS`, so a new capability cannot slip past.
This is the forcing function for Phase C: the moment
`chat/data/curriculum_serve_ledger.json` exists, a ``None`` audit source
stops being an honest declaration and this fails.
"""
assert set(AUDIT_SOURCES) == set(CAPABILITY_LEDGERS), (
"AUDIT_SOURCES and CAPABILITY_LEDGERS disagree — a licensed capability is "
"unaudited, or an audit source names a capability that is not licensed"
)
for capability, source in sorted(AUDIT_SOURCES.items()):
if source is not None:
continue
ledger_path = CAPABILITY_LEDGERS[capability].path
assert not ledger_path.exists(), (
f"{capability}: ledger {ledger_path.name} now exists but has no audit "
f"source. Register one in AUDIT_SOURCES — a sealed ledger whose "
f"distinct evidence is unmeasured is exactly the ADR-0264 R9 exposure."
)
@pytest.mark.parametrize("capability", sorted(c for c, s in AUDIT_SOURCES.items() if s))
def test_audited_capability_bands_are_non_degenerate(capability: str) -> None:
"""Whatever a producer emits, it must be auditable and non-empty."""
audits = audit_bands(AUDIT_SOURCES[capability]()) # type: ignore[misc]
assert audits, f"{capability}: producer yielded no bands"
for audit in audits:
assert audit.committed > 0
assert audit.distinct > 0
assert audit.inflation >= 1.0
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# 3. The estimation producer — the clean standard the invariant is calibrated to.
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
def test_estimation_producer_has_no_inflation(
estimation_audits: tuple[EvidenceAudit, ...],
) -> None:
"""ADR-0175's producer commits distinct cases only, just above the threshold.
Recorded as a test because it is the existence proof that the invariant is
satisfiable and was in fact satisfied before ADR-0256's producer: 660
distinct cases against the 657 a perfect record needs.
"""
assert [a.band for a in estimation_audits] == [
"converse:parent_of",
"converse:sibling_of",
]
for audit in estimation_audits:
assert audit.committed == audit.distinct == 660, format_report(
estimation_audits, THETA_SERVE
)
assert audit.max_repeat == 1
assert audit.clears(THETA_SERVE)
assert below_floor(estimation_audits, THETA_SERVE) == ()
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# 4. The deduction producer — the measured exposure, pinned in both directions.
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
def test_deduction_distinct_evidence_matches_the_recorded_exposure(
deduction_audits: tuple[EvidenceAudit, ...],
) -> None:
"""Pins the exact inventory, so the exposure can neither grow nor drift.
Fails if a band's distinct count changes in EITHER direction. A drop is the
exposure worsening. A rise means someone improved a band — welcome, and the
inventory must then be updated deliberately rather than by a silently
loosening test.
"""
measured = {a.band: a.distinct for a in deduction_audits}
assert measured == DEDUCTION_DISTINCT_EVIDENCE, format_report(
deduction_audits, THETA_SERVE
)
for audit in deduction_audits:
assert audit.committed == 720, "CASES_PER_BAND changed — re-audit the ledger"
def test_deduction_exposure_membership_is_exactly_as_recorded(
deduction_audits: tuple[EvidenceAudit, ...],
) -> None:
"""Which bands fail is derived from the floor, not restated alongside it."""
failing = {a.band for a in below_floor(deduction_audits, THETA_SERVE)}
clean = {a.band for a in deduction_audits} - failing
assert clean == _EXPECTED_CLEAN, format_report(deduction_audits, THETA_SERVE)
assert len(failing) == 21, (
f"expected 21 bands below the distinct-evidence floor, found {len(failing)}"
)
def test_deduction_sealed_ledger_matches_the_producer_it_names(
deduction_audits: tuple[EvidenceAudit, ...],
) -> None:
"""The exposure is in the shipped artifact, not only in the generator.
Without this the finding could be dismissed as being about a generator that
the sealed ledger does not reflect. The ledger's committed counts are the
producer's committed counts, band for band.
"""
path = CAPABILITY_LEDGERS["deduction_serve"].path
ledger = json.loads(path.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
classes = ledger["classes"]
assert ledger["provenance"] == "evals.deduction_serve.practice.runner.seal_ledger"
produced = {a.band: a.committed for a in deduction_audits}
sealed = {name: tally["correct"] + tally["wrong"] for name, tally in classes.items()}
assert sealed == produced, (
"sealed ledger committed counts diverge from the producer — the audit "
"below would then be measuring something the engine does not read"
)
assert all(tally["wrong"] == 0 for tally in classes.values()), "wrong=0 must hold"
def test_recorded_exposure_is_declared_in_a_decision_record() -> None:
"""A pinned exposure with no decision record behind it is just a stale test.
Ties this file to the ADR that rules on it, so the inventory above cannot
outlive the reasoning that justified leaving it in place.
"""
adr = REPO_ROOT / "docs" / "adr" / "ADR-0264-negative-curriculum-and-premise-scope.md"
assert adr.exists(), "ADR-0264 governs this invariant and must be present"
text = adr.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
assert "R9" in text, "ADR-0264 must state the R9 volume-honesty rule"
research = REPO_ROOT / "docs" / "research" / "distinct-evidence-audit-2026-07-25.md"
assert research.exists(), (
"the measured audit must stay written down — a 21-band exposure recorded "
"only in a test's data structure is not a finding anyone will read"
)