The system block is now for content that does not change during a run.
Anything the run mutates renders as a user message — both because a
mutating system prefix defeats prompt caching and because models
under-weight system-folded content against the trailing user turn.
PromptRenderer: role alone decides the message type; the old
`layer == L0 ||` clause is gone. That clause was silently overriding
role on four packs (InferenceSummarizer, SemanticReviewerImpl,
CapabilityGapReflectorImpl, Talkie session-naming) which are L0+USER
prompts — they were rendering as a system-only request with no user
turn at all.
Re-roled SYSTEM -> USER, all mutable within a run:
recoveryTicket, remainingDelta, groundingFeedback, rejectionFeedback
(trailing slot), plus verifiedBaseline, promotedConcept, claimedTask,
clarificationAnswer, locked steeringNote, factSheet (inline, still
L0-pinned).
Left SYSTEM (immutable): systemPrompt, operatingGuidance,
schemaInstruction, projectProfile, operatorProfile, agentInstructions,
successfulPlanShape.
Trailing-slot scarcity guard: repairMandateSourceTypes joined ALL
matches, so a recovery stage on a retry with an unmet delta would stack
three competing mandates. Now a precedence list emits exactly one
(recoveryTicket > retryFeedback > groundingFeedback > rejectionFeedback)
with remainingDelta appended as the completion signal.
ContextClassifier keys STATIC on layer alone — L0 means pinned/never
pruned regardless of role, so the re-roled L0 entries don't fall through
to FREEFORM and get token-pruned.
Also fixes a stale ContextFeedbackTest assertion (expected a CAS hash
the producer deliberately stopped emitting) and a stale initialIntent
doc comment claiming L0/SYSTEM where the code says L1/USER.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The shipped Store 1 persisted repo-file descriptors in a new SqliteObservationStore
— a second, unsynchronized SQLite writer on the event-log DB (no WAL/busy_timeout,
one shared Connection across coroutines) holding a fact the log already carries. That
violates "the event log is the only source of truth" (inv #1/#8): an Observation is
just FileWrittenEvent.path + postImageHash + describe(bytes).render(), and render is a
pure function of content-addressed CAS bytes.
Replace the whole durable apparatus with an in-process memo (descriptorMemo, keyed on
repoRoot+path+contentHash) on the orchestrator, next to the existing artifactContentCache.
Rebuilt from the log on restart, disposable, no external store. Preserves the perf win
(skip CAS read + regex on repeat describes) with none of the concurrency/lock risk.
Deletes: ObservationStore/InMemoryObservationStore/SqliteObservationStore (+ tests),
InfrastructureModule.createObservationStore, the FileReadTool priming path (which never
hit anyway — it keyed on a workspace-relative path while every consumer looks up the
absolute FileWrittenEvent.path), the FileReadConfig/SessionOrchestrator plumbing, and
five orphaned build.gradle deps.
Store 2 (soft-confidence hints) unchanged — it was correct.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HMbPmZZjcXhR2crU82zZ8S
Adds ObservationStore (core:context) keyed on (repoRoot, path), an in-memory default and
a durable SqliteObservationStore (infrastructure:persistence), and wires it into the two
SessionOrchestratorArtifacts call sites that re-derive a SourceDescriptor from CAS bytes
on every call — a hit on matching content hash skips both the CAS read and the regex
extraction. First slice of docs/plans/2026-07-21-acr-knowledge-accretion.md (build order:
observations before fixes/plan-shapes).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HMbPmZZjcXhR2crU82zZ8S
A stage (configure_ethos_theme) looped forever re-writing an identical
postcss.config.js: file_write returned "written successfully" on a byte-
identical write, and the retry-feedback entry that says WHY it failed got
truncated out of context every turn, so the model cold-started on the same
wrong idea. CAS hashes leaked into its face from two sides too.
- SandboxedToolExecutor: a write whose result is byte-identical to disk now
returns "No change: … nothing was written" (+ noop=true) instead of a false
success signal. Uses the pre-image hashes already captured for reversibility.
- DefaultContextPackBuilder: pin "retryFeedback" in neverDropSourceTypes so the
failure reason + already-written-files list survives truncation.
- ContextFeedback: drop the opaque "— CAS <hash>" from the retry entry; path only.
- tool_output withheld until the session actually spills over-cap output to CAS
(StageConfig.ALWAYS_AVAILABLE_READ_TOOLS -> on-demand via sessionHasSpilledOutput),
so a hash-eating tool isn't advertised to every stage that never spills.
- Wrap 10 long lines in kernel to bring detekt back under maxIssues (99 -> 89).
Tests: infrastructure:tools (+2 no-op cases), core:{transitions,context,kernel} green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A successful file_write/file_edit echoes the whole file body (+ diff) back in
its tool result — up to ~30k chars, which pushed the traced Gemma4 request past
its context window. The write already happened and its full output is durable in
the event log/CAS; the model only needs a receipt that it landed. Replace each
exit=0 write result with a one-line receipt (path + elision marker) in the
context builder; reads, gate output, and nonzero-exit writes stay verbatim.
Derived-only pass over the transcript — authoritative events are untouched, so
it's replay-safe.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Threads reasoning_content across inference calls and journal renders, filters
markdown noise out of L3 repo-knowledge retrieval, adds PlanLinter H3 checks,
and tightens filesystem tool output/dir-listing behavior surfaced by prior
live QA (see project_readloop_campaign memory).
Context rework from the 2026-07-05 context-poisoning diagnosis (session
6ca236c4 read-loop):
- ContextBucket on ContextEntry: REQUIRED (task, constraints, needed
artifacts, failure feedback) is never pruned/compressed/dropped; the
build fails fast (RequiredContextOverflowException -> non-retryable
stage failure) if required alone exceeds the stage budget.
- OptionalCeilings: per-sourceType token caps for the optional block
(repoMap 1200, relevantFiles 1600, journal 800, profiles 400/600,
vocabulary 400), tuned for the 9-26B tier at 16k; enforced by
truncation (journal keeps its tail, others their head).
- Repo map is now a structural 'what exists' listing (alphabetical,
per-directory, no recency ranking, no symbols); .md/docs paths are
gated behind an explicit docs mention in the stage prompt — retrieval
hits remain the only other path for docs to enter context.
- file_written needs render as a manifest of ALL files the producing
stage wrote (projected from ArtifactContentStored -> ToolInvocation
-> FileWritten events), fixing the last-write-wins collapse; content
stays lazy behind file_read.
- Decision journal folds a stage's RETRY records into one summary line
once a later transition leaves that stage (render-time only).
- Dedupe retrieved-file lines in buildRelevantFilesEntry.
Found while live-QAing freestyle_planning on a 12B local model:
- list_dir tool: recursive, .gitignore-aware listing so weak models stop
flooding context with `ls -R` over node_modules/build/dist. Wired into
the fileRead toggle + advertised to the planner (architect_freestyle).
- ContextClassifier: assistantToolCall turns are STRUCTURED, so the token
pruner never shreds the model's own tool-call history — that was causing
amnesia loops (re-issuing calls it had already made).
- Retire instruction-doc LLMLingua pruning (DOC_SOURCE_TYPES emptied): it
fused load-bearing procedural text into unparseable soup. The static
block stays small by dropping CLAUDE.md at the loader instead.
- AgentInstructionsLoader: load only AGENTS.md, not CLAUDE.md — the latter
targets the outer assistant and polluted the agent's stage context.
- DefaultSessionReducer: WorkflowFailed flips session status to FAILED (was
stuck ACTIVE forever, so clients/approval loops never saw a terminal).
- ShellTool: run shell command lines (cd/&&/pipes) via `sh -c`; unrunnable
program is recoverable instead of an uncaught IOException killing the
stage; malformed argv (non-string/collapsed-array) rejected with guidance.
- llmlingua sidecar: cap force_tokens to max_force_token (big docs blew the
assert and 500'd, so doc pruning silently failed open).
Tests added/updated across all of the above.
The big win the pipeline missed: projectProfile + agentInstructions doc dumps
(~14k chars) are L0-SYSTEM -> STATIC -> never pruned, re-sent verbatim every turn.
Now pruned via the same TokenPruner at a gentler ratio (keep 60% vs 45% freeform),
protected spans (code fences/paths/keys) kept so directives survive. Gated by
TOKEN_PRUNE (level 3+); base systemPrompt stays verbatim.
ContextSummarizedEvent (registered) keyed on stable session sequence, not the
ephemeral pack ordinal, so replay reuses the recorded summary artifact and never
re-calls the LLM (invariants #6/#8). TierContextSummarizer mirrors
JournalCompactionService for freeform context (tool outputs/docs/retrieved text)
the journal path doesn't cover. ContextState + DefaultContextReducer fold the
event; reducer replay-safety unit-tested.
FactSheet derives load-bearing spans (newest-first, capped) and pins them as an
L0 SYSTEM entry never dropped by the compressor (level 7). Event-derived each
assembly, not a persisted file, per invariant #1. Strict budget allocation
(level 9) compresses structured groups before freeform so conversation can't
starve tool logs / artifacts.
Tool-calling loops were rendered as all-assistant-calls-then-all-tool-results
with the original task last, causing the model to re-issue the same tool call
indefinitely. Two stacked reorderings caused it:
- DefaultContextPackBuilder grouped entries by sourceType for per-type
compression, discarding a,t,a,t interleaving.
- PromptRenderer forced L1 (the live user turn) to render last, pushing the
task after the entire transcript.
- SessionOrchestrator's tool loop re-fed currentContext.layers.values.flatten()
(grouped by layer) each round, compounding the scramble.
Add a chronological `ordinal` to ContextEntry, stamped by the builder from
input order and restored after grouping/compression (the compressor preserves
entry identity, so ordinals survive). PromptRenderer now orders non-system
messages by ordinal, with the old L1-last layer priority kept only as a
tiebreak so router chat (ordinal 0) is unchanged. The orchestrator keeps a
running ordered accumulator instead of reading back the grouped pack.
Adds builder + renderer ordering regression tests.
P4-1: Wire steering to actually work (advisory-only):
- RouterFacade emits SteeringNoteAddedEvent via event store in STEERING mode
- SessionOrchestrator reads steering notes from event store and includes them
as ContextEntry objects (sourceType=steeringNote) in stage context packs
- Delete dead SteeringNote data class; single vocabulary = SteeringNoteAddedEvent
- Add optional validateSteering callback to DefaultRouterFacade for future
ValidationPipeline wiring (avoids cross-core dependency)
- Update RouterFacadeTest to assert event emission
P4-2: Router FACE — move hardcoded generation config:
- Add GenerationConfig field to RouterConfig with same defaults
- RouterFacade uses config.generationConfig instead of inline literals
- (Remaining P4-2 items: conversation persistence and coordination
semantics are design decisions requiring ADRs, deferred)
P2-1: Guard SessionId NPE with safe-call in SessionsReducer
P2-2: Remove 16 dead event classes + reducer branches; replace with live orchestration events in tests
P2-3: Standardize ChatInput divergences — guard CancelSession, single-arg ProtocolError
P2-4: Remove dead TuiToolRecord.diff and ToolDisplayStatus.REQUESTED
P2-5: Remove dead streamLive from SessionEventBridge
P2-6: Extract SessionsReducerContext data class for 6+ param method
P2-7: Replace StageId("none") sentinel with TypeId.NONE
P2-9: Add TypeId.random() factory on all type-alias IDs
P2-10: Add KDoc on schemaVersion documenting reserved-for-migration
P2-8: Verified RouterReducer string-template already correct (TypeId value class toString)
- GlobalStreamHandler.handleCreateGrant validates scope (SESSION/STAGE)
and sends ProtocolError to client on validation failure instead of
silent log.warn + drop.
- Derive event stageId directly from GrantScope type, removing
redundant stageIdForEvent tuple.
- SessionOrchestrator integrates ApprovalEngine to check active grants
before requesting user approval for T2+ tool calls.
- ContextEntry gains EntryRole (SYSTEM/USER/ASSISTANT/TOOL) field for
proper chat message role mapping.
- RouterContextBuilder.build is now suspend; uses Tokenizer for
accurate token estimation with fallback to character-based estimate.
- LlamaCppInferenceProvider maps EntryRole to ChatMessage role instead
of heuristic layer-based inference.
Implements the full conversational router facade: RouterState, RouterReducer,
RouterProjector, RouterRepository, RouterContextBuilder, RouterFacade, protocol
types, WebSocket wiring, infrastructure factory, and deterministic test suite.
Also fixes spec divergences found in post-implementation review:
- Add SteeringNote domain object to core:context (epic prerequisite)
- Rename RouterFacade.handleChat → onUserInput per spec interface contract
- Add in-memory ConcurrentHashMap conversation history to DefaultRouterFacade
- Make RouterRepository.getRouterState suspend
- Rename RouterConfig.keepLast → conversationKeepLast, fix defaults (6, 4096)
- Refactor InfrastructureModule.createRouterFacade to self-assemble internally
- Fix FileReadTool: allowedPaths was dead constructor param (@SuppressUnusedParameter);
now stored as private val and enforced in validateRequest
- Disable koverVerify on modules tested via testing/ submodules or with
hardware/integration dependencies (24 modules); build gate now passes clean
Deletes 21 Module.kt scaffolding objects that were never wired into any DI
registry. Removes unused imports across 8 production and 3 test files.
Restores StageExecutor, CyclePolicyResolver, PolicyValidation, and
ReplayContractTest — these are deferred features, not dead code.
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