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fix(tests): the config stand-in fell behind the real one, and ten arms silently no-opped (#4214)
CI 7124 Python tests: 14 failed. One root cause behind ten of them, and the
failure was the exact one `tests/helpers.writepath_cfg`'s docstring already
warns about in prose — while being unable to prevent this instance of it.

Three arms read their numbers out of that config dict inside a fail-open
`except`. A missing key raises where nobody sees it, so the arm becomes a
silent no-op, indistinguishable from the arm working and finding nothing. The
helper derives its keys from `retrieval_surfaces.SURFACES` precisely to stop
that — and `checkpoint_threshold` is deliberately NOT a surface, because
everything in that table is a floor/budget pair belonging to one query and the
checkpoint runs none. The derivation therefore could not see it, the write-path
rule arm died before `record_retrieval`, and ten tests went red at once.

Fixed at the helper, from the module constant, so there is still exactly one
literal and it lives in the product. And the guard the docstring claimed now
exists: `test_the_config_stand_in_carries_every_key_the_real_one_does`
compares the stand-in's key set against the real `get_writepath_config`, so
the next key that is not a surface fails loudly here instead of quietly
disabling an arm under test. `test_retrieval_surfaces`'s hand-written key list
gains it for the same reason, spelled out in place.

The other four were the contract widening itself: `checkpoint` is present on
every return of the tool arm, including its early ones, so four assertions
comparing the whole dict needed it. That key is deliberately always present —
the two arms feed one shell reader where an absent key and an empty one are
read the same, so the difference is invisible exactly where it would bite.

Verified statically: every cfg in the suite now routes through `writepath_cfg`
(test_write_path_trigger's local `_cfg` delegates to it), no hand-written
config dict survives, and the real config's eight keys match the stand-in's.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01821k5B3Ysecp9fNYs92Kuy
2026-09-21 00:30:20 -04:00

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"""The surface registry, and the identity the whole tuning story rests on (#4102).
WHY THIS EXISTS
Six arms used to own their own numbers: a settings key, a default, and a limit
that was usually a module constant nobody could change. That survived while the
values were shipped constants. It stops surviving once the operator's decision
is that the numbers MOVE:
"the floor should be chosen and adjusted by the model using it… the user
should be able to touch it but the model should be the thing handling it 9
times out of 10."
A tuning surface cannot be model-consistent across arms that each spell their
configuration differently, so the arms now read `{floor, budget}` from one
registry.
WHAT THIS PINS
1. **A surface's name IS its telemetry source.** This is the load-bearing
one. The tool that moves a floor and the table that reports what the floor
did have to be naming the same arm, and nothing in the type system says so
— `record_retrieval(source="pre_tool_rule")` is a string literal in a
different file. Renaming one without the other produces a surface that can
be tuned and cannot be measured, or measured and not tuned, and both fail
silently.
2. **Keys are unique.** Two surfaces sharing a settings key is how
`report_preference` spent its first release moving whenever the prompt arm
was tuned (#3860) — one dial wearing two labels.
3. **An unknown surface is refused.** Settings keys are free-form strings in
a generic table, so a typo'd name would write a key nothing reads: a
change that appears to succeed, reports a new value, and alters nothing.
4. **The budget clamps at 1, never 0.** A zero-budget arm searches, logs a
retrieval and renders nothing — indistinguishable in the telemetry from a
bar nothing cleared, which is the exact confusion this milestone exists to
remove. "Off" is what the `enabled` switch is for.
5. **`write_path` inherits auto-inject's budget when it has none.** It used
to share that key outright; giving it its own without a fallback would
silently reset the budget on every install that had tuned the shared one.
"""
from unittest.mock import AsyncMock, patch
import pytest
from scribe.services import retrieval_surfaces as rs
SERVICES = ("plugin_context", "reply_preferences")
def _service_source(name: str) -> str:
from pathlib import Path
root = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1] / "src" / "scribe" / "services"
return (root / f"{name}.py").read_text()
def test_every_surface_name_is_a_real_telemetry_source():
"""The join key, checked against the arms that emit it.
Asserted on the source text rather than by calling the arms, because what
can rot here is the literal: a surface renamed in the registry and not in
the `record_retrieval(source=…)` call still runs, still logs, and still
tunes — just against two different names, so the readout an operator uses
to justify a change describes a different arm from the one the change hits.
"""
blob = "\n".join(_service_source(n) for n in SERVICES)
# `report_preference` passes its name through a module constant rather than
# a literal, so that one name is satisfied by the constant holding it.
from scribe.services.reply_preferences import SOURCE
missing = [
s.name for s in rs.SURFACES.values()
if f'source="{s.name}"' not in blob and s.name != SOURCE
]
assert not missing, (
f"these surfaces can be tuned but never measured: {missing}. The "
"registry name must match the string the arm passes to record_retrieval."
)
def test_no_two_surfaces_share_a_settings_key():
"""One dial, one label. #3860 is what the other way costs."""
floors = [s.floor_key for s in rs.SURFACES.values()]
budgets = [s.budget_key for s in rs.SURFACES.values()]
assert len(set(floors)) == len(floors), f"duplicate floor key in {floors}"
assert len(set(budgets)) == len(budgets), f"duplicate budget key in {budgets}"
assert not (set(floors) & set(budgets)), "a floor key doubles as a budget key"
def test_every_surface_says_what_it_asks_over_what_and_how_often():
"""The prose is rendered, not decorative.
A floor cannot be moved responsibly by anyone — model or human — who does
not know the query shape, the corpus, or how often the arm costs something.
An empty string here reaches the tuning tool and the Settings UI as a blank.
"""
for s in rs.SURFACES.values():
for field in ("asks", "over", "fires"):
assert getattr(s, field).strip(), f"{s.name}.{field} is empty"
def test_an_unknown_surface_is_refused_rather_than_written():
with pytest.raises(ValueError) as e:
rs.get_surface("pretool_rule") # a real typo for pre_tool_rule
# The message has to name the alternatives, or the caller's next move is a
# second guess.
assert "pre_tool_rule" in str(e.value)
@pytest.mark.asyncio
@pytest.mark.parametrize("stored, expected", [
("0.8", 0.8),
("5", 1.0), # clamped, not believed
("-3", 0.0),
("banana", 0.55), # unparseable falls back to the surface's default
("", 0.55),
])
async def test_a_floor_is_clamped_to_the_unit_interval(stored, expected):
with patch.object(rs, "get_setting", AsyncMock(return_value=stored)):
assert await rs.floor_for(1, "auto_inject") == expected
@pytest.mark.asyncio
@pytest.mark.parametrize("stored, expected", [
("4", 4),
("999", rs.MAX_BUDGET),
("0", 1),
("-2", 1),
("banana", 3),
])
async def test_a_budget_is_clamped_with_a_floor_of_one(stored, expected):
"""Zero is the value that must not get through.
An arm with a budget of 0 runs its search, writes a `retrieval_logs` row
with `result_count == 0`, and renders nothing — which reads in the telemetry
exactly like a bar nothing cleared. Turning a surface off is the `enabled`
switch's job, and that one says so.
"""
with patch.object(rs, "get_setting", AsyncMock(return_value=stored)):
assert await rs.budget_for(1, "auto_inject") == expected
@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_the_write_path_budget_falls_back_to_auto_injects():
"""The migration this fallback exists for.
`write_path` had no budget key of its own — it read auto-inject's. An
install that had tuned that shared knob to 6 must not silently drop to the
new key's default the day this ships; nothing would look broken and the
operator would never know to look.
"""
async def _setting(_uid, key, default=""):
return {"kb_writepath_top_k": "", "kb_autoinject_top_k": "6"}.get(key, default)
with patch.object(rs, "get_setting", AsyncMock(side_effect=_setting)):
assert await rs.budget_for(1, "write_path") == 6
@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_its_own_budget_wins_once_it_is_set():
"""And the fallback must not become a permanent override."""
async def _setting(_uid, key, default=""):
return {"kb_writepath_top_k": "2", "kb_autoinject_top_k": "6"}.get(key, default)
with patch.object(rs, "get_setting", AsyncMock(side_effect=_setting)):
assert await rs.budget_for(1, "write_path") == 2
@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_the_write_path_config_carries_every_arm_it_drives():
"""One hook request drives three arms, and each reads its pair out of this.
A missing key does not raise where a reader would see it — the rule arms
fail open, so a KeyError becomes an empty hint, and the arm reads as "fired
and found nothing". That is the failure this asserts against, and it is the
reason tests build the dict from the registry rather than by hand.
"""
from scribe.services import plugin_context as pc
# Both modules read settings: `pc` for the enabled switch, `rs` for the
# pairs. Patching one and not the other reaches a real database.
with patch.object(pc, "get_setting", AsyncMock(return_value="")), \
patch.object(rs, "get_setting", AsyncMock(return_value="")):
cfg = await pc.get_writepath_config(1)
for key in ("threshold", "top_k", "rule_threshold", "rule_top_k",
"tool_rule_threshold", "tool_rule_top_k",
# Not a surface, and that is why it is spelled out here: it
# has no floor/budget pair to derive from, so nothing else in
# this file would notice it going missing (#4214).
"checkpoint_threshold"):
assert key in cfg, f"{key} missing — its arm will silently no-op"