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feat(telemetry): record WHAT the bar turned away, not only how close it came (#3807)
#3670 added `best_available_score` so a threshold could be judged from its
rejections. It records how CLOSE the bar came to firing and not WHAT it
refused, and that is the half a decision actually needs.

Live, pre_tool_rule sits at a ~0.72 bar with a near-miss p90 of 0.7071 —
about 117 declines a day within 0.013 of firing. Dropping to 0.707 would
take that arm from 22 hits a day to roughly 139: six-fold, on a surface
that runs before every Bash call. The percentile says the mass is there.
Nothing said whether it was worth showing.

NEITHER OBVIOUS INSTRUMENT ANSWERS IT. Pull-through cannot: the injected
rule line already carries title and trigger, so a session can comply
without ever calling get_rule, and rule pull-through understates
usefulness by construction. Reading the rejected records can — and
`result_ids` holds only what was RETURNED, so on a zero-result call the
near-missed record had no name at all.

So the id, from the SAME ranked candidate as the score. Both searches
unpack `best` once and read both fields off it, because splitting that
into two expressions is exactly how a later edit pairs a score with its
neighbour's id — and a score attached to the wrong record is worse than no
id, since it invites judging the wrong one and concluding the bar is fine.

write_path withholds the id on the same condition it withholds the score
(#3739): a surviving id beside a null score names a record without saying
what it scored, the pair disagreeing in the other direction.

THE READ PATH IS A LISTING, NOT A STATISTIC — an id cannot be percentiled,
and a reader tuning a bar needs to go and read the records. Opt-in via
`near_miss_samples` (0-20, default 0) so the ordinary readout keeps its
size, and deliberately NOT a window function: this module's one production
outage was a grouped query Postgres rejected, swallowed by the broad
except, every counter reading zero while the mocked tests passed (#2663).
One flat ordered query, overfetched, bucketed in Python — the shape that
lesson prescribes.

Migration 0097, nullable and unbackfilled. Not a foreign key: the table
spans record types and `source` says which, exactly as result_ids works.

The integration guard pins the listing as PER SOURCE. A global LIMIT would
let a noisy source eat the whole quota and leave the surface being tuned
showing nothing — which reads as "nothing was close", the misreading this
milestone has spent itself correcting.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011cPyzNnegXHr5iRMzzy5KJ
2026-09-09 21:24:32 -04:00

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"""add retrieval_logs.best_available_id — WHICH record the bar refused (#3807)
Revision ID: 0097
Revises: 0096
Create Date: 2026-09-09
0096 added `best_available_score` so a threshold could be judged from what it
rejected. It records how CLOSE the bar came to firing and not WHAT it turned
away, and that turns out to be the half a decision actually needs.
Live, `pre_tool_rule` shows a bar of ~0.72 with a near-miss p90 of 0.7071 —
about 117 declines a day sitting within 0.013 of firing. Dropping the bar to
0.707 would take that arm from 22 hits a day to roughly 139, a six-fold change
on a surface that runs before every Bash call. The percentile says the mass is
there. Nothing says whether it is worth showing.
AND THE TWO OBVIOUS INSTRUMENTS DO NOT ANSWER IT. Pull-through cannot: the
injected rule line already carries title and trigger, so a session can comply
without ever calling `get_rule`, and rule pull-through therefore understates
usefulness by construction. Reading the rejected records can — and `result_ids`
holds only what was RETURNED, so on a zero-result call it is empty and the
near-missed record has no name.
So: the id, beside the score, from the SAME ranked candidate. The two must
never be able to describe different records — a score paired with its
neighbour's id would be worse than no id at all, because it invites a reader to
judge the wrong record and conclude the bar is fine.
NULLABLE AND UNBACKFILLED, for the reason 0095 and 0096 both spell out: a row
written before this genuinely does not know, and inventing a value would put an
artifact where a measurement belongs. Null here means "not measured", never
"nothing was close".
NOT A FOREIGN KEY, deliberately. `retrieval_logs` spans record types — the
rules arms store rule ids, the note arms store note ids — and `source` is what
says which table an id belongs to, exactly as `result_ids` has always worked.
A constraint would have to point at one table and would be wrong for the other.
Downgrade drops the column. Purely observational — nothing reads it for
correctness.
"""
from alembic import op
import sqlalchemy as sa
revision = "0097"
down_revision = "0096"
branch_labels = None
depends_on = None
def upgrade() -> None:
op.add_column(
"retrieval_logs",
sa.Column("best_available_id", sa.Integer(), nullable=True),
)
def downgrade() -> None:
op.drop_column("retrieval_logs", "best_available_id")