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refactor(retrieval): one registry for every surface's floor and budget (#4102)
Groundwork for the step's real change. The operator's decision is that the
floor is chosen and adjusted by the model using it, not shipped as a value
somebody has to defend:

  "we need a model consistent surface for the adjustment of these floor values.
   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 consistent across six arms that each spell their
configuration differently, so the arms stop owning their numbers.
`retrieval_surfaces.SURFACES` names each one, its floor key and default, its
budget key and default, and — because they are rendered by the tuning tool and
the Settings UI — what it asks, over what corpus, and how often it fires. A
floor cannot be moved responsibly by anyone who does not know those three.

Three things fall out:

- **`k` becomes a real budget everywhere.** Only auto-inject had a configurable
  one; `RULEHINT_LIMIT`, `PROMPTRULE_LIMIT` and `reply_preferences.LIMIT` were
  constants. `k` is what binds under a low floor, so it has to be settable per
  surface — and per surface is the point, since `pre_tool_rule` fires before
  every Bash call while `prompt_rule` fires once a turn.
- **`write_path` gets its own budget, inherited not reset.** It shared
  auto-inject's outright on the argument that "how many titles at once" means
  the same thing on both. It does not, for the same reason. Unset, it still
  reads auto-inject's key, so an install that tuned the shared knob does not
  silently drop to a new default.
- **The duplicated read-and-clamp goes.** That shape is canon #2860 across 295
  of 372 judged siblings. Survivable while the numbers were constants; not once
  they are meant to move.

The long measurement comments stay exactly where they are — #2223's noise-floor
probe, #3853's command-vs-code split, #3851's band measurement. The constants
they annotate now alias the registry, so there is one value and the reasoning
still sits beside it.

Tests build the write-path config from the registry (`helpers.writepath_cfg`)
instead of from hand-written dicts. That is not tidiness: the rule arms read
their numbers inside a fail-open `except`, so a dict missing one key does not
raise where a reader would see it — the arm silently becomes a no-op that reads
exactly like "fired and found nothing". Ten hand-written dicts each looked
complete on the day they were typed.

tests/test_retrieval_surfaces.py pins the identity everything rests on: a
surface's name IS its telemetry source. Nothing in the type system says so —
`record_retrieval(source="pre_tool_rule")` is a literal in another file — and
renaming one without the other yields an arm that can be tuned and not
measured, or measured and not tuned, with no symptom either way.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01821k5B3Ysecp9fNYs92Kuy
2026-09-17 11:17:23 -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"):
assert key in cfg, f"{key} missing — its arm will silently no-op"