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Phase 2 of the ratified P1+P2 milestone (Gateway MCP corpus investigation follow-up).

Refusals become repairable

An EmitSurfaceError (declared casualty, donation boundary, Collect join violation — contract-legal surfaces the profile cannot represent) previously exited terminal failed-gate on the FIRST attempt: the repair loop never saw it, though the refusal text is a precise repair instruction. Measured on the 24-cell Gateway corpus: 8 of 12 shadcn cells died this way after burning all model turns on S-repairs. Now the refusal rides the same bounded repair loop — verbatim refusal + one class-targeted hint becomes the repair turn; exhausted budget keeps the exact terminal semantics. New additive attempts[].representability on the audit report (run layer). The post-emit validations branch stays terminal (emit ≥0.7 self-validates its output; branch kept as the guard for older emitters). S1–S3 untouched.

Casualty-free generation view

casualtyFreeView(contract, profile) (run layer, pure): generation compiles from the contract minus the profile's casualtyComponents and minus examples whose surfaces use them — system prompt, generation schema, and few-shot stop steering the model into guaranteed refusals (measured: 5 of 24 corpus cells were casualty refusals, and 3 shipped shadcn examples themselves cannot emit). ONLY compileContext sees the view; lintSurface and contractDigest keep the original contract — S2 vocabulary and report identity unchanged, asserted by test.

Ollama thinking models

think: false on the chat request: structured-output generation cannot budget reasoning tokens — qwen3.6 burned the whole num_predict on reasoning and returned "empty model output" through the product path (4/4 reproductions). Empirically harmless on non-thinking models.

Evidence

Fail-first: src/run/representability.test.ts committed first; 9 failures on pre-change code pasted in the commit body. 149/149 green; src/core/ byte-untouched (git diff main -- src/core/ empty — no ds-mcp re-pin pressure); CI eval golden byte-identical. Emit range extended to admit ^0.7.0 so consumers pinning the new emitter dedupe to one copy.

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ryandmonk and others added 3 commits August 10, 2026 17:48
New src/run/representability.test.ts (ScriptedAdapter + inline mini-kit
contract + a v2 emit profile via dspack-emit loadProfile declaring
'marquee' a cannot-represent casualty) pins the ratified mechanism:

1. an EmitSurfaceError enters the repair loop (refusal -> repair turn ->
   corrected surface -> passed; refusal recorded per-attempt);
2. repairs exhausted on refusals stays terminal failed-gate/exit 3 with
   the refusal recorded and repairMessages.length === maxRepairs;
3. casualtyFreeView strips casualties from the generation context
   (system prompt / schema / few-shot) while S-gates keep the ratified
   contract;
4. the Ollama request body carries think: false (existing adapter test).

Premise checks (casualty surface lints S1-S3 clean; CURRENT emitSurface
refuses it with the declared-casualty reason) pass today by design.
casualty-view.js is imported dynamically so this run reports behavioral
failures instead of one file-level module error.

Failing output on current code (fail-first evidence):

 > src/run/representability.test.ts (11 tests | 8 failed)
   x emitter refusal enters the repair loop > refusal -> repair -> corrected surface -> passed
     -> expected 'failed-gate' to be 'passed' // Object.is equality
   x emitter refusal enters the repair loop > the refusal is recorded on the refused attempt, not only terminally
     -> expected undefined to deeply equal { pass: false, ...(1) }
   x emitter refusal enters the repair loop > the repair message carries the refusal verbatim plus the casualty hint
     -> expected +0 to be 1 // Object.is equality
   x emitter refusal enters the repair loop > the conversation delta is the model's own output + the repair turn (ADR-7 shape)
     -> expected 1 to be 2 // Object.is equality
   x emitter refusal enters the repair loop > generation never saw the casualty: system prompt and few-shot are casualty-free
     -> expected 'You generate user interface surfaces ...' not to contain 'marquee'
   x repairs exhausted on refusals > every attempt refused -> terminal failed-gate, exit 3, refusal recorded (unchanged semantics)
     -> expected 1 to be 3 // Object.is equality
   x casualtyFreeView > compileContext over the view drops the casualty from system prompt, schema, and few-shot
     -> Failed to load url ./casualty-view.js ... Does the file exist?
   x casualtyFreeView > no profile -> the identical contract object (not a copy)
     -> Failed to load url ./casualty-view.js ... Does the file exist?
 > src/adapters/adapters.test.ts (13 tests | 1 failed)
   x OllamaAdapter > produces a parsed result ...; the generation schema round-trips verbatim
     -> expected undefined to be false // Object.is equality

 Test Files  2 failed (2)
      Tests  9 failed | 15 passed (24)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…eave generation (0.4.0)

Three ratified changes, all run-layer; src/core/ is byte-untouched
(`git diff --stat main -- src/core/` is empty; ds-mcp vendors core).

1. Refusals become repairable (src/run/orchestrator.ts): the a2ui
   EmitSurfaceError catch records `attempts[].representability =
   { pass: false, refusal }` and — while `index < maxRepairs` — renders
   the refusal as the next repair turn (base message + one refusal-class
   hint: declared casualty / donation boundary / join-key), pushes the
   assistant raw + repair onto the conversation exactly like the S3
   loop, emits the `repair` event, and continues the loop. Budget
   exhausted keeps the original terminal semantics (failed-gate, exit 3,
   emitted.refusal). The post-emit validations-fail branch stays
   terminal, with a comment that emit-side self-validation
   (dspack-emit >= 0.7) makes it unreachable from emit output. S1-S3 and
   their repair path untouched. The p05 eval cell is that terminal A3
   class, so the fake-eval golden is byte-identical (CI gate passed).

2. Casualty-free generation view (src/run/casualty-view.ts):
   `casualtyFreeView(contract, profile)` shallow-copies the contract
   minus the profile's `casualtyComponents` ids and minus every example
   whose surface tree uses one; identity when no profile/casualties.
   The orchestrator compiles generation context from the view ONLY —
   lintSurface and contractDigest keep the ratified original (S2
   vocabulary and report identity are profile-independent).

3. Ollama think:false (src/adapters/ollama.ts): structured-output
   generation cannot budget reasoning tokens — thinking models burned
   the whole num_predict on reasoning and returned "empty model output";
   verified harmless on non-thinking models. ("qwen 3.6" is spelled
   with a space because the no-default-model guard scans this file.)

Also: audit-report v1 schema + docs/AUDIT.md gain the additive
`attempts[].representability` field; the legacy pipeline.test.ts
refusal test pins the terminal case via maxRepairs: 0 (the loop is
covered by representability.test.ts); version 0.3.2 -> 0.4.0 with
CHANGELOG.

Fail-first evidence: the previous commit (0ad85cb) carries the full
failing output of these tests against pre-change code — 9 behavioral
failures (failed-gate where passed was asserted, 1 attempt instead of
3, marquee present in the system prompt, think undefined). This commit
changes no assertion in that suite; test files touched here are the
legacy refusal test's options/comment only.

npm test: 16 files, 149/149 passed. tsc build clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
… consumers)

Extends the OR-range so an app pinning emit 0.7 dedupes to ONE emitter copy —
the representability loop must run the same emitSurface the app validates with.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Copilot AI lite review requested due to automatic review settings August 10, 2026 22:15
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ryandmonk merged commit 44d586f into main Aug 10, 2026
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Pull request overview

This PR implements Phase 2 of representability handling in the run pipeline: emitter refusals (EmitSurfaceError) are now treated as repair-loop events (when budget remains) instead of immediate terminal failures, and generation is compiled from a casualty-free view of the contract to avoid steering models into known-unrepresentable components.

Changes:

  • Route EmitSurfaceError through the bounded repair loop and record per-attempt representability refusals in the audit report (attempts[].representability).
  • Introduce casualtyFreeView(contract, profile) and use it only for generation context compilation (system prompt / schema / few-shot), while keeping S-gates and contract digest tied to the original contract.
  • Add think: false to Ollama chat requests to prevent “thinking” models from consuming structured-output token budget.

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File Description
src/run/representability.test.ts Adds coverage for refusal-as-repair behavior and casualty-free generation context.
src/run/pipeline.test.ts Updates the refusal failure-path test to pin terminal semantics via maxRepairs: 0 and asserts attempt-level representability recording.
src/run/orchestrator.ts Implements representability refusal repair messaging, per-attempt refusal recording, and uses casualty-free contract view for generation-only compilation.
src/run/casualty-view.ts Adds helper to remove profile-declared casualties (and casualty-using examples) from the generation-side contract view.
src/audit/report.ts Extends AttemptRecord with optional representability refusal metadata.
src/adapters/ollama.ts Sends think: false in chat requests to avoid empty structured-output results on thinking models.
src/adapters/adapters.test.ts Asserts Ollama requests include think: false.
schemas/audit-report.v1.schema.json Updates audit-report v1 schema to allow attempts[].representability.
package.json Bumps package version to 0.4.0 and extends @aestheticfunction/dspack-emit range to include ^0.7.0.
package-lock.json Updates lockfile version metadata to 0.4.0 and aligns dependency range.
docs/AUDIT.md Documents new attempts[].representability semantics for repairable refusals.
CHANGELOG.md Adds 0.4.0 release notes covering representability repairs, casualty-free view, and Ollama think: false.

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