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27 changes: 14 additions & 13 deletions src/subagent/stop-policy.ts
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Expand Up @@ -219,22 +219,23 @@ export function detectToolFingerprintThrash(
// signal, whereas mere silence during a long autonomous stretch is not.
//
// Threshold justification: 100 is a judgment call, not a measured value.
// turns-since-last-genuine-operator-message was never separately measured —
// an earlier round of this PR cited a scan of it ("358-session/428-run",
// then "428 runs" in a later revision, the two numbers already disagreeing
// with each other) that has no corresponding script or output anywhere in
// the tree. That claim was fabricated and is retracted; do not restate it.
// turns-since-last-genuine-operator-message has never been separately
// measured. An earlier claim that it had been was fabricated and is
// retracted — do not restate it, and do not invent a replacement
// justification in its place.
//
// The only real measurement we have is scripts/tool-fingerprint-forensics.ts,
// The nearest real measurement is scripts/tool-fingerprint-forensics.ts,
// which measures a related but different quantity — consecutive
// tool-only-turn streaks, reset by narration — p50 3, p90 8, p99 16, max 28
// across 328 local sessions with a tool-only run. It is not directly
// applicable here since narration does not reset this counter, but it is
// the only forensic data point available, and 100 sits well above every
// percentile of it, which is the informal basis for treating 100 as
// generous headroom. Revisit if this backstop turns out to fire during
// legitimate long autonomous stretches, or if turns-since-user-message is
// ever actually measured.
// across 328 local sessions with a tool-only run. It does not directly apply
// here (narration does not reset this counter, so the distributions are not
// comparable), but it is the only forensic data point on hand, and 100 sits
// well above every percentile of it, which is the informal basis for
// treating 100 as generous headroom.
//
// src/subagent/intervention-log.ts now records every stop and nudge with its
// measured value beside the threshold it crossed. If this number is ever
// wrong, that log — not another guess — is how to find out.
export const TURNS_SINCE_USER_MESSAGE_BACKSTOP = 100;

// CL-5893: cap on how many times a successful leaf task completion may
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