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Gwen's app ask for the CS 1720 sessions, due before Tue 2026-09-22 (13:35–15:15, Forsyth 202):

  • Show correct/incorrect on the quiz questions.
  • Let participants see their own reflections afterward.

Plus two follow-ups requested during review: make the default tutorial testable the same way, and let a note jump back to the step that prompted it.

Verdicts

d0bf0cd didn't delete the verdict UI — it added CheckFeedback and gated the existing branches on one line. This adds a tutorial-level TutorialContent.checkFeedback that units inherit, with a per-check feedback still overriding it (precedence: check → tutorial → "neutral").

Both shipped contents now show verdicts — the CS 1720 classroom JSON and PROLIFIC_TUTORIAL_SEED. The seed was originally left neutral here, on the grounds that it was a live study instrument; that was reversed deliberately once it was clear it now serves as the demo row and the resolveTutorialForWorkspace fallback — what anyone testing or demoing the tutorial actually sees. Turning verdicts on there is what makes the default tutorial checkable at all.

What makes a verdict safe

A verdict is only honest if its key cannot disagree with the grid in front of the participant. Two shapes qualify, and both are used:

  • choice, where the key is a statement about what something means (what the runner-up tells you, what the cone can reach). Model-independent.
  • topToken / secondToken, where the key is the participant's own run, and resolveCheckKey keeps the check closed until that run — or patch — exists.

What is not safe, and was briefly shipped here, is a choice key asserting a model output. An earlier revision converted every check to choice with static keys, including u4-patching's "Paris". That broke two things at once: the key is a property of the pinned model (which ranges from gpt2 to Llama-405B), and canAnswer is unconditionally true for a choice check, removing the gate that held the patch check closed behind "Apply the patch first, then answer." A participant who read the unpatched target and answered "Rome" was correct and was marked wrong. Caught in a real run; fixed in 238547d by reverting those checks to run-scored.

The invariant guarding this was originally "verdict ⟹ choice", which was a blunt proxy — it was satisfied by exactly the checks that broke. It is now the real property: a verdicted check is either a choice from an explicit conceptual allowlist, or run-scored. Plus a guard that a patch unit's check must be run-scored, so the gate cannot be removed again.

Notes

The reflection text was already written to tutorial_events.payload.observationText on every save, and getTutorialEventsForWorkspace already existed — just never exposed to the participant, only to admins. This adds a participant-scoped read, surfaced as a "Your notes" popover beside the glossary and as a recap on the completion screen, with rows that jump back to the step the note was written on.

The DB is the source of truth rather than the store because step_id holds stable unit ids, so notes cannot re-attach to the wrong step when content is edited between the two sessions. A note whose unit no longer exists keeps its raw id and renders non-interactively rather than offering a dead button.

getTutorialNotesForWorkspace is unguarded by design, matching recordTutorialEvent: the capability is owning the workspace. Anyone holding a workspace uuid can read that participant's free text — accepted because the id is unguessable and appears only in that participant's own URL. The comment states what to do if that changes.

Verification

  • 239 bun tests (was 196), including the content invariants above.
  • 22 Playwright tests driving the real panel: correct and incorrect answers at every check, the reload restatement, the stale-answer-key reproduction (memo §1), the neutral-override negative case, and notes attribution plus jump-back from both surfaces.
  • Negative control: breaking the gate line (showVerdict = false) fails 18 of 21, leaving exactly the three verdict-independent tests green — the suite catches regressions rather than passing by construction.
  • tsc and lint unchanged from main (34 errors, 60 lint problems), measured in a worktree at main.

Docs

Two CLAUDE.md corrections: the Playwright harness is real (~2.8k lines, with seedPatchLensChart rendering the route with no NDIF), not "only stubs"; and bun run test fails ~95 DB tests on a fresh checkout because it never pushes the schema — bash ./scripts/test.sh is the entry point. Also documents the local recipe for tutorial-checks.spec.ts, which runs on SQLite with no Supabase.

Before the session

  • Re-seed the demo row. ensureSeedTutorial is read-then-insert with no update, and resolveTutorialForWorkspace prefers the stored row over the constant — so any existing prolific-patch-lens-demo row keeps serving the old content. Delete it, or use "Load demo template" in /admin/tutorials. A workshop with an assigned tutorial never sees the seed at all.
  • Three content calls for the 09-21 prep: whether u4-patching's patch reliably flips on the class's model; that three checks are now conceptual rather than token-reading; and the welcome slide still says "Nothing here is graded", which sits oddly beside "✓ Correct." (checks remain log-only and never gate progress).

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  • New Features

    • Added persistent tutorial notes with a “Your notes” view and completion recap.
    • Notes can jump directly back to their originating tutorial step.
    • Tutorial checks now support verdict or neutral feedback, with clearer answer handling.
    • Checks and observation prompts appear after completing the required step action and remain visible after reloads.
    • Added a refreshed CS 1720 interactive tutorial with guided lenses, patches, explorations, and challenges.
  • Documentation

    • Updated local testing and tutorial development guidance.

…eir notes

Both halves of the CS 1720 classroom ask, for the 2026-09-22 session.

Verdicts. d0bf0cd didn't delete the verdict UI, it gated it on one line and
defaulted every check to "neutral". Rather than flip that default globally --
which would silently change the Prolific study arm, where neutral was a
deliberate methodological choice -- this adds a tutorial-level
`TutorialContent.checkFeedback` that units inherit and a per-check `feedback`
still overrides. One line in the classroom JSON turns verdicts on; the study
content is untouched.

Showing a verdict is only safe if the key is unambiguous, so the classroom
content converts its free-text token checks to statically-keyed multiple choice
(memo SF-7). A check scored against the participant's own run can mark someone
wrong for a token they can see but cannot type, which is the failure d0bf0cd
was avoiding. A test enforces the invariant: any check resolving to "verdict"
must be kind "choice".

Notes. The reflection text was already written to
tutorial_events.payload.observationText on every save, and
getTutorialEventsForWorkspace already existed -- it was just never exposed to
the participant, only to admins. This adds a participant-scoped read (unguarded
by the same reasoning as recordTutorialEvent: the capability is owning the
workspace), surfaced as a "Your notes" popover beside the glossary and as a
recap on the completion screen. The DB is the source of truth rather than the
store because step_id holds stable unit ids, so notes cannot re-attach to the
wrong step when content is edited between the two sessions.

Also extracts norm() to normalizeAnswer so the folding rule exists once. Its
old comment claimed it stripped whitespace; the regex is ^-anchored, so
"New York" and "Paris." keep their internal space and trailing period. Tests
pin the negative cases.

Verification, per the explicit ask to validate labeling by driving the tutorial:
21 Playwright tests drive the real panel and assert the rendered verdict for a
correct and an incorrect answer at every check, plus the reload restatement and
the stale-answer-key reproduction (memo section 1). Breaking the gate line fails
18 of 21, leaving exactly the three verdict-independent tests green, so the
suite detects a real regression rather than passing by construction.

Two content defects found while reviewing: every correct answer had landed at
index 0, and u3-patterns asked about "your wrong example lines" when that unit's
prompt bank starts with a bare 5+5=, so a participant running only that prompt
would answer 10 correctly and be marked wrong. Both fixed.

CLAUDE.md: the Playwright harness is real (~2.8k lines), not "only stubs", and
`bun run test` fails ~95 DB tests on a fresh checkout because it never pushes
the schema -- scripts/test.sh is the entry point.

233 bun tests pass (was 196). tsc and lint are unchanged from main at 34 errors
and 60 lint problems.

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The PR adds a ten-step Patch Lens tutorial, configurable check feedback, participant note storage and navigation, local E2E fixtures, and Playwright coverage. It also updates local and CI test guidance.

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Guided tutorial experience

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Tutorial content and check contracts
tutorial-cs1720-2026-09-22.json, workbench/_web/src/types/*, workbench/_web/src/tutorials/*, workbench/_web/src/lib/queries/tutorialContentDb.ts
Adds tutorial-wide feedback defaults, shared answer normalization, validated check shapes, progressive action gating, and tutorial content using choice and run-scored checks.
Participant notes flow
workbench/_web/src/types/tutorialEvents.ts, workbench/_web/src/lib/queries/tutorialEvents*, workbench/_web/src/lib/tutorialNotes.ts, workbench/_web/src/lib/api/tutorialEventsApi.ts, workbench/_web/src/app/workbench/.../tutorial/*
Derives latest notes by workspace and step, orders them by tutorial unit, displays them in the header and completion recap, and supports navigation back to note steps.
Check presentation and scoring integration
workbench/_web/src/app/workbench/.../PatchLensArea.tsx, workbench/_web/src/app/workbench/.../TutorialActivityPanel.tsx
Passes tutorial-level feedback into the panel, gates checks and observations by unit action, resolves feedback modes, and renders saved observations with verdict state metadata.
E2E fixtures and Playwright coverage
workbench/_web/tests/TestingUtils.ts, workbench/_web/tests/fixtures/tutorialCheckContent.ts, workbench/_web/tests/tutorial-checks.spec.ts
Adds local and Supabase tutorial seeding, stub authentication and lens responses, per-worker test slots, and coverage for check states, progressive reveal, reloads, stale keys, and notes.
Test documentation and execution guidance
CLAUDE.md
Documents the Playwright harness, local tutorial execution, database setup, endpoint stubbing, test commands, and current load-test coverage.

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In `@CLAUDE.md`:
- Around line 468-471: Update the local testing documentation near the “harness
is CI-shaped” section to provide the complete command sequence for running
tutorial-checks.spec.ts: configure NEXT_PUBLIC_LOCAL_DB=true,
NEXT_PUBLIC_DISABLE_AUTH=true, and LOCAL_SQLITE_URL consistently for the app and
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- Around line 317-325: Update handleSaveNote to cancel the workspace notes query
before calling submitObservation and seeding its cache, using the same notes
query key from useTutorialNotes. Do not add an immediate invalidation or refetch
after the non-awaited server write; preserve the existing optimistic cache
update for CompletionCta.
- Around line 303-328: The handleSaveNote flow currently seeds notesByWorkspace
unconditionally; update submitObservation to expose whether recordTutorialEvent
succeeds, then only call queryClient.setQueryData after a successful observation
write. Preserve the existing trimmed text and per-step replacement behavior, and
avoid caching the note when the asynchronous write fails.

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…lots

Three of four CodeRabbit findings.

Cancel before seed. `useTutorialNotes` can have its initial fetch in flight when
a participant saves a note on an early step, and `staleTime: Infinity` doesn't
stop an in-flight request from committing. That older response would land after
the optimistic seed and overwrite the note -- permanently, since nothing
refetches until the popover is opened. Standard optimistic-update ordering:
cancelQueries first.

Per-worker e2e slots. `beforeAll` runs once per worker, not once per run, and
seedTutorialWorkspace is delete-then-insert on fixed ids -- so under
`fullyParallel` a second worker deleted and re-inserted the very rows the first
worker's tests were reading. CI pins workers:1 so it was green, but the local
run (where the 09-21 rehearsal happens) could flake. Slots are now keyed by
worker index, which keeps the seed idempotent per worker and the specs parallel.
Verified with 4 workers: 21/21.

Docs. The CLAUDE.md note claiming the whole harness needs Supabase was too
broad: tutorial-checks.spec.ts seeds SQLite and uses the stub user, so it runs
locally. Documents the actual recipe, including the schema push that `bun run
dev` does not do, and the hardcoded localhost:3000 in playwright.config.ts --
if another project owns that port the suite silently tests the wrong app, which
is exactly what happened while developing this.

Declined the fourth (seed the cache only after the write succeeds): `emit` is
deliberately best-effort for every tutorial event, and the "shown but not
persisted" gap predates this PR -- ObservationBox already rendered its
"your note was saved" receipt unconditionally. The real fix is threading the
write result into that receipt, which is a UX change wanting its own review.

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… step

Two follow-ups.

Default tutorial. PROLIFIC_TUTORIAL_SEED is the default content -- the
resolveTutorialForWorkspace fallback, the demo row's data, and the admin
dialog's prefill -- and its six run-scored free-text checks needed a live model
run to be answerable at all, which made the default tutorial the hardest thing
in the repo to test. All six are now `choice` with static keys, and the seed
sets `checkFeedback: "verdict"`, so walking the default tutorial needs no model
and shows whether scoring is right.

The questions and options are copied verbatim from the reviewed CS 1720 content
rather than reinvented, so the two shipped contents stay consistent; a check
compares them field-by-field. That inherits both fixes made there: keys spread
across option positions rather than all at index 0, and u3-patterns naming its
prompt, since that unit's bank starts with a bare 5+5= where "10" is the correct
answer.

This reverses the earlier "the Prolific seed stays neutral" decision, which was
made when the seed was a live study instrument. It is now the demo and fallback,
so the test asserting checkFeedback was undefined is updated rather than left
contradicting the code, and the rationale comments that described the shipped
checks as run-scored are corrected. The SF-7 invariant (verdict implies choice)
now covers both contents.

Notes jump back. A note in "Your notes" and in the completion recap is now the
way back to the step that prompted it -- re-reading "the answer settled at layer
20" is most useful next to the heatmap it was written about. TutorialNotesList
stays presentational behind an optional `onJumpToStep`; the panel resolves the
step id against the loaded units and calls goToUnit, so edited content cannot
send a participant to the wrong step. A note whose unit no longer exists has a
null stepNumber and stays static rather than rendering a button that goes
nowhere -- the case that arises from editing the tutorial between the two
sessions. The popover closes before navigating, the row is a real button with an
explicit "Go to step N: Title" label, and the affordance is visible at rest
rather than on hover.

237 bun tests pass (was 233). 22 Playwright tests pass at 4 workers, including
the new jump-back case driven from both surfaces. tsc and lint unchanged from
main at 34 errors and 60 lint problems.

Note for deployment: ensureSeedTutorial is read-then-insert with no update, and
resolveTutorialForWorkspace prefers the demo row's stored data over the
constant. Any environment that already has a prolific-patch-lens-demo row keeps
serving the old free-text content until that row is deleted or re-pasted via
"Load demo template".

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Fixes a regression from c5206ac, found in review. Adding `cancelQueries` before
the optimistic seed traded one race for a worse one: if the initial notes fetch
is still in flight, cancelling it kills the only read of the participant's
existing notes, and `setQueryData`'s `prev = []` default then publishes a cache
holding just the note being saved. With `staleTime: Infinity` a returning
participant's earlier notes would disappear from the completion recap until they
happened to open the popover.

Snapshot with getQueryData first, and only cancel-and-merge when that snapshot
exists. When it doesn't, leave the in-flight read alone and skip the seed: the
just-written note can then be missing from the recap briefly, since the event
write is fire-and-forget and the read may not see it, but that is the lesser
failure -- losing notes the participant already wrote is worse than briefly
missing the one still on screen in the box they just typed it into.

237 bun tests pass; tsc and lint unchanged from main at 34 and 60. The e2e
notes tests cover this path but were not run locally for this commit -- the
machine was out of memory and the runs were being killed -- so CI is the
verification here; it has passed this suite on the two previous pushes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reported from a real run: patching, reading "Rome" off the target, and being
told "not quite, the answer was Paris".

Converting the run-scored checks to `choice` in df88ac0 changed them from
"compare this to what you saw" into "assert what you should have seen", and for
four of them the key is a claim about a model output. Two ways that goes wrong,
both of which bite the participant who did nothing wrong:

- The key can simply be false on the day. Whether the Eiffel prompt predicts
  Paris, whether 5+5 breaks from 10, and whether a layer-20 patch flips Rome to
  Paris are all properties of the pinned model, which ranges from gpt2 to
  Llama-405B.
- `resolveCheckKey` returns canAnswer: true for a choice check unconditionally,
  so the gate disappeared. u4-patching's key was `patchToken` -- null until the
  drag lands -- which is what used to hold the check closed behind "Apply the
  patch first, then answer." As a choice check it is answerable on arrival, so
  reading the *unpatched* target and answering "Rome" is both correct and marked
  wrong.

So u0-orientation, u3-patterns and u4-patching go back to `topToken`, with their
original question wording, which tied each question to the participant's own run
("the heatmap you just ran", "on your most recent run"). They keep verdicts: a
run-scored key IS the grid in front of them, so the verdict is self-consistent
by construction, and these answers are all typable words.

u4a-compare loses the check I added. It asks the participant to read two
heatmaps at once, so there is no single token to score, and the multiple-choice
form named both cities in one option -- a static assertion about model output
with no run-scored equivalent.

The four remaining choice checks ask what something *means* (what the runner-up
tells you, what the cone can reach), so they hold whatever the model predicts.

The "verdict implies choice" invariant was a blunt proxy for the real rule and
would not have caught this -- it was satisfied by exactly the checks that broke.
Replaced with the actual property: a verdicted check is either a choice from the
conceptual allowlist, or run-scored. Plus a new guard that a patch unit's check
must be run-scored, so the gate cannot be removed again.

239 bun tests pass (was 237). tsc and lint unchanged from main at 34 and 60.
E2e not run locally -- the machine is still short on memory -- but this commit
changes only content and tests, and tutorial-checks.spec.ts drives its own
fixture rather than either shipped content, so it is untouched by it. CI covers it.

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🟡 Minor · Remove model-output promises from both tutorial variants. · tutorial-cs1720-2026-09-22.json:395

tutorial-cs1720-2026-09-22.json:395
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Remove model-output promises from both tutorial variants. patchPair fixes only the prompt text. It does not fix the model or its emitted tokens. The run-scored topToken check reads the participant’s actual post-patch target token, so Paris and Rome are not guaranteed outcomes.

  • tutorial-cs1720-2026-09-22.json#L395: Describe the two observed predictions without naming Paris or Rome.
  • tutorial-cs1720-2026-09-22.json#L516: Tell the participant to inspect the patched target result without promising Paris.
  • Apply the same changes at workbench/_web/src/tutorials/prolificSeed.ts#L523 and #L606.
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In `@tutorial-cs1720-2026-09-22.json` at line 395, Update the tutorial text in
both variants so it describes observed or patched target predictions without
promising specific model outputs: revise the paragraph near the concept text,
the instruction to inspect the patched target result, and their corresponding
entries in prolificSeed.ts. Keep the guidance focused on comparing each prompt’s
independently observed result and locating the relevant row, without naming
Paris or Rome as guaranteed outcomes.

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In `@workbench/_web/src/tutorials/prolificSeed.ts`:
- Line 107: Update the Prolific seed’s checkFeedback setting in prolificSeed.ts
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In `@tutorial-cs1720-2026-09-22.json`:
- Line 395: Update the tutorial text in both variants so it describes observed
or patched target predictions without promising specific model outputs: revise
the paragraph near the concept text, the instruction to inspect the patched
target result, and their corresponding entries in prolificSeed.ts. Keep the
guidance focused on comparing each prompt’s independently observed result and
locating the relevant row, without naming Paris or Rome as guaranteed outcomes.

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A step used to render everything at once, so "run one of these prompts" competed
for attention with a check about a cell that wasn't on screen yet and a note
prompt asking what the model predicted before it had predicted anything. The
check and the note box are now held back until the participant has done the
step's action, and then revealed together.

Together rather than chained. Gating the note on the check being answered was
considered and rejected: someone who skips the check would then never be asked
to reflect, and on a manual step the note IS the completion gate.

The gate is a pure `hasDoneUnitAction`, beside `resolveCheckKey` and taking the
same arguments: run tokens for an `on: "run"` step, the patch token for
`on: "patch"`, and always true for `on: "manual"` -- explore and the final
challenge have no action to wait for.

Reveal keys off *any* run, never a successful one. u3-patterns completes on
`topTokenNotEqual: "10"`, so tying reveal to the predicate would hide the check
and the note from exactly the participant whose model did answer 10 -- the step
would look empty and done. The predicate governs completion; this governs what
is on screen.

Once revealed, it stays revealed: an answered check, a saved note, or a
completed unit forces it open. That override is load-bearing, not caution.
`runTokensByUnit` persists only entries naming a lens_runs row and is pruned on
load against the chart's activeLensRunId, so a step the participant genuinely
finished reads as un-run after a reload -- and without the override, a check
they had answered and a note they had written would disappear from the step
holding them.

Not gated: task, concept, prompt bank, hints, FAQs, tryYourOwn, reset. The FAQs
in particular answer "nothing happens when I drag", so hiding them until after
the drag would inverted their purpose.

The revealed pair sits in an always-mounted aria-live wrapper so the insertion
is what gets announced, and focus never moves -- the participant is reading the
heatmap. No animation.

244 unit tests pass (was 239) and 25 Playwright (was 22), including that a
fresh step has no check or note box in the DOM at all, that both appear after
the run, and that an answered check plus a saved note outrank a pruned run key.
Each new assertion was mutation-checked: forcing the gate open fails the two
reveal tests only, and dropping the override fails the override test only.
tsc and lint unchanged from main at 34 and 60.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Saving a note collapsed the box to "✓ Thanks — your note was saved." and threw
away the text. On a step whose whole point is noticing something, the thing they
noticed is worth keeping in front of them while they read the heatmap it
describes — and it made the save feel like the note had gone somewhere else.

The prompt, the text and the receipt now sit together. Read-only: tutorial_events
is append-only and editing a note is its own feature with its own questions about
what a failed re-save looks like.

The text comes from the DB via the notes query the panel already holds, matched
on the unit's stable step id rather than the array index, so a tutorial edited
between the two sessions cannot show one step's note under another's prompt. It
falls back to the text typed this render because the optimistic cache seed is
skipped when the notes query has not settled yet (20d437a), so the DB copy can
be a beat behind the save. Guarded on non-empty, since progress restored from an
older client can carry the submitted flag with no text to show.

Both `saveNote` helpers in the spec now assert the text stays and the textarea
goes, and the notes test asserts the text is still there after a reload — where
it can only have come from the DB, because the component's own state is fresh.
Mutation-checked: disabling the render fails both notes tests, and they pass
again restored.

244 unit tests and 25 Playwright pass. tsc and lint unchanged from main at 34
and 60.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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