Skip to content

Dream Cycle 2026-09-23: grounding-quality reconciliation — no new finding, backlog now 28 days - #321

Draft
stuinfla wants to merge 1 commit into
mainfrom
dream/2026-09-23-grounding-quality
Draft

stuinfla wants to merge 1 commit into
mainfrom
dream/2026-09-23-grounding-quality

Conversation

@stuinfla

Copy link
Copy Markdown
Owner

Dream Cycle 2026-09-23 — DEEP=grounding-quality, SCAN=retrieval-precision,citation-binding (slot 3 of 5, 20260923 % 5 == 3). No bonus deep dive tonight. Full report: docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-23-grounding-quality-report.md.

Read this first — the backlog, now 28 days

25 open dream/* PRs (#269 through #317), 100% draft, zero merged since #178 (2026-08-26). Ordinary fix//release/ PRs from the same window (#302, #306, #307, #309, #310, #315) merged normally — the gap is specific to the dream-cycle track, not general review capacity. This is not new information (every night since 2026-08-26 has flagged it), but the number keeps growing and this is a good moment for the owner to look, because tonight found nothing new to add to the pile — only reasons to merge what's already there.

Hypothesis

None reached the freeze-then-evaluate stage. This is a reconciliation night (same precedent as PR #269, 2026-09-08): re-verified this surface's last 3 nights against current main rather than re-deriving them.

Reconciliation findings (verified live tonight, not assumed)

  1. Issue [Dream Cycle 2026-09-03] grounding-quality: citation-header rank hijack needs only a relative (+1) offset, not exact-rank prediction + retrieval-precision,citation-binding scan #236 (2026-09-03, citation-header rank hijack) is still live — kb/verify-citation.mjs:38-39's own comment still names it unresolved. Its decision doc, ADR-0087, is itself unmerged in PR Dream Cycle 2026-09-13: recover ADR-0076 as ADR-0087 (issue #236) #287 (10 days old) — so a reviewer can't even read the Option A/B decision it's asking for.
  2. PR Dream Cycle 2026-09-18: grounding-quality — recover PR #239's provenance/receipt fix #297 (2026-09-18, recovers fix(eval-brain): provenance stratum credits verify-citation's receipt, not raw citations[0] #239) fixes gradeQuestion()'s provenance case reading top?.repo instead of the already-computed routedRepo. Confirmed tonight: still applies cleanly to current main (zero commits behind), and the bug it fixes is still live at scripts/eval-brain.mjs:95 today. This is the single lowest-effort, highest-confidence merge available on this surface right now.
  3. PR fix(eval-brain): routed metric can now catch a right-repo-wrong-file citation #270 (2026-09-08, routed/expectPath fix) is already integratedroutedRepo is in use at lines 85-87.

No new grounding-quality defect was found. Re-implementing #297's fix a second time tonight would be pure duplicate work — the same pattern driving this backlog (repeated re-verification instead of merges).

Evaluation Receipt

  • Targeted regression, zero diff applied to main: npx vitest run tests/unit/eval-brain-gate.test.mjs tests/unit/verify-citation.test.mjs → 45/45 pass.
  • npm run claims:verify: 3 PASS / 4 SKIP (standard composition, brain-dependent claims skip loudly).
  • npm run eval:gate: EVALUATED=blockedno brain at /root/.cache/ruvnet-brain/kb (container never materializes a corpus; not a credentials block, OPENROUTER_API_KEY present).

Darwin Lineage

Not run — no candidate diff, no continuous parameter to evolve.

Evidence

OBSERVATION (re-read scripts/eval-brain.mjs, kb/verify-citation.mjs, ADR namespace on current main) → MEASUREMENT (grep + targeted test run, reproduced live tonight) → INFERENCE (#297 still applies cleanly; ADR-0087's slot still free) → DECISION (no new work; reconcile and record).

Reward-Hack Check

N/A — no benchmark, threshold, or gold answer touched; no candidate code shipped.

Security Review

No new attack surface. Reconfirms, rather than newly discloses, the rank-hijack gap tracked in #236/ADR-0087.

ADR

None created — no architectural decision reached tonight.

Gist

LOCAL — no gh CLI or gist-creation MCP tool available this session.

Issue

NONE — per this repo's ISSUE DISPOSITION OVERRIDE: nothing new, reproduced, and unresolved surfaced tonight. Every finding above already has an open issue (#236) or an open, verified, non-duplicate fix PR (#287, #297).

Witness

SESSION_COMMIT = e89ea1ba167d9252ec99910304f534c8da5ca0ab
REPORT_HASH    = f909c798b8f6099d4fd6a8bd7650fcf43b1cef6bd3337a736b216fa5521ae7fc
WITNESS        = 7c152e1df8480839c4b5d2e7627a7912fe9cc8f1dd196747d761dd9cd41dd263

Full 5-step verifier procedure in the report.

Merge Policy

Human review required. autoMerge: false per dream.config.json (ADR-068) — the decision, not a default. This session never self-merges and never autonomously promotes candidate state. Draft, by design.


Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 noreply@anthropic.com
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GXKZAmDrfjpPHJYc99aqdd

🤖 Generated with Claude Code

https://claude.ai/code/session_01GXKZAmDrfjpPHJYc99aqdd


Generated by Claude Code

…IVE, no new finding

Slot 3/5 (20260923 % 5 == 3), DEEP=grounding-quality, SCAN=retrieval-precision,citation-binding.

Reconciled this surface's last 3 nights against current main rather than re-deriving:
issue #236's rank-hijack is still live (ADR-0087 itself unmerged in PR #287); PR #297's
provenance/receipt fix is still unmerged and still applies cleanly to a real, still-live
bug at scripts/eval-brain.mjs:95; PR #270's routed/expectPath fix is already integrated.
No new defect found — re-implementing #297 tonight would be duplicate work.

Full report: docs/dream-cycle/2026-09-23-grounding-quality-report.md
@vercel

vercel Bot commented Sep 23, 2026

Copy link
Copy Markdown

The latest updates on your projects. Learn more about Vercel for GitHub.

Project Deployment Actions Updated
explainer Ready Ready Preview Sep 23, 2026 8:43am UTC
ruvnet-brain Ready Ready Preview Sep 23, 2026 8:43am UTC

Request Review

This branch was successfully deployed

2 active deployments
Preview – explainer d9b7df86 Deployed Sep 23, 2026 by vercel[bot]
Preview – ruvnet-brain d9b7df86 Deployed Sep 23, 2026 by vercel[bot]
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment

Projects

None yet

Development

Successfully merging this pull request may close these issues.

2 participants