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Adds an advisory semantic-coverage engine (utils/eval_semantic.py). Structural spec-coverage scores marker density — a file can read 100% covered while the code inside its markers does the wrong thing. This engine adds the layer density can't reach: does a marked block implement the requirement it cites?

How

  • Rank first, judge last. A deterministic, stdlib-only token-overlap pre-filter scores every marked block against its requirement text and surfaces the weak links (low overlap). Only those go to a model, so a large repo triggers zero model calls per block. The pre-filter is a budget heuristic, not a correctness oracle — a strong-overlap presumed_covered block buys itself out of a model call, it is never evidence the block is correct (lexical overlap is gameable; comments/string literals are stripped before scoring so prose echoing the requirement can't inflate it).
  • Seam, not transport. The model call is a pluggable SemanticJudgeFn supplied out-of-tree; with none wired, every weak link is unjudgeable (never a false verdict) and nothing gates. This module contains no model client.
  • Advisory, never gates. A verdict here never touches an exit code.
  • Honest coverage. Blocks with no retrievable requirement, or too little text to compare, are reported unjudgeable — never a silent "covered". Every block is accounted for exactly once: assessed + presumed_covered + unjudgeable + skipped_excluded. Each verdict carries an evidence check (a quote absent from the code sets evidence_ok=false).
  • Scoped by the coverage-report contract. Files a human declared excluded are skipped; whole_file_claims files are always judged regardless of overlap — that's where a green structural number most plausibly hides wrong code.
  • Optional calibration over gold-labelled pairings reports the judge's accuracy + run-to-run consistency, honestly excluding unscoreable / crashed / no-majority (tie) cases and reporting effective sample size rather than deflating or inflating the metric.

Tests & gates

  • New tests span unit, adversarial (wrong code surfaced; comment- and escaped-quote-literal masking; non-ASCII/Cyrillic), fail-safe (a judge that raises, and a reply object whose attribute access itself raises), honest-accounting, calibration integrity, and property-based invariants — seed-deterministic generated inputs asserting overlap stays in [0,1]∪{None}, the accounting identity always holds, tokenize never emits short/stopword tokens, and assess/calibrate never raise.
  • cfs validate PASS (CPT markers 1:1) · spec-coverage thresholds met · pylint · vulture-ci · 100% line coverage on the new module; full suite green.

Scope

Library + tests. The coverage-report field integration and the cfs command surface are the follow-up.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added semantic coverage assessment for marked code blocks against cited requirements.
    • Weak matches can receive advisory coverage verdicts and rationales.
    • Added evidence-quote verification and honest unjudgeable reporting.
    • Added support for excluded items and whole-file claims.
    • Added calibration tools to measure assessment accuracy and consistency.
  • Documentation

    • Documented the semantic coverage workflow and acceptance criteria.
  • Tests

    • Added comprehensive coverage for scoring, judging, evidence validation, error handling, scoping, and calibration.

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Adds semantic coverage evaluation for marked code blocks. The evaluator ranks code-to-requirement pairings, sends weak links to an optional judge, verifies evidence, handles scope exclusions, reports unjudgeable cases, and measures calibration.

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Semantic coverage evaluation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Pairing ranking and coverage scope
skills/studio/scripts/studio/utils/eval_semantic.py, architecture/features/eval-harness.md
Adds semantic data models, grammar-aware tokenization, overlap scoring, deterministic ranking, and excluded[]/whole_file_claims[] scope handling.
Advisory judging and report aggregation
skills/studio/scripts/studio/utils/eval_semantic.py, architecture/features/eval-harness.md
Adds bounded judge requests, verdict validation, evidence verification, failure degradation, reference judging, and semantic report aggregation.
Requirement resolution and calibration
skills/studio/scripts/studio/utils/eval_semantic.py, vulture_whitelist.py
Adds requirement and gold-label loading, repeated calibration metrics, and whitelist entries for the public semantic evaluation API.
Behavioral validation
tests/test_eval_semantic.py
Tests scoring, scope, judge failures, evidence checks, calibration, Unicode handling, prompt bounds, grammar-aware lexing, and randomized invariants.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 98373

The advisory semantic-coverage engine can still raise an IndexError on certain source mappings instead of returning an unjudgeable result, which can disrupt consumers of the assessment API; the PR should address or explicitly accept this bounded correctness risk before merging.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Evaluator
  participant SemanticJudgeFn
  participant SemanticReport
  Evaluator->>Evaluator: Rank code blocks by requirement overlap
  Evaluator->>SemanticJudgeFn: Send weak-link SemanticRequest
  SemanticJudgeFn-->>Evaluator: Return SemanticReply
  Evaluator->>SemanticReport: Record finding and evidence status
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556-562: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Compute _pairing_unscoreable once per case.

Lines 557 and 558 evaluate _pairing_unscoreable for every case twice. The predicate calls overlap_score, which tokenizes the full code and requirement each time. A single partition pass removes the duplicate work and keeps the two lists provably complementary.

♻️ Proposed refactor
     runs = max(1, runs)
-    scoreable = [(pairing, gold) for pairing, gold in cases if not _pairing_unscoreable(pairing)]
-    excluded = [pairing.block_id for pairing, _ in cases if _pairing_unscoreable(pairing)]
+    scoreable: List[Tuple[Pairing, SemanticGold]] = []
+    excluded: List[str] = []
+    for pairing, gold in cases:
+        if _pairing_unscoreable(pairing):
+            excluded.append(pairing.block_id)
+        else:
+            scoreable.append((pairing, gold))
     outcomes = [(pairing, _calibrate_case(pairing, gold, judge_fn, runs))
                 for pairing, gold in scoreable]
-    excluded = excluded + [pairing.block_id for pairing, out in outcomes if out[0]]  # out[0]: unscoreable?
+    excluded += [pairing.block_id for pairing, out in outcomes if out[0]]  # out[0]: unscoreable?
     scored = [out for _, out in outcomes if not out[0]]
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In `@skills/studio/scripts/studio/utils/eval_semantic.py` around lines 556 - 562,
Refactor the case partitioning around _pairing_unscoreable so each pairing is
evaluated once, producing complementary scoreable and excluded collections from
a single pass. Use those collections in the existing _calibrate_case, outcomes,
and scored flow without changing behavior.
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In `@architecture/features/eval-harness.md`:
- Around line 211-212: Insert a blank line between the final Calibration list
item and the “Assess Semantic Coverage” heading to satisfy Markdown heading
spacing and preserve correct rendering.

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In `@skills/studio/scripts/studio/utils/eval_semantic.py`:
- Around line 556-562: Refactor the case partitioning around
_pairing_unscoreable so each pairing is evaluated once, producing complementary
scoreable and excluded collections from a single pass. Use those collections in
the existing _calibrate_case, outcomes, and scored flow without changing
behavior.
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- Around line 240-241: Update the semantic calibration documentation item
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consistency, and effective sample size, while excluding unscoreable, crashed,
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Thanks for the thorough review, @ainetx — genuinely sharp catches. I've replied inline on each thread with specifics; consolidating the picture here.

All 19 are addressed in the latest push (87833cc): 14 fixed with tests (code/docs), 2 acknowledged as documented limitations of a lexical pre-filter, and 3 declined/deferred with reasoning. CI is green.

The one change worth surfacing above the thread level: your evidence-guard finding (and the comment/docstring edge cases around it) led me to replace the regex-based comment/string stripping with a single grammar-aware tokenize pass. Python's comments and string literals are mutually recursive — a # lives inside strings, a ''' lives inside comments — so no sequence of independent regexes can lex them correctly. The tokenizer now derives both views in one pass (overlap: comments + all strings blanked so prose can't inflate the score; evidence: comments + docstrings blanked but inline string literals kept, so a real executed string is valid evidence while a comment/docstring-only quote is not), which eliminates that whole class of edge case. New regression tests cover the docstring-inside-a-comment and #-inside-a-string cases.

Three items I've declined or deferred — these are the ones where I'd value your read, since they're judgment calls rather than clear fixes:

  • Uncapped structured SemanticRequest fields — deliberate: only the rendered prompt is bounded; the full code/requirement feed the evidence guard and host-built prompts. Happy to add a cap if you'd prefer one.
  • Path containment — no in-engine traversal vector (block_id never selects a file); I've placed it at the id→path mapping in the reporting-integration follow-up, but can add an explicit guard in-engine now if you'd rather.
  • Full lists vs streaming — kept the simple full-list form for an advisory pass at this scale.

Everything else is fixed with regression tests. Glad to iterate on any of it.

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192-206: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Remove redundant IndentationError from the exception tuple.

IndentationError subclasses SyntaxError, so listing both does not change the fallback behavior.

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In `@skills/studio/scripts/studio/utils/eval_semantic.py` around lines 192 - 206,
Remove the redundant IndentationError entry from the exception tuple in the
tokenization function, leaving SyntaxError to cover it while preserving the
existing fallback behavior.

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- Line 237: Update the documentation wording in the checklist item around the
`inst-semantic-strip` reference to use the British spelling `tokenise` instead
of `tokenize`, matching the surrounding documentation terminology.

In `@skills/studio/scripts/studio/utils/eval_semantic.py`:
- Line 166: Update _STATEMENT_START to include _tokenize.DEDENT so
statement-leading strings after dedentation are recognized as docstrings by
evidence_present, then add a regression test covering a quote in a dedented
statement-leading string and verifying evidence_ok is set correctly.

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exception tuple in the tokenization function, leaving SyntaxError to cover it
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Token-overlap pre-filter surfaces weak links between a marked block and
the requirement it cites; an injected SemanticJudgeFn rules only on those
(covered/partial/wrong), advisory and never gating. Honest by construction:
unjudgeable-not-zero, an evidence guard on every quote, and full per-block
accounting (assessed + presumed_covered + unjudgeable). Library + tests;
report integration is the follow-up.

Signed-off-by: Sanjeev Solanki <sanjeev.solanki@constructor.tech>
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Deep Review complete: 22 findings across 6 phases (58 checks), all Minor/Major severity, no Critical/blocker. Author addressed all findings across two fix rounds (commits a1a41a1, 98373d3) — 20 fixed/documented, 2 declined with valid rationale. All CI checks green (tests on Python 3.11-3.14, coverage ≥90%, pylint, dead code scan, SonarQube). Approving.

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