| { |
| "name": "Benchmark optimization loop", |
| "objective": "Improve a measurable system outcome through reproducible experiments without weakening correctness or protected secondary metrics.", |
| "trigger": { |
| "type": "scheduled", |
| "cadence_or_event": "A bounded overnight experiment window starts against a frozen benchmark baseline." |
| }, |
| "intake": { |
| "sources": ["baseline artifact and score", "frozen benchmark", "correctness suite", "experiment ledger", "compute budget"], |
| "selection_rule": "Run one falsifiable, non-duplicate candidate change at a time against the last accepted baseline." |
| }, |
| "workspace": { |
| "isolation": "Disposable worktree or sandbox per candidate, rooted at the last accepted artifact.", |
| "allowed_actions": ["read prior experiment receipts", "edit the declared optimization surface", "run correctness checks", "run the frozen benchmark"], |
| "disallowed_actions": ["edit scorers", "inspect holdout answers", "weaken correctness gates", "change multiple variables in one candidate"] |
| }, |
| "context": { |
| "required_files": ["benchmark specification", "correctness test configuration", "protected metric policy", "experiment ledger"], |
| "runtime_sources": ["environment fingerprint", "baseline score distribution", "candidate measurements", "compute usage"] |
| }, |
| "agents": [ |
| { |
| "role": "Experiment designer", |
| "responsibility": "Propose one falsifiable change and its expected effect without repeating a rejected hypothesis." |
| }, |
| { |
| "role": "Implementer", |
| "responsibility": "Apply only the declared candidate change in an isolated workspace." |
| }, |
| { |
| "role": "Verifier", |
| "responsibility": "Run unchanged correctness gates and repeated benchmark measurements." |
| }, |
| { |
| "role": "Recorder", |
| "responsibility": "Accept or reject the candidate and persist a reproducible experiment receipt." |
| } |
| ], |
| "verification": { |
| "gates": ["correctness and safety checks pass unchanged", "benchmark version and environment match the baseline", "primary metric improves by the minimum delta across required repeats", "protected secondary metrics remain within tolerance"], |
| "receipts": ["hypothesis", "candidate diff", "commands and environment fingerprint", "raw score distribution", "cost", "accept or reject decision"] |
| }, |
| "state": { |
| "artifacts": ["versioned accepted baseline", "experiment ledger", "candidate receipt"], |
| "update_rule": "Append every candidate with its hypothesis, diff, measurements, cost, and decision; only accepted candidates become the next baseline." |
| }, |
| "budget": { |
| "max_retries": 5, |
| "max_runtime_minutes": 240 |
| }, |
| "escalation": { |
| "conditions": ["metric conflicts with observed quality", "benchmark instability exceeds tolerance", "candidate changes the evaluator", "additional permissions or compute are required"], |
| "destination": "Experiment owner or evaluation lead" |
| }, |
| "exit": { |
| "success": "The target metric is reached reproducibly while correctness and protected metrics remain within policy.", |
| "stop_without_success": "Budget is exhausted, evidence is unstable, hypotheses repeat, or the next change requires owner judgment." |
| } |
| } |
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