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  • An assertion no grader could attempt was being counted as an assertion the skill failed. Those are different results. One says the skill got it wrong, the other says the suite never asked, and a harness that conflates them reports a number it did not measure.
  • The tally, the pass rate and the summary now carry ungraded as its own outcome, so a run with no judge configured no longer reads as a run the skill lost.
  • valid_json and schema_validation cover two cases that were reaching the judge only because nothing mechanical could answer them, which is the most common way a suite ends up measuring less than it declared.

Behavior change

grade now exits non-zero whenever anything went ungraded, in every mode rather than only under --strict, and the ci gate refuses to pass for the same reason. A suite that silently measured less than it declared was reporting success, which is the failure this change exists to stop. Callers that relied on a zero exit from a suite with prose assertions and no judge configured will now see a failure, and the intended fix is to configure a grader or to drop the assertions the suite cannot answer.

a prose assertion claiming to validate against a named schema was only
ever checked for well-formed json, so a broken schema conformance rule
could pass every run silently

Signed-off-by: Yordis Prieto <yordis.prieto@gmail.com>
an assertion no mechanical pattern recognized and no judge was ever
asked about was being counted the same as one that was actually
checked and found wanting, so a runner nobody could observe dragged
the pass rate down for a reason it never earned

routing valid json and schema validation prose through the same typed
graders keeps the sniffer and the declarative form from disagreeing
about what counts as a real answer

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a workspace check that agreed with a grading file on every other tally
would still wave through a mismatched ungraded count, letting the two
sources of truth about what got measured drift apart unnoticed

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strict mode was the only mode that treated an ungradable suite as
worse than a quiet pass, so a normal run could report success while
never having checked most of what it claimed to

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the ci gate reconciled pass rate against every non-scoring outcome
except this one, so a suite that measured nothing could still clear
--min-pass-rate, and the annotation builder had its own separate
is_scored logic that never learned about it either

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the reference doc described three non-scoring outcomes and two
graders that no longer matched what the harness actually does

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Both claims survived mutation without one: folding ungraded back into failed, and dropping it from the exit code, each left the suite green.

Signed-off-by: Yordis Prieto <yordis.prieto@gmail.com>
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Breaking change: eval grade and CI now exit non-zero on any ungraded assertion (not only under --strict), which affects suites with prose checks and no judge configured.

Overview
Introduces ungraded as a first-class grading outcome: assertions that match no mechanical pattern and are not sent to an LLM judge (or a script grader that never produced a verdict) are no longer tallied as failed. grading.json, pass-rate math, verify validation, and CI metrics all treat ungraded like unsupported/excluded for scoring, while eval grade, eval verify, and eval ci now fail the gate whenever any assertion is ungraded so a partially measured suite cannot exit clean.

Adds mechanical valid_json and schema_validation graders (manifest schema + runtime in graders.rs), with schemas resolved under the skill directory and broken/missing schemas surfaced as authoring errors rather than run failures. Prose assertion parsing is tightened (AssertionText, safer quoting, regex/schema phrasing), and script graders record crashes and early exits as ungraded while avoiding stdin/stdout pipe deadlocks when payloads are large.

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The change adds valid_json and schema_validation graders. It adds explicit ungraded result tracking, excludes ungraded assertions from scoring, and makes grading, verification, and CI commands fail when assertions remain ungraded.

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Grader contracts and evaluation

Layer / File(s) Summary
JSON and schema-validation graders
crates/trg/schemas/evals.json.schema.json, crates/trg/src/agentskills/graders.rs, crates/trg/src/agentskills/grading.rs, crates/trg/docs/reference/ai-skills-eval.md
The evaluator supports valid_json and schema_validation. Schema files resolve relative to the skill directory. Missing, unreadable, non-JSON, or invalid schema files produce authoring errors.
Grader validation coverage
crates/trg/src/agentskills/graders.rs, crates/trg/src/agentskills/grading.rs
Tests cover JSON parsing, schema validation, schema resolution, grader descriptions, round trips, and malformed schemas.

Ungraded result accounting

Layer / File(s) Summary
Ungraded grading state
crates/trg/src/agentskills/grading.rs, crates/trg/schemas/grading.json.schema.json
Assertion results, summaries, and reports now store ungraded information. Ungraded assertions are excluded from failures, scored counts, and pass-rate denominators.
Workspace aggregation and fixtures
crates/trg/src/agentskills/evals.rs, crates/trg/src/agentskills/improvement_bundle.rs, crates/trg/src/agentskills/schemas.rs
Workspace checks aggregate ungraded counts and validate them against assertion results. Fixtures include the new fields.

Reporting and gates

Layer / File(s) Summary
CI reporting and enforcement
crates/trg/src/agentskills/ci.rs, crates/trg/src/agentskills/evals.rs
CI metrics and annotations include ungraded counts. CI emits an Ungraded violation and excludes ungraded assertions from failed-assertion annotations.
Grade command behavior
crates/trg/src/commands/ai/skills/eval/grade.rs, crates/trg/docs/reference/ai-skills-eval.md
The grade command prints ungraded counts and samples. It exits with status 1 when any assertion is ungraded, regardless of strict. Documentation describes the updated scoring and command behavior.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant EvalConfig
  participant Grader
  participant Grading
  participant CI
  EvalConfig->>Grader: evaluate valid_json or schema_validation
  Grader-->>Grading: return result or authoring error
  Grading->>Grading: count ungraded assertions
  Grading-->>CI: provide workspace metrics
  CI-->>CI: emit Ungraded violation when count is positive
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Grading can misattribute broken grader processes to a skill and reject valid schema assertions whose filenames contain case-sensitive characters or quotes. These correctness issues should be fixed before merge.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: separating assertions that were not graded from assertions that failed.
Description check ✅ Passed The description accurately explains the ungraded outcome, reporting changes, exit-code behavior, CI behavior, and new graders introduced by the changeset.
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A suite naming a schema that does not exist was reporting the skill failing, and only admitted to the typo once the run started producing parseable json.

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In `@crates/trg/src/agentskills/grading.rs`:
- Line 822: Update grade_with_script to return an EvalError whenever the grading
script exits with a non-zero status, instead of producing a result with passed:
false and ungraded: None. Preserve assertion-mismatch handling so a successfully
exiting script that returns "passed": false remains a graded failure counted by
GradingCounts::tally.
- Around line 1076-1078: Update the prose schema assertion parsing in the
surrounding grading logic to extract the schema filename and target path from
the original assertion rather than the lowercased `lower` value. Strip matching
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A lowercased copy of the assertion is the right thing to match keywords against and the wrong thing to capture from: a schema named Report.schema.json was looked up in lowercase and reported missing on a case-sensitive filesystem, and taking the first slash pair in the whole string meant any assertion naming a path was read as a regex, which made the documented schema form unreachable.

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Comment thread crates/trg/src/agentskills/grading.rs
Quoting is how an author writes a path that carries a space, and only some of the capture
sites stripped the quotes, so a schema named the way the docs describe was opened under a
filename that still had the quote characters in it.

A grader script that exited non-zero was recorded as a failed assertion, which reads as
evidence the skill did the wrong thing when the only thing known is that nothing graded it.

Signed-off-by: Yordis Prieto <yordis.prieto@gmail.com>
A script which exits before draining its payload closes the pipe under the harness, and
treating that as harness I/O aborted the whole run over one broken grader, discarding every
case already paid for under a cost ceiling. Whichever of the two won the race decided it, so
the same grader passed on one platform and took the run down on another.

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Handing the payload over before reading anything back means a grader free to print before it
reads can fill a buffer only the harness drains while the harness fills one only the grader
drains, and neither gives way. A hang is worse than a crash here: the run reports nothing at
all, and the cost ceiling that would have bounded it never gets the chance.

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passed: false,
evidence: format!(
"script grader exited with {}: {}",
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Ungraded arm-scoped checks can pass

Medium Severity

An arm-scoped deferred grader that nothing attempted (ungraded plus excluded) is tallied as excluded only, and restore_when_nothing_would_be_scored will not lift it. grade and ci then see ungraded == 0 and can exit clean even though the suite never measured those checks. The ungraded_assertions list still includes them, so the printed count and the listed assertions can disagree.

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