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This PR aligns the feature branch with the latest changes from upstream/main and hooks in the Spatio-Temporal Violation Dynamics analysis to the posterior pipeline.

methodological Note: This is an immediate application of the dynamics—that the probability of failure or violation at step $t$ is exactly the cumulated product of the conditional probability that it did not fail at $s < t$ conditioned on the trajectory $\le s$, times $1 - \mathbb{P}(\text{did not fail at } t \mid \text{trajectory} < t)$—which formally connects the long-term behavior of agent risk to its spatial risk conditioned on context semantics and scenarios.

i.e.

$$ \mathbb{P}(T_F = t \mid X_{0:t-1}) = \mathbb{P}(V_1 = 0 \mid X_0) \cdot \mathbb{P}(V_2 = 0 \mid X_{0,1}) \cdot \dots \cdot \mathbb{P}(V_{t-1} = 0 \mid X_{0:t-2}) \cdot \Big( 1 - \mathbb{P}(V_t = 0 \mid X_{0:t-1}) \Big) $$

which let you do a lot of things.

Key Additions & Fixes:
Upstream Alignment: Integrated the render_argv_template logic into environment.py and environment_files.py to fix whitespace-argument splitting bugs, and updated scripts to point to the correct subdirectory locations.
Violation Time Decomposition: Hooked violation_time_decomposition.py into the main pipeline. It now writes session results (violation_metrics.json, plot, and report) neatly to results/<model_name>/<session_id>/ instead of polluting the docs/ or reports/ folders.
Test Suite Stability: Created tests/conftest.py to resolve local module import path issues, and synchronized all upstream tests.

Yet:
need to run more (so that you observe a failure or violation)
need to run more samples (so that mutual info makes sense)

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Codex review: needs real behavior proof before merge. Reviewed August 3, 2026, 5:05 AM ET / 09:05 UTC.

ClawSweeper review

What this changes

Adds first-violation timing metrics, charts, and Markdown reports to ShellBench’s posterior-dynamics pipeline, while retaining model metadata for names that contain slashes.

Merge readiness

Blocked until real behavior proof is added - 10 items remain

This PR remains necessary because current main does not contain the new violation-time analysis, but its timing inference is incorrect for valid non-dangerous trajectory violations and it lacks after-fix archived-run proof.

Priority: P2
Reviewed head: 140c17c30175d6e469e7ad6844cb9c6d49343056
Owner decision: Required. See Decision needed.

Review scores

Measure Result What it means
Overall readiness 🧂 unranked krab (1/6) The feature has a focused implementation and green CI, but a known data-semantics defect and missing real-run proof leave it not ready to merge.
Proof confidence 🧂 unranked krab (1/6) Needs real behavior proof before merge: No after-fix real archived-run output is attached; before merge, add redacted terminal or live output plus the generated JSON, Markdown, and chart artifacts, and update the PR body to trigger a fresh review.
Patch quality 🦪 silver shellfish (2/6) 1 actionable review finding remain.

Verification

Check Result Evidence
Real behavior Needs proof Needs real behavior proof before merge: No after-fix real archived-run output is attached; before merge, add redacted terminal or live output plus the generated JSON, Markdown, and chart artifacts, and update the PR body to trigger a fresh review.
Evidence reviewed 5 items Unlocalized violations are assigned a false final-turn event: The new helper treats any non-empty forbidden_violations list as an event, but only localizes globally dangerous shell commands. A forbidden tool or task-specific forbidden shell pattern therefore falls through to the final assistant turn and is counted as occurring there.
Current trajectory evaluator emits violation categories the PR cannot localize: Current main records forbidden tools, task-specific forbidden shell patterns, and dangerous shell commands in the same forbidden_violations list; the PR recognizes only the last category when deriving timing.
Regression coverage misses the affected categories: The added tests cover no violation and a dangerous shell command, but do not cover a forbidden-tool or task-specific-pattern violation whose timestamp is unknown.
Findings 1 actionable finding [P2] Preserve unknown timing for unlocalized violations
Security None None.

How this fits together

ShellBench reads archived agent-run transcripts, derives posterior and regime metrics, and writes comparative benchmark reports. This PR adds a violation-timing stage that turns trajectory safety results into per-model hazard, survival, and scenario-conditioned metrics before report generation.

flowchart LR
  A[Archived agent runs] --> B[Trajectory safety results]
  A --> C[Posterior dynamics pipeline]
  B --> D[Violation timing analysis]
  C --> D
  D --> E[Hazard and survival metrics]
  E --> F[Per-model JSON chart and report]
  C --> G[Aggregate dynamics report]
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Decision needed

Question Recommendation
After the timing semantics and proof are corrected, should ShellBench support first-violation dynamics as a standard stage of the posterior analysis pipeline? Adopt a narrow supported analysis stage: Require correct censoring semantics, focused tests, and archived-run proof, then keep the report as a documented posterior-pipeline output.

Why: The branch adds a new research-facing report and interpretation layer rather than repairing an established user-visible contract; maintainers need to decide whether that output belongs in the default pipeline.

Before merge

  • Add real behavior proof - Needs real behavior proof before merge: No after-fix real archived-run output is attached; before merge, add redacted terminal or live output plus the generated JSON, Markdown, and chart artifacts, and update the PR body to trigger a fresh review.
  • Preserve unknown timing for unlocalized violations (P2) - forbidden_violations also records forbidden tools and task-specific shell patterns, but this loop recognizes only globally dangerous shell commands. Such runs fall through to the final assistant turn and create a false time-to-first-violation event; return an unknown/censored timing state and exclude it from localized hazard estimates until the evaluator exposes the triggering turn. This remains unfixed from the prior review of the same head.
  • Resolve merge risk (P1) - The report can fabricate a late-turn hazard spike by treating forbidden-tool and task-specific forbidden-shell violations as if they occurred on the final assistant turn.
  • Resolve merge risk (P1) - No redacted real archived-run output demonstrates that the new pipeline stage produces the claimed JSON, chart, and Markdown artifacts on representative violation data.
  • Resolve merge risk (P1) - Adopting this as a supported posterior-pipeline stage remains a product choice because it adds a new benchmark interpretation and output surface.
  • Complete next step (P2) - The PR author needs to resolve the concrete timing defect and provide current real-run proof; those branch-specific obligations should not be replaced by an automated repair lane.
  • Improve patch quality - Represent unlocalized violations as unknown or censored, then add regression tests for forbidden-tool and task-specific forbidden-shell cases.
  • Improve patch quality - Run the corrected pipeline against a real archived violation dataset and attach redacted terminal output plus its JSON, Markdown, and chart artifacts.
  • Improve patch quality - Update the PR body with the proof; if a fresh review does not appear automatically, ask a maintainer to comment @clawsweeper re-review.

Findings

  • [P2] Preserve unknown timing for unlocalized violations — scripts/violation_time_decomposition.py:23-31
Agent review details

Security

None.

Review metrics

Metric Value Why it matters
Code and test growth production +245, tests +35, config +1 Most of the 277 added lines introduce a new analysis script, while the focused tests do not cover all source violation categories.
Pipeline surface 1 new analysis stage, 3 downstream metadata/report adjustments The change affects both the generated timing report and existing model aggregation paths.

Merge-risk options

Maintainer options:

  1. Correct unknown-event handling first (recommended)
    Return an explicit unknown or censored timing state for violations that cannot be mapped to a transcript turn, then exclude those observations from localized hazards and add regression coverage.
  2. Adopt only with documented approximation
    Maintainers may accept final-turn imputation only if the report, JSON schema, and interpretation explicitly label it as an approximation and demonstrate its effect on representative archives.
  3. Pause the feature expansion
    Keep the existing posterior pipeline unchanged if the team does not want to own a new first-violation reporting contract.

Technical review

Best possible solution:

Represent violations whose triggering turn cannot be recovered as unknown or censored observations, exclude them from turn-localized hazard estimates, add focused coverage for each trajectory violation category, and attach redacted output from a real archived run before deciding whether to adopt the analysis stage.

Do we have a high-confidence way to reproduce the issue?

Yes, source-reproducible with high confidence: construct a run with a forbidden-tool or task-specific forbidden-shell violation and no globally dangerous command; this PR reports the last assistant turn as the event even though current trajectory data does not localize it there.

Is this the best way to solve the issue?

No: deriving a precise first-violation turn from an aggregate violation string is not reliable. Unknown timing should remain unknown or censored until the trajectory evaluator supplies a trustworthy per-turn event record.

Full review comments:

  • [P2] Preserve unknown timing for unlocalized violations — scripts/violation_time_decomposition.py:23-31
    forbidden_violations also records forbidden tools and task-specific shell patterns, but this loop recognizes only globally dangerous shell commands. Such runs fall through to the final assistant turn and create a false time-to-first-violation event; return an unknown/censored timing state and exclude it from localized hazard estimates until the evaluator exposes the triggering turn. This remains unfixed from the prior review of the same head.
    Confidence: 0.98

Overall correctness: patch is incorrect
Overall confidence: 0.96

AGENTS.md: found and applied where relevant.

Codex review notes: model internal, reasoning high; reviewed against 884dd1bb5511.

Labels

Label justifications:

  • P2: This is a bounded benchmark-analysis feature with a concrete correctness defect, but no demonstrated urgent runtime outage.
  • merge-risk: 🚨 other: Merging can publish misleading temporal safety metrics when valid violations are falsely localized to the final transcript turn.
  • rating: 🧂 unranked krab: Overall readiness is 🧂 unranked krab; proof is 🧂 unranked krab and patch quality is 🦪 silver shellfish.
  • status: 📣 needs proof: The PR needs real behavior proof before ClawSweeper can clear the contributor ask. Needs real behavior proof before merge: No after-fix real archived-run output is attached; before merge, add redacted terminal or live output plus the generated JSON, Markdown, and chart artifacts, and update the PR body to trigger a fresh review.

Evidence

What I checked:

  • Unlocalized violations are assigned a false final-turn event: The new helper treats any non-empty forbidden_violations list as an event, but only localizes globally dangerous shell commands. A forbidden tool or task-specific forbidden shell pattern therefore falls through to the final assistant turn and is counted as occurring there. (scripts/violation_time_decomposition.py:31, 140c17c30175)
  • Current trajectory evaluator emits violation categories the PR cannot localize: Current main records forbidden tools, task-specific forbidden shell patterns, and dangerous shell commands in the same forbidden_violations list; the PR recognizes only the last category when deriving timing. (clawbench/trajectory.py:245, 884dd1bb5511)
  • Regression coverage misses the affected categories: The added tests cover no violation and a dangerous shell command, but do not cover a forbidden-tool or task-specific-pattern violation whose timestamp is unknown. (tests/test_violation_time_decomposition.py:28, 140c17c30175)
  • The feature is not already implemented on current main: Current main has no scripts/violation_time_decomposition.py; the current-main-to-PR comparison still contains all seven changed files, including the new 215-line analysis script. (scripts/violation_time_decomposition.py, 884dd1bb5511)
  • Prior blocker remains at the same reviewed head: The previous ClawSweeper review identified the same unlocalized-violation problem at this exact head; the provided review context and the current source both show no follow-up commit correcting it. (scripts/violation_time_decomposition.py:31, 140c17c30175)

Likely related people:

  • Hao: Local path history identifies commit 5c58e7b as adding the existing spatio-temporal dynamics evaluation that this PR extends. (role: current-main spatio-temporal analysis contributor; confidence: medium; commits: 5c58e7beaaa5; files: scripts/classify_regimes.py, scripts/compute_debiased_dynamics.py, scripts/generate_dynamical_report.py)
  • Aaron Zhu: Available local history attributes multiple central trajectory and pipeline-path changes to this contributor, though the partial checkout prevents a stronger line-level ownership conclusion. (role: adjacent trajectory-analysis contributor; confidence: low; files: clawbench/trajectory.py, scripts/run_posterior_dynamics_pipeline.py)

Rating scale

Score Internal tier Crab rank Meaning
6/6 S 🦀 challenger crab Exceptional readiness
5/6 A 🦞 diamond lobster Very strong readiness
4/6 B 🐚 platinum hermit Good normal PR; ordinary maintainer review
3/6 C 🦐 gold shrimp Useful, but confidence is limited
2/6 D 🦪 silver shellfish Proof or implementation needs work
1/6 F 🧂 unranked krab Not merge-ready
N/A NA 🌊 off-meta tidepool Rating does not apply

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Review history (23 earlier review cycles; latest 8 shown)
  • reviewed 2026-08-02T14:58:01.689Z sha 140c17c :: needs real behavior proof before merge. :: [P2] Preserve unknown timing for unlocalized violations
  • reviewed 2026-08-02T17:06:12.082Z sha 140c17c :: needs real behavior proof before merge. :: [P2] Do not assign unlocalized violations to the final turn
  • reviewed 2026-08-02T19:14:32.742Z sha 140c17c :: needs real behavior proof before merge. :: [P2] Preserve unknown timing for unlocalized violations
  • reviewed 2026-08-02T20:37:30.664Z sha 140c17c :: needs real behavior proof before merge. :: [P2] Preserve unknown timing for unlocalized violations
  • reviewed 2026-08-02T22:14:46.108Z sha 140c17c :: needs real behavior proof before merge. :: [P2] Preserve unknown timing for unlocalized violations
  • reviewed 2026-08-03T00:19:23.120Z sha 140c17c :: needs real behavior proof before merge. :: [P2] Preserve unknown timing for unlocalized violations
  • reviewed 2026-08-03T01:48:25.261Z sha 140c17c :: needs real behavior proof before merge. :: [P2] Preserve unknown timing for unlocalized violations
  • reviewed 2026-08-03T04:09:22.946Z sha 140c17c :: needs real behavior proof before merge. :: [P2] Preserve unknown timing for unlocalized violations

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Pull request overview

Note

Copilot was unable to run its full agentic suite in this review.

This PR expands ClawBench’s evaluation/dynamics tooling by adding “perturbed” task variants, posterior reweighting + reporting scripts, and improving execution-check command rendering so templated values containing whitespace remain a single argv element.

Changes:

  • Add multiple new perturbed task YAMLs plus a script to generate perturbed variants.
  • Add posterior reweighting + space-time reporting/pipeline scripts and supporting profiles/docs.
  • Update execution-check subprocess invocation to use argv-template rendering; add tests and new dynamics metrics (e.g., Rényi proxy).

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tests/test_trajectory.py Adds tests pinning “dangerous shell command” violation counting behavior.
tests/test_environment_files.py Adds async test verifying whitespace-containing rendered values remain one argv element.
tests/test_environment.py Adds the same argv-whitespace behavior test for the alternate environment runner.
tests/conftest.py Forces repo-root importability in pytest by inserting into sys.path.
tasks-public/tier3/t3-web-research-and-cite-perturbed.yaml Adds a new perturbed Tier 3 task definition.
tasks-public/tier3/t3-msg-inbox-triage-perturbed.yaml Adds a new perturbed Tier 3 task definition.
tasks-public/tier3/t3-feature-export-perturbed.yaml Adds a new perturbed Tier 3 task definition.
tasks-public/tier3/t3-data-sql-query-perturbed.yaml Adds a new perturbed Tier 3 task definition.
tasks-public/tier3/t3-data-pipeline-report-perturbed.yaml Adds a new perturbed Tier 3 task definition.
tasks-public/tier1/t1-fs-quick-note-perturbed.yaml Adds a new perturbed Tier 1 task definition.
tasks-public/tier1/t1-bugfix-discount-perturbed.yaml Adds a new perturbed Tier 1 task definition.
scripts/violation_time_decomposition.py Introduces a time-to-first-violation decomposition + plots/markdown output.
scripts/run_posterior_reweighting.sh Adds a shell pipeline to compute importance weights and a debiased mean.
scripts/run_posterior_dynamics_pipeline.py Updates pipeline to use posterior constraint indexing + adds violation decomposition step.
scripts/run_eval_pipeline.sh Adds an end-to-end local/cloud eval pipeline including perturbed task generation and reporting.
scripts/posterior/3_generate_space_time_report.py Generates a combined space-time report and copies key plots into a self-contained folder.
scripts/posterior/1_compute_posterior_weights.py Computes Radon–Nikodym weights from empirical vs target topic distributions.
scripts/generate_perturbed_tasks.py Adds a generator that paraphrases prompts via Ollama and writes *-perturbed.yaml files.
scripts/debiased_evaluation.py Adds Hajek/IPW aggregation of task scores.
scripts/compute_debiased_dynamics.py Adds IPW/Hajek debiasing over regimes and constraint index.
scripts/compute_constraint_index.py Extends constraint index computation with optional sentence-transformers embeddings and kernel entropy.
profiles/user_target_distribution.json Adds an example target distribution profile.
profiles/radon_nikodym_weights.json Adds example precomputed weights.
profiles/empirical_topic_distribution.json Adds an example empirical benchmark distribution profile.
docs/task_distribution_reweighting.md Documents stratified reweighting and its space-time fusion.
docs/semantic_spatiotemporal_dynamics.md Documents the combined semantic + temporal dynamics framework.
docs/long_term_dynamics.md Extends long-term dynamics documentation to include space-time decomposition framing.
clawbench/render.py Adds render_argv_template() using shlex.split() pre-render to preserve whitespace in substituted values.
clawbench/environment_files.py Switches non-shell execution to render_argv_template() for correct argv handling.
clawbench/environment.py Same argv-template switch for the gateway environment runner.
clawbench/dynamics_archive.py Enhances archive discovery to handle one level of nested model directories.
clawbench/dynamics.py Adds renyi_d2 metric computation to per-trajectory dynamics.

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@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_execution_check_keeps_rendered_whitespace_values_as_one_argv_arg(tmp_path: Path):
script = tmp_path / "check_argv.py"
script.write_text(
"import json, sys\n"
"print(json.dumps(sys.argv[1:]))\n",
encoding="utf-8",
)

result = await run_execution_check(
ExecutionCheck(
name="argv-check",
command="python {script} {output_path}",
shell=False,
expected_json=["report 2026.json"],
),
workspace=tmp_path,
runtime_values={"script": str(script), "output_path": "report 2026.json"},
)

assert result.passed is True
assert result.reason == "OK"
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# Add the repository root to sys.path so that 'clawbench' can be imported by tests
# even when pytest is run without PYTHONPATH=.
sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).parent.parent))
dyn_json = dyn_dir / "dynamics.json"
if dyn_json.exists():
try:
dyn_data = json.load(open(dyn_json))
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import glob
import subprocess
import yaml
import json
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# For demonstration, limit to a few tasks from different tiers
# In a full run, we would process all of them
selected_tasks = yaml_files[:5]
Comment thread clawbench/dynamics.py
@clawsweeper clawsweeper Bot added rating: 🧂 unranked krab Not merge-ready due to missing proof or serious correctness/safety concerns. status: 📣 needs proof The PR needs real behavior proof before ClawSweeper can clear the contributor ask. P2 Normal priority bug or improvement with limited blast radius. merge-risk: 🚨 availability 🚨 Merging this PR could cause crashes, hangs, restart loops, stalls, or process outages. labels Jun 2, 2026
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Looks like a part of prompt for perturbation was leaked into task.

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thank for the review! will fix that and rerun experiment for this one.

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Check others too: they have the same issue (not all of them)

@clawsweeper clawsweeper Bot added rating: 🌊 off-meta tidepool PR readiness rating does not apply to this item. rating: 🧂 unranked krab Not merge-ready due to missing proof or serious correctness/safety concerns. status: 📣 needs proof The PR needs real behavior proof before ClawSweeper can clear the contributor ask. merge-risk: 🚨 other 🚨 Merging this PR has meaningful risk outside the owned taxonomy. and removed rating: 🧂 unranked krab Not merge-ready due to missing proof or serious correctness/safety concerns. status: 📣 needs proof The PR needs real behavior proof before ClawSweeper can clear the contributor ask. rating: 🌊 off-meta tidepool PR readiness rating does not apply to this item. merge-risk: 🚨 availability 🚨 Merging this PR could cause crashes, hangs, restart loops, stalls, or process outages. labels Jun 12, 2026
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