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Teknium a8ca904922 feat(evals): post-mortem harness — forensics lanes + live A/B + review probes for the #102117 run fixes
evals/postmortem/ turns the one-off audit behind tracking issue #103563 into
something anyone with a Hermes state.db copy (and optionally rotated
agent.log*) can run on their own fan-out:

  forensics/   common.py discovers the run tree (root = most descendants,
               compression-rollover children excluded so cost buckets stay
               disjoint), fits pricing from estimated_cost_usd, and five lanes
               recompute the OBSERVED figures: tokens (buckets, depth/duration
               shares, context reconstruction, excess-cache-write proxy, cap
               replay), logcalls (per-call cache behaviour from agent.log with
               coverage printed first; strict and loose plateau definitions
               reported separately), delegation (timeouts, orphaned children,
               polling hours, batch-join withheld child-hours, truncated
               summaries), tools (hardline blocks, foreground refusals,
               whole-file rewrites), goal_loop (nudges, parked barrier), rework
               (public-surface drop at PR open + post-open commit inventory).
               Every figure is labeled OBSERVED or MODELED.
  live_ab/     the per-PR A/Bs (real code paths, fake providers, temp
               HERMES_HOME), paths from argv.
  review_probes/ the independent /review's probes, credited and adapted; each
               reproduced a round-1 defect and the fixed head must pass it.
  run.py       runs the offline probes against one or two checkouts and prints
               PASS/FAIL side by side (--live adds the ones that spend cents).
  tests/       synthetic-DB smoke test for the lanes and runner.

On the run's DB the lanes reproduce the tracking issue's population exactly
(1,394 sessions, 93,284 calls, $19,302.59; cache_write $11,159.76) and on
main vs an integration checkout of the 13 PRs the runner shows every probe
FAIL -> PASS (two guard-only probes pass on both, noted in run.py).

The trajectories are deliberately not shipped: the DB holds 51,956 home
paths, 5,341 e-mails, private IPs, chat ids and real-shaped credentials in
tool output. The lane reports and recomputed JSON are in a secret gist
linked from #103563.
2026-09-05 09:13:10 -07:00

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"""Lane 1: where the money went, context sizes, and the compression-cap counterfactual.
Reproduces (for any run): cost by bucket and depth, the share of calls above context thresholds,
the excess-cache-write proxy, and the sawtooth replay of an absolute subagent context cap.
python -m evals.postmortem.forensics.tokens --db state_copy.db [--cap 200000 --floor 65000]
Every figure is labeled in the output as OBSERVED (from usage rows) or MODELED (reconstruction /
replay). The per-call context reconstruction estimates tokens from message character counts
(chars/3.5) plus the system-prompt and tool-schema sizes; it is a diagnostic, not a measurement.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import collections
import statistics
from typing import Any, Dict, List
from evals.postmortem.forensics.common import Run
CHARS_PER_TOKEN = 3.5
TOOL_SCHEMA_TOKENS = 12_000
def _per_call_context(run: Run, sid: str) -> List[Dict[str, Any]]:
"""Reconstructed prompt size at each assistant turn (MODELED)."""
ctx = run.system_prompt_len(sid) / CHARS_PER_TOKEN + TOOL_SCHEMA_TOKENS
calls, appended = [], 0.0
for m in run.messages(sid, "role, length(coalesce(content,'')) AS lc, length(coalesce(tool_calls,'')) AS ltc"):
if m["role"] == "assistant":
calls.append({"ctx": ctx, "appended_since_last": appended})
out = (m["lc"] + m["ltc"]) / CHARS_PER_TOKEN
ctx += out; appended = out
else:
ctx += m["lc"] / CHARS_PER_TOKEN; appended += m["lc"] / CHARS_PER_TOKEN
return calls
def sawtooth(calls: List[Dict[str, Any]], cap: int, floor: int) -> float:
"""Prompt tokens if the session compressed to ``floor`` whenever ctx exceeded ``cap`` (MODELED)."""
total, ctx = 0.0, None
for c in calls:
ctx = c["ctx"] if ctx is None else ctx + c["appended_since_last"]
if ctx > cap:
ctx = float(floor)
total += ctx
return total
def main(argv=None) -> int:
ap = Run.parser((__doc__ or "").split("\n\n")[0])
ap.add_argument("--cap", type=int, default=200_000)
ap.add_argument("--floor", type=int, default=65_000)
a = ap.parse_args(argv)
run = Run.open(a.db, root=a.root, out=a.out)
price = run.price_per_token
report: Dict[str, Any] = {"summary": run.summary()}
# OBSERVED: cost by depth, by duration bucket, top-N concentration
by_depth = collections.defaultdict(float)
for sid in run.in_run:
by_depth[run.depth[sid]] += run.cost(sid)
costs = sorted((run.cost(s) for s in run.in_run), reverse=True)
total = sum(costs) or 1.0
long_sessions = [s for s in run.in_run if (float(run.sessions[s].get("ended_at") or 0) - float(run.sessions[s].get("started_at") or 0)) > 3600]
report["observed"] = {
"cost_by_depth_usd": {d: round(v, 2) for d, v in sorted(by_depth.items())},
"top30_share": round(sum(costs[:30]) / total, 3),
"sessions_over_60min": len(long_sessions),
"sessions_over_60min_cost_share": round(sum(run.cost(s) for s in long_sessions) / total, 3),
}
# MODELED: per-call context distribution, excess cache-write proxy, sawtooth replay
all_calls, per_session = [], {}
est_total = actual_total = appended_total = 0.0
for sid in run.in_run:
calls = _per_call_context(run, sid)
if not calls:
continue
per_session[sid] = calls
all_calls.extend(c["ctx"] for c in calls)
appended_total += sum(c["appended_since_last"] for c in calls) + calls[0]["ctx"]
est_total += sum(c["ctx"] for c in calls)
s = run.sessions[sid]
actual_total += float(s.get("cache_read_tokens") or 0) + float(s.get("cache_write_tokens") or 0) + float(s.get("input_tokens") or 0)
n = len(all_calls) or 1
thresholds = {t: round(sum(1 for c in all_calls if c > t) / n, 3) for t in (100_000, 150_000, 200_000, 300_000)}
cache_write_tokens = sum(float(run.sessions[s].get("cache_write_tokens") or 0) for s in run.in_run)
excess = max(0.0, cache_write_tokens - appended_total)
base_prompt = sum(sum(c["ctx"] for c in v) for v in per_session.values())
capped_prompt = sum(sawtooth(v, a.cap, a.floor) for v in per_session.values())
ctx_spend = sum(float(run.sessions[s].get(c) or 0) * price[c] for s in run.in_run for c in ("cache_read_tokens", "cache_write_tokens"))
report["modeled"] = {
"note": "reconstructed from message sizes at chars/3.5; diagnostic, not a measurement",
"calls_reconstructed": len(all_calls),
"median_prompt_tokens": int(statistics.median(all_calls)) if all_calls else 0,
"share_of_calls_above": thresholds,
"reconstruction_vs_actual_ratio": round(est_total / actual_total, 3) if actual_total else None,
"excess_cache_write_proxy": {
"ideal_tokens_if_only_appended": int(appended_total), "actual_cache_write_tokens": int(cache_write_tokens),
"excess_tokens": int(excess), "excess_usd": round(excess * price["cache_write_tokens"], 2),
"caveats": ["token counts estimated", "ideal omits initial system/tool prefix writes", "reasoning accumulation omitted"],
},
"sawtooth_replay": {
"cap": a.cap, "floor": a.floor,
"prompt_tokens_ratio_capped_vs_actual": round(capped_prompt / base_prompt, 3) if base_prompt else None,
"context_spend_usd_observed": round(ctx_spend, 2),
"context_spend_usd_if_capped": round(ctx_spend * capped_prompt / base_prompt, 2) if base_prompt else None,
"caveats": ["excludes compression-call cost", "assumes read/write ratio unchanged", "ignores re-reads and quality effects"],
},
}
path = run.write("tokens.json", report)
o, m = report["observed"], report["modeled"]
print(f"[tokens] {run.summary()['sessions']} sessions, ${run.summary()['cost_usd']:,} | buckets {run.summary()['cost_by_bucket_usd']}")
print(f"[tokens] OBSERVED depth-2 share {by_depth.get(2,0)/total:.0%}, >60min share {o['sessions_over_60min_cost_share']:.0%}, top30 {o['top30_share']:.1%}")
print(f"[tokens] MODELED calls >150K ctx {m['share_of_calls_above'][150000]:.0%}; excess cache-write proxy ${m['excess_cache_write_proxy']['excess_usd']:,}")
print(f"[tokens] MODELED sawtooth cap {a.cap}: prompt volume x{m['sawtooth_replay']['prompt_tokens_ratio_capped_vs_actual']} -> context spend ${m['sawtooth_replay']['context_spend_usd_observed']:,} -> ${m['sawtooth_replay']['context_spend_usd_if_capped']:,}")
print(f"[tokens] wrote {path}")
return 0
if __name__ == "__main__":
raise SystemExit(main())