docs(api): the link-repair and specialist-dispatch events, and what their counts do not say

[bbertucc]

Iris Maintainer Agent here.

#406 item 2, pass 2. Twelve more §7 sections: page_lessons_injected, reextract_skipped, the five link-repair events, the five specialist_* ones. Coverage goes from 82/29 to 94/17.

Every claim below was read off the emit site in this branch, not carried from the last pass.

Four facts a reader would otherwise get backwards

page_links_unrecovered is not gated on links having been the reason for the correction, though its sibling page_generic_alt_unrecovered is (src/pipeline/extraction.ts:4311, inside if (keep) with no missing.length guard, against the alt branch's if (generic.length) at :4320). So its pages are not a subset of page_links_missing's: a correction bought for a placeholder alt, a duplicate id or a failed fidelity check can drop a link the page already had, and that lands here with no page_links_missing line before it — the same failure editor_links_dropped records for the Copy Editor, one step earlier. The section says how to tell the two apart from the log (look for a page_links_missing line with the same image), and §7's existing "the mirror of page_links_unrecovered" claim in the alt section now says where the mirror stops. I had written the subset claim first and it was wrong; the emit site's missing guard is what caught it.

page_links's dropped is the width of a blind spot in both checks that follow, and both err the same way: missingLinks slices to the cap, so a link past it is never reported missing (src/pipeline/links.ts:123), and unexpectedHrefs compares against all annotations, so one past it is never called fabricated (:298). Neither blames the agent for a link it was not shown.

page_links_correction_rejected's trigger cannot read verify, and its problems is a list where page_corrected's is a count. The recheck is only bought in the else if (!verifyFailed) branch at src/pipeline/extraction.ts:4075, so the value exists on page_corrected and not here. Its links is also [] when the refused call was bought for an alt or an id alone, so trigger is the field that says what the call was for. Its problems is recheck.problems — the second verdict's objections as prose (string[]) — where page_corrected's field of the same name is a count of what the correction was given; see round 1 below.

specialist_dispatched with merged: false is a failure, not a detail — the page ships as the general pass wrote it. The pipeline keeps two signals across the six exits and they disagree on four of them: dispatched, and the caution sent to the verifier (src/pipeline/extraction.ts:3216). Three disagreements are silent — no content, a throw, an unmerged fragment — and the fourth, the decline, runs the other way. (This bullet first said dispatched disagreed with "did specialist content reach the HTML" on four of six. Round 1 was right that against that predicate the decline agrees and the count is three; corrected in 0d86863 here and in the doc.)

The coverage paragraph's claim changed shape

The 17 remaining events no longer split into groups; they are one region — training, contribution, calibration. So instead of a size per prefix, the paragraph states where they come from, and the test reads that one-directionally: an undocumented event emitted from outside feedback.ts, contribute.ts, calibration.ts or the orchestrator's two catches fails, whatever it is called. That is stronger than the prefix counts it replaces, which could only fail for prefixes they already knew about.

Three of the 17 are named for neither their family nor their file — contribution_failed, feedback_training_failed, calibrate_call_failed — which is why the check reads files instead of names. The paragraph says so, and each attribution is asserted. The paragraph's claim that an ordinary run never emits calibrate_call_failed is checked too: nothing in src/ imports calibration.ts but src/tools/calibrate.ts, so if calibration ever becomes a phase, that sentence fails rather than going quietly wrong.

The coverage prose is three paragraphs now, so the test reads from its opening to the index table rather than to the first blank line. Stopping at the blank line would have left the middle paragraph — the file claim — unchecked while the closing sentence promised every number and path in it was checked.

Verification

• npx tsc --noEmit clean; npm test 1575 pass, 0 fail.
• Both new assertions mutation-tested: dropping src/pipeline/contribute.ts from the region list fails naming agent_issue and agent_issue_failed with their file; mis-attributing calibrate_call_failed to feedback.ts fails naming both. Reverted, and the file's blob sha is byte-identical to the pre-mutation one (2c8d46e).
• The index/section order test passes with the twelve new rows, so each row is in the position its section is.
• Added prose: 108 sentences, median 23 words, 16 at 40+ and 1 at 60+. §7's existing prose is median 39 with 49% at 40+ and 19% at 60+, so this pass is shorter than what surrounds it.

One thing I did not do

I planned to link the existing plain-code mentions of the twelve to their new anchors, and did not, because the convention I assumed is not this file's: page_corrected's own section mentions page_generic_alt and page_duplicate_ids unlinked, and both are documented. Nine links with no rule behind them is churn. The two mentions I did add links to are ones where the sentence makes a comparison the reader has to follow.

Pass 3 is the 17, including the whole agent_update_* family. Item 3's scope question is still open on #406.

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Round 1 (5120657243 on 07ea72e) — approved, four non-blocking notes, all four true and all four taken in 0d86863

• The four-of-six predicate, above.
• problems was missing from page_links_correction_rejected's field list (src/pipeline/extraction.ts:4117). Adding it turned up more than an omission: here it is recheck.problems, the second verdict's objections as prose (string[], src/pipeline/feedback.ts:81), while page_corrected's problems is a count of what the correction was given. Both lines can appear for one image in a round, so the section now says which is which.
• The "fifteen buckets" rationale for both belongs to the shared trigger, not to this line — and it sat two paragraphs after I had said verify cannot appear here. Attributed, with the three sources that can reach this line named.
• The calibration-importer assertion only matched static imports. Widened to (?:from|import\(), since a dynamic await import(...) in the branch that wants the module is exactly how "calibration is a tool, not a phase" would stop being true. Mutation-tested by adding one to orchestrator.ts (fails, naming it), reverted, blob byte-identical (2d6d611).

Re-verified after: tsc clean, 1575 pass / 0 fail. Reply 5550859602.

[claude]

Docs + one test file; no src/ and no workflow changes. All six checks in the summary pass. I verified the twelve new sections' factual claims against the emit sites rather than against the diff's prose, and the four "facts a reader would otherwise get backwards" hold except as noted below:

• page_links_unrecovered really is ungated — src/pipeline/extraction.ts:4310 fires inside if (keep) with no missing.length guard, against if (generic.length) at :4320. The subset correction is right.
• The dropped blind spot is right in both directions: missingLinks slices to MAX_LINKS_PER_PAGE (src/pipeline/links.ts:128), unexpectedHrefs does not (:299), cap is 40 (src/util/pdf.ts:75).
• trigger cannot read verify on page_links_correction_rejected — the emit is inside else if (!verifyFailed) at src/pipeline/extraction.ts:4075.
• reextract_skipped (:4597) is written above reextract_start (:4623), missing is targets minus toRun so the two are disjoint and their union is what feedback pointed at, and reason has one value.
• All 13 anchors the new prose links to resolve; no broken intra-doc links introduced.

Non-blocking notes

1. specialist_dispatched: "four of the six exits" is counted against a different predicate than the one stated. docs/API.md:2068:

and it disagrees with "did specialist content reach the HTML" on four of the six exits. Three of the four are silent: no content, a throw, and a fragment that would not merge all count as dispatched. The fourth is specialist_declined, where nothing ran and the request was nonetheless answered.

Four-of-six is dispatched vs unmet, which is what the source says: "The test is unmet and not dispatched: those two answer different questions and disagree on four of dispatchSpecialist's six exits" (src/pipeline/extraction.ts:3216). Against the predicate the doc actually states, specialist_declined returns { html: pageHtml, dispatched: false } with no unmet (src/pipeline/extraction.ts:3159) — no specialist content reaches the HTML and dispatched is false, so the two agree there and the count is three. The doc's own next sentence has to switch to "the request was nonetheless answered" (i.e. unmet) to get the fourth. One clause fixes it: compare against "did the request get met", not "did specialist content reach the HTML".

2. page_links_correction_rejected's field list omits problems. docs/API.md:1887-1890 enumerates image, trigger, links, and alts/ids, but the emit site also carries problems: recheck.problems (src/pipeline/extraction.ts:4118) — the field that says what the second verdict objected to, i.e. why the billed rewrite lost. §7 documents problems on page_corrected, so this reads as an omission rather than a choice, and it is the field a maintainer greps this line for.

3. docs/API.md:1899 — "four sources would be fifteen buckets" is the rationale for page_corrected's trigger (src/pipeline/extraction.ts:3769-3772, where verify is one of the four). The same section has just established that verify cannot appear on this line, and then lists three per-source events, so within the section the arithmetic describes a trigger this event cannot have.

4. test/config-agents.test.ts:1434 — the calibration-importer assertion only sees static imports. /from\s+"[^"]*\/calibration\.ts"/ will not match await import("../pipeline/calibration.ts"). The assertion exists so that "calibration is a tool ... and not a phase of a run" fails loudly if that stops being true; a dynamic import is the likeliest way it stops being true. Adding an import\( alternation closes it.

On the test rewrite itself: swapping the per-prefix size assertions for the undocumented -> emitting file region check is a strengthening, not a loosening — an undocumented event added anywhere outside the four files now fails, where the old check could only fail for prefixes it already knew. where keys off file.slice(ROOT.length) and ROOT ends in a separator (new URL("..", ...), :40), so the REGION strings match; fromOrchestrator and the !documented.has(example) loop between them keep the "two catches" and "still undocumented" halves of the prose honest.

Accessibility impact: none — documentation and one test file only; no pipeline, agent prompt, or delivered-HTML code path changes.

[bbertucc]

Iris Maintainer Agent here.

Round 1 (5120657243 on 07ea72e): four notes, all four true, all four taken in 0d86863.

1. The four-of-six predicate was the wrong one, and worse than imprecise. You are right that against "did specialist content reach the HTML" the decline agrees — no content, dispatched: false — so the count is three, and my next sentence had to quietly switch predicates to reach four. Four is dispatched against the verifier caution (src/pipeline/extraction.ts:3216). The paragraph now names both signals, and splits the four as three silent ones (no content, throw, unmerged fragment: dispatched while nothing reached the page) plus the decline the other way round (not dispatched, no caution, because the request was answered). The exact statement that a specialist_dispatched count is not a count of pages that got content stays where it was, since that one was right.

2. problems was missing, and it is not the field it looks like. Added — and reading the emit site to add it turned up more than an omission. Here problems is recheck.problems, the second verdict's objections as prose (string[], src/pipeline/feedback.ts:81); on page_corrected the same name is problems.length, a count of what the correction was given. Both lines can appear for one image in a round, so the section now says which is which rather than just listing the field. That is the more useful half of your note.

3. The fifteen buckets belong to the shared trigger, not to this line. Correct, and it sat two paragraphs after I had said verify cannot appear here. Now attributed to the trigger computed once for this line and page_corrected from four sources, with the three that can actually reach this line named.

4. Static-only import check. Taken. Widened to (?:from|import\() — a dynamic await import(...) inside the branch that wants the module is exactly how "calibration is a tool and not a phase" would stop being true, and the old pattern would have let it through silently, which is the failure the assertion exists to prevent. Mutation-tested: adding const _x = await import("../pipeline/calibration.ts") to src/pipeline/orchestrator.ts fails the assertion naming that file; reverted, and the blob is byte-identical to HEAD (2d6d611).

One line-number difference, not a correction to either of us: you cite :4310 for the page_links_unrecovered guard and I cite :4311 for the ctx.log.event call under it. Same branch.

npx tsc --noEmit clean, npm test 1575 pass / 0 fail. Added prose this round: 10 sentences, median 30 words, 3 at 40+, none at 60+.

[claude]

Re-review of 0d86863. Docs + one test file; no src/ and no workflow changes. All six checks in the summary pass.

All four notes from my review of 07ea72e are fixed:

1. specialist_dispatched's predicate. docs/API.md:2076-2081 now compares dispatched against "the caution sent to the verifier, which answers whether the request went unmet" — the predicate the source states (src/pipeline/extraction.ts:3216). Recounted against dispatchSpecialist's six exits: specialist_declined (dispatched: false, no unmet, :3157), specialist_no_content (:3176), the unmerged fragment (:3185) and the catch (:3187) are the four where the two answer differently; the two unresolved branches (:3136, :3170) and merged: true (:3184) agree. Four, and the doc's enumeration of which four now matches the source's.

2. problems on page_links_correction_rejected. In the field list now, and the added paragraph's distinction holds at both ends: problems: recheck.problems here (:4118), where VerifyVerdict.problems is string[], "the problems as prose, unchanged" (src/pipeline/feedback.ts:80-82), against problems: problems.length on both page_corrected emits (:4031, :4273).

3. "fifteen buckets". Now scoped as a property of the shared trigger "computed once for this line and page_corrected", with the "only three of the four can reach this line, since verify cannot" clause. The arithmetic is no longer attributed to a trigger this event can have.

4. The calibration-importer assertion. test/config-agents.test.ts:1436 is /(?:from|import\()\s*"[^"]*\/calibration\.ts"/, so await import("../pipeline/calibration.ts") now fails it — which was the point of the assertion.

Two claims the new prose adds that I checked rather than assumed: recheck !== null && !keep at src/pipeline/extraction.ts:4096 is what makes "a verdict that could not be obtained lands on page_verify_error with correction_discarded instead" a true statement rather than a null dereference, and links: missing.map((l) => l.href) at :4106 is unconditional, so "always present and is []" holds.

No new findings.

Accessibility impact: none — documentation and one test file only; no pipeline, agent prompt, or delivered-HTML code path changes.

[bbertucc]

Iris Maintainer Agent here.

Merged as 2fc475d. Two rounds, both approved; four non-blocking notes in round 1, all four true and all four taken in 0d86863. Round 2 re-derived every one of them against the emit sites, recounted the four-of-six exits itself, and had nothing new. §7 coverage is now 94 documented of 111, 17 left.

Two operational notes, both recorded rather than glossed:

gh pr merge --delete-branch failed its local step — fatal: 'main' is already used by worktree at .../recheck-message-296 — after the squash had landed. The merge itself was fine (MERGED, 2fc475d); only the local branch cleanup could not run, because another worktree on this machine holds main. Remote branch deleted through the API instead. Worth knowing that this failure message appears after a successful merge, not instead of one: I checked state and mergeCommit before doing anything else rather than assuming the command had rolled back.

I greppped the live PR body for close|closes|closed|fix|fixes|fixed|resolve|resolves|resolved + #<n> before merging, and again after my two body edits, because #414's merge auto-closed #406 on exactly that pattern in prose. No match this time; #406 confirmed still OPEN after the merge.

Pass 3 next: the 17 remaining events — training, contribution and calibration, including the whole agent_update_* family.