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Guard against correctable misspellings in completions - #814

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Summary

  • Extend the completion seam guard to inspect the first generated word at a word boundary.
  • Suppress only when the native spell checker identifies a typo and offers a correction.
  • Keep names, jargon, and words without an actionable correction fail-open.
  • Add regression coverage and mirror the guard in the llama evaluation harness.

Why

Cotabby already protects mid-word seams, but a newly generated misspelled word after a space could still be shown. This is related to #811.

Validation

  • swiftc parse checks passed for all modified Swift files.
  • Focused CompletionSeamGuard harness passed.
  • Full xcodebuild tests were not available because this environment has only Command Line Tools, not Xcode.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved streamed suggestions by waiting for complete leading words before spelling checks.
    • Suppressed suggestions containing correctable misspellings while allowing valid and uncorrectable words.
    • Improved handling of punctuation, capitalization, contractions, hyphens, digits, and CJK text.
    • Enhanced final-result validation to distinguish leading-word errors from seam misspellings and invalid punctuation.
    • Preserved valid suggestions across streaming updates and generation resets for more consistent results.

Greptile Summary

The PR extends completion validation to withhold streamed text until its first generated word can be assessed and suppresses correctable leading-word misspellings while allowing unknown vocabulary without corrections.

  • Adds a three-state native spelling assessment shared by final and streamed completion guards.
  • Tracks a generation-scoped leading-word verdict in streaming state.
  • Expands seam-guard and streaming-state regression coverage and mirrors production behavior in the llama evaluation harness.

Confidence Score: 5/5

The PR appears safe to merge.

No blocking failure remains.

Important Files Changed

Filename Overview
Cotabby/App/Coordinators/Suggestion/SuggestionCoordinator+Prediction.swift Integrates the generation-scoped streamed leading-word gate and shared native spelling assessment into partial and final presentation paths.
Cotabby/Support/Suggestion/Output/CompletionSeamGuard.swift Adds leading-word parsing and correctable-typo suppression while retaining existing seam and punctuation checks.
Cotabby/Support/Suggestion/Streaming/SuggestionStreamingState.swift Caches and resets the terminal leading-word decision alongside existing per-generation streaming state.
CotabbyTests/Support/Suggestion/Output/CompletionSeamGuardTests.swift Expands regression coverage for word boundaries, corrections, connectors, digits, capitalization, and CJK exemptions.

Flowchart

%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
flowchart TD
  P[Streamed partial] --> J{Junk punctuation?}
  J -- Yes --> Drop[Do not render]
  J -- No --> G{Leading-word gate}
  G -- Pending --> B{First word complete?}
  B -- No --> Wait[Wait for another partial]
  B -- Yes --> S{Correctable typo?}
  S -- Yes --> Suppress[Suppress generation stream]
  S -- No --> Allow[Cache allowed]
  G -- Allowed --> Render[Render acceptable session]
  G -- Suppressed --> Drop
  Allow --> Render
  F[Final result] --> V[Full seam verdict]
  V -->|Allow| FinalRender[Present final suggestion]
  V -->|Reject| FinalDrop[Clear session and overlay]
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The change adds shared spelling assessments for completion seams and generated leading words. Streaming suggestions now wait for word boundaries, suppress correctable misspellings, and retain a per-generation gate state. Tests cover final and streamed validation paths.

Changes

Leading-word spelling validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Unified seam and spelling verdicts
Cotabby/Support/Suggestion/Output/CompletionSeamGuard.swift
Adds spelling assessment types, leading-word probing, final verdict handling, and streamed wait/allow/suppress results.
Streaming gate integration
Cotabby/Support/Suggestion/Streaming/SuggestionStreamingState.swift, Cotabby/App/Coordinators/Suggestion/SuggestionCoordinator+Prediction.swift
Tracks leading-word gate states, resets them between generations, adapts native spell-check results, and applies cached assessments to partial and final suggestions.
Spelling gate validation
CotabbyTests/Support/Suggestion/Output/CompletionSeamGuardTests.swift, CotabbyTests/Support/Suggestion/Streaming/SuggestionStreamingStateTests.swift, CotabbyTests/Evals/LlamaSuggestionEvalTests.swift
Updates spelling callbacks and tests correctable, uncorrectable, capitalized, punctuated, contracted, incomplete, and streamed leading words.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to e4e54

The new guard can suppress valid code or version completions such as letter-and-digit tokens by checking only the alphabetic prefix for spelling errors. This is a bounded correctness issue with a clear fix and should be addressed or explicitly accepted before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SuggestionCoordinator
  participant CompletionSeamGuard
  participant SuggestionStreamingState
  SuggestionCoordinator->>CompletionSeamGuard: evaluate streamed leading word
  CompletionSeamGuard-->>SuggestionCoordinator: wait, allow, or suppress
  SuggestionCoordinator->>SuggestionStreamingState: resolve leading-word gate
  SuggestionStreamingState-->>SuggestionCoordinator: retain terminal state
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In `@Cotabby/Support/Suggestion/Output/CompletionSeamGuard.swift`:
- Around line 208-238: Update the completion scan around wordStart and wordEnd
to detect a numeric character after the word start and return .notApplicable for
the entire token, rather than evaluating the preceding letters as a candidate.
Preserve existing connector and incomplete-word behavior, and add final and
streamed regressions covering a letter-and-digit token such as ecrir2.
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  • Cotabby/App/Coordinators/Suggestion/SuggestionCoordinator+Prediction.swift
  • Cotabby/Support/Suggestion/Output/CompletionSeamGuard.swift
  • Cotabby/Support/Suggestion/Streaming/SuggestionStreamingState.swift
  • CotabbyTests/Evals/LlamaSuggestionEvalTests.swift
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