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Adds an executable cross-boundary contract test that makes the silent-field-drop bug class structurally impossible, closing the audit's structural root-cause finding (the Phase 1 contract spans analyze.py output, JSON_SCHEMA.md, and types.ts with nothing executable defending it — CLAUDE.md tripwire #3).

The bug class

Most of parsePhase1Result passes detail blocks through verbatim (isRecord(x) ? x : null), so nested fields survive by construction. But ~12 parseOptional* reconstructors in backendPhase1Client.ts rebuild their block field-by-field — and a backend field one of them forgets to forward is silently dropped. When Phase 2 cites that field, the citation fails the existence check in collectPhase1FieldPaths and the chain of custody breaks on a correct recommendation. This already bit reverbDetail.preDelayMs, reverbDetail.perBandRt60.*, vocalDetail.stemEnergyRatio, and vocalDetail.stemOtherCorrelation — each fixed reactively, with nothing preventing the next one.

The guard

tests/services/phase1CitationContract.test.ts:

  • feeds a comprehensive payload (every field-by-field-reconstructed block, all citable fields populated non-null) through the real parsePhase1Result,
  • runs the real citation walker collectPhase1FieldPaths on the result,
  • asserts every path in CITABLE_DETAIL_PATHS survives.

Because each field is non-null, a path is present only if the reconstructor actually carried it through — so dropping a field in any parseOptional* fails its assertion by name. A meta-guard asserts every block parsed non-null, so the contract can't pass vacuously.

Verified teeth: re-injecting the original preDelayMs drop fails exactly the reverbDetail.preDelayMs assertion and no other; reverting restores green.

Maintenance

When you add a citable field to a parseOptional* reconstructor (or the Phase 2 prompt invites a new citation), add it to both the fixture and CITABLE_DETAIL_PATHS. Tripwire #3 now points here.

Verification

  • 59 contract assertions green
  • full tests/services suite: 809 passed (60 files)
  • npm run lint clean

Test-only + one doc pointer; no product code changed.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01YB5QFBLL4nbqPSdtcnxrLy

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claude added 10 commits June 10, 2026 21:50
…bleton + the rec-proof harness

The ASA -> asa-ableton boundary (and the GOAL.md fixture loop) ran on
hand-extracted interpretation JSON: the result lives embedded in the run
snapshot, the warn-and-keep validationWarnings in a different subtree
(attempt diagnostics), and provenance in a third. asa-ableton's Gate
alpha fixture and every per-fixture phase2.json in the owner plan were
produced by snapshot surgery — an unversioned, fragile handoff.

1. phase2_export.py + GET /api/analysis-runs/{run_id}/export/phase2:
   single self-contained phase2-export.v1 envelope — the stored
   producer_summary interpretation result verbatim (incl. the frozen
   recommendations.v1 projection), the authoritative Phase 1 payload its
   citations resolve against (invariant #2 verifiable offline), the full
   validationWarnings trail, and provenance. Thin lookup-and-serve,
   csv_export.py pattern; 404 RUN_NOT_FOUND / PHASE2_EXPORT_NOT_AVAILABLE.
   Derived and read-only — exports stored state, rewrites nothing.
2. recommendation_evaluation.coerce_phase2_payload: --phase2 (and a
   fixture-dir phase2.json) now accepts either a bare Phase2Result or
   the export envelope, so the downloaded file feeds the scorer as-is.
3. docs/ASA_ABLETON_BOUNDARY.md: the cross-repo contract — file-coupled
   not code-coupled, consumer guidance (prefer recommendations.v1
   entries; dedupe is a consumer concern — Gate alpha's 60.7%-vs-50%
   skip-rate accounting; flagged != invalid), and the v1 freeze policy.

Tests: +15 (10 builder incl. envelope-key freeze, 3 route, 2 unwrap).
tests.test_server 227 OK; adjacent suites 110 OK; full discover matches
the unmodified-tree baseline exactly (env-only matplotlib/torch gaps).

https://claude.ai/code/session_01YB5QFBLL4nbqPSdtcnxrLy
…chno 145 + UKG 2-step 132

Owner confirmed genre fit for house/melodic-techno/acid but swapped the other
two recommendation-corpus fixtures to genres they actually produce:

- techno_rumble_130 -> hard_techno_rumble_145: distorted sine kick (Drum Buss
  on the kick chain, Boom 45 Hz), rumble reverb return + held sub, 145 BPM.
  Stays the pilot fixture (smallest spec, 9 device entries).
- dnb_reese_174 -> ukg_2step_shuffle_132: 2-step shuffle at 132 BPM, G minor.
  Swing lives in the committed MIDI (57% 16ths), asserted via
  grooveDetail.hihatSwing / perDrumSwing.snare / bassDetail.grooveType.
  Retires the fixture whose proxy fingerprint misread BPM half-time (174->116).

Both new fixtures ship spec-only (phase1Fingerprint: null, no fingerprint
file) — the distrusted _synthetic proxy fingerprints are retired with the old
slugs, and load_fixture tolerates the missing file (citation checks SKIP until
the real Ableton render lands). truePeak intents now use dBTP per ADR 0002
(old manifests carried stale linear targets). New MIDI clips bake correct
tempo metas and were byte-verified (the retired dnb melody encoded ~116 BPM,
not 174). ukg also ships audio_drums.mid so the shuffle answer key is
reproducible without hand-programmed groove.

Docs updated: NEEDS.md (genre confirmation resolved, inventory + build queue),
plans/owner-actions-recommendation-proof-plan.md (pilot + render order),
RECOMMENDATION_VERDICT.md (corpus-composition note; old per-fixture proxy
numbers not comparable).

Verified: evaluate_recommendations.py --fixture <both> --source baseline
(catalog-valid, zero issues), --self-test PASS, 34/34
tests.test_recommendation_evaluation.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01YB5QFBLL4nbqPSdtcnxrLy
…G decision)

Owner resolved the wire-or-demote choice from NEEDS.md's dead-code finding:
the deterministic recommendation engine stays as the scored free baseline in
the GOAL.md sub-goal 3 three-source comparison but is NOT to be wired into
the product. Score-driven product improvements land on the Phase 2 provider
path instead.

Recorded in: the module header (abletonDevices.ts), the eval bridge header,
NEEDS.md (decision + the now-moot citation-emit candidate), BACKLOG.md,
RECOMMENDATION_VERDICT.md, and CLAUDE.md's Backport Candidates line.

No code changes — comments and docs only. Verified: npm run lint green,
evaluate_recommendations.py --self-test PASS.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01YB5QFBLL4nbqPSdtcnxrLy
…ion script

--source claude in evaluate_recommendations.py scores a stored Phase2Result
from the Claude CLI provider (sibling phase2.claude.json, same ingestion as
the gemini source). scripts/gen_claude_phase2.py produces those files at zero
Gemini cost: it runs each fixture's stored Phase 1 fingerprint through the
exact server path (server._run_interpretation_request) with
ASA_PHASE2_PROVIDER=claude, so output flows the identical parse/citation/
catalogue/recommendations.v1 validation tail as Gemini.

Research-only (mirrors the evaluate_* convention); deleting both restores the
product exactly. Verified: --self-test PASS; --source claude SKIPs cleanly
when no phase2.claude.json exists.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01YB5QFBLL4nbqPSdtcnxrLy
…ixtures

Generated via scripts/gen_claude_phase2.py through the exact server path
(ASA_PHASE2_PROVIDER=claude, model sonnet, MAX_THINKING_TOKENS=0): both fully
cited (custody penalty 1.000), zero validation warnings, 31 recommendations.v1
envelope entries each.

Scored with --source claude against the same proxy fingerprints the recorded
Gemini numbers used: acid 0.485 (Gemini 0.172), house 0.424 (Gemini 0.343).
melodic_techno_arp_124 evidence + the verdict write-up follow.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01YB5QFBLL4nbqPSdtcnxrLy
…rdict

Completes the zero-Gemini-cost Claude scoring on the proxy corpus:

- melodic_techno_arp_124 phase2.claude.json: 13 rec cards, fully cited, zero
  warnings, aggregate 0.424 — resolving the "Gemini 0 recs" outlier as
  Gemini-side (the fixture's fingerprint is interpretable).
- RECOMMENDATION_VERDICT.md: dated head-to-head section. Claude (sonnet,
  text-only) 0.485/0.424/0.424 vs recorded Gemini 0.172/0.343/0.000 on
  identical fingerprints; mean 0.444 vs 0.172 on the shared subset. Caveats
  (proxy corpus, modality asymmetry, model class) stated inline.
- NEEDS.md sub-goal 3: status updated; source list now includes claude.
- docs/PHASE2_PROVIDER.md: 2026-06-11 addendum — scoring result + operating
  notes (MAX_THINKING_TOKENS=0 for headless calls, model pinning, 300-365s
  measured latency, session-limit failure mode).
- CLAUDE.md: one-line MAX_THINKING_TOKENS note on ASA_CLAUDE_TIMEOUT_SECONDS.
- gen_claude_phase2.py: defaults MAX_THINKING_TOKENS=0 and an 1800s timeout
  (overridable) so the next run doesn't rediscover the thinking-budget trap.

Verified: --self-test PASS; full-corpus --source claude scores 3, SKIPs the
2 spec-only fixtures cleanly.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01YB5QFBLL4nbqPSdtcnxrLy
The Phase 1 contract spans analyze.py output, JSON_SCHEMA.md, and types.ts
with no generated source of truth (tripwire #3). Most of parsePhase1Result
passes detail blocks through verbatim, but ~12 parseOptional* reconstructors
rebuild field-by-field — and a backend field one of them forgets to forward
is silently dropped, breaking valid Phase 2 citations to it. This is the
exact mechanism that dropped reverbDetail.preDelayMs / perBandRt60.* and the
vocalDetail stem proxies.

Add tests/services/phase1CitationContract.test.ts: feed a comprehensive
payload through the real parsePhase1Result, run the real citation walker
(collectPhase1FieldPaths) on the result, and assert every citable path
survives. Each field is populated non-null, so a path is present only if the
reconstructor carried it through — drop a field in any parseOptional* and its
assertion fails by name. Verified teeth: re-injecting the preDelayMs drop
fails exactly that one assertion and no other.

Also point tripwire #3 at the new guard.

Verified: 59 contract assertions green; full tests/services suite 809 green;
npm run lint clean.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01YB5QFBLL4nbqPSdtcnxrLy
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