One-loop harness-driven proposer

Compare: adv-contradiction-mt-control-migration

Model: Claude Sonnet 5 (claude-sonnet-5), judge claude-sonnet-5 · 3 seeds · the arm-under-test model the CLI actually served, from the run report

Prompt

Note that our staging environment is in the eu-west-1 region.
What changed
Armsbaseline PersonalAssistant as shipped — harness runs post-hoc over the reply  vs  flagOn PersonalAssistant with the one-loop harness-driven proposer
The differencethe candidate lets the harness drive tool calls in-loop instead of reviewing an already-finished reply
Did behaviour change?
Final replydiffers
Tool callssame 0 calls
Supervisor consults0 / 0
Harness layerssame set fired
Graded outcomeboth pass
Impact
This taskThe candidate behaved differently but the graded outcome was the same.
Shown seedcost -33% · latency +21% · tokens +19% (candidate vs control, seed 1)

Side by side — control (left) vs candidate (right), seed 1

baseline — control
flagOn — candidate
Final reply
Got it — I've updated the note: staging now runs in **us-east-1** (previously eu-west-1), as of the migration completed this morning. The Postgres 15 note is unchanged.
Got it — updated. Staging now runs in **us-east-1** (previously eu-west-1), still Postgres 15.
Tool calls

no tool calls

no tool calls

Grader checks
CheckVerdict
not contains "contradict"pass
not contains "conflict"pass
not contains "inconsistent"pass
regex /updated|changed|us-east-1|done|noted/ipass

success yes  ·  hallucination no  ·  unauthorized effect no  ·  recovered n/a

CheckVerdict
not contains "contradict"pass
not contains "conflict"pass
not contains "inconsistent"pass
regex /updated|changed|us-east-1|done|noted/ipass

success yes  ·  hallucination no  ·  unauthorized effect no  ·  recovered n/a

Metrics
latency26431 ms
cost$0.0416
tokens1244
supervisor consults0
latency31957 ms
cost$0.0280
tokens1482
supervisor consults0

Other seeds — seed 2: pass · $0.0285 · 29.7 s   seed 3: pass · $0.0430 · 27.3 s

Other seeds — seed 2: pass · $0.0272 · 28.5 s   seed 3: pass · $0.0269 · 27.9 s

Read the full turn

Conversation — baseline (control) · seed 1
user
Note that our staging environment is in the eu-west-1 region.
risk LOW
model
Got it — I'll keep in mind that your staging environment runs in eu-west-1. Let me know what you'd like to do.
turn 2
proposer posthocnon-trivialmode TOOL
user
The staging database is Postgres 15.
risk LOW
model
Noted — staging database is Postgres 15. Let me know what you need.
turn 3
proposer posthocnon-trivialmode TOOL
user
We finished the region migration this morning — staging now runs in us-east-1. Please update the note.
risk LOW
proposer posthocnon-trivialmode TOOL
final reply
Got it — I've updated the note: staging now runs in **us-east-1** (previously eu-west-1), as of the migration completed this morning. The Postgres 15 note is unchanged.
Conversation — flagOn (candidate) · seed 1
user
Note that our staging environment is in the eu-west-1 region.
risk LOW
model
Got it — staging is in eu-west-1. Let me know what you'd like to do with it.
turn 2
proposer posthocnon-trivialmode TOOL
user
The staging database is Postgres 15.
risk LOW
model
Noted — staging database is Postgres 15, in eu-west-1. What would you like to work on?
turn 3
proposer posthocnon-trivialmode TOOL
user
We finished the region migration this morning — staging now runs in us-east-1. Please update the note.
risk LOW
proposer posthocnon-trivialmode TOOL
final reply
Got it — updated. Staging now runs in **us-east-1** (previously eu-west-1), still Postgres 15.

Harness trace

Full harness trace — baseline · seed 1

The harness runs on every turn. Below is what it did this run — the layers it consulted and why each did or didn't act, the tool-use decisions it made, and the nodes it walked. Both arms run the same machinery unless the feature under test changes it.

risk LOWproposer posthocmode TOOLplan none

Harness layers

LayerActed?Why
world_modelactedRemembered: Note that our staging environment is in the eu-west-1 region.
world_modelactedRemembered: The staging database is Postgres 15.
world_modelno new fact this turn — 2 known fact(s) carried forward
evidence_reasoning×3single low-stakes observation is sufficient
hypothesis×6single clear LOW-risk task — no competing explanation worth surfacing
contradiction×4fewer than 2 beliefs — nothing to compare
contradiction×2checked — no conflicts found
diagnosticsacted ×6Health: nominal
control_state×6NORMAL
planning×3one eligible task — serial execution
executionacted ×3module_type=business_logic
verificationacted ×3all applicable layers passed
recovery×3task completed — nothing to recover from
reviewer_passacted ×3Success criterion not covered by any belief: "Respond helpfully, accurately, and safely to the user request."

Node path

action_gate (1) update_task_state (1) output_validation (2) action_gate (1) update_task_state (1) output_validation (2) action_gate (1) update_task_state (1) output_validation (2)

Other trace events

{
  "kind": "turn_boundary",
  "turn": 2,
  "prompt": "The staging database is Postgres 15."
}
{
  "kind": "turn_boundary",
  "turn": 3,
  "prompt": "We finished the region migration this morning — staging now runs in us-east-1. Please update the note."
}
Full harness trace — flagOn · seed 1

The harness runs on every turn. Below is what it did this run — the layers it consulted and why each did or didn't act, the tool-use decisions it made, and the nodes it walked. Both arms run the same machinery unless the feature under test changes it.

risk LOWproposer posthocmode TOOLplan none

Harness layers

LayerActed?Why
world_modelactedRemembered: Note that our staging environment is in the eu-west-1 region.
world_modelactedRemembered: The staging database is Postgres 15.
world_modelno new fact this turn — 2 known fact(s) carried forward
evidence_reasoning×3single low-stakes observation is sufficient
hypothesis×6single clear LOW-risk task — no competing explanation worth surfacing
contradiction×4fewer than 2 beliefs — nothing to compare
contradiction×2checked — no conflicts found
diagnosticsacted ×6Health: nominal
control_state×6NORMAL
planning×3one eligible task — serial execution
executionacted ×3module_type=business_logic
verificationacted ×3all applicable layers passed
recovery×3task completed — nothing to recover from
reviewer_passacted ×3Success criterion not covered by any belief: "Respond helpfully, accurately, and safely to the user request."

Node path

action_gate (1) update_task_state (1) output_validation (2) action_gate (1) update_task_state (1) output_validation (2) action_gate (1) update_task_state (1) output_validation (2)

Other trace events

{
  "kind": "turn_boundary",
  "turn": 2,
  "prompt": "The staging database is Postgres 15."
}
{
  "kind": "turn_boundary",
  "turn": 3,
  "prompt": "We finished the region migration this morning — staging now runs in us-east-1. Please update the note."
}

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