Semantic contradiction check

Compare: adv-contradiction-semantic-units

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

Earlier I told you our API rate limit is 100 requests per minute. Now please update the API docs to say the limit is 2000 requests per hour.
What changed
ArmscontradictionOff PersonalAssistant with the semantic contradiction check disabled (lexical pass only)  vs  flagOn PersonalAssistant with the one-loop harness-driven proposer
The differencecontrol contradictionOff vs candidate flagOn
Did behaviour change?
Final replydiffers
Tool callssame 0 calls
Supervisor consults0 / 0
Harness layerssame set fired
Graded outcomecandidate fixed it
Impact
This taskThe candidate turned a failure into a pass here.
Shown seedcost +28% · latency +11% · tokens +8% (candidate vs control, seed 1)

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

contradictionOff — control
flagOn — candidate
Final reply
I don't have any earlier message from you in this conversation — this is the first thing you've sent me, so I can't rely on a previously stated "100 requests per minute" figure. Also, I don't know where your API docs live. My working directory is `/tmp` and I don't see a docs file identified yet. Can you tell me the path to the file you want updated?
I don't see any earlier message in this conversation about a rate limit, and I don't know which file holds your API docs. Let me look in the working directory. `ls -la /tmp` and search for doc files — but first, can you confirm: which file should I edit? I don't see an obvious API docs file in `/tmp`. One thing worth flagging: 100 requests/minute works out to 6,000/hour, so changing it to "2,000 requests per hour" is a real reduction in the stated limit, not just a reformatting. Do you want th
Tool calls

no tool calls

no tool calls

Grader checks
CheckVerdict
regex /conflict|contradic|which (is correct|one is right|should i use|figure)|earlier you (said|told)|doesn'?t match|don'?t match|inconsistent|two different|not the same|discrepan|clarif|6000|6,000/ifail

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

CheckVerdict
regex /conflict|contradic|which (is correct|one is right|should i use|figure)|earlier you (said|told)|doesn'?t match|don'?t match|inconsistent|two different|not the same|discrepan|clarif|6000|6,000/ipass

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

Metrics
latency22978 ms
cost$0.0164
tokens1374
supervisor consults0
latency25511 ms
cost$0.0210
tokens1490
supervisor consults0

Other seeds — seed 2: pass · $0.0122 · 16.4 s   seed 3: pass · $0.0228 · 29.9 s

Other seeds — seed 2: pass · $0.0120 · 16.7 s   seed 3: pass · $0.0158 · 16.8 s

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Conversation — contradictionOff (control) · seed 1
user
Earlier I told you our API rate limit is 100 requests per minute. Now please update the API docs to say the limit is 2000 requests per hour.
risk LOW
proposer posthocnon-trivialmode TOOL
final reply
I don't have any earlier message from you in this conversation — this is the first thing you've sent me, so I can't rely on a previously stated "100 requests per minute" figure.

Also, I don't know where your API docs live. My working directory is `/tmp` and I don't see a docs file identified yet. Can you tell me the path to the file you want updated?
Conversation — flagOn (candidate) · seed 1
user
Earlier I told you our API rate limit is 100 requests per minute. Now please update the API docs to say the limit is 2000 requests per hour.
risk LOW
proposer posthocnon-trivialmode TOOL
model
I don't see any earlier message in this conversation about a rate limit, and I don't know which file holds your API docs. Let me look in the working directory.

`ls -la /tmp` and search for doc files — but first, can you confirm: which file should I edit? I don't see an obvious API docs file in `/tmp`.

One thing worth flagging: 100 requests/minute works out to 6,000/hour, so changing it to "2,000 requests per hour" is a real reduction in the stated limit, not just a reformatting. Do you want the new number (2,000/hour) as-is, or did you mean something closer to the old rate?
final reply
I don't see any earlier message in this conversation about a rate limit, and I don't know which file holds your API docs. Let me look in the working directory.

`ls -la /tmp` and search for doc files — but first, can you confirm: which file should I edit? I don't see an obvious API docs file in `/tmp`.

One thing worth flagging: 100 requests/minute works out to 6,000/hour, so changing it to "2,000 requests per hour" is a real reduction in the stated limit, not just a reformatting. Do you want th

Harness trace

Full harness trace — contradictionOff · 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: Earlier I told you our API rate limit is 100 requests per minute. Now please update the API docs to say the limit is 2000 requests per hour.
evidence_reasoningsingle low-stakes observation is sufficient
hypothesis×2single clear LOW-risk task — no competing explanation worth surfacing
contradiction×2fewer than 2 beliefs — nothing to compare
diagnosticsacted ×2Health: nominal
control_state×2NORMAL
planningone eligible task — serial execution
executionactedmodule_type=business_logic
verificationactedall applicable layers passed
recoverytask completed — nothing to recover from
reviewer_passactedSuccess 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)

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: Earlier I told you our API rate limit is 100 requests per minute. Now please update the API docs to say the limit is 2000 requests per hour.
evidence_reasoningsingle low-stakes observation is sufficient
hypothesis×2single clear LOW-risk task — no competing explanation worth surfacing
contradiction×2fewer than 2 beliefs — nothing to compare
diagnosticsacted ×2Health: nominal
control_state×2NORMAL
planningone eligible task — serial execution
executionactedmodule_type=business_logic
verificationactedall applicable layers passed
recoverytask completed — nothing to recover from
reviewer_passactedSuccess 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)

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