Trajectory Supervisor (mid-task stalls)

Compare: sup-mid-newer-status

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

What is the on-call engineer listed in oncall/2026-08.txt?
What changed
ArmssupervisorOff supervisorOff  vs  flagOn PersonalAssistant with the one-loop harness-driven proposer
The differencecontrol supervisorOff vs candidate flagOn
Did behaviour change?
Final replydiffers
Tool callssame 0 calls
Supervisor consults0 → 1
Harness layersdiffer — candidate also: supervisor, world_model — control only: control_state
Graded outcomecandidate passed more (3/3 vs 0/3)
Impact
This taskThe candidate passed more runs on this task. Passed 3 of 3 runs with the candidate vs 0 of 3 with the control.
Shown seedcost +167% · latency +122% · tokens +115% (candidate vs control, seed 1)

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

supervisorOff — control
flagOn — candidate
Final reply
I couldn't complete this — I kept running into a problem (Who is on call right now? The August file may be out of date; look for anything newer in oncall/.). You may want to retry or rephrase what you need.
Ines Duarte is on call now, according to oncall/2026-09.txt. That file was updated on 2026-09-18 and is the newest one in the folder. The August file, which lists Tomas Weiss, is out of date.
Tool calls

no tool calls

no tool calls

Grader checks
CheckVerdict
contains "Ines Duarte"fail

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

CheckVerdict
contains "Ines Duarte"pass

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

Metrics
latency8467 ms
cost$0.0062
tokens411
supervisor consults0
latency18766 ms
cost$0.0166
tokens883
supervisor consults1

Other seeds — seed 2: fail · $0.0062 · 8.8 s   seed 3: fail · $0.0061 · 8.6 s

Other seeds — seed 2: pass · $0.0131 · 18.3 s   seed 3: pass · $0.0166 · 18.8 s

Read the full turn

Conversation — supervisorOff (control) · seed 1
user
What is the on-call engineer listed in oncall/2026-08.txt?
risk LOW
model
The on-call engineer listed in `oncall/2026-08.txt` is Tomas Weiss.
turn 2
proposer posthoctrivialmode FAST
user
Who is on call right now? The August file may be out of date; look for anything newer in oncall/.
risk LOWproposer flat-oneloopnon-trivialmode TOOL
final reply
I couldn't complete this — I kept running into a problem (Who is on call right now? The August file may be out of date; look for anything newer in oncall/.). You may want to retry or rephrase what you need.
Conversation — flagOn (candidate) · seed 1
user
What is the on-call engineer listed in oncall/2026-08.txt?
risk LOW
model
The on-call engineer listed in oncall/2026-08.txt is Tomas Weiss.
turn 2
proposer posthoctrivialmode FAST
user
Who is on call right now? The August file may be out of date; look for anything newer in oncall/.
risk LOWproposer flat-oneloopnon-trivialmode TOOL
harness directive
{"action":"GATHER_EVIDENCE","rationale":"The task is to find who is on call now, and the August file may be stale. Steps taken is 0 and the same tool failure has recurred 3 times, so the run has not yet read the oncall/ directory. A bounded read-only listing of oncall/ sorted by modification time will show the newest file and resolve the unknown cheaply. It also avoids repeating the failing edit-style approach.","strategy_hint":null,"plan_note":null,"investigation":{"question":"What files exist in oncall/, which is the newest by name or modification date, and who does it list as on call for today (2026-09-24)?","suggested_tools":["ls -lat oncall/","find oncall/ -type f -printf '%T+ %p\\n' | sort -r","cat <newest file>"]},"question":null}
final reply
Ines Duarte is on call now, according to oncall/2026-09.txt. That file was updated on 2026-09-18 and is the newest one in the folder. The August file, which lists Tomas Weiss, is out of date.

Harness trace

Full harness trace — supervisorOff · 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 flat-oneloopmode TOOLplan none

Harness layers

LayerActed?Why
hypothesis—single clear LOW-risk task — no competing explanation worth surfacing
hypothesisactedConsidered 5 ways this request could be understood; going with the most direct one
contradiction— ×2fewer than 2 beliefs — nothing to compare
diagnosticsactedHealth: nominal
diagnosticsacteda sub-dimension crossed the caution threshold
control_state—NORMAL
control_stateactedPausing — blocked
planning—one eligible task — serial execution
executionactedmodule_type=business_logic
verificationactedverification failed: Result is null — syntax check failed
recoveryactedTrying a different approach — switched to "TRACE_EXEC" (LOCAL replan)
recoveryactedturn stalled with no answer — returning an explicit could-not-complete reply
reviewer_passactedSuccess criterion not covered by any belief: "Respond helpfully, accurately, and safely to the user request."

Tool-policy decisions

ToolDecisionWhy
read_fileALLOWharness control state permits (execution_mode=NORMAL)

Node path

action_gate (1) → rollback_replan (1) → output_validation (2)

Other trace events

{
  "kind": "turn_boundary",
  "turn": 2,
  "prompt": "Who is on call right now? The August file may be out of date; look for anything newer in oncall/."
}
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 flat-oneloopmode TOOLplan none

Harness layers

LayerActed?Why
world_modelactedRemembered: Who is on call right now? The August file may be out of date; look for anything newer in oncall/.
evidence_reasoning—single low-stakes observation is sufficient
hypothesis—single clear LOW-risk task — no competing explanation worth surfacing
hypothesisactedConsidered 5 ways this request could be understood; going with the most direct one
hypothesisactedConsidered 6 ways this request could be understood; going with the most direct one
contradiction— ×3fewer than 2 beliefs — nothing to compare
diagnosticsacted ×3Health: nominal
control_state— ×3NORMAL
planning— ×2one eligible task — serial execution
executionacted ×2module_type=business_logic
verificationactedverification failed: Result is null — syntax check failed
verificationactedall applicable layers passed
recoveryactedTrying a different approach — switched to "TRACE_EXEC" (LOCAL replan)
recovery—task completed — nothing to recover from
reviewer_passactedSuccess criterion not covered by any belief: "Respond helpfully, accurately, and safely to the user request."
supervisoractedGATHER_EVIDENCE: The task is to find who is on call now, and the August file may be stale. Steps taken is 0 and the same tool failure has recurred 3 times, so the run has not yet read the oncall/ dire

Tool-policy decisions

ToolDecisionWhy
read_fileALLOWharness control state permits (execution_mode=NORMAL)
list_directoryALLOWharness control state permits (execution_mode=NORMAL)
read_fileALLOWharness control state permits (execution_mode=NORMAL)

Node path

action_gate (1) → rollback_replan (1) → action_gate (2) → update_task_state (2) → output_validation (3)

Other trace events

{
  "kind": "turn_boundary",
  "turn": 2,
  "prompt": "Who is on call right now? The August file may be out of date; look for anything newer in oncall/."
}

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