feat(decide): cm-decide — typed calibrated decisions; Jev + local NLI backends; skill triage in shadow
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A third kind of decision-maker between deterministic code and a full LLM
call: Choice / Score / Noul questions answered as probability
distributions with a confidence, behind one Decider trait, with the
composition patterns (confidence gating, composite scoring, rerank) as
code. Two backends: TypeSafe's Jev over HTTP, and a DeBERTa-v3 MNLI
cross-encoder run in-process with candle (feature nli; metal/cuda).

decide-eval measures a backend on labelled cases the way judge-eval
measures the judge. eval/skill-triage.json: 20 mission tasks × 53 skills,
75 positives, hand-labelled. Measured 2026-09-21:

  lexical overlap        AUROC 0.851  [email protected] 0.47  top-k 48/75  ECE 0.095
  jev (named wording)    AUROC 0.989  [email protected] 0.84  top-k 63/75  ECE 0.064  213 ms
  jev (plain wording)    AUROC 0.970  [email protected] 0.66  top-k 52/75
  nli mnli-base          AUROC 0.790  [email protected] 0.28  top-k 38/75  ECE 0.263  1.5 s
  nli zeroshot-v2        AUROC 0.782  [email protected] 0.43  top-k 39/75  ECE 0.054  1.2 s

The vendor's calibration claim survives our data; the local cross-encoder
ranks below keyword overlap on either checkpoint or wording and is kept
as the measured negative, not shipped. A local backend would need the
logit-readout route over the fleet's 9B model — a separate spike.

Shadow: one Jev call per phase launch (spawned, 10 s cap, silent without
TYPESAFE_API_KEY) records a skill.triage event; the Skill-Use report
carries triage_p beside each skill's Trigger verdict. It selects nothing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WZb5A2kfVfjpdwSochkuHz
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//! Measure a decision backend against labelled cases.
//!
//! The judge got an eval before it got trusted (`scripts/judge-eval.sh`);
//! a triage model gets the same. Every backend answers the SAME Noul per
//! (task, skill) pair, and is scored on ranking (AUROC), on the operating
//! point (best-F1 threshold and F1 at 0.5), and on calibration (Brier, ECE)
//! — because a calibrated middle band is the whole reason to have this tier,
//! and a backend that ranks well but says 0.9 to everything has none.
//!
//! decide-eval [--backend jev|nli|lexical|all] [--wording named|plain]
//! [--set path] [--skills dir] [--dump dir]
//!
//! `--dump` writes every pair's probability so a temperature can be fitted
//! offline without re-running the model.
use std::collections::BTreeMap;
use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
use std::time::Instant;
use cm_decide::{Answer, DecideError, Decider, Decision, Question};
use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
#[derive(Deserialize)]
struct EvalSet {
cases: Vec<Case>,
}
#[derive(Deserialize, Clone)]
struct Case {
id: String,
task: String,
positives: Vec<String>,
}
#[derive(Clone)]
struct Skill {
name: String,
when_to_use: String,
}
/// The question a backend gets. `--wording` picks the template; a backend
/// is reported under the wording it was run with, and each backend ships
/// with the wording that measured best FOR IT — a prompt is part of the
/// backend, and an NLI cross-encoder and a decision model do not want the
/// same sentence. Both are run on both so the table says so.
fn question_for(skill: &Skill, wording: &str) -> Question {
let text = match wording {
// The shipped question, shared with the server's shadow path.
"named" => return cm_decide::triage::question(&skill.name, &skill.when_to_use),
// The when_to_use line alone, second person rewritten to the agent,
// as a plain declarative the NLI head was trained on.
"plain" => third_person(&skill.when_to_use),
other => panic!("unknown wording {other}"),
};
Question::noul(text)
}
/// "You're the tester on a mobile team" → "The agent is the tester on a
/// mobile team". Crude on purpose: it is a rewrite of a dozen fixed
/// openings, not a grammar, and it exists so the NLI hypothesis reads like
/// an MNLI hypothesis.
fn third_person(when: &str) -> String {
let w = when.trim();
let rules: &[(&str, &str)] = &[
("You're the ", "The agent is the "),
("You are the ", "The agent is the "),
("You're a ", "The agent is a "),
("You are a ", "The agent is a "),
("You're on a ", "The agent is on a "),
("You are on a ", "The agent is on a "),
("You're ", "The agent is "),
("You are ", "The agent is "),
("You need ", "The agent needs "),
("You have ", "The agent has "),
];
for (from, to) in rules {
if let Some(rest) = w.strip_prefix(from) {
return format!("{to}{rest}");
}
}
format!("In this task, {}", w.trim_end_matches('.').to_string() + ".")
}
fn load_skills(dir: &Path) -> Vec<Skill> {
let mut out = Vec::new();
fn walk(dir: &Path, out: &mut Vec<Skill>) {
let Ok(rd) = std::fs::read_dir(dir) else { return };
let mut entries: Vec<_> = rd.flatten().collect();
entries.sort_by_key(|e| e.path());
for e in entries {
let p = e.path();
if p.is_dir() {
walk(&p, out);
} else if p.extension().is_some_and(|x| x == "md") {
let Ok(text) = std::fs::read_to_string(&p) else { continue };
let field = |k: &str| {
text.lines()
.find_map(|l| l.strip_prefix(k).map(|v| v.trim().trim_matches('"').to_string()))
};
if let (Some(name), Some(when)) = (field("name:"), field("when_to_use:")) {
out.push(Skill { name, when_to_use: when });
}
}
}
}
walk(dir, &mut out);
out
}
/// Keyword overlap between the task and the skill's name + when_to_use:
/// the bar a model has to clear to be worth a network call.
struct Lexical;
fn tokens(s: &str) -> std::collections::BTreeSet<String> {
s.to_ascii_lowercase()
.split(|c: char| !c.is_alphanumeric())
.filter(|w| w.len() > 3)
.map(str::to_string)
.collect()
}
#[async_trait::async_trait]
impl Decider for Lexical {
fn name(&self) -> &str {
"lexical"
}
async fn decide(
&self,
state: &str,
questions: &BTreeMap<String, Question>,
) -> Result<Decision, DecideError> {
let started = Instant::now();
let st = tokens(state);
let answers = questions
.iter()
.map(|(id, q)| {
let Question::Noul { instructions, .. } = q else { unreachable!() };
let ht = tokens(instructions);
let inter = st.intersection(&ht).count() as f64;
let p = if ht.is_empty() { 0.0 } else { (inter / ht.len() as f64 * 4.0).min(1.0) };
(id.clone(), Answer::Noul { noul: p })
})
.collect();
Ok(Decision { model: "lexical".into(), answers, usage: None, latency: started.elapsed() })
}
}
#[derive(Serialize)]
struct Pair {
case: String,
skill: String,
label: bool,
p: f64,
}
#[derive(Default)]
struct Report {
pairs: Vec<Pair>,
latency_ms: Vec<u128>,
input_tokens: u64,
per_case_topk_hits: Vec<(usize, usize)>,
errors: usize,
}
fn auroc(pairs: &[Pair]) -> f64 {
// Mann–Whitney: fraction of (positive, negative) pairs ranked correctly.
let pos: Vec<f64> = pairs.iter().filter(|p| p.label).map(|p| p.p).collect();
let neg: Vec<f64> = pairs.iter().filter(|p| !p.label).map(|p| p.p).collect();
if pos.is_empty() || neg.is_empty() {
return f64::NAN;
}
let mut s = 0.0;
for a in &pos {
for b in &neg {
s += if a > b { 1.0 } else if a == b { 0.5 } else { 0.0 };
}
}
s / (pos.len() * neg.len()) as f64
}
fn f1_at(pairs: &[Pair], t: f64) -> (f64, f64, f64) {
let (mut tp, mut fp, mut fn_) = (0.0, 0.0, 0.0);
for p in pairs {
match (p.p >= t, p.label) {
(true, true) => tp += 1.0,
(true, false) => fp += 1.0,
(false, true) => fn_ += 1.0,
_ => {}
}
}
let prec = if tp + fp > 0.0 { tp / (tp + fp) } else { 0.0 };
let rec = if tp + fn_ > 0.0 { tp / (tp + fn_) } else { 0.0 };
let f1 = if prec + rec > 0.0 { 2.0 * prec * rec / (prec + rec) } else { 0.0 };
(f1, prec, rec)
}
fn brier(pairs: &[Pair]) -> f64 {
pairs.iter().map(|p| (p.p - if p.label { 1.0 } else { 0.0 }).powi(2)).sum::<f64>() / pairs.len() as f64
}
/// Expected calibration error, ten equal-width bins.
fn ece(pairs: &[Pair]) -> f64 {
let mut bins = vec![(0usize, 0.0f64, 0.0f64); 10];
for p in pairs {
let b = ((p.p * 10.0).floor() as usize).min(9);
bins[b].0 += 1;
bins[b].1 += p.p;
bins[b].2 += if p.label { 1.0 } else { 0.0 };
}
let n = pairs.len() as f64;
bins.iter()
.filter(|(c, _, _)| *c > 0)
.map(|(c, sp, sy)| (*c as f64 / n) * ((sp / *c as f64) - (sy / *c as f64)).abs())
.sum()
}
async fn run(backend: &dyn Decider, cases: &[Case], skills: &[Skill], wording: &str) -> Report {
let mut r = Report::default();
let questions: BTreeMap<String, Question> =
skills.iter().map(|s| (s.name.clone(), question_for(s, wording))).collect();
for case in cases {
let d = match backend.decide(&case.task, &questions).await {
Ok(d) => d,
Err(e) => {
eprintln!(" {}: {} failed: {e}", backend.name(), case.id);
r.errors += 1;
continue;
}
};
r.latency_ms.push(d.latency.as_millis());
if let Some(u) = d.usage {
r.input_tokens += u.input_tokens;
}
let mut ranked: Vec<(String, f64)> = Vec::new();
for s in skills {
let p = match d.answers.get(&s.name) {
Some(Answer::Noul { noul }) => *noul,
_ => 0.0,
};
let label = case.positives.iter().any(|x| x == &s.name);
r.pairs.push(Pair { case: case.id.clone(), skill: s.name.clone(), label, p });
ranked.push((s.name.clone(), p));
}
ranked.sort_by(|a, b| b.1.partial_cmp(&a.1).unwrap());
let k = case.positives.len();
let hits = ranked.iter().take(k).filter(|(n, _)| case.positives.contains(n)).count();
r.per_case_topk_hits.push((hits, k));
}
r
}
fn print_report(name: &str, r: &Report) {
if r.pairs.is_empty() {
println!("{name:<24} no results ({} errors)", r.errors);
return;
}
let best = (5..=95)
.map(|i| i as f64 / 100.0)
.map(|t| (t, f1_at(&r.pairs, t)))
.max_by(|a, b| a.1 .0.partial_cmp(&b.1 .0).unwrap())
.unwrap();
let (f1_half, p_half, r_half) = f1_at(&r.pairs, 0.5);
let topk: (usize, usize) = r.per_case_topk_hits.iter().fold((0, 0), |a, b| (a.0 + b.0, a.1 + b.1));
let lat = if r.latency_ms.is_empty() { 0 } else { r.latency_ms.iter().sum::<u128>() / r.latency_ms.len() as u128 };
println!(
"{name:<24} AUROC {:.3} [email protected] {:.2} (P {:.2} R {:.2}) bestF1 {:.2}@{:.2} top-k {}/{} Brier {:.3} ECE {:.3} {} ms/call {} tok errors {}",
auroc(&r.pairs), f1_half, p_half, r_half, best.1 .0, best.0, topk.0, topk.1,
brier(&r.pairs), ece(&r.pairs), lat, r.input_tokens, r.errors
);
}
#[tokio::main]
async fn main() {
let mut args = std::env::args().skip(1);
let (mut backend, mut set, mut skills_dir, mut dump, mut wording) = (
"all".to_string(),
PathBuf::from("crates/cm-decide/eval/skill-triage.json"),
PathBuf::from("skills"),
None::<PathBuf>,
"named".to_string(),
);
while let Some(a) = args.next() {
match a.as_str() {
"--backend" => backend = args.next().unwrap_or_default(),
"--wording" => wording = args.next().unwrap_or_default(),
"--set" => set = args.next().map(PathBuf::from).unwrap_or(set),
"--skills" => skills_dir = args.next().map(PathBuf::from).unwrap_or(skills_dir),
"--dump" => dump = args.next().map(PathBuf::from),
other => {
eprintln!("unknown arg {other}");
std::process::exit(2);
}
}
}
let text = std::fs::read_to_string(&set).expect("read eval set");
let set: EvalSet = serde_json::from_str(&text).expect("parse eval set");
let skills = load_skills(&skills_dir);
// Every positive must name a real skill, or the label is a typo scored
// as a miss against every backend.
for c in &set.cases {
for p in &c.positives {
assert!(skills.iter().any(|s| &s.name == p), "case {}: unknown skill {p:?}", c.id);
}
}
println!(
"{} cases × {} skills = {} pairs, {} positive\n",
set.cases.len(),
skills.len(),
set.cases.len() * skills.len(),
set.cases.iter().map(|c| c.positives.len()).sum::<usize>()
);
let mut backends: Vec<Box<dyn Decider>> = Vec::new();
if backend == "all" || backend == "lexical" {
backends.push(Box::new(Lexical));
}
#[cfg(feature = "jev")]
if backend == "all" || backend == "jev" {
match cm_decide::jev::Jev::from_env() {
Some(j) => backends.push(Box::new(j)),
None => eprintln!("jev: TYPESAFE_API_KEY unset — skipped"),
}
}
#[cfg(feature = "nli")]
if backend == "all" || backend == "nli" {
let t0 = Instant::now();
match cm_decide::nli::Nli::load(cm_decide::nli::NliConfig::from_env()) {
Ok(n) => {
eprintln!("nli: loaded {} in {:?}", n.name(), t0.elapsed());
backends.push(Box::new(n));
}
Err(e) => eprintln!("nli: could not load — {e}"),
}
}
if backends.is_empty() {
eprintln!("no backend to run");
std::process::exit(2);
}
for b in &backends {
let r = run(b.as_ref(), &set.cases, &skills, &wording).await;
print_report(&format!("{} [{wording}]", b.name()), &r);
if let Some(dir) = &dump {
std::fs::create_dir_all(dir).ok();
let path = dir.join(format!("{}-{wording}.json", b.name().replace([':', '/'], "-")));
std::fs::write(&path, serde_json::to_string_pretty(&r.pairs).unwrap()).ok();
}
}
}