@forwardimpact/libeval 0.1.42 → 0.1.43

package/bin/fit-eval.js

@@ -100,7 +100,8 @@ const definition = {
         },
         "max-turns": {
           type: "string",
-          description: "Max agentic turns (default: 20, 0 = unlimited)",
+          description:
+            "Max agentic turns per runner invocation (default: 200, 0 = unlimited)",
         },
         output: {
           type: "string",

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@forwardimpact/libeval",
-  "version": "0.1.42",
+  "version": "0.1.43",
   "description": "Agent evaluation framework — prove whether agent changes improved outcomes with reproducible evidence.",
   "keywords": [
     "eval",

package/src/commands/facilitate.js

@@ -10,19 +10,21 @@ import { createTeeWriter } from "../tee-writer.js";
  * @param {string} cwd - Shared working directory for all agents
  * @returns {Array<{name: string, role: string, cwd: string, agentProfile: string}>}
  */
-function parseAgentProfiles(raw, cwd) {
+function parseAgentProfiles(raw, cwd, maxTurns) {
   return raw.split(",").map((entry) => {
     const name = entry.trim();
-    return { name, role: name, cwd, agentProfile: name };
+    return { name, role: name, cwd, agentProfile: name, maxTurns };
   });
 }
 
 /**
- * Parse and validate facilitate command options.
+ * Parse and validate facilitate command options. Exported for test
+ * coverage of the `--max-turns` → per-agent threading contract; not part
+ * of the package's public API.
  * @param {object} values - Parsed option values
  * @returns {object} Parsed options
  */
-function parseFacilitateOptions(values) {
+export function parseFacilitateOptions(values) {
   const taskFile = values["task-file"];
   const taskText = values["task-text"];
   if (taskFile && taskText)
@@ -36,9 +38,15 @@ function parseFacilitateOptions(values) {
   const profilesRaw = values["agent-profiles"];
   if (!profilesRaw) throw new Error("--agent-profiles is required");
   const agentCwd = resolve(values["agent-cwd"] ?? ".");
-  const agentConfigs = parseAgentProfiles(profilesRaw, agentCwd);
 
   const maxTurnsRaw = values["max-turns"] ?? "20";
+  const maxTurns = maxTurnsRaw === "0" ? 0 : parseInt(maxTurnsRaw, 10);
+
+  // Thread --max-turns into each participant: without this, every facilitated
+  // agent silently falls back to the 50-turn default in facilitator.js even
+  // when the caller raises the budget. Observed in run 26078312414 where
+  // staff-engineer terminated at 51 turns despite --max-turns=200.
+  const agentConfigs = parseAgentProfiles(profilesRaw, agentCwd, maxTurns);
 
   return {
     taskContent,
@@ -47,7 +55,7 @@ function parseFacilitateOptions(values) {
     facilitatorCwd: resolve(values["facilitator-cwd"] ?? "."),
     agentModel: values["agent-model"] ?? "claude-opus-4-7[1m]",
     facilitatorModel: values["facilitator-model"] ?? "claude-opus-4-7[1m]",
-    maxTurns: maxTurnsRaw === "0" ? 0 : parseInt(maxTurnsRaw, 10),
+    maxTurns,
     outputPath: values.output,
     facilitatorProfile: values["facilitator-profile"] ?? undefined,
   };

package/src/commands/supervise.js

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ function parseSuperviseOptions(values) {
     agentModel: values["agent-model"] ?? "claude-opus-4-7[1m]",
     supervisorModel: values["supervisor-model"] ?? "claude-opus-4-7[1m]",
     maxTurns: (() => {
-      const raw = values["max-turns"] ?? "20";
+      const raw = values["max-turns"] ?? "200";
       return raw === "0" ? 0 : parseInt(raw, 10);
     })(),
     outputPath: values.output,

package/src/facilitator.js

@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ const devNull = new Writable({
  * @param {string} [deps.model] - Default model for all participants.
  * @param {string} [deps.agentModel] - Agent model override (falls back to `model`).
  * @param {string} [deps.facilitatorModel] - Facilitator model override (falls back to `model`).
- * @param {number} [deps.maxTurns]
+ * @param {number} [deps.maxTurns] - Facilitator's own per-invocation turn budget (default 20). Each participating agent's budget is taken from `config.maxTurns` on its entry in `agentConfigs` (default 50 when unset). The CLI command (`commands/facilitate.js`) threads `--max-turns` into both this parameter and every agent config so a single CLI value bounds all participants uniformly.
  * @param {string[]} [deps.facilitatorAllowedTools] - Tools the facilitator may use; defaults to a read/write file-edit set.
  * @param {string[]} [deps.facilitatorDisallowedTools] - Additional tools to block on the facilitator; merged with the sub-agent spawn defaults (Agent/Task/TaskOutput/TaskStop).
  * @param {string} [deps.facilitatorProfile] - Facilitator profile name; resolved into the main-thread system prompt via `composeProfilePrompt`.

package/src/supervisor.js

@@ -50,10 +50,17 @@ export const AGENT_SYSTEM_PROMPT =
  * Maximum number of mid-turn interventions allowed within a single agent turn.
  * Bounded so a looping supervisor exhausts its quota fast (observability) but
  * leaves headroom for legitimate "intervene, observe, intervene again" patterns.
- * The outer maxTurns budget still bounds overall runtime.
+ * The outer exchange budget still bounds overall runtime.
  */
 const MAX_INTERVENTIONS_PER_TURN = 5;
 
+/**
+ * Default cap on supervisor↔agent exchanges in a single run. Not exposed via
+ * CLI — `--max-turns` governs the per-runner invocation budget instead. When
+ * a `--max-exchanges` flag is added this becomes the default for that flag.
+ */
+const DEFAULT_MAX_EXCHANGES = 100;
+
 /** Orchestrate a relay loop between a supervisor LLM and an agent LLM with mid-turn review. */
 export class Supervisor {
   /**
@@ -485,7 +492,7 @@ const devNull = new Writable({
  * @param {string} [deps.model] - Default model for both runners.
  * @param {string} [deps.agentModel] - Agent model override (falls back to `model`).
  * @param {string} [deps.supervisorModel] - Supervisor model override (falls back to `model`).
- * @param {number} [deps.maxTurns]
+ * @param {number} [deps.maxTurns] - Per-runner invocation budget for both the supervisor and the agent (default 200; 0 = unlimited). Outer supervisor↔agent exchanges are bounded separately by `DEFAULT_MAX_EXCHANGES` (passes through to unlimited when `maxTurns === 0`).
  * @param {string[]} [deps.allowedTools]
  * @param {string[]} [deps.supervisorAllowedTools]
  * @param {string[]} [deps.supervisorDisallowedTools]
@@ -544,8 +551,13 @@ export function createSupervisor({
 
   const onLine = (line) => supervisor.emitLine(line);
 
-  const perInvocationTurns =
-    maxTurns === 0 ? 0 : Math.max(maxTurns ?? 100, 200);
+  // `maxTurns` is the per-runner invocation budget — matches `run` and
+  // `facilitate` semantics. The outer supervisor↔agent exchange loop is
+  // bounded separately by `DEFAULT_MAX_EXCHANGES`; when --max-exchanges is
+  // added it will become a parameter. `maxTurns === 0` propagates through
+  // to mean unlimited on both axes.
+  const perInvocationTurns = maxTurns ?? 200;
+  const exchangeBudget = maxTurns === 0 ? 0 : DEFAULT_MAX_EXCHANGES;
 
   const agentRunner = createAgentRunner({
     cwd: agentCwd,
@@ -595,7 +607,7 @@ export function createSupervisor({
     agentRunner,
     supervisorRunner,
     output,
-    maxTurns,
+    maxTurns: exchangeBudget,
     ctx,
     messageBus,
     taskAmend,