@konneal/engine 0.2.132 → 0.2.134

package/dist/{ask-XAJDCNFU.js → ask-PFU74MIP.js}

@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 import {
   handleAsk
-} from "./chunk-DNDQQYDT.js";
+} from "./chunk-JYJJ4SYF.js";
 import "./chunk-J6LBR6GI.js";
 import "./chunk-7AXXR7GD.js";
 import "./chunk-TH5XGPD5.js";
 import "./chunk-W7J5SFXJ.js";
-import "./chunk-26VW4ZXU.js";
+import "./chunk-WPOKSNPE.js";
 import "./chunk-4NXH5ZI6.js";
 import "./chunk-VT7DR6NQ.js";
 import "./chunk-GBGRHXRU.js";

package/dist/{chunk-DNDQQYDT.js → chunk-JYJJ4SYF.js}

@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ import {
   canonicalRefusal,
   exciseMisplacedPin,
   refusalAnswer
-} from "./chunk-26VW4ZXU.js";
+} from "./chunk-WPOKSNPE.js";
 import {
   entitlementScope,
   requestSalt,
@@ -1980,6 +1980,7 @@ async function handleAsk(env, ctx, req, tier, key) {
     }
   }
   let understanding = null;
+  const refusalScope = (cited) => ({ cited, conversational: understanding?.intent === "conversational" });
   let optimisticVec = null;
   let optimisticHits = [];
   const t0 = Date.now();
@@ -2620,7 +2621,7 @@ ${q.query}`.replace("\n\n\n\n", "\n\n") }];
               }
             }
           }
-          const canonical0 = usedHits.length > 0 ? exciseMisplacedPin(canonicalRefusal(full), true) : canonicalRefusal(full);
+          const canonical0 = usedHits.length > 0 ? exciseMisplacedPin(canonicalRefusal(full, refusalScope(usedHits.length > 0)), true) : canonicalRefusal(full, refusalScope(false));
           const c2 = canonical0.includes(refusalAnswer()) ? { text: canonical0, blocks: [], dropped: [] } : await contractV2(env.DB, canonical0, usedHits);
           send({
             type: "done",
@@ -2704,7 +2705,7 @@ ${q.query}`.replace("\n\n\n\n", "\n\n") }];
     );
     answer = await generateOnce(env, MODELS.fallback, flat, routeEffort(routed.route));
   }
-  if (answer) answer = canonicalRefusal(answer);
+  if (answer) answer = canonicalRefusal(answer, refusalScope(usedHits.length > 0));
   if (answer && usedHits.length > 0) answer = exciseMisplacedPin(answer, true);
   stageTiming.generate = Date.now() - tGen;
   let used = usedHits;
@@ -2729,7 +2730,7 @@ ${q.query}`.replace("\n\n\n\n", "\n\n") }];
       generateRetries += 1;
       const corrected = await generateOnce(env, model, [...messages, { role: "system", content: note }], routeEffort(routed.route));
       if (corrected) {
-        const correctedAnswer = canonicalRefusal(corrected);
+        const correctedAnswer = canonicalRefusal(corrected, refusalScope(usedHits.length > 0));
         const retryAnchors = checkQuoteAnchors(correctedAnswer, used.map((h) => h.text));
         const retryRetyped = tableRetyped(correctedAnswer, hasTableUnit);
         if (retryAnchors.violations.length < anchors.violations.length || !retryRetyped && retyped || unreferenced && correctedAnswer.includes("[[u:")) {
@@ -2754,7 +2755,7 @@ ${q.query}`.replace("\n\n\n\n", "\n\n") }];
         const { messages: retryMessages, usedHits: retryUsed } = buildMessages(q.query, retryRetrieve.hits, q.lang, keptHistory, void 0, summary, budget);
         const retryAnswer = await generateOnce(env, model, retryMessages, routeEffort(routed.route));
         if (retryAnswer) {
-          answer = canonicalRefusal(retryAnswer);
+          answer = canonicalRefusal(retryAnswer, refusalScope(retryRetrieve.hits.length > 0));
           used = retryUsed;
         }
       }
@@ -2786,7 +2787,7 @@ ${q.query}`.replace("\n\n\n\n", "\n\n") }];
       messages[messages.length - 1]
     ], effort);
     if (regen && !regen.includes(refusalAnswer())) {
-      answer = canonicalRefusal(regen);
+      answer = canonicalRefusal(regen, refusalScope(true));
       console.log("blind-answer: regeneration grounded");
     }
   }

package/dist/{chunk-26VW4ZXU.js → chunk-WPOKSNPE.js}

@@ -24,16 +24,7 @@ function refusalPatterns(publisher) {
       // verb is the guard, a scope DISCUSSION inside a real answer
       // ("this exemption is outside the scope of R 60") never matches
       /\bI don[’']?t have (?:any )?information on [^.]{0,80}(?:that[’']?s|—)?\s*(?:general|common) knowledge\b/i,
-      /\b(?:that[’']?s|this is) (?:just )?(?:general|common) knowledge[^.]{0,80}(?:outside|beyond|not covered)\b/i,
-      // the redirect-only openers (2026-10-11 smoke): the model swaps the
-      // pinned sentence for a scope OFFER — "I'm happy to help with
-      // questions about OIML … instead." / "I can answer questions about
-      // OIML … — such as OIML B 20:2024 …". Anchored at the answer's
-      // start (a real answer never OPENS with the redirect — the
-      // redirect TAIL after content survives untouched), the publisher
-      // token profile-driven.
-      new RegExp(`^\\s*I(?:['\u2019]m| am) happy to help with questions about ${publisher}\\b[^\\n]{0,220}?\\binstead\\b`, "i"),
-      new RegExp(`^\\s*I can (?:answer|help with) questions about ${publisher}\\b[^\\n]{0,220}?\\bpublications\\b`, "i")
+      /\b(?:that[’']?s|this is) (?:just )?(?:general|common) knowledge[^.]{0,80}(?:outside|beyond|not covered)\b/i
     ],
     // the misplaced-pin wall's subset: every pattern here carries a
     // first-person refusal verb ("I don't have information", "I can't
@@ -61,7 +52,19 @@ function sentenceEnd(answer, i) {
   const m = /[.!?\n]/.exec(answer.slice(i));
   return m ? i + m.index + 1 : answer.length;
 }
-function canonicalRefusal(answer) {
+function redirectOfferSentences(answer) {
+  const out = [];
+  let i = 0;
+  while (i < answer.length) {
+    const end = sentenceEnd(answer, i);
+    const s = answer.slice(i, end);
+    if (/\bI\b[^.!?]{0,160}?\bquestions? about\b/i.test(s) || /\bI\b[^.!?]{0,160}?\binstead\b/i.test(s) && !/[§\[\d]/.test(s)) out.push([i, end]);
+    i = end;
+    while (i < answer.length && /\s/.test(answer[i] ?? "")) i++;
+  }
+  return out;
+}
+function canonicalRefusal(answer, scope) {
   const CANON = refusalAnswer();
   if (answer.includes(CANON)) return answer;
   const { variant: REFUSAL_VARIANT, drift: REFUSAL_DRIFT } = refusalPatterns(P().publisher.name);
@@ -72,6 +75,10 @@ function canonicalRefusal(answer) {
     if (!m) continue;
     return answer.slice(0, sentenceStart(answer, m.index)) + CANON + answer.slice(sentenceEnd(answer, m.index));
   }
+  if (scope && !scope.cited && !scope.conversational) {
+    const offer = redirectOfferSentences(answer)[0];
+    if (offer) return answer.slice(0, offer[0]) + CANON + answer.slice(offer[1]);
+  }
   return answer;
 }
 function exciseMisplacedPin(answer, cites) {

package/dist/refusal.d.ts

@@ -2,11 +2,27 @@
  *  Refusals are never cached: a refusal says "retrieval found nothing",
  *  which is a property of the moment, not of the question. */
 export declare function refusalAnswer(): string;
+/** The refusal scope (2026-10-11, the third smoke shape): the loose
+ *  redirect-offer family is gated by what the PIPELINE knows, not by
+ *  ever-more phrase patterns. The model's scope offers keep drifting
+ *  ("I'm happy to help … instead", "I can answer questions about …",
+ *  "I'm a metrology assistant — I can help with … instead") — the same
+ *  surface form that legitimately ANSWERS a conversational question
+ *  ("what can you help me with?"). The discriminators: a knowledge-seek
+ *  question (the understanding's own class) and an UNCITED answer — a
+ *  cited answer's scope talk is content, a conversational turn's scope
+ *  talk is the answer itself. */
+export interface RefusalScope {
+    /** the understanding read the question as a conversational turn */
+    conversational?: boolean;
+    /** the answer carries citations */
+    cited?: boolean;
+}
 /** Normalize a refusal-shaped answer to the pinned sentence. A drift
  *  refusal occupies its own sentence: swap that sentence (preface
  *  included) for the pinned one — the redirect tail survives. An answer
  *  outside the refusal family is returned byte-identical. */
-export declare function canonicalRefusal(answer: string): string;
+export declare function canonicalRefusal(answer: string, scope?: RefusalScope): string;
 /** The misplaced-pin wall (2026-10-10): an answer that actually cites
  *  passages is NOT a refusal — but the model sometimes drops the
  *  pinned sentence into an otherwise-correct, well-cited answer as a

package/dist/{search-544LVPGG.js → search-NIRCPRMW.js}

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import {
 import "./chunk-7AXXR7GD.js";
 import "./chunk-TH5XGPD5.js";
 import "./chunk-W7J5SFXJ.js";
-import "./chunk-26VW4ZXU.js";
+import "./chunk-WPOKSNPE.js";
 import "./chunk-4NXH5ZI6.js";
 import "./chunk-VT7DR6NQ.js";
 import "./chunk-3FYJM7LH.js";

package/dist/worker_public/src/index.js

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import {
   handleMemories,
   scoreFaithfulness,
   scoreJudge
-} from "../../chunk-DNDQQYDT.js";
+} from "../../chunk-JYJJ4SYF.js";
 import {
   TOOLS_REGISTRY,
   bindModelNode,
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ import {
 } from "../../chunk-W7J5SFXJ.js";
 import {
   canonicalRefusal
-} from "../../chunk-26VW4ZXU.js";
+} from "../../chunk-WPOKSNPE.js";
 import {
   entitlementScope,
   standardKeysFrom
@@ -877,7 +877,7 @@ ${recent.map((h, n) => `[${n + 1}] ${h.metadata.docidentifier ?? ""} \xA7${h.met
     telemetry(env, ctx, "member", "research", MODELS.research, false, 0, queryHash, q.lang);
     throw new Error("The generation model is unavailable; please retry.");
   }
-  answer = canonicalRefusal(answer);
+  answer = canonicalRefusal(answer, { cited: usedHits.length > 0, conversational: false });
   const anchors = checkQuoteAnchors(answer, used.map((h) => h.text));
   if (anchors.violations.length) console.log("research anchors:", anchors.violations.length, "unverified");
   const out = {
@@ -1052,7 +1052,7 @@ async function callToolOnce(env, ctx, _req, tier, key, name, args, t0) {
       const r = await runTool({ ...env, DB: env.DB }, { name, args }, "mcp");
       payload = r ? { tool: r.name, query: r.query, result: r.output } : { error: { message: `tool ${name} returned nothing for the given arguments` } };
     } else {
-      const res = name === "ask" ? await (await import("../../ask-XAJDCNFU.js")).handleAsk(env, ctx, inner, tier, key) : await (await import("../../search-544LVPGG.js")).handleSearch(env, ctx, inner, tier, key);
+      const res = name === "ask" ? await (await import("../../ask-PFU74MIP.js")).handleAsk(env, ctx, inner, tier, key) : await (await import("../../search-NIRCPRMW.js")).handleSearch(env, ctx, inner, tier, key);
       payload = await res.json().catch(() => ({ error: { message: "tool transport failed", status: res.status } }));
     }
     telemetry(env, ctx, tier, `mcp:${name}`, null, !payload?.error, JSON.stringify(payload).length, await sha256Hex(`${name}:${JSON.stringify(args ?? {})}`), void 0, void 0, { durationMs: Date.now() - t0 });

package/dist/worker_public/src/refusal.js

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import {
   canonicalRefusal,
   exciseMisplacedPin,
   refusalAnswer
-} from "../../chunk-26VW4ZXU.js";
+} from "../../chunk-WPOKSNPE.js";
 import "../../chunk-3FYJM7LH.js";
 export {
   canonicalRefusal,

package/package.json

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
     "playwright": "^1.62.1",
     "yaml": "^2.9.1"
   },
-  "version": "0.2.132",
+  "version": "0.2.134",
   "description": "The Konneal engine: the publisher-agnostic build pipeline and API plane for standards intelligence (retrieval, answer contract, verdicts, evaluation).",
   "license": "BSD-3-Clause",
   "type": "module",

package/workers/worker_public/src/ask.ts

@@ -625,6 +625,10 @@ let convEntities: Array<{ entity: string; kind: string }> = [];
   // take this path (they always run understanding + live retrieval);
   // fresh already bypassed the exact cache above and bypasses this one.
   let understanding: any = null;
+  // the loose redirect-offer family's gate (refusal.ts): knowledge-seek
+  // questions only, uncited answers only — a conversational turn's
+  // scope vocabulary is the answer itself
+  const refusalScope = (cited: boolean) => ({ cited, conversational: understanding?.intent === "conversational" });
   // a query naming a model node (/req/…, /term/…) is node-SCOPED: its
   // ── Option C: optimistic parallel retrieval ──
   // The dense lane (folded-query embed + unfiltered Vectorize query) runs
@@ -1537,7 +1541,7 @@ let convEntities: Array<{ entity: string; kind: string }> = [];
           }
           // the misplaced-pin wall rides the streamed path too: a
           // CITED stream is not a refusal
-          const canonical0 = usedHits.length > 0 ? exciseMisplacedPin(canonicalRefusal(full), true) : canonicalRefusal(full);
+          const canonical0 = usedHits.length > 0 ? exciseMisplacedPin(canonicalRefusal(full, refusalScope(usedHits.length > 0)), true) : canonicalRefusal(full, refusalScope(false));
           // answer contract v2: validate [[u:]] refs, resolve typed blocks
           const c2 = canonical0.includes(refusalAnswer())
             ? { text: canonical0, blocks: [], dropped: [] as string[] }
@@ -1641,7 +1645,7 @@ let convEntities: Array<{ entity: string; kind: string }> = [];
       );
     answer = await generateOnce(env, MODELS.fallback, flat, routeEffort(routed.route));
   }
-  if (answer) answer = canonicalRefusal(answer);
+  if (answer) answer = canonicalRefusal(answer, refusalScope(usedHits.length > 0));
   // the misplaced-pin wall: a CITED answer is not a refusal — excise
   // the pinned sentence if the model dropped it in as a disclaimer
   // (measured on chip-scoped asks: correct cited answers carrying the
@@ -1684,7 +1688,7 @@ let convEntities: Array<{ entity: string; kind: string }> = [];
       generateRetries += 1;
       const corrected = await generateOnce(env, model, [...messages, { role: "system", content: note }], routeEffort(routed.route));
       if (corrected) {
-        const correctedAnswer = canonicalRefusal(corrected);
+        const correctedAnswer = canonicalRefusal(corrected, refusalScope(usedHits.length > 0));
         const retryAnchors = checkQuoteAnchors(correctedAnswer, used.map((h: Hit) => h.text));
         const retryRetyped = tableRetyped(correctedAnswer, hasTableUnit);
         if (retryAnchors.violations.length < anchors.violations.length || (!retryRetyped && retyped) || (unreferenced && correctedAnswer.includes("[[u:"))) {
@@ -1729,7 +1733,7 @@ let convEntities: Array<{ entity: string; kind: string }> = [];
         const retryAnswer = await generateOnce(env, model, retryMessages, routeEffort(routed.route));
         // the answer now comes from the retry passages — citations must follow
         if (retryAnswer) {
-          answer = canonicalRefusal(retryAnswer);
+          answer = canonicalRefusal(retryAnswer, refusalScope(retryRetrieve.hits.length > 0));
           used = retryUsed;
         }
       }
@@ -1781,7 +1785,7 @@ let convEntities: Array<{ entity: string; kind: string }> = [];
       messages[messages.length - 1],
     ], effort);
     if (regen && !regen.includes(refusalAnswer())) {
-      answer = canonicalRefusal(regen);
+      answer = canonicalRefusal(regen, refusalScope(true));
       console.log("blind-answer: regeneration grounded");
     }
   }

package/workers/worker_public/src/refusal.ts

@@ -29,15 +29,6 @@ function refusalPatterns(publisher: string): { variant: RegExp; drift: RegExp[];
       // ("this exemption is outside the scope of R 60") never matches
       /\bI don[’']?t have (?:any )?information on [^.]{0,80}(?:that[’']?s|—)?\s*(?:general|common) knowledge\b/i,
       /\b(?:that[’']?s|this is) (?:just )?(?:general|common) knowledge[^.]{0,80}(?:outside|beyond|not covered)\b/i,
-      // the redirect-only openers (2026-10-11 smoke): the model swaps the
-      // pinned sentence for a scope OFFER — "I'm happy to help with
-      // questions about OIML … instead." / "I can answer questions about
-      // OIML … — such as OIML B 20:2024 …". Anchored at the answer's
-      // start (a real answer never OPENS with the redirect — the
-      // redirect TAIL after content survives untouched), the publisher
-      // token profile-driven.
-      new RegExp(`^\\s*I(?:['’]m| am) happy to help with questions about ${publisher}\\b[^\\n]{0,220}?\\binstead\\b`, "i"),
-      new RegExp(`^\\s*I can (?:answer|help with) questions about ${publisher}\\b[^\\n]{0,220}?\\bpublications\\b`, "i"),
     ],
     // the misplaced-pin wall's subset: every pattern here carries a
     // first-person refusal verb ("I don't have information", "I can't
@@ -71,11 +62,48 @@ function sentenceEnd(answer: string, i: number): number {
   return m ? i + m.index + 1 : answer.length;
 }
 
+/** The refusal scope (2026-10-11, the third smoke shape): the loose
+ *  redirect-offer family is gated by what the PIPELINE knows, not by
+ *  ever-more phrase patterns. The model's scope offers keep drifting
+ *  ("I'm happy to help … instead", "I can answer questions about …",
+ *  "I'm a metrology assistant — I can help with … instead") — the same
+ *  surface form that legitimately ANSWERS a conversational question
+ *  ("what can you help me with?"). The discriminators: a knowledge-seek
+ *  question (the understanding's own class) and an UNCITED answer — a
+ *  cited answer's scope talk is content, a conversational turn's scope
+ *  talk is the answer itself. */
+export interface RefusalScope {
+  /** the understanding read the question as a conversational turn */
+  conversational?: boolean;
+  /** the answer carries citations */
+  cited?: boolean;
+}
+
+/** A whole-sentence redirect offer in ONE sentence, first person:
+ *  the "questions about" marker (four observed shapes carry it —
+ *  "I'm happy to help with questions about…", "I can answer questions
+ *  about…", "I'm a metrology assistant — I can answer questions
+ *  about…", "I'm here for questions about…"), or the "instead" marker
+ *  in a sentence with NO citation apparatus (no clause anchors, no
+ *  digits — an offer names no provisions). */
+function redirectOfferSentences(answer: string): Array<[number, number]> {
+  const out: Array<[number, number]> = [];
+  let i = 0;
+  while (i < answer.length) {
+    const end = sentenceEnd(answer, i);
+    const s = answer.slice(i, end);
+    if (/\bI\b[^.!?]{0,160}?\bquestions? about\b/i.test(s) || (/\bI\b[^.!?]{0,160}?\binstead\b/i.test(s) && !/[§\[\d]/.test(s))) out.push([i, end]);
+    i = end;
+    while (i < answer.length && /\s/.test(answer[i] ?? "")) i++;
+  }
+  return out;
+}
+
 /** Normalize a refusal-shaped answer to the pinned sentence. A drift
  *  refusal occupies its own sentence: swap that sentence (preface
  *  included) for the pinned one — the redirect tail survives. An answer
  *  outside the refusal family is returned byte-identical. */
-export function canonicalRefusal(answer: string): string {
+export function canonicalRefusal(answer: string, scope?: RefusalScope): string {
   const CANON = refusalAnswer();
   if (answer.includes(CANON)) return answer;
   const { variant: REFUSAL_VARIANT, drift: REFUSAL_DRIFT } = refusalPatterns(P().publisher.name);
@@ -86,6 +114,10 @@ export function canonicalRefusal(answer: string): string {
     if (!m) continue;
     return answer.slice(0, sentenceStart(answer, m.index)) + CANON + answer.slice(sentenceEnd(answer, m.index));
   }
+  if (scope && !scope.cited && !scope.conversational) {
+    const offer = redirectOfferSentences(answer)[0];
+    if (offer) return answer.slice(0, offer[0]) + CANON + answer.slice(offer[1]);
+  }
   return answer;
 }
 

package/workers/worker_public/src/research.ts

@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ async function run(
     telemetry(env, ctx, "member", "research", MODELS.research, false, 0, queryHash, q.lang);
     throw new Error("The generation model is unavailable; please retry.");
   }
-  answer = canonicalRefusal(answer);
+  answer = canonicalRefusal(answer, { cited: usedHits.length > 0, conversational: false });
   const anchors = checkQuoteAnchors(answer, used.map((h: Hit) => h.text));
   if (anchors.violations.length) console.log("research anchors:", anchors.violations.length, "unverified");
   const out = {