@konneal/engine 0.2.78 → 0.2.80

package/dist/{ask-IANJ4PXT.js → ask-7V4ECBLN.js}

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import {
   handleAsk
-} from "./chunk-JIN6Y4PD.js";
+} from "./chunk-LTGOJVDF.js";
 import "./chunk-7HWJOFTQ.js";
 import "./chunk-SPKPH54J.js";
 import "./chunk-A3QHHUN5.js";

package/dist/{chunk-JIN6Y4PD.js → chunk-LTGOJVDF.js}

@@ -2083,8 +2083,13 @@ async function extractNameplate(ai, model, image) {
         // temperature is a READING temperature — a transcription task at
         // default sampling hallucinated brands on a low-res plate
         // (observed live 2026-10-03: "Tektronix" on a CAS label)
-        max_tokens: attempt === 0 ? 512 : 1536,
-        reasoning_effort: attempt === 0 ? "low" : "medium",
+        // attempt 1 is cheap; the retry is the QUALITY leg — high effort
+        // with the full budget, the escalation that measured 58% vs 25%
+        // on hard extraction (the 2026-09-18 enrichment A/B), because a
+        // hard plate is exactly that class of task. The flat 512 also
+        // starved the JSON behind the transcribe-first prose.
+        max_tokens: attempt === 0 ? 1536 : 3072,
+        reasoning_effort: attempt === 0 ? "low" : "high",
         temperature: 0.15
       });
       const text = typeof res?.response === "string" ? res.response : res?.choices?.[0]?.message?.content;
@@ -3076,6 +3081,18 @@ ${q.query}` }],
     if (completionBlocks.length) console.log("contract completion:", completionBlocks.length, "table block(s) attached server-side");
   }
   completionBlocks.push(...await completeFigures(env.DB, answer, [...c2ns.blocks, ...completionBlocks], used));
+  if (withImage && register?.rows?.length && answer.includes(refusalAnswer())) {
+    console.log("blind-answer: the register note carried rows but the answer refused \u2014 regenerating once");
+    const regen = await generateOnce(env, model, [
+      ...messages.slice(0, -1),
+      { role: "user", content: "The photograph was attached and the register note lists actual matching certificate rows. Present those rows \u2014 number, holder, model, status, and every document link \u2014 as the answer. Do not claim that nothing was provided." },
+      messages[messages.length - 1]
+    ], effort);
+    if (regen && !regen.includes(refusalAnswer())) {
+      answer = canonicalRefusal(regen);
+      console.log("blind-answer: regeneration grounded");
+    }
+  }
   const jsonQuality = answerQuality(finalCites.map((c) => c.quality));
   let entailment = null;
   let entailmentNote = "";

package/dist/worker_public/src/index.js

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import {
   modelGroundingBlock,
   scoreFaithfulness,
   scoreJudge
-} from "../../chunk-JIN6Y4PD.js";
+} from "../../chunk-LTGOJVDF.js";
 import {
   handleSearch
 } from "../../chunk-KO6DRI7C.js";
@@ -959,7 +959,7 @@ async function handleMcp(env, ctx, req, tier, key) {
       // stream:false forces the JSON lane (anon defaults to SSE)
       body: JSON.stringify({ ...args, stream: false })
     });
-    const res = name === "ask" ? await (await import("../../ask-IANJ4PXT.js")).handleAsk(env, ctx, inner, tier, key) : await (await import("../../search-LVUQLA3C.js")).handleSearch(env, ctx, inner, tier, key);
+    const res = name === "ask" ? await (await import("../../ask-7V4ECBLN.js")).handleAsk(env, ctx, inner, tier, key) : await (await import("../../search-LVUQLA3C.js")).handleSearch(env, ctx, inner, tier, key);
     return res.json().catch(() => ({ error: { message: "tool transport failed", status: res.status } }));
   });
   if (out.ok && "accepted" in out) return new Response(null, { status: 202 });

package/package.json

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
     "playwright": "^1.62.1",
     "yaml": "^2.9.1"
   },
-  "version": "0.2.78",
+  "version": "0.2.80",
   "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

@@ -1503,6 +1503,24 @@ let convEntities: Array<{ entity: string; kind: string }> = [];
   // figure completion (#172) — see ./completion for the rationale
   completionBlocks.push(...(await completeFigures(env.DB, answer, [...c2ns.blocks, ...completionBlocks], used)));
 
+  // the blind-answer regeneration (2026-10-03, live on the photo case):
+  // the multimodal call can answer AROUND an attached image — a 200 whose
+  // text claims nothing was provided — while the bridge succeeded and the
+  // register note carries actual rows. One bounded regeneration, decided on
+  // that exact signature; the retry carries a sterner ground instruction.
+  if (withImage && register?.rows?.length && answer.includes(refusalAnswer())) {
+    console.log("blind-answer: the register note carried rows but the answer refused — regenerating once");
+    const regen = await generateOnce(env, model, [
+      ...messages.slice(0, -1),
+      { role: "user", content: "The photograph was attached and the register note lists actual matching certificate rows. Present those rows — number, holder, model, status, and every document link — as the answer. Do not claim that nothing was provided." },
+      messages[messages.length - 1],
+    ], effort);
+    if (regen && !regen.includes(refusalAnswer())) {
+      answer = canonicalRefusal(regen);
+      console.log("blind-answer: regeneration grounded");
+    }
+  }
+
   const jsonQuality = answerQuality(finalCites.map((c: any) => c.quality));
   // the entailment gate (TODO.new-era/10): the eval battery's faithfulness
   // scorer, promoted onto the serving path — the confidence line states a

package/workers/worker_public/src/nameplate.ts

@@ -37,8 +37,13 @@ export async function extractNameplate(ai: any, model: string, image: string): P
         // temperature is a READING temperature — a transcription task at
         // default sampling hallucinated brands on a low-res plate
         // (observed live 2026-10-03: "Tektronix" on a CAS label)
-        max_tokens: attempt === 0 ? 512 : 1536,
-        reasoning_effort: attempt === 0 ? "low" : "medium",
+        // attempt 1 is cheap; the retry is the QUALITY leg — high effort
+        // with the full budget, the escalation that measured 58% vs 25%
+        // on hard extraction (the 2026-09-18 enrichment A/B), because a
+        // hard plate is exactly that class of task. The flat 512 also
+        // starved the JSON behind the transcribe-first prose.
+        max_tokens: attempt === 0 ? 1536 : 3072,
+        reasoning_effort: attempt === 0 ? "low" : "high",
         temperature: 0.15,
       });
       const text = typeof res?.response === "string" ? res.response : res?.choices?.[0]?.message?.content;