plumbline-harness 0.3.0__tar.gz
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- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/LICENSE +216 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/PKG-INFO +276 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/README.md +254 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/pyproject.toml +45 -0
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- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/src/plumbline/__init__.py +12 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/src/plumbline/adapters/__init__.py +1 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/src/plumbline/adapters/llm.py +229 -0
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- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/src/plumbline/analysis/__init__.py +1 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/src/plumbline/analysis/conformance.py +177 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/src/plumbline/analysis/consistency.py +231 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/src/plumbline/analysis/equivalence.py +300 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/src/plumbline/analysis/stats.py +143 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/src/plumbline/certify.py +69 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/src/plumbline/cli.py +433 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/src/plumbline/compliance/__init__.py +15 -0
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- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/src/plumbline/compliance/controls.py +337 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/src/plumbline/compliance/sampling.py +253 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/src/plumbline/core/__init__.py +1 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/src/plumbline/core/align.py +116 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/src/plumbline/core/compare.py +166 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/src/plumbline/core/trajectory.py +217 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/src/plumbline/domains/__init__.py +69 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/src/plumbline/domains/accounts_payable/__init__.py +0 -0
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- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/src/plumbline/domains/accounts_payable/schema.py +353 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/src/plumbline/domains/accounts_payable/tasks.py +207 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/src/plumbline/domains/accounts_payable/tools.py +575 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/src/plumbline/domains/ap/__init__.py +0 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/src/plumbline/domains/ap/arms.py +498 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/src/plumbline/domains/ap/data.py +120 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/src/plumbline/domains/ap/policy.py +129 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/src/plumbline/domains/ap/tasks.py +130 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/src/plumbline/domains/ap/tools.py +279 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/src/plumbline/perturb/__init__.py +1 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/src/plumbline/perturb/base.py +61 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/src/plumbline/perturb/library.py +313 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/src/plumbline/report/__init__.py +1 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/src/plumbline/report/build.py +227 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/src/plumbline/report/certificate.py +206 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/src/plumbline/report/html.py +302 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/src/plumbline/runtime/__init__.py +1 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/src/plumbline/runtime/budget.py +186 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/src/plumbline/runtime/cache.py +81 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/src/plumbline/runtime/runner.py +215 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/src/plumbline/server/__init__.py +1 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/src/plumbline/server/app.py +255 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/src/plumbline/server/views.py +569 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/src/plumbline/spec/__init__.py +1 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/src/plumbline/spec/invariants.py +278 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/src/plumbline/store/__init__.py +4 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/src/plumbline/store/db.py +311 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/src/plumbline/store/importer.py +117 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/src/plumbline_harness.egg-info/PKG-INFO +276 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/src/plumbline_harness.egg-info/SOURCES.txt +68 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/src/plumbline_harness.egg-info/dependency_links.txt +1 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/src/plumbline_harness.egg-info/entry_points.txt +2 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/src/plumbline_harness.egg-info/requires.txt +14 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/src/plumbline_harness.egg-info/top_level.txt +1 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/tests/test_cli_semantics.py +111 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/tests/test_compliance.py +329 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/tests/test_core.py +347 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/tests/test_otel.py +168 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/tests/test_pipeline.py +456 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/tests/test_published_numbers.py +96 -0
- plumbline_harness-0.3.0/tests/test_server_controls.py +145 -0
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**Metamorphic conformance testing for LLM agents.** Declare the invariants an agent must never violate; try to break them with input changes that preserve meaning; localise every violation to a named step with a confidence interval.
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## 1 · The finding: a significant result that was entirely baseline artifact
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I built this to measure what moving an agent's control flow out of the model actually buys. The first study said: a lot. Under an injected transient tool failure, the deterministic executor reached the correct outcome **81.2%** of the time against the free-form agent's **98.2%**. A 17-point gap, p = 0.0029. Determinism looked *worse*.
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> **What this is actually evidence for.** Not "determinism wins" and not "determinism loses". It is evidence about **benchmark construction**: a plausible, significant, well-visualised 17-point effect can be entirely an artifact of an unrealistic baseline, and no amount of statistical rigour catches that. The confidence intervals were correct. The permutation test was correct. The control condition was correct. The *baseline* was a strawman, and only domain knowledge finds that.
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