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JesseMarkowitzandClaude Opus 5 144406cd48 M11: what the server will actually read
The release-validation milestone, and the thing it had to settle first was
whether any of the earlier evidence meant what it said. M8 measured a deployment
enforcing a 4,096-token input window while the application budgeted 16,384.
Every request returned 200. What Ollama does with the excess is drop the oldest
tokens, and the oldest tokens here are the system block — the narrator's rules
and the campaign canon. A hundred-turn certification against that server would
have looked perfect and proved nothing, which is why this milestone could not
begin with a hundred turns.

So the application asks now. Ollama's window is a property of how a model was
loaded rather than of the request — sending num_ctx is accepted, ignored, and
worse, reloads the model at the server's own default — so the only honest move
is to find out and then tell the truth about it. /api/ps reports what a resident
model is being served with, /api/show what an unloaded one will load with, both
on the same host inference already uses, through the same endpoint policy and
the same TLS trust store. A verified window is a ceiling on the budget; an
unverified one leaves the budget alone and is recorded as unverified in the
turn's own provenance, so an old turn can be asked afterwards whether it was
built against a checked window. There is no third behaviour, and in particular
no hard-coded 4,096: a number the server did not say would be right on one
machine and wrong on the next.

The proof that this is doing something is a campaign whose canon sits at the
front of the prompt, 120 turns of history, and a 4,096-token window. The canon
is still there afterwards and the oldest history is gone. The same campaign
built the old way produces a prompt more than twice the window — the defect,
reproduced, so the fix is measured against it rather than asserted.

Two defects the validation found on its own, and they are the same defect twice:
something was true and nobody was told. A manual state correction of four
changes with one bad reference applied three, returned 201, and said nothing —
while recording the refusal on the audit row nobody reads. It came to light
because the identity diagnostic's own fixture was refused that way and the whole
run proceeded on a campaign with no scene, which would have read as a model
failure. And the narration-length setting moved no number: brief, medium and
long each became one English sentence, while the numeric hint the model actually
reads was derived from the global reply cap and said the same thing for all
three. Both now say what they did.

The other two post-M8 findings are closed as well. The tab said AI D&D, which no
document had ever claimed it did not; it says Interactive Story now, with the
open campaign first, and the name is the owner's decision rather than a
find-and-replace to something narrower than the engine. After an Undo the reader
could not tell where they had landed; the control row now ends with
"Moment 11 · later story ahead", from the server's own answer, in the word the
transcript already uses, with none of head, branch or depth anywhere near it.

The identity diagnostic exists and the root cause does not. That campaign was
destroyed, so no cause can be established — what M11 owes the finding is
something that can classify the next occurrence, and a diagnostic that makes only
the judgements a program can honestly make: duplicate keys, shared names,
protagonist drift, state and context disagreeing. Whether prose misattributed a
line is left to a person reading it beside its prompt, because a regex cannot
read dialogue and one that pretended to would produce exactly the confident wrong
answer this finding is about. Its detectors are proved to fire against a planted
second Alice.

Two entities may still share a display name. That was checked first, as the
finding asked, and left permitted: a mother and a daughter, or a stranger giving
a false name, are ordinary fiction, and refusing them to guard against a model
mistake would refuse the wrong thing. What was missing was that it happened
silently. It is reported now.

Evidence, not inference: a hundred accepted turns against a real narrator with
genuine process restarts; a real browser against the built SPA; a container with
no network at all; a campaign moved into a data directory that never existed.
Each was discarded and re-run whenever the product changed under it, and the runs
that were thrown away are listed in the report with the reason, along with ten
defects in the harnesses themselves — because a harness that has only ever
agreed with itself is not evidence, and two of M8's five harness defects were
masking real ones.

No dependency was added, removed or upgraded. No acceptance test was retired,
relaxed or reclassified. M11 is implemented and verified; it is not accepted, and
there is no release tag.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Qyn3oRd4D6pi72nKBG725B
2026-09-07 14:01:20 -04:00

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"""Playing a turn: the model call, the SSE stream, and the one-turn-at-a-time lock.
Everything a test needs to intercept lives here, and other modules reach it as
`turns.<name>` rather than importing it by value. That matters twice. The turn
lock guards one set only while one module owns it. And a test that replaces
`OpenAICompatibleProvider` or `generate_turn` patches this module, which every
caller reads through.
"""
import threading
from fastapi import Depends, HTTPException, Request
from fastapi.responses import StreamingResponse
from sqlalchemy.orm import Session
from ... import (
attempts, head, limits, memorybank, models, narrative, schemas, tree,
worldstate,
)
from ... import contextwindow
from ...context import ContextOverflow, build_context, cursors
from ...knowledge import retrieval as knowledge_retrieval
from ...database import get_db
from ...providers import OpenAICompatibleProvider, PromptParts, ProviderError
from ...sse import SSE_HEADERS, sse, turn_error
from ..settings import get_settings
from .deps import CurrentUser, current_adventure, router
from .nodes import _move_to_after, next_depth
from .paging import annotate_takes
def world_delta_of(snapshot: dict | None) -> dict | None:
"""Returns the bulk-read slice of a context snapshot, for `Action.world_delta`.
`context_snapshot` is deferred because it holds the whole assembled prompt.
The parts that every action needs get their own small column instead: the
world-change chips, the emit block replayed into history, and the refusal
note fed back to the model. Update this function wherever a snapshot is
written.
Carry all three report lists, not just `applied`. `Action.world_changes`
marks a chip from `clamped` and builds its refusal chips from `rejected`,
and `worldstate.refusals` reads both. Storing `applied` alone left every
consumer unable to tell a refused change from one that worked, which is the
distinction this column exists to carry. The two extra lists are subsets of
one turn's block, so they cost a few hundred bytes per action at most.
"""
ws = (snapshot or {}).get("world_state")
if not isinstance(ws, dict):
return None
report = ws.get("report") or {}
return {
"delta": ws.get("delta") or {},
"applied": report.get("applied") or [],
"clamped": report.get("clamped") or [],
"rejected": report.get("rejected") or [],
}
# One turn at a time per adventure. The set lives in memory, which is enough for
# a single-process local app. Sync endpoints run in a threadpool, so the
# check-and-add needs a lock. The check also has to run during the request
# rather than when the SSE generator first runs. Otherwise two rapid requests
# both pass the check and generate concurrently.
_active_turns: set[int] = set()
_active_turns_guard = threading.Lock()
def acquire_turn_lock(adventure_id: int):
"""Claims the adventure's turn slot atomically. `with_turn_lock` releases it."""
with _active_turns_guard:
if adventure_id in _active_turns:
raise HTTPException(409, "A turn is already generating for this adventure.")
_active_turns.add(adventure_id)
async def with_turn_lock(adventure_id: int, gen):
"""Wraps an SSE generator so that it releases the `acquire_turn_lock` lock."""
try:
async for event in gen:
yield event
finally:
_active_turns.discard(adventure_id)
#: Openings that mean the reader has already written the subject of the sentence.
#:
#: Matched as whole words, longest first, so "I'm" is recognised before "I".
_FIRST_PERSON = ("i ", "i'm ", "i've ", "i'll ", "i'd ", "my ", "we ", "we're ")
def format_player_input(action_type: str, text: str) -> str:
"""Formats player input the way AI Dungeon does — with one M8 correction.
The convention is a `>` marker and second person: typing `look around` in
the old Do mode stored `> You look around.`, which reads correctly and shows
the model whose turn it is.
**M8 broke that assumption and this repairs it.** `BROWSER-UX-SPEC.md` §12
replaced the Do/Say/Story selector with one natural-language field, and §11
tells the reader to write sentences like *"I enter the tavern."* Prefixing
that produced `> You I enter the tavern.` — in the transcript, in the
replayed history, and therefore in the narration, where a small model
imitates it and writes "You I thank her". It was visible in the very first
browser pass of the new composer.
So the prefix is added only when the reader has *not* already written a
subject. First person is left alone; everything else keeps the old
behaviour, and the `>` marker is unchanged in every case, because that is
what actually distinguishes a player turn in the prompt.
Storage is unchanged for text that was already formatted — see
`test_take_parentage.py`, which guards against `> You > You ...`.
"""
text = text.strip()
if action_type == "say":
text = text.strip('"')
if text and text[-1] not in ".!?…":
text += "."
return f'> You say "{text}"'
if action_type == "do":
if text.lower().startswith("you "):
text = text[4:]
if text and text[-1] not in ".!?…":
text += "."
lowered = text.lower()
if any(lowered.startswith(opening) for opening in _FIRST_PERSON):
return f"> {text}"
return f"> You {text}"
return text # The "story" type is appended as raw text.
def action_json(action: models.Action, db: Session | None = None) -> dict:
"""Serializes one action for the wire.
Passing `db` fills in the pager numbers, and a turn that was just played must
pass it. The attempt that turn created is often the second one at its
coordinate, so the message needs a pager that the client cannot infer from a
count of one. Without `db`, a retry showed no pager until the page reloaded.
The adventure GET has the same requirement and builds its window a third way.
"""
if db is not None:
annotate_takes(db, action.adventure_id, [action])
return schemas.ActionOut.model_validate(action).model_dump(mode="json")
async def generate_turn(
adventure: models.Adventure,
db: Session,
user: models.User,
retry_of: models.Action | None = None,
):
"""Streams the AI continuation as SSE, then stores the result.
If `retry_of` is set, the result is stored as a sibling of that AI action, at
the same turn and the same coordinate, and the discarded attempt stays where
it was written. Before calling, the caller must roll the adventure back to
the state before that turn. See `retry_action`. If this generator ends
without saving, the rollback is undone, so the state cannot diverge from the
text on screen.
"""
saved = False
try:
async for event in _generate_turn(adventure, db, user, retry_of):
if event is _SAVED:
saved = True
continue
yield event
finally:
if retry_of is not None and not saved:
# The turn failed with a provider error, an empty reply, or a
# disconnected client. No sibling was written, so the
# attempt on screen is still the live one. Restore the state it
# produced.
attempts.restore_state(adventure, retry_of)
db.commit()
# `_generate_turn` yields this sentinel once the action is committed. It tells
# the wrapper above to leave the rollback in place rather than reverse it.
_SAVED = object()
async def _generate_turn(
adventure: models.Adventure,
db: Session,
user: models.User,
retry_of: models.Action | None = None,
):
settings = get_settings(db, user)
# On a retry, the attempt being replaced is still the live node of its turn,
# because it stays live until a replacement exists. Filter it out of the
# context. Otherwise the model reads the attempt it is replacing as
# established story and writes a sequel to it.
replacing_id = retry_of.id if retry_of is not None else None
memories = await memorybank.retrieve_memories(
adventure, settings, update_stats=True, exclude_action_id=replacing_id
)
# M7: the imported library, retrieved for the position being read. Excluding
# the attempt being replaced matters here for the same reason it does for
# memories — the query is built from the recent story, and a discarded
# attempt must not steer which passages the replacement is given.
knowledge = await knowledge_retrieval.retrieve(
adventure, settings, exclude_action_id=replacing_id
)
# M11: what this server will actually accept. Asked here rather than inside
# the builder for the same reason retrieval is — the builder makes no
# network calls — and cached per endpoint and model, so it costs one short
# request per session rather than one per turn. An unverified window does
# not block the turn; it is recorded as unverified in the snapshot below.
window = await contextwindow.probe(settings.endpoint_url, settings.model)
try:
system_text, story_text, snapshot = build_context(
adventure,
settings,
memories,
exclude_action_id=replacing_id,
knowledge=knowledge,
window=window,
)
except ContextOverflow as exc:
# M6: the protected context does not fit in the configured budget, so
# there is no prompt to send. This is a settings problem the reader can
# fix, and the message says how — reporting it as a failed turn keeps
# the story intact and tells them what to change, where building the
# prompt anyway would return a silently truncated reply.
yield turn_error(str(exc))
return
parts = PromptParts(system=system_text, story=story_text)
provider = OpenAICompatibleProvider(
settings.endpoint_url, settings.model, settings.api_mode,
settings.model_timeout_seconds,
)
chunks: list[str] = []
reasoning_chunks: list[str] = []
try:
async for kind, chunk in provider.generate(
parts, temperature=settings.temperature, max_tokens=settings.max_output_tokens
):
if kind == "reasoning":
reasoning_chunks.append(chunk)
yield sse({"type": "reasoning", "text": chunk})
else:
chunks.append(chunk)
yield sse({"type": "chunk", "text": chunk})
except ProviderError as exc:
yield turn_error(str(exc))
return
text = "".join(chunks).strip()
# The model's literal reply, kept for the Insights "Raw AI output" view. It
# still contains the world-state block, which the code below strips.
raw_output = text
if not text:
# The model streamed reasoning but no story text, so it spent its whole
# budget on reasoning. Report that rather than "empty response".
if reasoning_chunks:
detail = (
"The model used its entire token budget on reasoning and returned no "
'story text. Raise "Max output tokens" in Settings, set a "Reasoning '
'max tokens" cap, or switch to a non-reasoning model.'
)
else:
detail = "The AI returned an empty response."
yield turn_error(detail)
return
# M5: read the typed state proposal out of the reply, validate it, apply
# what survives, and strip the block from the displayed text.
#
# This replaced the Phase 12 relative-delta pipeline. The shape of the turn
# is unchanged — extract, referee, snapshot — because ADR 010 changed the
# protocol, not the lifecycle. What changed is that the referee now works on
# explicit typed events with absolute values, so an accepted proposal cannot
# mean something other than it says.
#
# A retry re-runs the same turn, so it is played at that turn's depth. This
# was `retry_of.index`, which held the same number until SP4. Depth stays
# correct once a branch has its own numbering.
ai_depth = retry_of.depth if retry_of is not None else next_depth(adventure)
text, parsed, raw_block = narrative.extract.split(text)
if not text.strip():
yield turn_error("The AI returned only a state update and no story text.")
return
review = narrative.validate.review(
parsed if parsed is not None else {"events": []},
narrative.store.current(adventure),
narrative.store.canon_of(adventure),
)
# Held until the action exists, because a proposal record names the node
# whose narration produced it and the node has no id yet. Everything lands
# in the single commit below (L01).
# The coordinate is read off the node after it is placed, not guessed here:
# `tree.place_action` assigns the branch, and a retry inherits the branch of
# the attempt it replaces.
pending_state = {
"review": review,
"parsed": parsed,
"raw_block": raw_block,
"unparseable": parsed is None and bool(raw_block),
}
snapshot["narrative_state"] = {
"accepted": review.accepted,
"rejected": [r.as_dict() for r in review.rejected],
"status": review.status,
}
snapshot["raw_output"] = raw_output
# The cost the endpoint reports for the call, including how much of the
# prompt came from cache rather than being billed in full. This is recorded
# per attempt, next to the prompt it priced.
snapshot["usage"] = provider.last_usage
reasoning = "".join(reasoning_chunks).strip() or None
ai_action = models.Action(
adventure_id=adventure.id,
depth=ai_depth,
type="ai",
text=text,
reasoning=reasoning,
context_snapshot=snapshot,
world_delta=world_delta_of(snapshot),
)
if retry_of is not None:
attempts.add_attempt(db, adventure, retry_of, ai_action)
db.add(ai_action)
# The text at this coordinate changed, so anything derived from it no
# longer describes the story. Withdraw the memory attached to the node
# and return that stretch to both passes. Before SP4 this code was
# unreachable, because the summarizer held the newest action back until
# a turn landed on top of it. `memorybank.SETTLE_SLACK` keeps a memory
# off the tip again, for cost rather than for correctness, so this is
# now the rare case: undo or delete can carry a summarized node back to
# the tip, and then a retry of it lands here. See `memorybank`.
memorybank.forget_node(db, adventure, retry_of)
cursors.rewind_all(adventure, retry_of.branch_id, ai_depth - 1)
# Flush so the new attempt has an id. The session does not autoflush,
# and attempts page in id order, so a read taken before this point puts
# the newest attempt nowhere.
db.flush()
else:
tree.place_action(db, adventure, ai_action)
db.add(ai_action)
db.flush()
# The state lands after the node exists and before the one commit, so the
# narration, the head, the accepted events, the provenance and the snapshot
# are one transaction. L01 forbids any window in which a turn looks accepted
# while its state is half-written, and the cheapest guarantee is to have a
# single commit rather than two that could get out of step.
new_state, _proposal = narrative.store.record(
db, adventure,
review=pending_state["review"],
raw_block=pending_state["raw_block"],
parsed=pending_state["parsed"],
action=ai_action,
branch_id=ai_action.branch_id,
depth=ai_action.depth,
model_name=settings.model or "",
source="accepted_story",
)
if pending_state["unparseable"]:
_proposal.status = "unparseable"
before_state = narrative.store.current(adventure)
narrative.store.set_current(adventure, new_state)
ai_action.state_changes = {
"accepted": pending_state["review"].accepted,
"rejected": [r.as_dict() for r in pending_state["review"].rejected],
"summary": narrative.apply.diff(before_state, new_state),
}
attempts.snapshot_outcome(adventure, ai_action)
adventure.updated_at = models.utcnow()
db.commit()
db.refresh(ai_action)
yield _SAVED
yield sse({"type": "done", "action": action_json(ai_action, db)})
# Phase 6: schedule summarization and embedding without waiting for them.
# The task opens its own database session.
memorybank.schedule_post_turn(adventure)
async def run_player_turn(
adventure: models.Adventure,
db: Session,
payload: schemas.ActionCreate,
user: models.User,
preformatted: bool = False,
):
"""Plays a player's turn: their action, then the reply to it.
`preformatted` means the text already carries the `> You ...` conventions and
is written as-is. That applies when the player retakes a turn they already
played (SP9). The editor is seeded with the stored text, which is already
formatted, and a plain edit puts that same text in the box and writes it back
verbatim. Formatting it a second time produces `> You > You ...`.
"""
# An empty do, say, or story action behaves as a continue.
if payload.type != "continue" and payload.text.strip():
formatted = (
payload.text.strip() if preformatted
else format_player_input(payload.type, payload.text)
)
player_action = models.Action(
adventure_id=adventure.id,
depth=next_depth(adventure),
type=payload.type,
text=formatted,
)
# The state this node leaves behind. The AI turn after it starts here,
# and a retry of that turn rolls back to here.
attempts.snapshot_outcome(adventure, player_action)
tree.place_action(db, adventure, player_action)
db.add(player_action)
db.commit()
db.refresh(player_action)
# The new action was added through its foreign key, so the loaded
# `adventure.actions` collection is stale. Without this expire,
# `build_context` for the AI action does not see the player action
# that was just saved.
db.expire(adventure, ["actions"])
yield sse({"type": "player", "action": action_json(player_action, db)})
async for event in generate_turn(adventure, db, user):
yield event
@router.post("/{adventure_id}/actions")
def create_action(
adventure_id: int,
payload: schemas.ActionCreate,
request: Request,
db: Session = Depends(get_db),
user: models.User = CurrentUser,
adventure: models.Adventure = Depends(current_adventure),
):
limits.check_row_cap("actions", db, user, adventure=adventure)
acquire_turn_lock(adventure_id)
try:
_move_to_after(db, adventure, payload.after_id)
# The first write below a moved-back head is where a divergence happens
# (M3). Undo alone does not fork — the user may be reading, or about to
# Redo — so this is the moment the story states which continuation it
# means. The displaced future keeps its rows on the branch being left.
# A head already at the tip, which is every ordinary turn, forks nothing.
if head.fork_if_behind_head(db, adventure):
db.commit()
db.refresh(adventure)
except BaseException:
_active_turns.discard(adventure_id)
raise
return StreamingResponse(
with_turn_lock(adventure_id, run_player_turn(adventure, db, payload, user)),
media_type="text/event-stream",
headers=SSE_HEADERS,
)