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DietrichGebertandClaude Opus 4.8 caf138df56 benchmarks: fix correctness gate + robustness audit (#65) (#83)
* fix(benchmarks): correctness gate scores unfenced code; fix debounce task

The `correct` gate under-reported correctness for terse models, the likely
source of "Ponytail degrades models" reports (issue #65):

- extractBlocks() only matched fenced code blocks, so bare/unfenced code
  scored an automatic fail even when correct. Now falls back to the whole
  response as one block (and tolerates CRLF). Debounce detection also accepts
  unfenced arrow functions.
- The debounce task asked to "add debounce to a search input" but the check
  expected a reusable debounce(fn, delay) util, failing correct inline answers.
  Task reworded to the deliverable the check verifies.

Adds correctness.test.js (regression guard) and a GPT-mini repro config plus
results writeup: on a clean n=20 run, the reported gpt-4.1-mini drop (10/15)
does not reproduce (100/100). The LOC win (~halved) holds.

README repro fixed: promptfoo needs --env-file ../.env (reads cwd, not root).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(benchmarks): add robustness audit — ponytail vs baseline on edge cases

Answers the real question behind #65: does ponytail's push for the shortest
solution make weak models produce wrong code on edge cases?

robustness-audit.js: 16 self-verifying tasks (12 algorithmic edge-case traps +
4 validators). Each check ships a known-good and known-lazy-wrong reference that
must pass/fail before any model output is scored (--selftest, 16/16).

Findings (gpt-4.1-mini + gpt-5.4-mini, baseline vs ponytail): parity on every
edge-case trap on both models. The one measured soft spot is gpt-5.4-mini email
(~4-5%, reaches for parseaddr). A sharpened SKILL.md validation rule had no
reliable effect in an n=100 A/B (96% vs 95%), so it was not shipped — the
tendency is model-level, not skill-level. Full writeup in results/.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(benchmarks): email slip is provider-specific — 100% on Claude

High-n cross-provider follow-up to the robustness audit. The one ponytail
soft spot (email validation via parseaddr) splits by provider, not model size:

- Claude (haiku/sonnet/opus): 100% under ponytail, n=40 each — and ponytail
  beats baseline (unconstrained Sonnet over-engineers into an always-truthy
  dict, 0/40; ponytail writes a clean validator).
- OpenAI (gpt-4.1-mini..gpt-5.5): slips at every size under ponytail
  (~79-98%), baseline ~100%. The parseaddr reflex lives in OpenAI training.

Not fixable by skill text: 8 distinct SKILL.md edits (incl. an n=100 A/B,
96% vs 95%) all scored <= current, several worse, all bloated LOC. Nothing
shipped. SKILL.md unchanged.

Conclusion: on ponytail's target platform (Claude) email is 100%; the GPT
slip is a documented cross-provider transfer quirk. Adds model-email.js /
claude-email.js to reproduce the tables. Writeup updated.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(benchmarks): correct misleading Sonnet baseline 0 percent

The Sonnet baseline 0/40 on email is a return-type artifact, not a logic
failure: unconstrained Sonnet returns a dict {is_valid, message} instead of a
bool, so the bool-contract gate scores every case as accepted. Read dict-aware
via is_valid, its logic is ~75% correct (9/12). Reframed honestly so we are not
presenting 0 vs 100 as a clean win; ponytail still wins (clean 100% bool) but
the point is over-engineered return type, not total failure.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-16 12:17:10 +02:00

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// Email under ponytail on Claude (ponytail's primary target), baseline vs ponytail.
const fs = require('fs'), path = require('path');
const { checkPy, pyBlock, TASKS } = require('./robustness-audit.js');
const skill = fs.readFileSync(path.join(__dirname, '..', 'skills', 'ponytail', 'SKILL.md'), 'utf8');
const email = TASKS.find(t => t.name === 'email');
const N = Number(process.env.CE_N) || 40;
const MODELS = (process.env.CE_MODELS || 'claude-haiku-4-5-20251001,claude-sonnet-4-6,claude-opus-4-8').split(',');
const kv = Object.fromEntries(fs.readFileSync(path.join(__dirname, '..', '.env'), 'utf8')
.split(/\r?\n/).filter(l => l.includes('=') && !l.trim().startsWith('#'))
.map(l => { const i = l.indexOf('='); return [l.slice(0, i).trim(), l.slice(i + 1).trim()]; }));
const KEY = kv.ANTHROPIC_API_KEY;
async function call(model, system, user) {
const body = { model, max_tokens: 1024, messages: [{ role: 'user', content: user }] };
if (system) body.system = system;
const r = await fetch('https://api.anthropic.com/v1/messages', { method: 'POST',
headers: { 'x-api-key': KEY, 'anthropic-version': '2023-06-01', 'content-type': 'application/json' }, body: JSON.stringify(body) });
if (!r.ok) return { err: r.status };
const j = await r.json();
return { text: (j.content || []).map(b => b.text || '').join('') };
}
(async () => {
console.log(`email, n=${N}\n`);
console.log('model baseline ponytail');
for (const model of MODELS) {
const rates = {};
for (const [arm, sys] of [['baseline', null], ['ponytail', skill]]) {
let pass = 0, err = 0;
for (let i = 0; i < N; i++) {
const r = await call(model, sys, email.prompt);
if (r.err) { err++; continue; }
if (checkPy(pyBlock(r.text), email)) pass++;
}
rates[arm] = `${pass}/${N - err}`;
}
console.log(`${model.padEnd(26)} ${rates.baseline.padEnd(10)} ${rates.ponytail}`);
}
})();