Measured 2026-09-20 on a 2313-concept bundle of one project's own
documentation: `withheld` held 2 305 entries = 186 440 B of compact JSON =
**65.5 % of the 284 850-byte payload**, and not one of those bytes counted
against the budget the same payload reports (`spent` was 45 192). A reader was
handed 239 658 bytes the budget line did not know about, to learn 2 305 concept
ids with nothing beside them -- the title being exactly what `--withheld-titles`
existed to buy, and which was off because buying it for 2 305 entries cost
another 37.9 %.
`withheld` is now a mapping: `total` (equal to `denominators.withheld`, so
SS 5.2's identity is unmoved and closes on the NUMBERS), `by_rule` (the same
total decomposed over the closed rule set, so "what kind of drop" is answerable
without the list), `nearest` (the best-ranked drops BY NAME, with title and
source document, so a reader who sees a near miss can ask for it) and
`complete`. The near misses are read off the ranking, not off `cut`'s output:
`cut` sorts by id so the partition is comparable, and that order says nothing
about which concept a reader might want next.
Same question, same bundle, after: **52 421 bytes, 18.4 % of the old file**.
The whole list stays reachable behind `--withheld-full`, and the two
instruments that classify EVERY miss by its rule -- the retrieval gate and
`okf_consume_measure` -- now ask for it explicitly and assert `complete`
rather than assuming it. `--withheld-nearest N` sets the cap (default 20,
which is `k` plus the next twelve). `--withheld-titles` is retired: a flag
whose only remaining effect would be to STRIP the title from a list the caller
asked for in full names no decision worth two shapes for one list.
`CONTRACT_REVISION` moves to `okf-consumption/2`, because a consumer indexing
the old key as a list would otherwise break silently. Three checker rules move
with it, and one of them is the interesting case: `parent_unfollowable` used
`excerpts` + `withheld` as the bundle's own denominator, which a truncated
block is not -- so that clause now runs only where the payload SAYS it is
complete, stated in SS 8.6 rather than left as a silence, with the other two
clauses (shape, self-reference) running either way. `Report` carries both
denominators, because a report claiming it examined 2 305 entries it never saw
is the same defect one level up.
The generated skill's "breaking point" section goes with it: it extrapolated a
concept count from the cost of ONE withheld entry, and there is no such slope
any more. It now states what this bundle's bookkeeping cost and that the block
is bounded by the cap rather than by the bundle -- an extrapolation from a
slope the code no longer has would be a measurement of the previous revision.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The pre-pass delivered the right concept and the answer could not name it.
Measured by portfolio-optimiser 2026-09-08 over three paid arms: the gold
concept came back at rank 1 of 8 on 3 of 3 bundles, and the model answered
correctly on 1 of 3, because a delivered excerpt carried `concept_id`, body
text and nothing the document is known by. The previous session measured the
same gap from the other side: the provenance it had just written into every
concept did not reach the payload at all.
`excerpt_for` now carries `title` unconditionally, and `req_number`, the SPEC
5.1 address `sources` and each locator key (`source_pages`, `source_sheet`,
`source_rows`, `source_lines`, `source_offset`) when the concept has them. A key
the producer did not write stays absent: an empty value would assert that they
wrote an empty one, which is the contract's 6.4 failure.
`sources` is read in BOTH YAML forms, on a measurement rather than a taste. K2
writes the flow form on 629 of 629 concepts; the largest N-bundle writes the
block form on 270 of 270 and carries no locator key at all, so a flow-only
reader delivers that bundle with no address whatsoever. Reading the block form
is not a licence to write it - the emission rule is untouched, because the
line-oriented parser still cannot round-trip a block list. A `sources` value
this reader cannot decode is named (`sources_unreadable`), never dropped into
the same silence as an absent one.
Contract 8 gains the requirement and the checker gains its code
(`excerpt_unnamed`, 15 rules now, was 14): an excerpt a reader cannot name is
one an answer cannot cite, whatever its rank. `req_number`, `sources` and the
locators are SHOULD, not MUST - they are conditional on the producer, and a
bundle whose concepts carry no identifier cannot deliver one.
K2 controls, same question and same k, before against a frozen copy of the tool
at b6a8c8b: the RANKING does not move - the same 8 concept ids in the same
order, identical `text_sha256`, identical `withheld`, identical denominators
(629 = 621 + 8). The FIELD is what moved: payload 108 877 -> 111 744 B
(+2.63 %), budget spent 18 606 -> 20 907 (+287.6 B per excerpt), excerpt
members 9 -> 15, 83 changed lines. The contract document's own bytes moved with
8, so the budget instrument's known-positive moves with it: 10 349 -> 12 049
measured, 10 060 -> 11 719 raw, delta 289 -> 330.
New fixture `tests/fixtures/consume-provenance`: the two address forms and a
concept carrying neither address nor identifier. Purpose-built, because the two
real bundles are complementary and neither exercises both forms.
Suite 1347 (1339 before), ruff clean, mypy src clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <claude-opus-5>
A per-corpus skill copies this directory and fills every <PLACEHOLDER>. None of
them has a default: a corpus's budget, instrument, profile name and conditional
fields are facts about that corpus, and a default would be this repository
asserting one it has not measured.
The section headings are fixed because the checker in the next commit reads
them by name. references/example-payload.json is the known-positive that keeps
a refuse-everything checker from passing.
