Operator feedback: fagpersoner must be able to name the approaches a run shall
evaluate for a project, and/or ask the system for its own. Today the hypothesis
prompt is hardcoded ("Propose ONE concrete cost-saving measure") and the only
expert-facing lever, --dimension-config, FILTERS what may pass the scoping gate
rather than DIRECTING what is spent attempts on. This is the input that was
missing.
`mandate.py` is the typed commission + a fail-fast loader (mirrors
`load_dimension`/`load_goal_config`): missing or malformed refuses, because a run
must never proceed on a silently degraded commission — the coverage report would
then describe work nobody ordered. Stdlib + pydantic only, so it joins
`_MAF_FREE_MODULES` and can be mirrored to the D7 sibling.
Two refusals carry real defect classes: an EMPTY commission (no approaches and no
own proposals) is a caller error, not a result; and a duplicate approach id — or
one claiming the reserved OWN_PROPOSAL_ID — would collapse two coverage rows onto
one key (the S3.2 key-collision class), which is exactly the silence the coverage
report exists to prevent.
The numeric target is deliberately NOT duplicated here: it already lives in
GoalContract, and two copies of one number drift apart ((p) precedent). The
mandate carries intent; `announce` merely restates the figure.
`_build_messages(approach=...)` switches the opening instruction from *find one*
to *quantify THIS one*, carrying the expert's label and description VERBATIM —
the description is the reason the approach is worth trying, the one part the model
cannot infer from cost data. `approach=None` is byte-identical to the previous
prompt, so every existing run and golden is untouched.
The gate is unmoved: `validate_proposal` is called exactly as before. A
commissioned approach gets no discount — the expert directs what is EVALUATED,
never what is APPROVED.
Load-bearing MEASURED against the whole 695-test suite, four mutations all red:
detach the approach injection (2 red, control stayed green) · let a commissioned
approach bypass the validator · make the mandate loader tolerant · drop the
empty-commission refusal.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ULCqjLF61rehj5cZmdUoR3
Kjell Tore Guttormsen
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