feat(quiz): question provenance, repetition guard, and the silent-empty seam (#537 addendum Part 2)

[AndresL230]

Part 2 of the #537 addendum: E5–E8 and F5–F7, shipped as one PR because
they all land in routes/quiz.py and would otherwise conflict.

E5 — question identity + provenance

A generated question had no identity: it was written into the encrypted
questions_json blob, graded, and forgotten. Nothing could ask "have we
asked this before?", "which prompt wrote it?", or "was it grounded in our
materials?".

• services/quiz_identity.py — question_hash, a stable SHA-256 over the
  normalized stem + option set. Insensitive to whitespace, case and option
  order; sensitive to stem and option content; version-tagged so a
  future normalization change is visibly disjoint rather than quietly
  colliding.
• Each stored question now carries question_hash plus a provenance
  block: prompt_version (the system-prompt hash, previously reachable
  only as agent trace metadata), the served model, the grounding chunk
  ids, and rag_grounded/catalog.
• Chunk ids were resolved and dropped on the floor — _course_material_block
  returned a bare string. It now returns a CourseMaterial record.
  match_course_chunks already returned id, so this was a local
  refactor, not the schema change the brief flagged as a stop-and-report risk.
• Provenance never reaches the client, on both response shapes — the
  keyed branch is still the default until quiz: flip include_answer_key default to false, then delete it once the #537 client ships #546 flips it, so guarding only
  the keyless allowlist would have shipped chunk ids to every browser today.

Dedupe: the within-attempt check is keyed on question_hash as specified,
and retains the stem check. The hash covers stem and options, so it is
the narrower of the two — a model re-emitting one stem with reworded options
passes it. Dropping the stem check would have quietly narrowed #543's
duplicate-question guard, which E5 has no need to trade away.

E6 — repetition guard

Past questions_json was never re-read, so a student could be served the
same question repeatedly with nothing able to notice.

• services/quiz_repetition.py reads the last ~15 distinct items for this
  (student, concept) and generation is told not to repeat them.
• Fetched raw, not precomputed into the digest — noted as asked. The
  audit's end-state (precompute in quiz_context) belongs with the digest
  schema work in quiz H2: mine answers_json into the digest (distractor profile) + digest schema version #554; this is bounded hard (6 attempts scanned, 15 stems out)
  in the meantime.
• Deliberately not filtered to completed attempts, unlike the history
  tool: a student who generated a quiz and walked away still saw those
  questions.
• Prompt-side guidance only — repeats are not hard-dropped. The
  function-mode seam returns the same 3 questions regardless of prompt, so
  dropping repeats would empty every second quiz in the test(e2e): journey — quiz answer → mastery update (UI + DB) #393 journey and 502
  it. Stems are delimiter-neutralized ([P2] Agent migration: prompt-injection hardening on student-supplied content #150) on the way back into the prompt.

E7 — stop dropping event_type

Submit computed correct/partial/confusion from the score ratio and discarded
it at the write. Migration 20260814051517 adds a nullable event_type to
node_mastery_events; apply_graph_update persists it and omits the key
when absent, so every non-quiz caller keeps working on an environment that
took the code before the DDL. Applied to staging and verified (26 existing
rows keep NULL).

E8 — grounding is a decision, not an accident

A coverage check runs when retrieval comes back empty, and quiz.rag_uncovered
distinguishes three different problems that used to look identical:
course_unresolved, no_chunks_for_course, no_match_for_concept
(plus coverage_unknown). Generation is never blocked on it.

F5 — the general fix for silent-empty

services/tool_signals.py::report_empty_result. Three personalization inputs
were empty for months because an empty list is exactly what "this student has
nothing yet" looks like. The helper supplies the missing half — whether the
student plausibly should have data (enrolled / has attempts / has a graph,
one owner-scoped indexed read, only on the empty path) — and emits
quiz.tool_empty when the two disagree. Feature-agnostic so the tutor's tools
use it too; wired into all three quiz read tools. Never raises; a failed probe
means "can't tell", which is silence.

F6 — measure the prompt before anyone tunes it

services/prompt_dimensions.py captures prompt composition per request and
rides quiz.started, which shares a request_id with the llm_usage row.
The load-bearing detail: digest_present is only knowable inside an agent
tool running under asyncio.to_thread, so the accumulator mutates a shared
dict rather than rebinding a ContextVar — pinned by test.

The audit's ~2–4k estimate was low. Measured via count_tokens
(scripts/bench_quiz_prompt_budget.py, results in docs/quiz-prompt-budget.md):

	measured	audit
System prompt	1,317	~800
read_concepts_for_user @ cap	1,340	~250
Today, grounded, 13-concept graph	3,992	2–4k
Worst case	6,839	—

The concepts tool at cap costs more than a five-chunk RAG block at typical
chunk sizes — so "COURSE MATERIAL is the dominant variable cost" is only true
for long chunks, and the proposed ~4–5k redesign budget is approximately the
current bill rather than headroom.

F7 — taxonomy

quiz.tool_empty and quiz.rag_uncovered added to EVENT_TAXONOMY, the
module docstring table, and the pin test.

Also

• Documented the ciphertext oracle's deliberate omission of quiz_responses
  where the manifest lives (owed from the addendum's Part 1, item 3).
• agents/usage.py::served_model_name is public and now coerces to str —
  the model name flows into encrypt_json via provenance, and a non-string
  would have 502'd a generation that had already succeeded.

Verification

• Hermetic suite: 2103 passed, 9 skipped (was 1997 — +106 tests).
• ruff check . clean.
• Full local E2E cycle: Playwright, oracles, integration lane.
• Migration applied to staging before merge.

Review round (commit 2)

/code-review high returned six findings, all valid, all fixed in cb56970f:

1. The F5 probe blocked the event loop — a sync Supabase read called
   inline from async tool bodies, while every other read in those tools uses
   to_thread for exactly that reason. It fires on the empty path, which
   today is the common one. Added report_empty_result_async.
2. +3. The probes asked a broader question than the tools did —
   HAS_ATTEMPTS checked all concepts while the tool read one;
   HAS_GRAPH checked the whole graph while the read was course-scoped. Both
   would have flagged ordinary progress (first quiz on a new concept; taking
   two courses) as "silently broken" — the precise alarm-fatigue failure F5
   exists to prevent. Probes now take a scope.
   3b. feature defaulted to "quiz" on a tool the tutor also registers,
   contradicting the contract this PR added to CLAUDE.md. SaplingDeps
   carries feature now; default "unknown", since wrong attribution is
   worse than absent.
3. grounded was RAG-only but named "any course material" — a
   catalog-only course persisted every question as ungrounded. Split into
   rag_grounded + catalog.
4. The E7 comment implied the omit-when-absent trick made the quiz path safe
   pre-migration. It does not, and the failure loses the graded attempt.
   Comment now states the ordering requirement.
5. CLAUDE.md's "exactly two raw genai.Client sites" invariant, made false by
   this PR's bench script.

Re-verified after the fixes: hermetic 2103 passed / 9 skipped, ruff clean,
Playwright 45, oracles 0 findings, integration 47 passed.

The review-fix commit has not itself been through a second review round.

CI fix (commit 3) — a live 405→500 bug, pre-existing on main

Backend (pytest) had been red on main since the FastAPI 0.138 lock
(0effc9ee fails identically), on one test, with

AttributeError: '_IncludedRouter' object has no attribute 'path'

from otel's FastAPI instrumentation. Not test-only: otel's _get_route_details
guards its FULL-match .path read with except AttributeError but its
PARTIAL-match branch does not — and a PARTIAL match is exactly a wrong-method
request. So the error escaped the middleware and every 405 returned 500.
Staging and prod install the same lock, so that was live behaviour.

Nothing to upgrade to: the unguarded line is in every released
opentelemetry-instrumentation-fastapi through 0.65b0 (checked against the
published wheels). services/otel_fastapi_compat.py wraps the resolver,
absorbing only AttributeError and falling back to scope["path"] — otel's
own FULL-branch fallback. Reproduced and the fix verified at the locked
versions in a scratch env, since the dev venv (fastapi 0.136) cannot
reproduce it.

Review round 2 (commit 4)

1. quiz.rag_uncovered was category="error", but
   /api/admin/analytics/errors scans category = error newest-first. Firing
   per-generation would have buried quiz.context_write_failed and
   rag.retrieval_failed — degrading the surface workstream B just repaired.
   Now usage, which is also the honest label for a legitimate mode.
2. The misconceptions probe was the one left unscoped. It now asks whether
   aggregates exist for this student's offerings of this course — the only
   formulation that detects quiz H1: misconceptions tool filters offering_id with the abstract course id — verify live, then fix + seed test #553's keyspace mismatch without firing on every
   class that simply has no aggregates yet. Non-owner-scoped probes now refuse
   to run unscoped.
3. The quiz-history probe could not detect the failure its own comment
   cites: quiz_context lost UNIQUE (user_id, concept_node_id) in 0025 — save_quiz_context's upsert 42P10s and the failure is swallowed #529 presents as an empty digest while attempts exist, and the
   helper short-circuits on a non-zero count. Split into a digest-keyed check
   plus the attempt-list one.
4. _course_chunk_coverage reported a degraded count as 0, making E8 assert
   "nothing indexed" about a possibly fully-indexed course.
5. A node_mastery_events insert failure could permanently lose a graded
   quiz (it runs after submit's atomic completed_at claim, before score is
   written, unwrapped). Now retries once without event_type then degrades,
   loudly logged.

Final: hermetic 2119 passed / 9 skipped, ruff clean, Playwright 45,
oracles 0 findings, integration 47, all CI checks green.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Quiz generation now avoids recently served questions when suitable history is available.
  • Quiz questions receive stable identities to support consistent repetition prevention.
  • Quiz responses better reflect whether course material was successfully retrieved and used.
  • Tutor and quiz activity can preserve more specific mastery-event details.

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved handling of retrieval failures and unavailable course data without interrupting quiz generation.
  • Mastery updates continue when event recording encounters compatibility issues.

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The PR adds quiz provenance, stable question identity, repetition filtering, prompt-dimension telemetry, retrieval-failure classification, empty-result diagnostics, namespaced mastery events, and an offline prompt-budget benchmark.

Changes

Quiz observability and generation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Telemetry and event contracts backend/agents/..., backend/services/..., backend/tests/...	Adds feature metadata, prompt capture, empty-result reporting, event taxonomy entries, namespaced mastery events, failure-safe event persistence, and related tests.
Question identity and repetition lookup backend/services/quiz_identity.py, backend/services/quiz_repetition.py, backend/tests/test_quiz_identity_e5.py, backend/tests/test_quiz_repetition_e6.py	Adds stable question hashes and best-effort retrieval of recent questions for deduplication and prompt construction.
Quiz generation provenance and grounding backend/routes/quiz.py, backend/services/rag_service.py, backend/tests/test_quiz_provenance_e5_e6.py, backend/tests/test_event_capture_seams.py	Tracks grounding status, retrieval failures, prompt dimensions, serving models, question provenance, repetition data, and client response shaping.
Prompt budget measurement and documentation backend/scripts/bench_quiz_prompt_budget.py, docs/quiz-prompt-budget.md, CLAUDE.md, backend/e2e_oracles/gather.py	Adds a lazy real-mode Gemini token benchmark and documents measured prompt budgets, attribution, and encrypted-column scope.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90+ minutes

Merge Risk:🔵 Low · up to affde

This PR adds question provenance, repetition guidance, and quiz diagnostics. Mergeability is generally good, but retrieval state can leak between calls and some retrieval failures may be reported as missing course content, which can distort diagnostics; owners should address or explicitly accept these bounded risks.

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Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
participant Client
participant QuizRoute
participant RAGService
participant QuizRepetition
participant QuizAgent
participant EventService
Client->>QuizRoute: request quiz generation
QuizRoute->>RAGService: retrieve course material
QuizRoute->>QuizRepetition: retrieve recent questions
QuizRoute->>QuizAgent: generate quiz
QuizAgent-->>QuizRoute: return questions and served model
QuizRoute->>EventService: record provenance and prompt dimensions
QuizRoute-->>Client: return filtered questions

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The sink fixture is duplicated across two new test files. Both files define a near-identical sink fixture that calls events_service.reset_for_tests() and patches services.events_service.table with a MagicMock whose insert appends into a list. The only difference is the teardown drain. The shared root cause is that no common fixture exists for capturing enqueued events, so each new file writes its own. A third file that instruments a tool will copy it again, and the two copies can then drift in reset or drain behavior.

• backend/tests/test_tool_signals_f5.py#L23-L38: move this fixture into backend/tests/conftest.py and delete the local definition. Keep the post-yieldevents_service.flush_now() in the shared version, because it drains the queue while the table patch is still active.
• backend/tests/test_quiz_tool_instrumentation.py#L23-L36: delete the local sink fixture and use the shared one. This copy omits the teardown drain, so a queued event can outlive the patch.

As per coding guidelines: "Backend tests live in backend/tests/ and run via pytest; shared fixtures (mock Supabase, mock Gemini) are in tests/conftest.py."

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In `@backend/tests/test_tool_signals_f5.py` around lines 23 - 38, Move the
duplicated sink fixture into backend/tests/conftest.py, preserving
events_service.reset_for_tests(), the patched table MagicMock capture behavior,
and the post-yield events_service.flush_now() teardown. Delete the local sink
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Inline comments:
In `@backend/agents/tools/graph_read.py`:
- Around line 441-448: Update the misconception-reading flow around
read_misconceptions_for_course to resolve the course offering through
services/academics.py first, then pass the resolved offering_id to the query and
related empty-result reporting payload instead of ctx.deps.course_id. Preserve
the existing enrollment expectation and result handling.
In `@backend/agents/tools/quiz_history.py`:
- Around line 290-301: Keep the existing read_recent_quiz_attempts check for
completed attempts, and add a separate report_empty_result_async check for the
quiz-context digest using bool(history.summary) as its count. Set its
expectation according to whether existing attempts for the current user and
concept require a digest, while preserving the existing concept_node_id scope
and relevant payload context.
In `@backend/scripts/bench_quiz_prompt_budget.py`:
- Around line 52-57: Update the raw Google GenAI client setup around _client and
MODEL to use the provider configuration and model_mode() gate, matching the
model selection used by quiz generation. Ensure google.genai.Client is only
constructed within the provider-approved gated path and remove the hard-coded
model selection.
In `@backend/services/events_service.py`:
- Around line 39-41: Update the documented quiz.started dimensions in the events
service to list blocks, k_chunks, material_chars, recent_asked, routing_chars,
and adaptive, matching the route payload; remove digest_present because it is
conditional and not part of the consistently emitted dimension set.
In `@backend/services/graph_service.py`:
- Around line 759-771: The submit_quiz flow must not lose graded attempts when
node_mastery_events insertion fails. In apply_graph_update, isolate the
table("node_mastery_events").insert(event_row) operation so its failure is
caught and logged without propagating, while preserving score and answer
persistence; alternatively reorder submit_quiz to persist score and answers
before apply_graph_update. Ensure migration
20260814051517_node_mastery_events_event_type.sql is applied before deployment.
In `@backend/services/prompt_dimensions.py`:
- Around line 74-83: Update snapshot() in backend/services/prompt_dimensions.py
at lines 74-83 to return a deep copy of the current dimensions, preserving the
empty-dictionary fallback so nested mutable values such as blocks cannot affect
the active accumulator. Update backend/tests/test_prompt_dimensions_f6.py at
lines 56-63 to append to the returned blocks list and verify a later snapshot
remains unchanged.
In `@backend/services/tool_signals.py`:
- Around line 99-111: Update the database probe exception handler around the
table select to log at warning level instead of debug, including expect.value
and table_name in the message while preserving traceback output via
exc_info=True; continue returning None after logging.
In `@backend/tests/test_event_capture_seams.py`:
- Around line 619-624: Update the grounded fixture used by the assertions around
payload["k_chunks"] to set k_chunks explicitly to 2 alongside its chunk_ids,
ensuring the test exercises the configured field when chunk count and ID count
agree.
In `@backend/tests/test_graph_service.py`:
- Around line 748-766: Update test_event_type_omitted_when_caller_supplies_none
to pass an explicit {"event_type": None} through _apply_with_event_type,
covering the None branch while preserving the assertion that the key is absent.
Also revise the stale comment in test_mastery_change_appends_event_row to
describe that event_type is omitted when the caller does not supply it, rather
than claiming the schema lacks the column.
In `@docs/quiz-prompt-budget.md`:
- Around line 6-8: Declare the shell language for the fenced command block by
changing its opening fence to use sh, while leaving the command unchanged.
- Around line 70-74: Update the documented F6 dimensions list for the
quiz.started event to include only blocks, k_chunks, material_chars,
recent_asked, routing_chars, and adaptive. Remove digest_present, digest_chars,
recent_attempts, and misconceptions, and preserve the note that
misconceptions_requested is represented within blocks.
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In `@backend/tests/test_tool_signals_f5.py`:
- Around line 23-38: Move the duplicated sink fixture into
backend/tests/conftest.py, preserving events_service.reset_for_tests(), the
patched table MagicMock capture behavior, and the post-yield
events_service.flush_now() teardown. Delete the local sink fixtures from
backend/tests/test_tool_signals_f5.py lines 23-38 and
backend/tests/test_quiz_tool_instrumentation.py lines 23-36 so both tests use
the shared fixture.

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• backend/agents/usage.py
• backend/db/migrations/20260814051517_node_mastery_events_event_type.sql
• backend/e2e_oracles/gather.py
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• backend/scripts/bench_quiz_prompt_budget.py
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• backend/services/graph_service.py
• backend/services/prompt_dimensions.py
• backend/services/quiz_identity.py
• backend/services/quiz_repetition.py
• backend/services/tool_signals.py
• backend/tests/test_event_capture_seams.py
• backend/tests/test_graph_service.py
• backend/tests/test_output_retry_hardening.py
• backend/tests/test_prompt_dimensions_f6.py
• backend/tests/test_quiz_identity_e5.py
• backend/tests/test_quiz_provenance_e5_e6.py
• backend/tests/test_quiz_repetition_e6.py
• backend/tests/test_quiz_tool_instrumentation.py
• backend/tests/test_tool_signals_f5.py
• docs/quiz-prompt-budget.md

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Code review — quiz provenance, repetition guard, silent-empty seam

This PR adds question identity + provenance (E5), a recently-asked repetition read (E6), event_type persistence on mastery events (E7), grounding-coverage reporting (E8), a generic silent-empty detector (F5), prompt-composition capture (F6), taxonomy entries (F7), and an otel compat shim that fixes a live 405→500. I read every substantive changed file at HEAD rather than the hunks. All three headline goals are genuinely delivered: question_hash is a stable, version-tagged SHA-256 over the normalized stem + sorted option set and is stamped on every emitted question (routes/quiz.py:433), and provenance is excluded from both client shapes — the keyless allowlist and the new _INTERNAL_QUESTION_KEYS denylist for the still-default keyed branch (routes/quiz.py:447-457); I checked the other three readers of questions_json (get_attempt, answer_question, submit_quiz) and nothing leaks. The repetition read is bounded (6 attempts scanned, 15 stems out, deduped by identity) and prompt-side only, which the description states as a deliberate trade — it cannot loop or exhaust a pool. The empty case is not swallowed: _quiz_via_agent raises on empty wire_questions and generate_quiz turns it into a typed 502 plus quiz.generation_failed. Every new except was checked; none are silent. DB access is entirely through db/connection.py::table(), the migration is additive with a timestamp basename per the Infrastructure doc's #509 convention, and the new event payloads carry ids/counts/enums only. One P1 blocks merge, plus two P2s worth folding in.

Findings

[P1] E7's "only the quiz supplies event_type" premise is false — the tutor already supplies it — backend/services/graph_service.py:799-803

# Omitted rather than written as an explicit null when absent: every# non-quiz caller (tutor tools, the document pipeline, manual adds)# supplies none, and naming a column PostgREST's schema cache doesn't# have is a hard 400 — so omitting keeps THOSE paths working on an# environment that took this code before the migration.

There are exactly two production producers of updated_nodes: routes/quiz.py::submit_quiz and agents/tools/graph.py::update_mastery_tool. The second is registered on the chat tutor (agents/chat_tutor.py:162) with a system prompt that says to call it in every turn where the student demonstrates understanding, and it has always passed an event_type:

# backend/agents/tools/graph.py:55event_type: Literal["interaction", "correction", "quiz"] =Field(
default="interaction",
description="Event category for the mastery-event log.",
)
# backend/agents/tools/graph.py:141"event_type": u.event_type,

apply_graph_update simply discarded it until now, so it never mattered; this PR turns it on for both callers at once. Three consequences: (1) the pre-migration deploy analysis is wrong about scope — every tutor mastery write also 400s and takes the _insert_mastery_event retry, a wasted round-trip plus a WARNING per event on the highest-volume writer, not the quiet no-op the comment describes; (2) the column receives two disjoint vocabularies from day one — correct|partial|confusion from the quiz, interaction|correction|quiz from the tutor — where interaction is a schema default, i.e. exactly the "default that would make un-categorised events indistinguishable from confident ones" that 20260814051517_node_mastery_events_event_type.sql:12-16 says it is avoiding, and event_type='quiz' can only have come from the tutor because a real quiz submit never writes that string; (3) test_graph_service.py:748-757's docstring asserts the same false fact about the codebase and passes only because it calls apply_graph_update directly rather than through the tool. Pick one vocabulary (or namespace them) and make the comments and the test match which callers actually classify.

[P2] quiz.tool_empty is category="error" and fires once per generation while #553 is live — backend/services/tool_signals.py:182-192

log_event(
"quiz.tool_empty",
category="error",
user_id=user_id,
payload={
"tool": tool,
"feature": feature,
"expect": expect.value,
**(payloador {}),
},
)

/api/admin/analytics/errors scans category = error newest-first (routes/admin_analytics.py:453-456) — the exact reasoning that made review round 2 re-file quiz.rag_uncovered as usage. The volume profile is the same here: the quiz system prompt tells the agent to call read_misconceptions_for_course on every run (agents/quiz.py:93), the tool still passes the abstract course id into an offering_id filter (#553, explicitly not fixed here — agents/tools/graph_read.py:436), and COURSE_HAS_AGGREGATES returns True for any class that has offering_concept_stats rows. So every generation by every enrolled student in such a class emits one error-category event plus a WARNING, indefinitely, burying quiz.context_write_failed and rag.retrieval_failed under routine traffic. If the loudness is intentional it needs its own category or a de-dupe, not the shared error feed.

[P2] Misconceptions offering resolution runs on every call, not only the empty path — backend/agents/tools/graph_read.py:452-460

offering_ids: list[str] = []
ifctx.deps.course_id:
try:
offering_ids=awaitasyncio.to_thread(
user_offering_ids_for_course, ctx.deps.user_id, ctx.deps.course_id
)
exceptException:
logger.debug("misconceptions probe: offering resolution failed", exc_info=True)
ifoffering_ids:
awaitreport_empty_result_async(

The gate is ctx.deps.course_id, not not out. user_offering_ids_for_course (services/academics.py:185) is uncached and issues two unbounded PostgREST reads — every course_offerings row for the course, then every one of the user's enrollments. That is two extra Supabase round-trips on the request path of every quiz generation, including the non-empty path, contradicting tool_signals.py's own contract ("one owner-scoped indexed read, only on the empty path") and the PR description's identical claim. Invisible today only because #553 makes out always empty; pure waste the moment #553 lands.

[P3] E8 labels a failed course lookup as course_unresolved — backend/routes/quiz.py:676-683

ifmaterial.bu_codeisNone:
reason="course_unresolved"elifmaterial.course_chunksisNone:
reason="coverage_unknown"elifmaterial.course_chunks==0:
reason="no_chunks_for_course"else:
reason="no_match_for_concept"

_resolve_bu_code (:506-511) returns None both for "this course has no BU code" and for "the courses read threw", and any raise inside _course_material degrades to _EMPTY_MATERIAL with bu_code=None (:821-826). All three land on course_unresolved. E8 exists to tell different problems apart, and coverage_unknown is already the honest can't-tell label.

[P3] New log lines print the raw user_id — backend/services/tool_signals.py:177-181

logger.warning(
"%s returned no rows for user=%s despite %s — a personalization ""input may be silently broken (F5)",
tool, user_id, expect.value,
)

Canopy Engineering Style Guide §8: "Don't log request/response bodies, user IDs, emails, names, tokens, or decrypted columns." Same in services/quiz_repetition.py:90-94. Not a blocker given how widespread this already is in routes/quiz.py, but these are new lines and both already carry request_id correlation through the event they emit.

What's good

• _insert_mastery_event's one-shot retry-without-event_type is the right shape for the ordering hazard, and the judgement that the journal is not worth a graded attempt is correct — submit_quiz really does call apply_graph_update after the atomic completed_at claim and before the score write.
• Running _course_material and recent_question_identities concurrently under asyncio.gather(return_exceptions=True) with both results individually inspected: a bare gather would have 502'd a quiz over one unreadable past attempt.
• Splitting grounded into rag_grounded + catalog, with chunk_count falling back to len(chunk_ids), keeps provenance from asserting something false about a catalog-only course. I confirmed format_rag_context returns "" only for an empty chunk list, so k_chunks > 0 really does imply RAG text in the prompt.
• Measuring the prompt with count_tokens instead of inheriting the audit's estimate, and publishing the caveat that llm_usage.prompt_tokens remains the authority on totals.

Verdict: request changes — the E7 finding needs resolving before merge; the two P2s are worth folding in while you are in here.

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Review fixes applied

Every outstanding finding on this PR (human review + CodeRabbit) has been addressed and pushed.

Blocker

• event_type vocabulary collision. The claim in graph_service.py that "every non-quiz caller supplies none" was false — agents/tools/graph.py:55 has always sent one from the chat tutor. Both vocabularies are now namespaced and disjoint (tutor_interaction|tutor_correction|tutor_quiz vs quiz_correct|quiz_partial|quiz_confusion), the tutor field no longer defaults to a real category (omitted when None, mirroring apply_graph_update), and the migration + service comments now document the real six-value set and the real pre-migration blast radius. New tests drive the tutor path end to end.

Major

• quiz.tool_empty moved from category="error" to "usage" — it was firing once per generation into the feed /api/admin/analytics/errors scans, burying quiz.context_write_failed and rag.retrieval_failed.
• Misconceptions probe now gates on not out, so user_offering_ids_for_course (uncached, two unbounded reads) no longer runs on the non-empty path of every quiz generation.

Minor / nits

• E8 tells a failed courses read apart from "no BU code" (coverage_unknown, not course_unresolved), via a new tri-state lookup.
• Bench script's raw google.genai.Client is now behind a model_mode() gate and uses model_name_for("quiz"); CLAUDE.md's raw-client inventory corrected (it was already wrong — a fourth site existed).
• prompt_dimensions.snapshot() deep-copies; tool_signals probe failure logs at warning; k_chunks pinned explicitly in the grounded fixture; explicit-Noneevent_type case covered; stale "schema has no event_type column" comment fixed; doc fence language + F6 dimension list corrected; raw user_id removed from new log lines; duplicated sink fixture moved to conftest.py.

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659-692: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

A failed retrieve_chunks call is reported as a content gap, not as unknown coverage.

Line 667 swallows a retrieval exception and sets chunks = []. The returned CourseMaterial then carries resolution_failed=False. _log_rag_uncovered therefore reports no_chunks_for_course or no_match_for_concept. Both are assertions about the course data, but retrieval failed and the coverage was never learned.

This is the same mislabeling that BuCodeLookup.failed fixes for the course_code read. Set resolution_failed when retrieval raises, so the event reports coverage_unknown.

🛠️ Proposed fix

 try:
chunks = retrieve_chunks(concept_name, course_id=bu_code, k=_RAG_K)
+ retrieval_failed = False
except Exception:
chunks = []
+ retrieval_failed = True
@@
return CourseMaterial(
block="\n\n".join(blocks),
chunk_ids=chunk_ids,
k_chunks=len(chunks),
has_catalog=bool(catalog),
course_chunks=None if chunks else _course_chunk_coverage(bu_code),
bu_code=bu_code,
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Verify against the real database before merging

I could not reach a live database while working on this — there are no credentials on this machine (only .env.example files) and the local Supabase stack needs a container runtime that wouldn't start. So everything below was verified statically, by replaying every migration in ledger order to build a schema model and checking this PR's DB access against it. That model found 0 schema mismatches here, and it is trustworthy enough to have independently reproduced the documents.course_id absence that caused #562/#534 — but it cannot see data, and it cannot see whether staging's ledger actually matches the repo.

These are the checks that need a real connection.

1. Ordering is load-bearing — migration BEFORE code

This PR's own comment says it, and the review confirmed the failure mode: submit_quiz calls apply_graph_updateafter the atomic completed_at claim and before the score write, so a pre-migration insert failure loses a graded attempt. _insert_mastery_event retries once without event_type and degrades loudly, but that is a safety net, not a licence to deploy first.

-- Must return one row, is_nullable = YES, before any code shipsSELECT column_name, data_type, is_nullable
FROMinformation_schema.columnsWHERE table_name ='node_mastery_events'AND column_name ='event_type';

2. Existing rows must be untouched

SELECT event_type, count(*) FROM node_mastery_events GROUP BY1ORDER BY2DESC;

Before deploy: expect a single NULL bucket (the PR reports 26 rows on staging). Nothing should have a value yet.

3. After deploy — the namespacing must hold

The fix in this PR namespaced the two producers because the tutor's update_mastery_tool has always sent an event_type (agents/tools/graph.py), it was simply discarded until now. Re-run the same query after traffic:

• Expected values: NULL, tutor_interaction, tutor_correction, tutor_quiz, quiz_correct, quiz_partial, quiz_confusion.
• Any bare interaction / correction / quiz / correct / partial / confusion means a writer bypassed the namespacing — that is the exact ambiguity this change exists to prevent, and it should be investigated rather than accepted.

4. Volume expectation

The tutor is the higher-volume writer of the two, not the quiz. If tutor_* rows are absent after real tutor traffic, update_mastery_tool is silently not persisting and the omit-when-None path is swallowing it.

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Third review round + the live-DB checks

Picking this back up. Two things were outstanding: Jose's three fix commits had never themselves been reviewed, and the pre-merge database checks were left unrun because that environment had no credentials.

Live DB — both pre-merge checks pass on staging

Run through the session-mode pooler (scripts/pooler_url.py; the .env.staging value is the IPv6-only direct host and is unreachable from here):

check	result
event_type column	one row, text, is_nullable = YES, no default
existing rows	single bucket: 26 × NULL
ledger	migration recorded

So the migration is applied strictly before this code ships, which is the ordering the E7 comment calls load-bearing. Checks 3 and 4 (namespacing holds, tutor_* rows appear) are post-traffic and stay open as a post-deploy watch.

I also diffed the edited migration: the header comments were rewritten, but the DDL is byte-identical (ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS event_type TEXT), and the ledger keys on basename — no immutability violation, nothing re-runs.

Review of the fix commits — affde139

No correctness bugs. Four low findings, all fixed:

1. prompt_dimensions.snapshot() lost the whole payload on one bad value. The deep copy sits inside a try whose except returned {}, so a single un-deepcopyable value shipped quiz.started with no dimensions — measuring nothing while looking like a healthy event, which is the exact bug class F6 exists to end. Degrades to a shallow copy now, and warns. Its docstring's rationale was also just wrong (nothing mutates a recorded list in place), so that's corrected rather than left as a false comment.
2. E8 called a failed retrieval no_match_for_concept.retrieve_chunks swallows its own failures and returns [] — the same value a clean miss returns. So a course with material indexed whose retrieval broke was recorded as "it has material, none of it covers this concept": a claim about data we never read, which is precisely what the reason taxonomy exists to stop. Added retrieve_chunks_detailed, which says whether the empty result is a fault or a fact; a fault now reports coverage_unknown. The RAG embedding path sits below the SAPLING_MODEL_MODE seam — live embed calls fire even in function mode #439 seam skip is deliberately not a fault — otherwise every function-mode E2E run would report broken retrieval. retrieve_chunks keeps its list contract, so learn.py and benchmark_quiz.py are untouched.
3. Bench script promised a keyless run "fails loudly here" but still fell back to a dummy key, dying later inside count_tokens on an opaque auth error. It now fails where it says it does.
4. EVENT_TAXONOMY's quiz.started row and docs/quiz-prompt-budget.md disagreed about which dimensions come from the route vs. only when the agent calls the recording tool. Reconciled.

Both behavioural fixes are pinned by tests written to fail first.

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Merged. Filed the unrelated Playwright failure as #566 — the landing drag-field scroll-follow assertion, red on main since #524, which is what has kept the e2e browser lane red there.

Remaining from the addendum: Workstream H (#553–#557), plus #545 and #546.

Post-deploy watch still owed on this one — checks 3 and 4 from the DB comment above (namespacing holds; tutor_* rows actually appear once real tutor traffic lands). Nothing to run until it deploys.

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Part 2 of the #537 addendum: E5–E8 and F5–F7, shipped as one PR because
they all land in routes/quiz.py and would otherwise conflict.

E5 — question identity + provenance

A generated question had no identity: it was written into the encrypted
questions_json blob, graded, and forgotten. Nothing could ask "have we
asked this before?", "which prompt wrote it?", or "was it grounded in our
materials?".

• services/quiz_identity.py — question_hash, a stable SHA-256 over the
  normalized stem + option set. Insensitive to whitespace, case and option
  order; sensitive to stem and option content; version-tagged so a
  future normalization change is visibly disjoint rather than quietly
  colliding.
• Each stored question now carries question_hash plus a provenance
  block: prompt_version (the system-prompt hash, previously reachable
  only as agent trace metadata), the served model, the grounding chunk
  ids, and rag_grounded/catalog.
• Chunk ids were resolved and dropped on the floor — _course_material_block
  returned a bare string. It now returns a CourseMaterial record.
  match_course_chunks already returned id, so this was a local
  refactor, not the schema change the brief flagged as a stop-and-report risk.
• Provenance never reaches the client, on both response shapes — the
  keyed branch is still the default until quiz: flip include_answer_key default to false, then delete it once the #537 client ships #546 flips it, so guarding only
  the keyless allowlist would have shipped chunk ids to every browser today.

Dedupe: the within-attempt check is keyed on question_hash as specified,
and retains the stem check. The hash covers stem and options, so it is
the narrower of the two — a model re-emitting one stem with reworded options
passes it. Dropping the stem check would have quietly narrowed #543's
duplicate-question guard, which E5 has no need to trade away.

E6 — repetition guard

Past questions_json was never re-read, so a student could be served the
same question repeatedly with nothing able to notice.

• services/quiz_repetition.py reads the last ~15 distinct items for this
  (student, concept) and generation is told not to repeat them.
• Fetched raw, not precomputed into the digest — noted as asked. The
  audit's end-state (precompute in quiz_context) belongs with the digest
  schema work in quiz H2: mine answers_json into the digest (distractor profile) + digest schema version #554; this is bounded hard (6 attempts scanned, 15 stems out)
  in the meantime.
• Deliberately not filtered to completed attempts, unlike the history
  tool: a student who generated a quiz and walked away still saw those
  questions.
• Prompt-side guidance only — repeats are not hard-dropped. The
  function-mode seam returns the same 3 questions regardless of prompt, so
  dropping repeats would empty every second quiz in the test(e2e): journey — quiz answer → mastery update (UI + DB) #393 journey and 502
  it. Stems are delimiter-neutralized ([P2] Agent migration: prompt-injection hardening on student-supplied content #150) on the way back into the prompt.

E7 — stop dropping event_type

Submit computed correct/partial/confusion from the score ratio and discarded
it at the write. Migration 20260814051517 adds a nullable event_type to
node_mastery_events; apply_graph_update persists it and omits the key
when absent, so every non-quiz caller keeps working on an environment that
took the code before the DDL. Applied to staging and verified (26 existing
rows keep NULL).

E8 — grounding is a decision, not an accident

A coverage check runs when retrieval comes back empty, and quiz.rag_uncovered
distinguishes three different problems that used to look identical:
course_unresolved, no_chunks_for_course, no_match_for_concept
(plus coverage_unknown). Generation is never blocked on it.

F5 — the general fix for silent-empty

services/tool_signals.py::report_empty_result. Three personalization inputs
were empty for months because an empty list is exactly what "this student has
nothing yet" looks like. The helper supplies the missing half — whether the
student plausibly should have data (enrolled / has attempts / has a graph,
one owner-scoped indexed read, only on the empty path) — and emits
quiz.tool_empty when the two disagree. Feature-agnostic so the tutor's tools
use it too; wired into all three quiz read tools. Never raises; a failed probe
means "can't tell", which is silence.

F6 — measure the prompt before anyone tunes it

services/prompt_dimensions.py captures prompt composition per request and
rides quiz.started, which shares a request_id with the llm_usage row.
The load-bearing detail: digest_present is only knowable inside an agent
tool running under asyncio.to_thread, so the accumulator mutates a shared
dict rather than rebinding a ContextVar — pinned by test.

The audit's ~2–4k estimate was low. Measured via count_tokens
(scripts/bench_quiz_prompt_budget.py, results in docs/quiz-prompt-budget.md):

	measured	audit
System prompt	1,317	~800
read_concepts_for_user @ cap	1,340	~250
Today, grounded, 13-concept graph	3,992	2–4k
Worst case	6,839	—

The concepts tool at cap costs more than a five-chunk RAG block at typical
chunk sizes — so "COURSE MATERIAL is the dominant variable cost" is only true
for long chunks, and the proposed ~4–5k redesign budget is approximately the
current bill rather than headroom.

F7 — taxonomy

quiz.tool_empty and quiz.rag_uncovered added to EVENT_TAXONOMY, the
module docstring table, and the pin test.

Also

• Documented the ciphertext oracle's deliberate omission of quiz_responses
  where the manifest lives (owed from the addendum's Part 1, item 3).
• agents/usage.py::served_model_name is public and now coerces to str —
  the model name flows into encrypt_json via provenance, and a non-string
  would have 502'd a generation that had already succeeded.

Verification

• Hermetic suite: 2103 passed, 9 skipped (was 1997 — +106 tests).
• ruff check . clean.
• Full local E2E cycle: Playwright, oracles, integration lane.
• Migration applied to staging before merge.

Review round (commit 2)

/code-review high returned six findings, all valid, all fixed in cb56970f:

1. The F5 probe blocked the event loop — a sync Supabase read called
   inline from async tool bodies, while every other read in those tools uses
   to_thread for exactly that reason. It fires on the empty path, which
   today is the common one. Added report_empty_result_async.
2. +3. The probes asked a broader question than the tools did —
   HAS_ATTEMPTS checked all concepts while the tool read one;
   HAS_GRAPH checked the whole graph while the read was course-scoped. Both
   would have flagged ordinary progress (first quiz on a new concept; taking
   two courses) as "silently broken" — the precise alarm-fatigue failure F5
   exists to prevent. Probes now take a scope.
   3b. feature defaulted to "quiz" on a tool the tutor also registers,
   contradicting the contract this PR added to CLAUDE.md. SaplingDeps
   carries feature now; default "unknown", since wrong attribution is
   worse than absent.
3. grounded was RAG-only but named "any course material" — a
   catalog-only course persisted every question as ungrounded. Split into
   rag_grounded + catalog.
4. The E7 comment implied the omit-when-absent trick made the quiz path safe
   pre-migration. It does not, and the failure loses the graded attempt.
   Comment now states the ordering requirement.
5. CLAUDE.md's "exactly two raw genai.Client sites" invariant, made false by
   this PR's bench script.

Re-verified after the fixes: hermetic 2103 passed / 9 skipped, ruff clean,
Playwright 45, oracles 0 findings, integration 47 passed.

The review-fix commit has not itself been through a second review round.

CI fix (commit 3) — a live 405→500 bug, pre-existing on main

Backend (pytest) had been red on main since the FastAPI 0.138 lock
(0effc9ee fails identically), on one test, with

AttributeError: '_IncludedRouter' object has no attribute 'path'

from otel's FastAPI instrumentation. Not test-only: otel's _get_route_details
guards its FULL-match .path read with except AttributeError but its
PARTIAL-match branch does not — and a PARTIAL match is exactly a wrong-method
request. So the error escaped the middleware and every 405 returned 500.
Staging and prod install the same lock, so that was live behaviour.

Nothing to upgrade to: the unguarded line is in every released
opentelemetry-instrumentation-fastapi through 0.65b0 (checked against the
published wheels). services/otel_fastapi_compat.py wraps the resolver,
absorbing only AttributeError and falling back to scope["path"] — otel's
own FULL-branch fallback. Reproduced and the fix verified at the locked
versions in a scratch env, since the dev venv (fastapi 0.136) cannot
reproduce it.

Review round 2 (commit 4)

1. quiz.rag_uncovered was category="error", but
   /api/admin/analytics/errors scans category = error newest-first. Firing
   per-generation would have buried quiz.context_write_failed and
   rag.retrieval_failed — degrading the surface workstream B just repaired.
   Now usage, which is also the honest label for a legitimate mode.
2. The misconceptions probe was the one left unscoped. It now asks whether
   aggregates exist for this student's offerings of this course — the only
   formulation that detects quiz H1: misconceptions tool filters offering_id with the abstract course id — verify live, then fix + seed test #553's keyspace mismatch without firing on every
   class that simply has no aggregates yet. Non-owner-scoped probes now refuse
   to run unscoped.
3. The quiz-history probe could not detect the failure its own comment
   cites: quiz_context lost UNIQUE (user_id, concept_node_id) in 0025 — save_quiz_context's upsert 42P10s and the failure is swallowed #529 presents as an empty digest while attempts exist, and the
   helper short-circuits on a non-zero count. Split into a digest-keyed check
   plus the attempt-list one.
4. _course_chunk_coverage reported a degraded count as 0, making E8 assert
   "nothing indexed" about a possibly fully-indexed course.
5. A node_mastery_events insert failure could permanently lose a graded
   quiz (it runs after submit's atomic completed_at claim, before score is
   written, unwrapped). Now retries once without event_type then degrades,
   loudly logged.

Final: hermetic 2119 passed / 9 skipped, ruff clean, Playwright 45,
oracles 0 findings, integration 47, all CI checks green.

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• New Features

  • Quiz generation now avoids recently served questions when suitable history is available.
  • Quiz questions receive stable identities to support consistent repetition prevention.
  • Quiz responses better reflect whether course material was successfully retrieved and used.
  • Tutor and quiz activity can preserve more specific mastery-event details.

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  • Improved handling of retrieval failures and unavailable course data without interrupting quiz generation.
  • Mastery updates continue when event recording encounters compatibility issues.

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The PR adds quiz provenance, stable question identity, repetition filtering, prompt-dimension telemetry, retrieval-failure classification, empty-result diagnostics, namespaced mastery events, and an offline prompt-budget benchmark.

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Quiz observability and generation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Telemetry and event contracts backend/agents/..., backend/services/..., backend/tests/...	Adds feature metadata, prompt capture, empty-result reporting, event taxonomy entries, namespaced mastery events, failure-safe event persistence, and related tests.
Question identity and repetition lookup backend/services/quiz_identity.py, backend/services/quiz_repetition.py, backend/tests/test_quiz_identity_e5.py, backend/tests/test_quiz_repetition_e6.py	Adds stable question hashes and best-effort retrieval of recent questions for deduplication and prompt construction.
Quiz generation provenance and grounding backend/routes/quiz.py, backend/services/rag_service.py, backend/tests/test_quiz_provenance_e5_e6.py, backend/tests/test_event_capture_seams.py	Tracks grounding status, retrieval failures, prompt dimensions, serving models, question provenance, repetition data, and client response shaping.
Prompt budget measurement and documentation backend/scripts/bench_quiz_prompt_budget.py, docs/quiz-prompt-budget.md, CLAUDE.md, backend/e2e_oracles/gather.py	Adds a lazy real-mode Gemini token benchmark and documents measured prompt budgets, attribution, and encrypted-column scope.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90+ minutes

Merge Risk:🔵 Low · up to affde

This PR adds question provenance, repetition guidance, and quiz diagnostics. Mergeability is generally good, but retrieval state can leak between calls and some retrieval failures may be reported as missing course content, which can distort diagnostics; owners should address or explicitly accept these bounded risks.

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sequenceDiagram
participant Client
participant QuizRoute
participant RAGService
participant QuizRepetition
participant QuizAgent
participant EventService
Client->>QuizRoute: request quiz generation
QuizRoute->>RAGService: retrieve course material
QuizRoute->>QuizRepetition: retrieve recent questions
QuizRoute->>QuizAgent: generate quiz
QuizAgent-->>QuizRoute: return questions and served model
QuizRoute->>EventService: record provenance and prompt dimensions
QuizRoute-->>Client: return filtered questions

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The sink fixture is duplicated across two new test files. Both files define a near-identical sink fixture that calls events_service.reset_for_tests() and patches services.events_service.table with a MagicMock whose insert appends into a list. The only difference is the teardown drain. The shared root cause is that no common fixture exists for capturing enqueued events, so each new file writes its own. A third file that instruments a tool will copy it again, and the two copies can then drift in reset or drain behavior.

• backend/tests/test_tool_signals_f5.py#L23-L38: move this fixture into backend/tests/conftest.py and delete the local definition. Keep the post-yieldevents_service.flush_now() in the shared version, because it drains the queue while the table patch is still active.
• backend/tests/test_quiz_tool_instrumentation.py#L23-L36: delete the local sink fixture and use the shared one. This copy omits the teardown drain, so a queued event can outlive the patch.

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In `@backend/tests/test_tool_signals_f5.py` around lines 23 - 38, Move the
duplicated sink fixture into backend/tests/conftest.py, preserving
events_service.reset_for_tests(), the patched table MagicMock capture behavior,
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Inline comments:
In `@backend/agents/tools/graph_read.py`:
- Around line 441-448: Update the misconception-reading flow around
read_misconceptions_for_course to resolve the course offering through
services/academics.py first, then pass the resolved offering_id to the query and
related empty-result reporting payload instead of ctx.deps.course_id. Preserve
the existing enrollment expectation and result handling.
In `@backend/agents/tools/quiz_history.py`:
- Around line 290-301: Keep the existing read_recent_quiz_attempts check for
completed attempts, and add a separate report_empty_result_async check for the
quiz-context digest using bool(history.summary) as its count. Set its
expectation according to whether existing attempts for the current user and
concept require a digest, while preserving the existing concept_node_id scope
and relevant payload context.
In `@backend/scripts/bench_quiz_prompt_budget.py`:
- Around line 52-57: Update the raw Google GenAI client setup around _client and
MODEL to use the provider configuration and model_mode() gate, matching the
model selection used by quiz generation. Ensure google.genai.Client is only
constructed within the provider-approved gated path and remove the hard-coded
model selection.
In `@backend/services/events_service.py`:
- Around line 39-41: Update the documented quiz.started dimensions in the events
service to list blocks, k_chunks, material_chars, recent_asked, routing_chars,
and adaptive, matching the route payload; remove digest_present because it is
conditional and not part of the consistently emitted dimension set.
In `@backend/services/graph_service.py`:
- Around line 759-771: The submit_quiz flow must not lose graded attempts when
node_mastery_events insertion fails. In apply_graph_update, isolate the
table("node_mastery_events").insert(event_row) operation so its failure is
caught and logged without propagating, while preserving score and answer
persistence; alternatively reorder submit_quiz to persist score and answers
before apply_graph_update. Ensure migration
20260814051517_node_mastery_events_event_type.sql is applied before deployment.
In `@backend/services/prompt_dimensions.py`:
- Around line 74-83: Update snapshot() in backend/services/prompt_dimensions.py
at lines 74-83 to return a deep copy of the current dimensions, preserving the
empty-dictionary fallback so nested mutable values such as blocks cannot affect
the active accumulator. Update backend/tests/test_prompt_dimensions_f6.py at
lines 56-63 to append to the returned blocks list and verify a later snapshot
remains unchanged.
In `@backend/services/tool_signals.py`:
- Around line 99-111: Update the database probe exception handler around the
table select to log at warning level instead of debug, including expect.value
and table_name in the message while preserving traceback output via
exc_info=True; continue returning None after logging.
In `@backend/tests/test_event_capture_seams.py`:
- Around line 619-624: Update the grounded fixture used by the assertions around
payload["k_chunks"] to set k_chunks explicitly to 2 alongside its chunk_ids,
ensuring the test exercises the configured field when chunk count and ID count
agree.
In `@backend/tests/test_graph_service.py`:
- Around line 748-766: Update test_event_type_omitted_when_caller_supplies_none
to pass an explicit {"event_type": None} through _apply_with_event_type,
covering the None branch while preserving the assertion that the key is absent.
Also revise the stale comment in test_mastery_change_appends_event_row to
describe that event_type is omitted when the caller does not supply it, rather
than claiming the schema lacks the column.
In `@docs/quiz-prompt-budget.md`:
- Around line 6-8: Declare the shell language for the fenced command block by
changing its opening fence to use sh, while leaving the command unchanged.
- Around line 70-74: Update the documented F6 dimensions list for the
quiz.started event to include only blocks, k_chunks, material_chars,
recent_asked, routing_chars, and adaptive. Remove digest_present, digest_chars,
recent_attempts, and misconceptions, and preserve the note that
misconceptions_requested is represented within blocks.
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In `@backend/tests/test_tool_signals_f5.py`:
- Around line 23-38: Move the duplicated sink fixture into
backend/tests/conftest.py, preserving events_service.reset_for_tests(), the
patched table MagicMock capture behavior, and the post-yield
events_service.flush_now() teardown. Delete the local sink fixtures from
backend/tests/test_tool_signals_f5.py lines 23-38 and
backend/tests/test_quiz_tool_instrumentation.py lines 23-36 so both tests use
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Code review — quiz provenance, repetition guard, silent-empty seam

This PR adds question identity + provenance (E5), a recently-asked repetition read (E6), event_type persistence on mastery events (E7), grounding-coverage reporting (E8), a generic silent-empty detector (F5), prompt-composition capture (F6), taxonomy entries (F7), and an otel compat shim that fixes a live 405→500. I read every substantive changed file at HEAD rather than the hunks. All three headline goals are genuinely delivered: question_hash is a stable, version-tagged SHA-256 over the normalized stem + sorted option set and is stamped on every emitted question (routes/quiz.py:433), and provenance is excluded from both client shapes — the keyless allowlist and the new _INTERNAL_QUESTION_KEYS denylist for the still-default keyed branch (routes/quiz.py:447-457); I checked the other three readers of questions_json (get_attempt, answer_question, submit_quiz) and nothing leaks. The repetition read is bounded (6 attempts scanned, 15 stems out, deduped by identity) and prompt-side only, which the description states as a deliberate trade — it cannot loop or exhaust a pool. The empty case is not swallowed: _quiz_via_agent raises on empty wire_questions and generate_quiz turns it into a typed 502 plus quiz.generation_failed. Every new except was checked; none are silent. DB access is entirely through db/connection.py::table(), the migration is additive with a timestamp basename per the Infrastructure doc's #509 convention, and the new event payloads carry ids/counts/enums only. One P1 blocks merge, plus two P2s worth folding in.

Findings

[P1] E7's "only the quiz supplies event_type" premise is false — the tutor already supplies it — backend/services/graph_service.py:799-803

# Omitted rather than written as an explicit null when absent: every# non-quiz caller (tutor tools, the document pipeline, manual adds)# supplies none, and naming a column PostgREST's schema cache doesn't# have is a hard 400 — so omitting keeps THOSE paths working on an# environment that took this code before the migration.

There are exactly two production producers of updated_nodes: routes/quiz.py::submit_quiz and agents/tools/graph.py::update_mastery_tool. The second is registered on the chat tutor (agents/chat_tutor.py:162) with a system prompt that says to call it in every turn where the student demonstrates understanding, and it has always passed an event_type:

# backend/agents/tools/graph.py:55event_type: Literal["interaction", "correction", "quiz"] =Field(
default="interaction",
description="Event category for the mastery-event log.",
)
# backend/agents/tools/graph.py:141"event_type": u.event_type,

apply_graph_update simply discarded it until now, so it never mattered; this PR turns it on for both callers at once. Three consequences: (1) the pre-migration deploy analysis is wrong about scope — every tutor mastery write also 400s and takes the _insert_mastery_event retry, a wasted round-trip plus a WARNING per event on the highest-volume writer, not the quiet no-op the comment describes; (2) the column receives two disjoint vocabularies from day one — correct|partial|confusion from the quiz, interaction|correction|quiz from the tutor — where interaction is a schema default, i.e. exactly the "default that would make un-categorised events indistinguishable from confident ones" that 20260814051517_node_mastery_events_event_type.sql:12-16 says it is avoiding, and event_type='quiz' can only have come from the tutor because a real quiz submit never writes that string; (3) test_graph_service.py:748-757's docstring asserts the same false fact about the codebase and passes only because it calls apply_graph_update directly rather than through the tool. Pick one vocabulary (or namespace them) and make the comments and the test match which callers actually classify.

[P2] quiz.tool_empty is category="error" and fires once per generation while #553 is live — backend/services/tool_signals.py:182-192

log_event(
"quiz.tool_empty",
category="error",
user_id=user_id,
payload={
"tool": tool,
"feature": feature,
"expect": expect.value,
**(payloador {}),
},
)

/api/admin/analytics/errors scans category = error newest-first (routes/admin_analytics.py:453-456) — the exact reasoning that made review round 2 re-file quiz.rag_uncovered as usage. The volume profile is the same here: the quiz system prompt tells the agent to call read_misconceptions_for_course on every run (agents/quiz.py:93), the tool still passes the abstract course id into an offering_id filter (#553, explicitly not fixed here — agents/tools/graph_read.py:436), and COURSE_HAS_AGGREGATES returns True for any class that has offering_concept_stats rows. So every generation by every enrolled student in such a class emits one error-category event plus a WARNING, indefinitely, burying quiz.context_write_failed and rag.retrieval_failed under routine traffic. If the loudness is intentional it needs its own category or a de-dupe, not the shared error feed.

[P2] Misconceptions offering resolution runs on every call, not only the empty path — backend/agents/tools/graph_read.py:452-460

offering_ids: list[str] = []
ifctx.deps.course_id:
try:
offering_ids=awaitasyncio.to_thread(
user_offering_ids_for_course, ctx.deps.user_id, ctx.deps.course_id
)
exceptException:
logger.debug("misconceptions probe: offering resolution failed", exc_info=True)
ifoffering_ids:
awaitreport_empty_result_async(

The gate is ctx.deps.course_id, not not out. user_offering_ids_for_course (services/academics.py:185) is uncached and issues two unbounded PostgREST reads — every course_offerings row for the course, then every one of the user's enrollments. That is two extra Supabase round-trips on the request path of every quiz generation, including the non-empty path, contradicting tool_signals.py's own contract ("one owner-scoped indexed read, only on the empty path") and the PR description's identical claim. Invisible today only because #553 makes out always empty; pure waste the moment #553 lands.

[P3] E8 labels a failed course lookup as course_unresolved — backend/routes/quiz.py:676-683

ifmaterial.bu_codeisNone:
reason="course_unresolved"elifmaterial.course_chunksisNone:
reason="coverage_unknown"elifmaterial.course_chunks==0:
reason="no_chunks_for_course"else:
reason="no_match_for_concept"

_resolve_bu_code (:506-511) returns None both for "this course has no BU code" and for "the courses read threw", and any raise inside _course_material degrades to _EMPTY_MATERIAL with bu_code=None (:821-826). All three land on course_unresolved. E8 exists to tell different problems apart, and coverage_unknown is already the honest can't-tell label.

[P3] New log lines print the raw user_id — backend/services/tool_signals.py:177-181

logger.warning(
"%s returned no rows for user=%s despite %s — a personalization ""input may be silently broken (F5)",
tool, user_id, expect.value,
)

Canopy Engineering Style Guide §8: "Don't log request/response bodies, user IDs, emails, names, tokens, or decrypted columns." Same in services/quiz_repetition.py:90-94. Not a blocker given how widespread this already is in routes/quiz.py, but these are new lines and both already carry request_id correlation through the event they emit.

What's good

• _insert_mastery_event's one-shot retry-without-event_type is the right shape for the ordering hazard, and the judgement that the journal is not worth a graded attempt is correct — submit_quiz really does call apply_graph_update after the atomic completed_at claim and before the score write.
• Running _course_material and recent_question_identities concurrently under asyncio.gather(return_exceptions=True) with both results individually inspected: a bare gather would have 502'd a quiz over one unreadable past attempt.
• Splitting grounded into rag_grounded + catalog, with chunk_count falling back to len(chunk_ids), keeps provenance from asserting something false about a catalog-only course. I confirmed format_rag_context returns "" only for an empty chunk list, so k_chunks > 0 really does imply RAG text in the prompt.
• Measuring the prompt with count_tokens instead of inheriting the audit's estimate, and publishing the caveat that llm_usage.prompt_tokens remains the authority on totals.

Verdict: request changes — the E7 finding needs resolving before merge; the two P2s are worth folding in while you are in here.

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Review fixes applied

Every outstanding finding on this PR (human review + CodeRabbit) has been addressed and pushed.

Blocker

• event_type vocabulary collision. The claim in graph_service.py that "every non-quiz caller supplies none" was false — agents/tools/graph.py:55 has always sent one from the chat tutor. Both vocabularies are now namespaced and disjoint (tutor_interaction|tutor_correction|tutor_quiz vs quiz_correct|quiz_partial|quiz_confusion), the tutor field no longer defaults to a real category (omitted when None, mirroring apply_graph_update), and the migration + service comments now document the real six-value set and the real pre-migration blast radius. New tests drive the tutor path end to end.

Major

• quiz.tool_empty moved from category="error" to "usage" — it was firing once per generation into the feed /api/admin/analytics/errors scans, burying quiz.context_write_failed and rag.retrieval_failed.
• Misconceptions probe now gates on not out, so user_offering_ids_for_course (uncached, two unbounded reads) no longer runs on the non-empty path of every quiz generation.

Minor / nits

• E8 tells a failed courses read apart from "no BU code" (coverage_unknown, not course_unresolved), via a new tri-state lookup.
• Bench script's raw google.genai.Client is now behind a model_mode() gate and uses model_name_for("quiz"); CLAUDE.md's raw-client inventory corrected (it was already wrong — a fourth site existed).
• prompt_dimensions.snapshot() deep-copies; tool_signals probe failure logs at warning; k_chunks pinned explicitly in the grounded fixture; explicit-Noneevent_type case covered; stale "schema has no event_type column" comment fixed; doc fence language + F6 dimension list corrected; raw user_id removed from new log lines; duplicated sink fixture moved to conftest.py.

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A failed retrieve_chunks call is reported as a content gap, not as unknown coverage.

Line 667 swallows a retrieval exception and sets chunks = []. The returned CourseMaterial then carries resolution_failed=False. _log_rag_uncovered therefore reports no_chunks_for_course or no_match_for_concept. Both are assertions about the course data, but retrieval failed and the coverage was never learned.

This is the same mislabeling that BuCodeLookup.failed fixes for the course_code read. Set resolution_failed when retrieval raises, so the event reports coverage_unknown.

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 try:
chunks = retrieve_chunks(concept_name, course_id=bu_code, k=_RAG_K)
+ retrieval_failed = False
except Exception:
chunks = []
+ retrieval_failed = True
@@
return CourseMaterial(
block="\n\n".join(blocks),
chunk_ids=chunk_ids,
k_chunks=len(chunks),
has_catalog=bool(catalog),
course_chunks=None if chunks else _course_chunk_coverage(bu_code),
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In `@backend/routes/quiz.py`:
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resolution_failed field to true when that exception occurs. Preserve the
existing empty-chunks behavior for prompt construction, while ensuring
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Verify against the real database before merging

I could not reach a live database while working on this — there are no credentials on this machine (only .env.example files) and the local Supabase stack needs a container runtime that wouldn't start. So everything below was verified statically, by replaying every migration in ledger order to build a schema model and checking this PR's DB access against it. That model found 0 schema mismatches here, and it is trustworthy enough to have independently reproduced the documents.course_id absence that caused #562/#534 — but it cannot see data, and it cannot see whether staging's ledger actually matches the repo.

These are the checks that need a real connection.

1. Ordering is load-bearing — migration BEFORE code

This PR's own comment says it, and the review confirmed the failure mode: submit_quiz calls apply_graph_updateafter the atomic completed_at claim and before the score write, so a pre-migration insert failure loses a graded attempt. _insert_mastery_event retries once without event_type and degrades loudly, but that is a safety net, not a licence to deploy first.

-- Must return one row, is_nullable = YES, before any code shipsSELECT column_name, data_type, is_nullable
FROMinformation_schema.columnsWHERE table_name ='node_mastery_events'AND column_name ='event_type';

2. Existing rows must be untouched

SELECT event_type, count(*) FROM node_mastery_events GROUP BY1ORDER BY2DESC;

Before deploy: expect a single NULL bucket (the PR reports 26 rows on staging). Nothing should have a value yet.

3. After deploy — the namespacing must hold

The fix in this PR namespaced the two producers because the tutor's update_mastery_tool has always sent an event_type (agents/tools/graph.py), it was simply discarded until now. Re-run the same query after traffic:

• Expected values: NULL, tutor_interaction, tutor_correction, tutor_quiz, quiz_correct, quiz_partial, quiz_confusion.
• Any bare interaction / correction / quiz / correct / partial / confusion means a writer bypassed the namespacing — that is the exact ambiguity this change exists to prevent, and it should be investigated rather than accepted.

4. Volume expectation

The tutor is the higher-volume writer of the two, not the quiz. If tutor_* rows are absent after real tutor traffic, update_mastery_tool is silently not persisting and the omit-when-None path is swallowing it.

_{Static verification only — no live database was reachable from this environment. Schema model built by replaying backend/db/migrations/ in ledger order.}

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Third review round + the live-DB checks

Picking this back up. Two things were outstanding: Jose's three fix commits had never themselves been reviewed, and the pre-merge database checks were left unrun because that environment had no credentials.

Live DB — both pre-merge checks pass on staging

Run through the session-mode pooler (scripts/pooler_url.py; the .env.staging value is the IPv6-only direct host and is unreachable from here):

check	result
event_type column	one row, text, is_nullable = YES, no default
existing rows	single bucket: 26 × NULL
ledger	migration recorded

So the migration is applied strictly before this code ships, which is the ordering the E7 comment calls load-bearing. Checks 3 and 4 (namespacing holds, tutor_* rows appear) are post-traffic and stay open as a post-deploy watch.

I also diffed the edited migration: the header comments were rewritten, but the DDL is byte-identical (ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS event_type TEXT), and the ledger keys on basename — no immutability violation, nothing re-runs.

Review of the fix commits — affde139

No correctness bugs. Four low findings, all fixed:

1. prompt_dimensions.snapshot() lost the whole payload on one bad value. The deep copy sits inside a try whose except returned {}, so a single un-deepcopyable value shipped quiz.started with no dimensions — measuring nothing while looking like a healthy event, which is the exact bug class F6 exists to end. Degrades to a shallow copy now, and warns. Its docstring's rationale was also just wrong (nothing mutates a recorded list in place), so that's corrected rather than left as a false comment.
2. E8 called a failed retrieval no_match_for_concept.retrieve_chunks swallows its own failures and returns [] — the same value a clean miss returns. So a course with material indexed whose retrieval broke was recorded as "it has material, none of it covers this concept": a claim about data we never read, which is precisely what the reason taxonomy exists to stop. Added retrieve_chunks_detailed, which says whether the empty result is a fault or a fact; a fault now reports coverage_unknown. The RAG embedding path sits below the SAPLING_MODEL_MODE seam — live embed calls fire even in function mode #439 seam skip is deliberately not a fault — otherwise every function-mode E2E run would report broken retrieval. retrieve_chunks keeps its list contract, so learn.py and benchmark_quiz.py are untouched.
3. Bench script promised a keyless run "fails loudly here" but still fell back to a dummy key, dying later inside count_tokens on an opaque auth error. It now fails where it says it does.
4. EVENT_TAXONOMY's quiz.started row and docs/quiz-prompt-budget.md disagreed about which dimensions come from the route vs. only when the agent calls the recording tool. Reconciled.

Both behavioural fixes are pinned by tests written to fail first.

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Merged. Filed the unrelated Playwright failure as #566 — the landing drag-field scroll-follow assertion, red on main since #524, which is what has kept the e2e browser lane red there.

Remaining from the addendum: Workstream H (#553–#557), plus #545 and #546.

Post-deploy watch still owed on this one — checks 3 and 4 from the DB comment above (namespacing holds; tutor_* rows actually appear once real tutor traffic lands). Nothing to run until it deploys.

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Part 2 of the #537 addendum: E5–E8 and F5–F7, shipped as one PR because
they all land in routes/quiz.py and would otherwise conflict.

E5 — question identity + provenance

A generated question had no identity: it was written into the encrypted
questions_json blob, graded, and forgotten. Nothing could ask "have we
asked this before?", "which prompt wrote it?", or "was it grounded in our
materials?".

• services/quiz_identity.py — question_hash, a stable SHA-256 over the
  normalized stem + option set. Insensitive to whitespace, case and option
  order; sensitive to stem and option content; version-tagged so a
  future normalization change is visibly disjoint rather than quietly
  colliding.
• Each stored question now carries question_hash plus a provenance
  block: prompt_version (the system-prompt hash, previously reachable
  only as agent trace metadata), the served model, the grounding chunk
  ids, and rag_grounded/catalog.
• Chunk ids were resolved and dropped on the floor — _course_material_block
  returned a bare string. It now returns a CourseMaterial record.
  match_course_chunks already returned id, so this was a local
  refactor, not the schema change the brief flagged as a stop-and-report risk.
• Provenance never reaches the client, on both response shapes — the
  keyed branch is still the default until quiz: flip include_answer_key default to false, then delete it once the #537 client ships #546 flips it, so guarding only
  the keyless allowlist would have shipped chunk ids to every browser today.

Dedupe: the within-attempt check is keyed on question_hash as specified,
and retains the stem check. The hash covers stem and options, so it is
the narrower of the two — a model re-emitting one stem with reworded options
passes it. Dropping the stem check would have quietly narrowed #543's
duplicate-question guard, which E5 has no need to trade away.

E6 — repetition guard

Past questions_json was never re-read, so a student could be served the
same question repeatedly with nothing able to notice.

• services/quiz_repetition.py reads the last ~15 distinct items for this
  (student, concept) and generation is told not to repeat them.
• Fetched raw, not precomputed into the digest — noted as asked. The
  audit's end-state (precompute in quiz_context) belongs with the digest
  schema work in quiz H2: mine answers_json into the digest (distractor profile) + digest schema version #554; this is bounded hard (6 attempts scanned, 15 stems out)
  in the meantime.
• Deliberately not filtered to completed attempts, unlike the history
  tool: a student who generated a quiz and walked away still saw those
  questions.
• Prompt-side guidance only — repeats are not hard-dropped. The
  function-mode seam returns the same 3 questions regardless of prompt, so
  dropping repeats would empty every second quiz in the test(e2e): journey — quiz answer → mastery update (UI + DB) #393 journey and 502
  it. Stems are delimiter-neutralized ([P2] Agent migration: prompt-injection hardening on student-supplied content #150) on the way back into the prompt.

E7 — stop dropping event_type

Submit computed correct/partial/confusion from the score ratio and discarded
it at the write. Migration 20260814051517 adds a nullable event_type to
node_mastery_events; apply_graph_update persists it and omits the key
when absent, so every non-quiz caller keeps working on an environment that
took the code before the DDL. Applied to staging and verified (26 existing
rows keep NULL).

E8 — grounding is a decision, not an accident

A coverage check runs when retrieval comes back empty, and quiz.rag_uncovered
distinguishes three different problems that used to look identical:
course_unresolved, no_chunks_for_course, no_match_for_concept
(plus coverage_unknown). Generation is never blocked on it.

F5 — the general fix for silent-empty

services/tool_signals.py::report_empty_result. Three personalization inputs
were empty for months because an empty list is exactly what "this student has
nothing yet" looks like. The helper supplies the missing half — whether the
student plausibly should have data (enrolled / has attempts / has a graph,
one owner-scoped indexed read, only on the empty path) — and emits
quiz.tool_empty when the two disagree. Feature-agnostic so the tutor's tools
use it too; wired into all three quiz read tools. Never raises; a failed probe
means "can't tell", which is silence.

F6 — measure the prompt before anyone tunes it

services/prompt_dimensions.py captures prompt composition per request and
rides quiz.started, which shares a request_id with the llm_usage row.
The load-bearing detail: digest_present is only knowable inside an agent
tool running under asyncio.to_thread, so the accumulator mutates a shared
dict rather than rebinding a ContextVar — pinned by test.

The audit's ~2–4k estimate was low. Measured via count_tokens
(scripts/bench_quiz_prompt_budget.py, results in docs/quiz-prompt-budget.md):

	measured	audit
System prompt	1,317	~800
read_concepts_for_user @ cap	1,340	~250
Today, grounded, 13-concept graph	3,992	2–4k
Worst case	6,839	—

The concepts tool at cap costs more than a five-chunk RAG block at typical
chunk sizes — so "COURSE MATERIAL is the dominant variable cost" is only true
for long chunks, and the proposed ~4–5k redesign budget is approximately the
current bill rather than headroom.

F7 — taxonomy

quiz.tool_empty and quiz.rag_uncovered added to EVENT_TAXONOMY, the
module docstring table, and the pin test.

Also

• Documented the ciphertext oracle's deliberate omission of quiz_responses
  where the manifest lives (owed from the addendum's Part 1, item 3).
• agents/usage.py::served_model_name is public and now coerces to str —
  the model name flows into encrypt_json via provenance, and a non-string
  would have 502'd a generation that had already succeeded.

Verification

• Hermetic suite: 2103 passed, 9 skipped (was 1997 — +106 tests).
• ruff check . clean.
• Full local E2E cycle: Playwright, oracles, integration lane.
• Migration applied to staging before merge.

Review round (commit 2)

/code-review high returned six findings, all valid, all fixed in cb56970f:

1. The F5 probe blocked the event loop — a sync Supabase read called
   inline from async tool bodies, while every other read in those tools uses
   to_thread for exactly that reason. It fires on the empty path, which
   today is the common one. Added report_empty_result_async.
2. +3. The probes asked a broader question than the tools did —
   HAS_ATTEMPTS checked all concepts while the tool read one;
   HAS_GRAPH checked the whole graph while the read was course-scoped. Both
   would have flagged ordinary progress (first quiz on a new concept; taking
   two courses) as "silently broken" — the precise alarm-fatigue failure F5
   exists to prevent. Probes now take a scope.
   3b. feature defaulted to "quiz" on a tool the tutor also registers,
   contradicting the contract this PR added to CLAUDE.md. SaplingDeps
   carries feature now; default "unknown", since wrong attribution is
   worse than absent.
3. grounded was RAG-only but named "any course material" — a
   catalog-only course persisted every question as ungrounded. Split into
   rag_grounded + catalog.
4. The E7 comment implied the omit-when-absent trick made the quiz path safe
   pre-migration. It does not, and the failure loses the graded attempt.
   Comment now states the ordering requirement.
5. CLAUDE.md's "exactly two raw genai.Client sites" invariant, made false by
   this PR's bench script.

Re-verified after the fixes: hermetic 2103 passed / 9 skipped, ruff clean,
Playwright 45, oracles 0 findings, integration 47 passed.

The review-fix commit has not itself been through a second review round.

CI fix (commit 3) — a live 405→500 bug, pre-existing on main

Backend (pytest) had been red on main since the FastAPI 0.138 lock
(0effc9ee fails identically), on one test, with

AttributeError: '_IncludedRouter' object has no attribute 'path'

from otel's FastAPI instrumentation. Not test-only: otel's _get_route_details
guards its FULL-match .path read with except AttributeError but its
PARTIAL-match branch does not — and a PARTIAL match is exactly a wrong-method
request. So the error escaped the middleware and every 405 returned 500.
Staging and prod install the same lock, so that was live behaviour.

Nothing to upgrade to: the unguarded line is in every released
opentelemetry-instrumentation-fastapi through 0.65b0 (checked against the
published wheels). services/otel_fastapi_compat.py wraps the resolver,
absorbing only AttributeError and falling back to scope["path"] — otel's
own FULL-branch fallback. Reproduced and the fix verified at the locked
versions in a scratch env, since the dev venv (fastapi 0.136) cannot
reproduce it.

Review round 2 (commit 4)

1. quiz.rag_uncovered was category="error", but
   /api/admin/analytics/errors scans category = error newest-first. Firing
   per-generation would have buried quiz.context_write_failed and
   rag.retrieval_failed — degrading the surface workstream B just repaired.
   Now usage, which is also the honest label for a legitimate mode.
2. The misconceptions probe was the one left unscoped. It now asks whether
   aggregates exist for this student's offerings of this course — the only
   formulation that detects quiz H1: misconceptions tool filters offering_id with the abstract course id — verify live, then fix + seed test #553's keyspace mismatch without firing on every
   class that simply has no aggregates yet. Non-owner-scoped probes now refuse
   to run unscoped.
3. The quiz-history probe could not detect the failure its own comment
   cites: quiz_context lost UNIQUE (user_id, concept_node_id) in 0025 — save_quiz_context's upsert 42P10s and the failure is swallowed #529 presents as an empty digest while attempts exist, and the
   helper short-circuits on a non-zero count. Split into a digest-keyed check
   plus the attempt-list one.
4. _course_chunk_coverage reported a degraded count as 0, making E8 assert
   "nothing indexed" about a possibly fully-indexed course.
5. A node_mastery_events insert failure could permanently lose a graded
   quiz (it runs after submit's atomic completed_at claim, before score is
   written, unwrapped). Now retries once without event_type then degrades,
   loudly logged.

Final: hermetic 2119 passed / 9 skipped, ruff clean, Playwright 45,
oracles 0 findings, integration 47, all CI checks green.

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• New Features

  • Quiz generation now avoids recently served questions when suitable history is available.
  • Quiz questions receive stable identities to support consistent repetition prevention.
  • Quiz responses better reflect whether course material was successfully retrieved and used.
  • Tutor and quiz activity can preserve more specific mastery-event details.

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved handling of retrieval failures and unavailable course data without interrupting quiz generation.
  • Mastery updates continue when event recording encounters compatibility issues.

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The PR adds quiz provenance, stable question identity, repetition filtering, prompt-dimension telemetry, retrieval-failure classification, empty-result diagnostics, namespaced mastery events, and an offline prompt-budget benchmark.

Changes

Quiz observability and generation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Telemetry and event contracts backend/agents/..., backend/services/..., backend/tests/...	Adds feature metadata, prompt capture, empty-result reporting, event taxonomy entries, namespaced mastery events, failure-safe event persistence, and related tests.
Question identity and repetition lookup backend/services/quiz_identity.py, backend/services/quiz_repetition.py, backend/tests/test_quiz_identity_e5.py, backend/tests/test_quiz_repetition_e6.py	Adds stable question hashes and best-effort retrieval of recent questions for deduplication and prompt construction.
Quiz generation provenance and grounding backend/routes/quiz.py, backend/services/rag_service.py, backend/tests/test_quiz_provenance_e5_e6.py, backend/tests/test_event_capture_seams.py	Tracks grounding status, retrieval failures, prompt dimensions, serving models, question provenance, repetition data, and client response shaping.
Prompt budget measurement and documentation backend/scripts/bench_quiz_prompt_budget.py, docs/quiz-prompt-budget.md, CLAUDE.md, backend/e2e_oracles/gather.py	Adds a lazy real-mode Gemini token benchmark and documents measured prompt budgets, attribution, and encrypted-column scope.

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This PR adds question provenance, repetition guidance, and quiz diagnostics. Mergeability is generally good, but retrieval state can leak between calls and some retrieval failures may be reported as missing course content, which can distort diagnostics; owners should address or explicitly accept these bounded risks.

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participant QuizRepetition
participant QuizAgent
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Client->>QuizRoute: request quiz generation
QuizRoute->>RAGService: retrieve course material
QuizRoute->>QuizRepetition: retrieve recent questions
QuizRoute->>QuizAgent: generate quiz
QuizAgent-->>QuizRoute: return questions and served model
QuizRoute->>EventService: record provenance and prompt dimensions
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The sink fixture is duplicated across two new test files. Both files define a near-identical sink fixture that calls events_service.reset_for_tests() and patches services.events_service.table with a MagicMock whose insert appends into a list. The only difference is the teardown drain. The shared root cause is that no common fixture exists for capturing enqueued events, so each new file writes its own. A third file that instruments a tool will copy it again, and the two copies can then drift in reset or drain behavior.

• backend/tests/test_tool_signals_f5.py#L23-L38: move this fixture into backend/tests/conftest.py and delete the local definition. Keep the post-yieldevents_service.flush_now() in the shared version, because it drains the queue while the table patch is still active.
• backend/tests/test_quiz_tool_instrumentation.py#L23-L36: delete the local sink fixture and use the shared one. This copy omits the teardown drain, so a queued event can outlive the patch.

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In `@backend/tests/test_tool_signals_f5.py` around lines 23 - 38, Move the
duplicated sink fixture into backend/tests/conftest.py, preserving
events_service.reset_for_tests(), the patched table MagicMock capture behavior,
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Inline comments:
In `@backend/agents/tools/graph_read.py`:
- Around line 441-448: Update the misconception-reading flow around
read_misconceptions_for_course to resolve the course offering through
services/academics.py first, then pass the resolved offering_id to the query and
related empty-result reporting payload instead of ctx.deps.course_id. Preserve
the existing enrollment expectation and result handling.
In `@backend/agents/tools/quiz_history.py`:
- Around line 290-301: Keep the existing read_recent_quiz_attempts check for
completed attempts, and add a separate report_empty_result_async check for the
quiz-context digest using bool(history.summary) as its count. Set its
expectation according to whether existing attempts for the current user and
concept require a digest, while preserving the existing concept_node_id scope
and relevant payload context.
In `@backend/scripts/bench_quiz_prompt_budget.py`:
- Around line 52-57: Update the raw Google GenAI client setup around _client and
MODEL to use the provider configuration and model_mode() gate, matching the
model selection used by quiz generation. Ensure google.genai.Client is only
constructed within the provider-approved gated path and remove the hard-coded
model selection.
In `@backend/services/events_service.py`:
- Around line 39-41: Update the documented quiz.started dimensions in the events
service to list blocks, k_chunks, material_chars, recent_asked, routing_chars,
and adaptive, matching the route payload; remove digest_present because it is
conditional and not part of the consistently emitted dimension set.
In `@backend/services/graph_service.py`:
- Around line 759-771: The submit_quiz flow must not lose graded attempts when
node_mastery_events insertion fails. In apply_graph_update, isolate the
table("node_mastery_events").insert(event_row) operation so its failure is
caught and logged without propagating, while preserving score and answer
persistence; alternatively reorder submit_quiz to persist score and answers
before apply_graph_update. Ensure migration
20260814051517_node_mastery_events_event_type.sql is applied before deployment.
In `@backend/services/prompt_dimensions.py`:
- Around line 74-83: Update snapshot() in backend/services/prompt_dimensions.py
at lines 74-83 to return a deep copy of the current dimensions, preserving the
empty-dictionary fallback so nested mutable values such as blocks cannot affect
the active accumulator. Update backend/tests/test_prompt_dimensions_f6.py at
lines 56-63 to append to the returned blocks list and verify a later snapshot
remains unchanged.
In `@backend/services/tool_signals.py`:
- Around line 99-111: Update the database probe exception handler around the
table select to log at warning level instead of debug, including expect.value
and table_name in the message while preserving traceback output via
exc_info=True; continue returning None after logging.
In `@backend/tests/test_event_capture_seams.py`:
- Around line 619-624: Update the grounded fixture used by the assertions around
payload["k_chunks"] to set k_chunks explicitly to 2 alongside its chunk_ids,
ensuring the test exercises the configured field when chunk count and ID count
agree.
In `@backend/tests/test_graph_service.py`:
- Around line 748-766: Update test_event_type_omitted_when_caller_supplies_none
to pass an explicit {"event_type": None} through _apply_with_event_type,
covering the None branch while preserving the assertion that the key is absent.
Also revise the stale comment in test_mastery_change_appends_event_row to
describe that event_type is omitted when the caller does not supply it, rather
than claiming the schema lacks the column.
In `@docs/quiz-prompt-budget.md`:
- Around line 6-8: Declare the shell language for the fenced command block by
changing its opening fence to use sh, while leaving the command unchanged.
- Around line 70-74: Update the documented F6 dimensions list for the
quiz.started event to include only blocks, k_chunks, material_chars,
recent_asked, routing_chars, and adaptive. Remove digest_present, digest_chars,
recent_attempts, and misconceptions, and preserve the note that
misconceptions_requested is represented within blocks.
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In `@backend/tests/test_tool_signals_f5.py`:
- Around line 23-38: Move the duplicated sink fixture into
backend/tests/conftest.py, preserving events_service.reset_for_tests(), the
patched table MagicMock capture behavior, and the post-yield
events_service.flush_now() teardown. Delete the local sink fixtures from
backend/tests/test_tool_signals_f5.py lines 23-38 and
backend/tests/test_quiz_tool_instrumentation.py lines 23-36 so both tests use
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Code review — quiz provenance, repetition guard, silent-empty seam

This PR adds question identity + provenance (E5), a recently-asked repetition read (E6), event_type persistence on mastery events (E7), grounding-coverage reporting (E8), a generic silent-empty detector (F5), prompt-composition capture (F6), taxonomy entries (F7), and an otel compat shim that fixes a live 405→500. I read every substantive changed file at HEAD rather than the hunks. All three headline goals are genuinely delivered: question_hash is a stable, version-tagged SHA-256 over the normalized stem + sorted option set and is stamped on every emitted question (routes/quiz.py:433), and provenance is excluded from both client shapes — the keyless allowlist and the new _INTERNAL_QUESTION_KEYS denylist for the still-default keyed branch (routes/quiz.py:447-457); I checked the other three readers of questions_json (get_attempt, answer_question, submit_quiz) and nothing leaks. The repetition read is bounded (6 attempts scanned, 15 stems out, deduped by identity) and prompt-side only, which the description states as a deliberate trade — it cannot loop or exhaust a pool. The empty case is not swallowed: _quiz_via_agent raises on empty wire_questions and generate_quiz turns it into a typed 502 plus quiz.generation_failed. Every new except was checked; none are silent. DB access is entirely through db/connection.py::table(), the migration is additive with a timestamp basename per the Infrastructure doc's #509 convention, and the new event payloads carry ids/counts/enums only. One P1 blocks merge, plus two P2s worth folding in.

Findings

[P1] E7's "only the quiz supplies event_type" premise is false — the tutor already supplies it — backend/services/graph_service.py:799-803

# Omitted rather than written as an explicit null when absent: every# non-quiz caller (tutor tools, the document pipeline, manual adds)# supplies none, and naming a column PostgREST's schema cache doesn't# have is a hard 400 — so omitting keeps THOSE paths working on an# environment that took this code before the migration.

There are exactly two production producers of updated_nodes: routes/quiz.py::submit_quiz and agents/tools/graph.py::update_mastery_tool. The second is registered on the chat tutor (agents/chat_tutor.py:162) with a system prompt that says to call it in every turn where the student demonstrates understanding, and it has always passed an event_type:

# backend/agents/tools/graph.py:55event_type: Literal["interaction", "correction", "quiz"] =Field(
default="interaction",
description="Event category for the mastery-event log.",
)
# backend/agents/tools/graph.py:141"event_type": u.event_type,

apply_graph_update simply discarded it until now, so it never mattered; this PR turns it on for both callers at once. Three consequences: (1) the pre-migration deploy analysis is wrong about scope — every tutor mastery write also 400s and takes the _insert_mastery_event retry, a wasted round-trip plus a WARNING per event on the highest-volume writer, not the quiet no-op the comment describes; (2) the column receives two disjoint vocabularies from day one — correct|partial|confusion from the quiz, interaction|correction|quiz from the tutor — where interaction is a schema default, i.e. exactly the "default that would make un-categorised events indistinguishable from confident ones" that 20260814051517_node_mastery_events_event_type.sql:12-16 says it is avoiding, and event_type='quiz' can only have come from the tutor because a real quiz submit never writes that string; (3) test_graph_service.py:748-757's docstring asserts the same false fact about the codebase and passes only because it calls apply_graph_update directly rather than through the tool. Pick one vocabulary (or namespace them) and make the comments and the test match which callers actually classify.

[P2] quiz.tool_empty is category="error" and fires once per generation while #553 is live — backend/services/tool_signals.py:182-192

log_event(
"quiz.tool_empty",
category="error",
user_id=user_id,
payload={
"tool": tool,
"feature": feature,
"expect": expect.value,
**(payloador {}),
},
)

/api/admin/analytics/errors scans category = error newest-first (routes/admin_analytics.py:453-456) — the exact reasoning that made review round 2 re-file quiz.rag_uncovered as usage. The volume profile is the same here: the quiz system prompt tells the agent to call read_misconceptions_for_course on every run (agents/quiz.py:93), the tool still passes the abstract course id into an offering_id filter (#553, explicitly not fixed here — agents/tools/graph_read.py:436), and COURSE_HAS_AGGREGATES returns True for any class that has offering_concept_stats rows. So every generation by every enrolled student in such a class emits one error-category event plus a WARNING, indefinitely, burying quiz.context_write_failed and rag.retrieval_failed under routine traffic. If the loudness is intentional it needs its own category or a de-dupe, not the shared error feed.

[P2] Misconceptions offering resolution runs on every call, not only the empty path — backend/agents/tools/graph_read.py:452-460

offering_ids: list[str] = []
ifctx.deps.course_id:
try:
offering_ids=awaitasyncio.to_thread(
user_offering_ids_for_course, ctx.deps.user_id, ctx.deps.course_id
)
exceptException:
logger.debug("misconceptions probe: offering resolution failed", exc_info=True)
ifoffering_ids:
awaitreport_empty_result_async(

The gate is ctx.deps.course_id, not not out. user_offering_ids_for_course (services/academics.py:185) is uncached and issues two unbounded PostgREST reads — every course_offerings row for the course, then every one of the user's enrollments. That is two extra Supabase round-trips on the request path of every quiz generation, including the non-empty path, contradicting tool_signals.py's own contract ("one owner-scoped indexed read, only on the empty path") and the PR description's identical claim. Invisible today only because #553 makes out always empty; pure waste the moment #553 lands.

[P3] E8 labels a failed course lookup as course_unresolved — backend/routes/quiz.py:676-683

ifmaterial.bu_codeisNone:
reason="course_unresolved"elifmaterial.course_chunksisNone:
reason="coverage_unknown"elifmaterial.course_chunks==0:
reason="no_chunks_for_course"else:
reason="no_match_for_concept"

_resolve_bu_code (:506-511) returns None both for "this course has no BU code" and for "the courses read threw", and any raise inside _course_material degrades to _EMPTY_MATERIAL with bu_code=None (:821-826). All three land on course_unresolved. E8 exists to tell different problems apart, and coverage_unknown is already the honest can't-tell label.

[P3] New log lines print the raw user_id — backend/services/tool_signals.py:177-181

logger.warning(
"%s returned no rows for user=%s despite %s — a personalization ""input may be silently broken (F5)",
tool, user_id, expect.value,
)

Canopy Engineering Style Guide §8: "Don't log request/response bodies, user IDs, emails, names, tokens, or decrypted columns." Same in services/quiz_repetition.py:90-94. Not a blocker given how widespread this already is in routes/quiz.py, but these are new lines and both already carry request_id correlation through the event they emit.

What's good

• _insert_mastery_event's one-shot retry-without-event_type is the right shape for the ordering hazard, and the judgement that the journal is not worth a graded attempt is correct — submit_quiz really does call apply_graph_update after the atomic completed_at claim and before the score write.
• Running _course_material and recent_question_identities concurrently under asyncio.gather(return_exceptions=True) with both results individually inspected: a bare gather would have 502'd a quiz over one unreadable past attempt.
• Splitting grounded into rag_grounded + catalog, with chunk_count falling back to len(chunk_ids), keeps provenance from asserting something false about a catalog-only course. I confirmed format_rag_context returns "" only for an empty chunk list, so k_chunks > 0 really does imply RAG text in the prompt.
• Measuring the prompt with count_tokens instead of inheriting the audit's estimate, and publishing the caveat that llm_usage.prompt_tokens remains the authority on totals.

Verdict: request changes — the E7 finding needs resolving before merge; the two P2s are worth folding in while you are in here.

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Review fixes applied

Every outstanding finding on this PR (human review + CodeRabbit) has been addressed and pushed.

Blocker

• event_type vocabulary collision. The claim in graph_service.py that "every non-quiz caller supplies none" was false — agents/tools/graph.py:55 has always sent one from the chat tutor. Both vocabularies are now namespaced and disjoint (tutor_interaction|tutor_correction|tutor_quiz vs quiz_correct|quiz_partial|quiz_confusion), the tutor field no longer defaults to a real category (omitted when None, mirroring apply_graph_update), and the migration + service comments now document the real six-value set and the real pre-migration blast radius. New tests drive the tutor path end to end.

Major

• quiz.tool_empty moved from category="error" to "usage" — it was firing once per generation into the feed /api/admin/analytics/errors scans, burying quiz.context_write_failed and rag.retrieval_failed.
• Misconceptions probe now gates on not out, so user_offering_ids_for_course (uncached, two unbounded reads) no longer runs on the non-empty path of every quiz generation.

Minor / nits

• E8 tells a failed courses read apart from "no BU code" (coverage_unknown, not course_unresolved), via a new tri-state lookup.
• Bench script's raw google.genai.Client is now behind a model_mode() gate and uses model_name_for("quiz"); CLAUDE.md's raw-client inventory corrected (it was already wrong — a fourth site existed).
• prompt_dimensions.snapshot() deep-copies; tool_signals probe failure logs at warning; k_chunks pinned explicitly in the grounded fixture; explicit-Noneevent_type case covered; stale "schema has no event_type column" comment fixed; doc fence language + F6 dimension list corrected; raw user_id removed from new log lines; duplicated sink fixture moved to conftest.py.

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backend/routes/quiz.py (1)

659-692: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

A failed retrieve_chunks call is reported as a content gap, not as unknown coverage.

Line 667 swallows a retrieval exception and sets chunks = []. The returned CourseMaterial then carries resolution_failed=False. _log_rag_uncovered therefore reports no_chunks_for_course or no_match_for_concept. Both are assertions about the course data, but retrieval failed and the coverage was never learned.

This is the same mislabeling that BuCodeLookup.failed fixes for the course_code read. Set resolution_failed when retrieval raises, so the event reports coverage_unknown.

🛠️ Proposed fix

 try:
chunks = retrieve_chunks(concept_name, course_id=bu_code, k=_RAG_K)
+ retrieval_failed = False
except Exception:
chunks = []
+ retrieval_failed = True
@@
return CourseMaterial(
block="\n\n".join(blocks),
chunk_ids=chunk_ids,
k_chunks=len(chunks),
has_catalog=bool(catalog),
course_chunks=None if chunks else _course_chunk_coverage(bu_code),
bu_code=bu_code,
+ resolution_failed=retrieval_failed,
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In `@backend/routes/quiz.py` around lines 659 - 692, Track whether retrieve_chunks
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In `@backend/routes/quiz.py`:
- Around line 659-692: Track whether retrieve_chunks fails in the
course-material retrieval flow, and set the returned CourseMaterial
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printf'%s\n''--- relevant test and policy context ---'
sed -n '1,180p' backend/tests/test_hermetic_llm_guard.py
sed -n '1,180p' backend/tests/test_rag_service.py
rg -n -C3 'raw|google\.genai|genai\.Client|hermetic|ADR 0024|sanctioned' CLAUDE.md backend/tests backend | head -240

Repository: SaplingLearn/Sapling

Length of output: 39031

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Scope the raw-client count to non-test code.

backend/tests/test_hermetic_llm_guard.py constructs a genai.Client, so the repository has five construction sites. State that the count excludes test-only clients.

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Verify against the real database before merging

I could not reach a live database while working on this — there are no credentials on this machine (only .env.example files) and the local Supabase stack needs a container runtime that wouldn't start. So everything below was verified statically, by replaying every migration in ledger order to build a schema model and checking this PR's DB access against it. That model found 0 schema mismatches here, and it is trustworthy enough to have independently reproduced the documents.course_id absence that caused #562/#534 — but it cannot see data, and it cannot see whether staging's ledger actually matches the repo.

These are the checks that need a real connection.

1. Ordering is load-bearing — migration BEFORE code

This PR's own comment says it, and the review confirmed the failure mode: submit_quiz calls apply_graph_updateafter the atomic completed_at claim and before the score write, so a pre-migration insert failure loses a graded attempt. _insert_mastery_event retries once without event_type and degrades loudly, but that is a safety net, not a licence to deploy first.

-- Must return one row, is_nullable = YES, before any code shipsSELECT column_name, data_type, is_nullable
FROMinformation_schema.columnsWHERE table_name ='node_mastery_events'AND column_name ='event_type';

2. Existing rows must be untouched

SELECT event_type, count(*) FROM node_mastery_events GROUP BY1ORDER BY2DESC;

Before deploy: expect a single NULL bucket (the PR reports 26 rows on staging). Nothing should have a value yet.

3. After deploy — the namespacing must hold

The fix in this PR namespaced the two producers because the tutor's update_mastery_tool has always sent an event_type (agents/tools/graph.py), it was simply discarded until now. Re-run the same query after traffic:

• Expected values: NULL, tutor_interaction, tutor_correction, tutor_quiz, quiz_correct, quiz_partial, quiz_confusion.
• Any bare interaction / correction / quiz / correct / partial / confusion means a writer bypassed the namespacing — that is the exact ambiguity this change exists to prevent, and it should be investigated rather than accepted.

4. Volume expectation

The tutor is the higher-volume writer of the two, not the quiz. If tutor_* rows are absent after real tutor traffic, update_mastery_tool is silently not persisting and the omit-when-None path is swallowing it.

_{Static verification only — no live database was reachable from this environment. Schema model built by replaying backend/db/migrations/ in ledger order.}

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Third review round + the live-DB checks

Picking this back up. Two things were outstanding: Jose's three fix commits had never themselves been reviewed, and the pre-merge database checks were left unrun because that environment had no credentials.

Live DB — both pre-merge checks pass on staging

Run through the session-mode pooler (scripts/pooler_url.py; the .env.staging value is the IPv6-only direct host and is unreachable from here):

check	result
event_type column	one row, text, is_nullable = YES, no default
existing rows	single bucket: 26 × NULL
ledger	migration recorded

So the migration is applied strictly before this code ships, which is the ordering the E7 comment calls load-bearing. Checks 3 and 4 (namespacing holds, tutor_* rows appear) are post-traffic and stay open as a post-deploy watch.

I also diffed the edited migration: the header comments were rewritten, but the DDL is byte-identical (ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS event_type TEXT), and the ledger keys on basename — no immutability violation, nothing re-runs.

Review of the fix commits — affde139

No correctness bugs. Four low findings, all fixed:

1. prompt_dimensions.snapshot() lost the whole payload on one bad value. The deep copy sits inside a try whose except returned {}, so a single un-deepcopyable value shipped quiz.started with no dimensions — measuring nothing while looking like a healthy event, which is the exact bug class F6 exists to end. Degrades to a shallow copy now, and warns. Its docstring's rationale was also just wrong (nothing mutates a recorded list in place), so that's corrected rather than left as a false comment.
2. E8 called a failed retrieval no_match_for_concept.retrieve_chunks swallows its own failures and returns [] — the same value a clean miss returns. So a course with material indexed whose retrieval broke was recorded as "it has material, none of it covers this concept": a claim about data we never read, which is precisely what the reason taxonomy exists to stop. Added retrieve_chunks_detailed, which says whether the empty result is a fault or a fact; a fault now reports coverage_unknown. The RAG embedding path sits below the SAPLING_MODEL_MODE seam — live embed calls fire even in function mode #439 seam skip is deliberately not a fault — otherwise every function-mode E2E run would report broken retrieval. retrieve_chunks keeps its list contract, so learn.py and benchmark_quiz.py are untouched.
3. Bench script promised a keyless run "fails loudly here" but still fell back to a dummy key, dying later inside count_tokens on an opaque auth error. It now fails where it says it does.
4. EVENT_TAXONOMY's quiz.started row and docs/quiz-prompt-budget.md disagreed about which dimensions come from the route vs. only when the agent calls the recording tool. Reconciled.

Both behavioural fixes are pinned by tests written to fail first.

Verification

Hermetic 2128 passed / 9 skipped (+2), ruff clean, oracles 0 findings, integration 47 passed, Playwright 47 passed.

The one Playwright failure is landing-drag-field.spec.ts:332, and it is not from this PR — it fails identically on main (same line, all three retries) and has since the #524 landing-v5 merge on Aug 16, which is when the e2e browser lane on main went red. This PR touches no frontend code. Filing that separately.

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Merged. Filed the unrelated Playwright failure as #566 — the landing drag-field scroll-follow assertion, red on main since #524, which is what has kept the e2e browser lane red there.

Remaining from the addendum: Workstream H (#553–#557), plus #545 and #546.

Post-deploy watch still owed on this one — checks 3 and 4 from the DB comment above (namespacing holds; tutor_* rows actually appear once real tutor traffic lands). Nothing to run until it deploys.

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Part 2 of the #537 addendum: E5–E8 and F5–F7, shipped as one PR because
they all land in routes/quiz.py and would otherwise conflict.

E5 — question identity + provenance

A generated question had no identity: it was written into the encrypted
questions_json blob, graded, and forgotten. Nothing could ask "have we
asked this before?", "which prompt wrote it?", or "was it grounded in our
materials?".

• services/quiz_identity.py — question_hash, a stable SHA-256 over the
  normalized stem + option set. Insensitive to whitespace, case and option
  order; sensitive to stem and option content; version-tagged so a
  future normalization change is visibly disjoint rather than quietly
  colliding.
• Each stored question now carries question_hash plus a provenance
  block: prompt_version (the system-prompt hash, previously reachable
  only as agent trace metadata), the served model, the grounding chunk
  ids, and rag_grounded/catalog.
• Chunk ids were resolved and dropped on the floor — _course_material_block
  returned a bare string. It now returns a CourseMaterial record.
  match_course_chunks already returned id, so this was a local
  refactor, not the schema change the brief flagged as a stop-and-report risk.
• Provenance never reaches the client, on both response shapes — the
  keyed branch is still the default until quiz: flip include_answer_key default to false, then delete it once the #537 client ships #546 flips it, so guarding only
  the keyless allowlist would have shipped chunk ids to every browser today.

Dedupe: the within-attempt check is keyed on question_hash as specified,
and retains the stem check. The hash covers stem and options, so it is
the narrower of the two — a model re-emitting one stem with reworded options
passes it. Dropping the stem check would have quietly narrowed #543's
duplicate-question guard, which E5 has no need to trade away.

E6 — repetition guard

Past questions_json was never re-read, so a student could be served the
same question repeatedly with nothing able to notice.

• services/quiz_repetition.py reads the last ~15 distinct items for this
  (student, concept) and generation is told not to repeat them.
• Fetched raw, not precomputed into the digest — noted as asked. The
  audit's end-state (precompute in quiz_context) belongs with the digest
  schema work in quiz H2: mine answers_json into the digest (distractor profile) + digest schema version #554; this is bounded hard (6 attempts scanned, 15 stems out)
  in the meantime.
• Deliberately not filtered to completed attempts, unlike the history
  tool: a student who generated a quiz and walked away still saw those
  questions.
• Prompt-side guidance only — repeats are not hard-dropped. The
  function-mode seam returns the same 3 questions regardless of prompt, so
  dropping repeats would empty every second quiz in the test(e2e): journey — quiz answer → mastery update (UI + DB) #393 journey and 502
  it. Stems are delimiter-neutralized ([P2] Agent migration: prompt-injection hardening on student-supplied content #150) on the way back into the prompt.

E7 — stop dropping event_type

Submit computed correct/partial/confusion from the score ratio and discarded
it at the write. Migration 20260814051517 adds a nullable event_type to
node_mastery_events; apply_graph_update persists it and omits the key
when absent, so every non-quiz caller keeps working on an environment that
took the code before the DDL. Applied to staging and verified (26 existing
rows keep NULL).

E8 — grounding is a decision, not an accident

A coverage check runs when retrieval comes back empty, and quiz.rag_uncovered
distinguishes three different problems that used to look identical:
course_unresolved, no_chunks_for_course, no_match_for_concept
(plus coverage_unknown). Generation is never blocked on it.

F5 — the general fix for silent-empty

services/tool_signals.py::report_empty_result. Three personalization inputs
were empty for months because an empty list is exactly what "this student has
nothing yet" looks like. The helper supplies the missing half — whether the
student plausibly should have data (enrolled / has attempts / has a graph,
one owner-scoped indexed read, only on the empty path) — and emits
quiz.tool_empty when the two disagree. Feature-agnostic so the tutor's tools
use it too; wired into all three quiz read tools. Never raises; a failed probe
means "can't tell", which is silence.

F6 — measure the prompt before anyone tunes it

services/prompt_dimensions.py captures prompt composition per request and
rides quiz.started, which shares a request_id with the llm_usage row.
The load-bearing detail: digest_present is only knowable inside an agent
tool running under asyncio.to_thread, so the accumulator mutates a shared
dict rather than rebinding a ContextVar — pinned by test.

The audit's ~2–4k estimate was low. Measured via count_tokens
(scripts/bench_quiz_prompt_budget.py, results in docs/quiz-prompt-budget.md):

	measured	audit
System prompt	1,317	~800
read_concepts_for_user @ cap	1,340	~250
Today, grounded, 13-concept graph	3,992	2–4k
Worst case	6,839	—

The concepts tool at cap costs more than a five-chunk RAG block at typical
chunk sizes — so "COURSE MATERIAL is the dominant variable cost" is only true
for long chunks, and the proposed ~4–5k redesign budget is approximately the
current bill rather than headroom.

F7 — taxonomy

quiz.tool_empty and quiz.rag_uncovered added to EVENT_TAXONOMY, the
module docstring table, and the pin test.

Also

• Documented the ciphertext oracle's deliberate omission of quiz_responses
  where the manifest lives (owed from the addendum's Part 1, item 3).
• agents/usage.py::served_model_name is public and now coerces to str —
  the model name flows into encrypt_json via provenance, and a non-string
  would have 502'd a generation that had already succeeded.

Verification

• Hermetic suite: 2103 passed, 9 skipped (was 1997 — +106 tests).
• ruff check . clean.
• Full local E2E cycle: Playwright, oracles, integration lane.
• Migration applied to staging before merge.

Review round (commit 2)

/code-review high returned six findings, all valid, all fixed in cb56970f:

1. The F5 probe blocked the event loop — a sync Supabase read called
   inline from async tool bodies, while every other read in those tools uses
   to_thread for exactly that reason. It fires on the empty path, which
   today is the common one. Added report_empty_result_async.
2. +3. The probes asked a broader question than the tools did —
   HAS_ATTEMPTS checked all concepts while the tool read one;
   HAS_GRAPH checked the whole graph while the read was course-scoped. Both
   would have flagged ordinary progress (first quiz on a new concept; taking
   two courses) as "silently broken" — the precise alarm-fatigue failure F5
   exists to prevent. Probes now take a scope.
   3b. feature defaulted to "quiz" on a tool the tutor also registers,
   contradicting the contract this PR added to CLAUDE.md. SaplingDeps
   carries feature now; default "unknown", since wrong attribution is
   worse than absent.
3. grounded was RAG-only but named "any course material" — a
   catalog-only course persisted every question as ungrounded. Split into
   rag_grounded + catalog.
4. The E7 comment implied the omit-when-absent trick made the quiz path safe
   pre-migration. It does not, and the failure loses the graded attempt.
   Comment now states the ordering requirement.
5. CLAUDE.md's "exactly two raw genai.Client sites" invariant, made false by
   this PR's bench script.

Re-verified after the fixes: hermetic 2103 passed / 9 skipped, ruff clean,
Playwright 45, oracles 0 findings, integration 47 passed.

The review-fix commit has not itself been through a second review round.

CI fix (commit 3) — a live 405→500 bug, pre-existing on main

Backend (pytest) had been red on main since the FastAPI 0.138 lock
(0effc9ee fails identically), on one test, with

AttributeError: '_IncludedRouter' object has no attribute 'path'

from otel's FastAPI instrumentation. Not test-only: otel's _get_route_details
guards its FULL-match .path read with except AttributeError but its
PARTIAL-match branch does not — and a PARTIAL match is exactly a wrong-method
request. So the error escaped the middleware and every 405 returned 500.
Staging and prod install the same lock, so that was live behaviour.

Nothing to upgrade to: the unguarded line is in every released
opentelemetry-instrumentation-fastapi through 0.65b0 (checked against the
published wheels). services/otel_fastapi_compat.py wraps the resolver,
absorbing only AttributeError and falling back to scope["path"] — otel's
own FULL-branch fallback. Reproduced and the fix verified at the locked
versions in a scratch env, since the dev venv (fastapi 0.136) cannot
reproduce it.

Review round 2 (commit 4)

1. quiz.rag_uncovered was category="error", but
   /api/admin/analytics/errors scans category = error newest-first. Firing
   per-generation would have buried quiz.context_write_failed and
   rag.retrieval_failed — degrading the surface workstream B just repaired.
   Now usage, which is also the honest label for a legitimate mode.
2. The misconceptions probe was the one left unscoped. It now asks whether
   aggregates exist for this student's offerings of this course — the only
   formulation that detects quiz H1: misconceptions tool filters offering_id with the abstract course id — verify live, then fix + seed test #553's keyspace mismatch without firing on every
   class that simply has no aggregates yet. Non-owner-scoped probes now refuse
   to run unscoped.
3. The quiz-history probe could not detect the failure its own comment
   cites: quiz_context lost UNIQUE (user_id, concept_node_id) in 0025 — save_quiz_context's upsert 42P10s and the failure is swallowed #529 presents as an empty digest while attempts exist, and the
   helper short-circuits on a non-zero count. Split into a digest-keyed check
   plus the attempt-list one.
4. _course_chunk_coverage reported a degraded count as 0, making E8 assert
   "nothing indexed" about a possibly fully-indexed course.
5. A node_mastery_events insert failure could permanently lose a graded
   quiz (it runs after submit's atomic completed_at claim, before score is
   written, unwrapped). Now retries once without event_type then degrades,
   loudly logged.

Final: hermetic 2119 passed / 9 skipped, ruff clean, Playwright 45,
oracles 0 findings, integration 47, all CI checks green.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Quiz generation now avoids recently served questions when suitable history is available.
  • Quiz questions receive stable identities to support consistent repetition prevention.
  • Quiz responses better reflect whether course material was successfully retrieved and used.
  • Tutor and quiz activity can preserve more specific mastery-event details.

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved handling of retrieval failures and unavailable course data without interrupting quiz generation.
  • Mastery updates continue when event recording encounters compatibility issues.

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The PR adds quiz provenance, stable question identity, repetition filtering, prompt-dimension telemetry, retrieval-failure classification, empty-result diagnostics, namespaced mastery events, and an offline prompt-budget benchmark.

Changes

Quiz observability and generation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Telemetry and event contracts backend/agents/..., backend/services/..., backend/tests/...	Adds feature metadata, prompt capture, empty-result reporting, event taxonomy entries, namespaced mastery events, failure-safe event persistence, and related tests.
Question identity and repetition lookup backend/services/quiz_identity.py, backend/services/quiz_repetition.py, backend/tests/test_quiz_identity_e5.py, backend/tests/test_quiz_repetition_e6.py	Adds stable question hashes and best-effort retrieval of recent questions for deduplication and prompt construction.
Quiz generation provenance and grounding backend/routes/quiz.py, backend/services/rag_service.py, backend/tests/test_quiz_provenance_e5_e6.py, backend/tests/test_event_capture_seams.py	Tracks grounding status, retrieval failures, prompt dimensions, serving models, question provenance, repetition data, and client response shaping.
Prompt budget measurement and documentation backend/scripts/bench_quiz_prompt_budget.py, docs/quiz-prompt-budget.md, CLAUDE.md, backend/e2e_oracles/gather.py	Adds a lazy real-mode Gemini token benchmark and documents measured prompt budgets, attribution, and encrypted-column scope.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90+ minutes

Merge Risk:🔵 Low · up to affde

This PR adds question provenance, repetition guidance, and quiz diagnostics. Mergeability is generally good, but retrieval state can leak between calls and some retrieval failures may be reported as missing course content, which can distort diagnostics; owners should address or explicitly accept these bounded risks.

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Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
participant Client
participant QuizRoute
participant RAGService
participant QuizRepetition
participant QuizAgent
participant EventService
Client->>QuizRoute: request quiz generation
QuizRoute->>RAGService: retrieve course material
QuizRoute->>QuizRepetition: retrieve recent questions
QuizRoute->>QuizAgent: generate quiz
QuizAgent-->>QuizRoute: return questions and served model
QuizRoute->>EventService: record provenance and prompt dimensions
QuizRoute-->>Client: return filtered questions

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The sink fixture is duplicated across two new test files. Both files define a near-identical sink fixture that calls events_service.reset_for_tests() and patches services.events_service.table with a MagicMock whose insert appends into a list. The only difference is the teardown drain. The shared root cause is that no common fixture exists for capturing enqueued events, so each new file writes its own. A third file that instruments a tool will copy it again, and the two copies can then drift in reset or drain behavior.

• backend/tests/test_tool_signals_f5.py#L23-L38: move this fixture into backend/tests/conftest.py and delete the local definition. Keep the post-yieldevents_service.flush_now() in the shared version, because it drains the queue while the table patch is still active.
• backend/tests/test_quiz_tool_instrumentation.py#L23-L36: delete the local sink fixture and use the shared one. This copy omits the teardown drain, so a queued event can outlive the patch.

As per coding guidelines: "Backend tests live in backend/tests/ and run via pytest; shared fixtures (mock Supabase, mock Gemini) are in tests/conftest.py."

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In `@backend/agents/tools/graph_read.py`:
- Around line 441-448: Update the misconception-reading flow around
read_misconceptions_for_course to resolve the course offering through
services/academics.py first, then pass the resolved offering_id to the query and
related empty-result reporting payload instead of ctx.deps.course_id. Preserve
the existing enrollment expectation and result handling.
In `@backend/agents/tools/quiz_history.py`:
- Around line 290-301: Keep the existing read_recent_quiz_attempts check for
completed attempts, and add a separate report_empty_result_async check for the
quiz-context digest using bool(history.summary) as its count. Set its
expectation according to whether existing attempts for the current user and
concept require a digest, while preserving the existing concept_node_id scope
and relevant payload context.
In `@backend/scripts/bench_quiz_prompt_budget.py`:
- Around line 52-57: Update the raw Google GenAI client setup around _client and
MODEL to use the provider configuration and model_mode() gate, matching the
model selection used by quiz generation. Ensure google.genai.Client is only
constructed within the provider-approved gated path and remove the hard-coded
model selection.
In `@backend/services/events_service.py`:
- Around line 39-41: Update the documented quiz.started dimensions in the events
service to list blocks, k_chunks, material_chars, recent_asked, routing_chars,
and adaptive, matching the route payload; remove digest_present because it is
conditional and not part of the consistently emitted dimension set.
In `@backend/services/graph_service.py`:
- Around line 759-771: The submit_quiz flow must not lose graded attempts when
node_mastery_events insertion fails. In apply_graph_update, isolate the
table("node_mastery_events").insert(event_row) operation so its failure is
caught and logged without propagating, while preserving score and answer
persistence; alternatively reorder submit_quiz to persist score and answers
before apply_graph_update. Ensure migration
20260814051517_node_mastery_events_event_type.sql is applied before deployment.
In `@backend/services/prompt_dimensions.py`:
- Around line 74-83: Update snapshot() in backend/services/prompt_dimensions.py
at lines 74-83 to return a deep copy of the current dimensions, preserving the
empty-dictionary fallback so nested mutable values such as blocks cannot affect
the active accumulator. Update backend/tests/test_prompt_dimensions_f6.py at
lines 56-63 to append to the returned blocks list and verify a later snapshot
remains unchanged.
In `@backend/services/tool_signals.py`:
- Around line 99-111: Update the database probe exception handler around the
table select to log at warning level instead of debug, including expect.value
and table_name in the message while preserving traceback output via
exc_info=True; continue returning None after logging.
In `@backend/tests/test_event_capture_seams.py`:
- Around line 619-624: Update the grounded fixture used by the assertions around
payload["k_chunks"] to set k_chunks explicitly to 2 alongside its chunk_ids,
ensuring the test exercises the configured field when chunk count and ID count
agree.
In `@backend/tests/test_graph_service.py`:
- Around line 748-766: Update test_event_type_omitted_when_caller_supplies_none
to pass an explicit {"event_type": None} through _apply_with_event_type,
covering the None branch while preserving the assertion that the key is absent.
Also revise the stale comment in test_mastery_change_appends_event_row to
describe that event_type is omitted when the caller does not supply it, rather
than claiming the schema lacks the column.
In `@docs/quiz-prompt-budget.md`:
- Around line 6-8: Declare the shell language for the fenced command block by
changing its opening fence to use sh, while leaving the command unchanged.
- Around line 70-74: Update the documented F6 dimensions list for the
quiz.started event to include only blocks, k_chunks, material_chars,
recent_asked, routing_chars, and adaptive. Remove digest_present, digest_chars,
recent_attempts, and misconceptions, and preserve the note that
misconceptions_requested is represented within blocks.
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In `@backend/tests/test_tool_signals_f5.py`:
- Around line 23-38: Move the duplicated sink fixture into
backend/tests/conftest.py, preserving events_service.reset_for_tests(), the
patched table MagicMock capture behavior, and the post-yield
events_service.flush_now() teardown. Delete the local sink fixtures from
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Code review — quiz provenance, repetition guard, silent-empty seam

This PR adds question identity + provenance (E5), a recently-asked repetition read (E6), event_type persistence on mastery events (E7), grounding-coverage reporting (E8), a generic silent-empty detector (F5), prompt-composition capture (F6), taxonomy entries (F7), and an otel compat shim that fixes a live 405→500. I read every substantive changed file at HEAD rather than the hunks. All three headline goals are genuinely delivered: question_hash is a stable, version-tagged SHA-256 over the normalized stem + sorted option set and is stamped on every emitted question (routes/quiz.py:433), and provenance is excluded from both client shapes — the keyless allowlist and the new _INTERNAL_QUESTION_KEYS denylist for the still-default keyed branch (routes/quiz.py:447-457); I checked the other three readers of questions_json (get_attempt, answer_question, submit_quiz) and nothing leaks. The repetition read is bounded (6 attempts scanned, 15 stems out, deduped by identity) and prompt-side only, which the description states as a deliberate trade — it cannot loop or exhaust a pool. The empty case is not swallowed: _quiz_via_agent raises on empty wire_questions and generate_quiz turns it into a typed 502 plus quiz.generation_failed. Every new except was checked; none are silent. DB access is entirely through db/connection.py::table(), the migration is additive with a timestamp basename per the Infrastructure doc's #509 convention, and the new event payloads carry ids/counts/enums only. One P1 blocks merge, plus two P2s worth folding in.

Findings

[P1] E7's "only the quiz supplies event_type" premise is false — the tutor already supplies it — backend/services/graph_service.py:799-803

# Omitted rather than written as an explicit null when absent: every# non-quiz caller (tutor tools, the document pipeline, manual adds)# supplies none, and naming a column PostgREST's schema cache doesn't# have is a hard 400 — so omitting keeps THOSE paths working on an# environment that took this code before the migration.

There are exactly two production producers of updated_nodes: routes/quiz.py::submit_quiz and agents/tools/graph.py::update_mastery_tool. The second is registered on the chat tutor (agents/chat_tutor.py:162) with a system prompt that says to call it in every turn where the student demonstrates understanding, and it has always passed an event_type:

# backend/agents/tools/graph.py:55event_type: Literal["interaction", "correction", "quiz"] =Field(
default="interaction",
description="Event category for the mastery-event log.",
)
# backend/agents/tools/graph.py:141"event_type": u.event_type,

apply_graph_update simply discarded it until now, so it never mattered; this PR turns it on for both callers at once. Three consequences: (1) the pre-migration deploy analysis is wrong about scope — every tutor mastery write also 400s and takes the _insert_mastery_event retry, a wasted round-trip plus a WARNING per event on the highest-volume writer, not the quiet no-op the comment describes; (2) the column receives two disjoint vocabularies from day one — correct|partial|confusion from the quiz, interaction|correction|quiz from the tutor — where interaction is a schema default, i.e. exactly the "default that would make un-categorised events indistinguishable from confident ones" that 20260814051517_node_mastery_events_event_type.sql:12-16 says it is avoiding, and event_type='quiz' can only have come from the tutor because a real quiz submit never writes that string; (3) test_graph_service.py:748-757's docstring asserts the same false fact about the codebase and passes only because it calls apply_graph_update directly rather than through the tool. Pick one vocabulary (or namespace them) and make the comments and the test match which callers actually classify.

[P2] quiz.tool_empty is category="error" and fires once per generation while #553 is live — backend/services/tool_signals.py:182-192

log_event(
"quiz.tool_empty",
category="error",
user_id=user_id,
payload={
"tool": tool,
"feature": feature,
"expect": expect.value,
**(payloador {}),
},
)

/api/admin/analytics/errors scans category = error newest-first (routes/admin_analytics.py:453-456) — the exact reasoning that made review round 2 re-file quiz.rag_uncovered as usage. The volume profile is the same here: the quiz system prompt tells the agent to call read_misconceptions_for_course on every run (agents/quiz.py:93), the tool still passes the abstract course id into an offering_id filter (#553, explicitly not fixed here — agents/tools/graph_read.py:436), and COURSE_HAS_AGGREGATES returns True for any class that has offering_concept_stats rows. So every generation by every enrolled student in such a class emits one error-category event plus a WARNING, indefinitely, burying quiz.context_write_failed and rag.retrieval_failed under routine traffic. If the loudness is intentional it needs its own category or a de-dupe, not the shared error feed.

[P2] Misconceptions offering resolution runs on every call, not only the empty path — backend/agents/tools/graph_read.py:452-460

offering_ids: list[str] = []
ifctx.deps.course_id:
try:
offering_ids=awaitasyncio.to_thread(
user_offering_ids_for_course, ctx.deps.user_id, ctx.deps.course_id
)
exceptException:
logger.debug("misconceptions probe: offering resolution failed", exc_info=True)
ifoffering_ids:
awaitreport_empty_result_async(

The gate is ctx.deps.course_id, not not out. user_offering_ids_for_course (services/academics.py:185) is uncached and issues two unbounded PostgREST reads — every course_offerings row for the course, then every one of the user's enrollments. That is two extra Supabase round-trips on the request path of every quiz generation, including the non-empty path, contradicting tool_signals.py's own contract ("one owner-scoped indexed read, only on the empty path") and the PR description's identical claim. Invisible today only because #553 makes out always empty; pure waste the moment #553 lands.

[P3] E8 labels a failed course lookup as course_unresolved — backend/routes/quiz.py:676-683

ifmaterial.bu_codeisNone:
reason="course_unresolved"elifmaterial.course_chunksisNone:
reason="coverage_unknown"elifmaterial.course_chunks==0:
reason="no_chunks_for_course"else:
reason="no_match_for_concept"

_resolve_bu_code (:506-511) returns None both for "this course has no BU code" and for "the courses read threw", and any raise inside _course_material degrades to _EMPTY_MATERIAL with bu_code=None (:821-826). All three land on course_unresolved. E8 exists to tell different problems apart, and coverage_unknown is already the honest can't-tell label.

[P3] New log lines print the raw user_id — backend/services/tool_signals.py:177-181

logger.warning(
"%s returned no rows for user=%s despite %s — a personalization ""input may be silently broken (F5)",
tool, user_id, expect.value,
)

Canopy Engineering Style Guide §8: "Don't log request/response bodies, user IDs, emails, names, tokens, or decrypted columns." Same in services/quiz_repetition.py:90-94. Not a blocker given how widespread this already is in routes/quiz.py, but these are new lines and both already carry request_id correlation through the event they emit.

What's good

• _insert_mastery_event's one-shot retry-without-event_type is the right shape for the ordering hazard, and the judgement that the journal is not worth a graded attempt is correct — submit_quiz really does call apply_graph_update after the atomic completed_at claim and before the score write.
• Running _course_material and recent_question_identities concurrently under asyncio.gather(return_exceptions=True) with both results individually inspected: a bare gather would have 502'd a quiz over one unreadable past attempt.
• Splitting grounded into rag_grounded + catalog, with chunk_count falling back to len(chunk_ids), keeps provenance from asserting something false about a catalog-only course. I confirmed format_rag_context returns "" only for an empty chunk list, so k_chunks > 0 really does imply RAG text in the prompt.
• Measuring the prompt with count_tokens instead of inheriting the audit's estimate, and publishing the caveat that llm_usage.prompt_tokens remains the authority on totals.

Verdict: request changes — the E7 finding needs resolving before merge; the two P2s are worth folding in while you are in here.

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Review fixes applied

Every outstanding finding on this PR (human review + CodeRabbit) has been addressed and pushed.

Blocker

• event_type vocabulary collision. The claim in graph_service.py that "every non-quiz caller supplies none" was false — agents/tools/graph.py:55 has always sent one from the chat tutor. Both vocabularies are now namespaced and disjoint (tutor_interaction|tutor_correction|tutor_quiz vs quiz_correct|quiz_partial|quiz_confusion), the tutor field no longer defaults to a real category (omitted when None, mirroring apply_graph_update), and the migration + service comments now document the real six-value set and the real pre-migration blast radius. New tests drive the tutor path end to end.

Major

• quiz.tool_empty moved from category="error" to "usage" — it was firing once per generation into the feed /api/admin/analytics/errors scans, burying quiz.context_write_failed and rag.retrieval_failed.
• Misconceptions probe now gates on not out, so user_offering_ids_for_course (uncached, two unbounded reads) no longer runs on the non-empty path of every quiz generation.

Minor / nits

• E8 tells a failed courses read apart from "no BU code" (coverage_unknown, not course_unresolved), via a new tri-state lookup.
• Bench script's raw google.genai.Client is now behind a model_mode() gate and uses model_name_for("quiz"); CLAUDE.md's raw-client inventory corrected (it was already wrong — a fourth site existed).
• prompt_dimensions.snapshot() deep-copies; tool_signals probe failure logs at warning; k_chunks pinned explicitly in the grounded fixture; explicit-Noneevent_type case covered; stale "schema has no event_type column" comment fixed; doc fence language + F6 dimension list corrected; raw user_id removed from new log lines; duplicated sink fixture moved to conftest.py.

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659-692: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

A failed retrieve_chunks call is reported as a content gap, not as unknown coverage.

Line 667 swallows a retrieval exception and sets chunks = []. The returned CourseMaterial then carries resolution_failed=False. _log_rag_uncovered therefore reports no_chunks_for_course or no_match_for_concept. Both are assertions about the course data, but retrieval failed and the coverage was never learned.

This is the same mislabeling that BuCodeLookup.failed fixes for the course_code read. Set resolution_failed when retrieval raises, so the event reports coverage_unknown.

🛠️ Proposed fix

 try:
chunks = retrieve_chunks(concept_name, course_id=bu_code, k=_RAG_K)
+ retrieval_failed = False
except Exception:
chunks = []
+ retrieval_failed = True
@@
return CourseMaterial(
block="\n\n".join(blocks),
chunk_ids=chunk_ids,
k_chunks=len(chunks),
has_catalog=bool(catalog),
course_chunks=None if chunks else _course_chunk_coverage(bu_code),
bu_code=bu_code,
+ resolution_failed=retrieval_failed,
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In `@backend/routes/quiz.py`:
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Verify against the real database before merging

I could not reach a live database while working on this — there are no credentials on this machine (only .env.example files) and the local Supabase stack needs a container runtime that wouldn't start. So everything below was verified statically, by replaying every migration in ledger order to build a schema model and checking this PR's DB access against it. That model found 0 schema mismatches here, and it is trustworthy enough to have independently reproduced the documents.course_id absence that caused #562/#534 — but it cannot see data, and it cannot see whether staging's ledger actually matches the repo.

These are the checks that need a real connection.

1. Ordering is load-bearing — migration BEFORE code

This PR's own comment says it, and the review confirmed the failure mode: submit_quiz calls apply_graph_updateafter the atomic completed_at claim and before the score write, so a pre-migration insert failure loses a graded attempt. _insert_mastery_event retries once without event_type and degrades loudly, but that is a safety net, not a licence to deploy first.

-- Must return one row, is_nullable = YES, before any code shipsSELECT column_name, data_type, is_nullable
FROMinformation_schema.columnsWHERE table_name ='node_mastery_events'AND column_name ='event_type';

2. Existing rows must be untouched

SELECT event_type, count(*) FROM node_mastery_events GROUP BY1ORDER BY2DESC;

Before deploy: expect a single NULL bucket (the PR reports 26 rows on staging). Nothing should have a value yet.

3. After deploy — the namespacing must hold

The fix in this PR namespaced the two producers because the tutor's update_mastery_tool has always sent an event_type (agents/tools/graph.py), it was simply discarded until now. Re-run the same query after traffic:

• Expected values: NULL, tutor_interaction, tutor_correction, tutor_quiz, quiz_correct, quiz_partial, quiz_confusion.
• Any bare interaction / correction / quiz / correct / partial / confusion means a writer bypassed the namespacing — that is the exact ambiguity this change exists to prevent, and it should be investigated rather than accepted.

4. Volume expectation

The tutor is the higher-volume writer of the two, not the quiz. If tutor_* rows are absent after real tutor traffic, update_mastery_tool is silently not persisting and the omit-when-None path is swallowing it.

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Third review round + the live-DB checks

Picking this back up. Two things were outstanding: Jose's three fix commits had never themselves been reviewed, and the pre-merge database checks were left unrun because that environment had no credentials.

Live DB — both pre-merge checks pass on staging

Run through the session-mode pooler (scripts/pooler_url.py; the .env.staging value is the IPv6-only direct host and is unreachable from here):

check	result
event_type column	one row, text, is_nullable = YES, no default
existing rows	single bucket: 26 × NULL
ledger	migration recorded

So the migration is applied strictly before this code ships, which is the ordering the E7 comment calls load-bearing. Checks 3 and 4 (namespacing holds, tutor_* rows appear) are post-traffic and stay open as a post-deploy watch.

I also diffed the edited migration: the header comments were rewritten, but the DDL is byte-identical (ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS event_type TEXT), and the ledger keys on basename — no immutability violation, nothing re-runs.

Review of the fix commits — affde139

No correctness bugs. Four low findings, all fixed:

1. prompt_dimensions.snapshot() lost the whole payload on one bad value. The deep copy sits inside a try whose except returned {}, so a single un-deepcopyable value shipped quiz.started with no dimensions — measuring nothing while looking like a healthy event, which is the exact bug class F6 exists to end. Degrades to a shallow copy now, and warns. Its docstring's rationale was also just wrong (nothing mutates a recorded list in place), so that's corrected rather than left as a false comment.
2. E8 called a failed retrieval no_match_for_concept.retrieve_chunks swallows its own failures and returns [] — the same value a clean miss returns. So a course with material indexed whose retrieval broke was recorded as "it has material, none of it covers this concept": a claim about data we never read, which is precisely what the reason taxonomy exists to stop. Added retrieve_chunks_detailed, which says whether the empty result is a fault or a fact; a fault now reports coverage_unknown. The RAG embedding path sits below the SAPLING_MODEL_MODE seam — live embed calls fire even in function mode #439 seam skip is deliberately not a fault — otherwise every function-mode E2E run would report broken retrieval. retrieve_chunks keeps its list contract, so learn.py and benchmark_quiz.py are untouched.
3. Bench script promised a keyless run "fails loudly here" but still fell back to a dummy key, dying later inside count_tokens on an opaque auth error. It now fails where it says it does.
4. EVENT_TAXONOMY's quiz.started row and docs/quiz-prompt-budget.md disagreed about which dimensions come from the route vs. only when the agent calls the recording tool. Reconciled.

Both behavioural fixes are pinned by tests written to fail first.

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[AndresL230]

Merged. Filed the unrelated Playwright failure as #566 — the landing drag-field scroll-follow assertion, red on main since #524, which is what has kept the e2e browser lane red there.

Remaining from the addendum: Workstream H (#553–#557), plus #545 and #546.

Post-deploy watch still owed on this one — checks 3 and 4 from the DB comment above (namespacing holds; tutor_* rows actually appear once real tutor traffic lands). Nothing to run until it deploys.

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Part 2 of the #537 addendum: E5–E8 and F5–F7, shipped as one PR because
they all land in routes/quiz.py and would otherwise conflict.

E5 — question identity + provenance

A generated question had no identity: it was written into the encrypted
questions_json blob, graded, and forgotten. Nothing could ask "have we
asked this before?", "which prompt wrote it?", or "was it grounded in our
materials?".

• services/quiz_identity.py — question_hash, a stable SHA-256 over the
  normalized stem + option set. Insensitive to whitespace, case and option
  order; sensitive to stem and option content; version-tagged so a
  future normalization change is visibly disjoint rather than quietly
  colliding.
• Each stored question now carries question_hash plus a provenance
  block: prompt_version (the system-prompt hash, previously reachable
  only as agent trace metadata), the served model, the grounding chunk
  ids, and rag_grounded/catalog.
• Chunk ids were resolved and dropped on the floor — _course_material_block
  returned a bare string. It now returns a CourseMaterial record.
  match_course_chunks already returned id, so this was a local
  refactor, not the schema change the brief flagged as a stop-and-report risk.
• Provenance never reaches the client, on both response shapes — the
  keyed branch is still the default until quiz: flip include_answer_key default to false, then delete it once the #537 client ships #546 flips it, so guarding only
  the keyless allowlist would have shipped chunk ids to every browser today.

Dedupe: the within-attempt check is keyed on question_hash as specified,
and retains the stem check. The hash covers stem and options, so it is
the narrower of the two — a model re-emitting one stem with reworded options
passes it. Dropping the stem check would have quietly narrowed #543's
duplicate-question guard, which E5 has no need to trade away.

E6 — repetition guard

Past questions_json was never re-read, so a student could be served the
same question repeatedly with nothing able to notice.

• services/quiz_repetition.py reads the last ~15 distinct items for this
  (student, concept) and generation is told not to repeat them.
• Fetched raw, not precomputed into the digest — noted as asked. The
  audit's end-state (precompute in quiz_context) belongs with the digest
  schema work in quiz H2: mine answers_json into the digest (distractor profile) + digest schema version #554; this is bounded hard (6 attempts scanned, 15 stems out)
  in the meantime.
• Deliberately not filtered to completed attempts, unlike the history
  tool: a student who generated a quiz and walked away still saw those
  questions.
• Prompt-side guidance only — repeats are not hard-dropped. The
  function-mode seam returns the same 3 questions regardless of prompt, so
  dropping repeats would empty every second quiz in the test(e2e): journey — quiz answer → mastery update (UI + DB) #393 journey and 502
  it. Stems are delimiter-neutralized ([P2] Agent migration: prompt-injection hardening on student-supplied content #150) on the way back into the prompt.

E7 — stop dropping event_type

Submit computed correct/partial/confusion from the score ratio and discarded
it at the write. Migration 20260814051517 adds a nullable event_type to
node_mastery_events; apply_graph_update persists it and omits the key
when absent, so every non-quiz caller keeps working on an environment that
took the code before the DDL. Applied to staging and verified (26 existing
rows keep NULL).

E8 — grounding is a decision, not an accident

A coverage check runs when retrieval comes back empty, and quiz.rag_uncovered
distinguishes three different problems that used to look identical:
course_unresolved, no_chunks_for_course, no_match_for_concept
(plus coverage_unknown). Generation is never blocked on it.

F5 — the general fix for silent-empty

services/tool_signals.py::report_empty_result. Three personalization inputs
were empty for months because an empty list is exactly what "this student has
nothing yet" looks like. The helper supplies the missing half — whether the
student plausibly should have data (enrolled / has attempts / has a graph,
one owner-scoped indexed read, only on the empty path) — and emits
quiz.tool_empty when the two disagree. Feature-agnostic so the tutor's tools
use it too; wired into all three quiz read tools. Never raises; a failed probe
means "can't tell", which is silence.

F6 — measure the prompt before anyone tunes it

services/prompt_dimensions.py captures prompt composition per request and
rides quiz.started, which shares a request_id with the llm_usage row.
The load-bearing detail: digest_present is only knowable inside an agent
tool running under asyncio.to_thread, so the accumulator mutates a shared
dict rather than rebinding a ContextVar — pinned by test.

The audit's ~2–4k estimate was low. Measured via count_tokens
(scripts/bench_quiz_prompt_budget.py, results in docs/quiz-prompt-budget.md):

	measured	audit
System prompt	1,317	~800
read_concepts_for_user @ cap	1,340	~250
Today, grounded, 13-concept graph	3,992	2–4k
Worst case	6,839	—

The concepts tool at cap costs more than a five-chunk RAG block at typical
chunk sizes — so "COURSE MATERIAL is the dominant variable cost" is only true
for long chunks, and the proposed ~4–5k redesign budget is approximately the
current bill rather than headroom.

F7 — taxonomy

quiz.tool_empty and quiz.rag_uncovered added to EVENT_TAXONOMY, the
module docstring table, and the pin test.

Also

• Documented the ciphertext oracle's deliberate omission of quiz_responses
  where the manifest lives (owed from the addendum's Part 1, item 3).
• agents/usage.py::served_model_name is public and now coerces to str —
  the model name flows into encrypt_json via provenance, and a non-string
  would have 502'd a generation that had already succeeded.

Verification

• Hermetic suite: 2103 passed, 9 skipped (was 1997 — +106 tests).
• ruff check . clean.
• Full local E2E cycle: Playwright, oracles, integration lane.
• Migration applied to staging before merge.

Review round (commit 2)

/code-review high returned six findings, all valid, all fixed in cb56970f:

1. The F5 probe blocked the event loop — a sync Supabase read called
   inline from async tool bodies, while every other read in those tools uses
   to_thread for exactly that reason. It fires on the empty path, which
   today is the common one. Added report_empty_result_async.
2. +3. The probes asked a broader question than the tools did —
   HAS_ATTEMPTS checked all concepts while the tool read one;
   HAS_GRAPH checked the whole graph while the read was course-scoped. Both
   would have flagged ordinary progress (first quiz on a new concept; taking
   two courses) as "silently broken" — the precise alarm-fatigue failure F5
   exists to prevent. Probes now take a scope.
   3b. feature defaulted to "quiz" on a tool the tutor also registers,
   contradicting the contract this PR added to CLAUDE.md. SaplingDeps
   carries feature now; default "unknown", since wrong attribution is
   worse than absent.
3. grounded was RAG-only but named "any course material" — a
   catalog-only course persisted every question as ungrounded. Split into
   rag_grounded + catalog.
4. The E7 comment implied the omit-when-absent trick made the quiz path safe
   pre-migration. It does not, and the failure loses the graded attempt.
   Comment now states the ordering requirement.
5. CLAUDE.md's "exactly two raw genai.Client sites" invariant, made false by
   this PR's bench script.

Re-verified after the fixes: hermetic 2103 passed / 9 skipped, ruff clean,
Playwright 45, oracles 0 findings, integration 47 passed.

The review-fix commit has not itself been through a second review round.

CI fix (commit 3) — a live 405→500 bug, pre-existing on main

Backend (pytest) had been red on main since the FastAPI 0.138 lock
(0effc9ee fails identically), on one test, with

AttributeError: '_IncludedRouter' object has no attribute 'path'

from otel's FastAPI instrumentation. Not test-only: otel's _get_route_details
guards its FULL-match .path read with except AttributeError but its
PARTIAL-match branch does not — and a PARTIAL match is exactly a wrong-method
request. So the error escaped the middleware and every 405 returned 500.
Staging and prod install the same lock, so that was live behaviour.

Nothing to upgrade to: the unguarded line is in every released
opentelemetry-instrumentation-fastapi through 0.65b0 (checked against the
published wheels). services/otel_fastapi_compat.py wraps the resolver,
absorbing only AttributeError and falling back to scope["path"] — otel's
own FULL-branch fallback. Reproduced and the fix verified at the locked
versions in a scratch env, since the dev venv (fastapi 0.136) cannot
reproduce it.

Review round 2 (commit 4)

1. quiz.rag_uncovered was category="error", but
   /api/admin/analytics/errors scans category = error newest-first. Firing
   per-generation would have buried quiz.context_write_failed and
   rag.retrieval_failed — degrading the surface workstream B just repaired.
   Now usage, which is also the honest label for a legitimate mode.
2. The misconceptions probe was the one left unscoped. It now asks whether
   aggregates exist for this student's offerings of this course — the only
   formulation that detects quiz H1: misconceptions tool filters offering_id with the abstract course id — verify live, then fix + seed test #553's keyspace mismatch without firing on every
   class that simply has no aggregates yet. Non-owner-scoped probes now refuse
   to run unscoped.
3. The quiz-history probe could not detect the failure its own comment
   cites: quiz_context lost UNIQUE (user_id, concept_node_id) in 0025 — save_quiz_context's upsert 42P10s and the failure is swallowed #529 presents as an empty digest while attempts exist, and the
   helper short-circuits on a non-zero count. Split into a digest-keyed check
   plus the attempt-list one.
4. _course_chunk_coverage reported a degraded count as 0, making E8 assert
   "nothing indexed" about a possibly fully-indexed course.
5. A node_mastery_events insert failure could permanently lose a graded
   quiz (it runs after submit's atomic completed_at claim, before score is
   written, unwrapped). Now retries once without event_type then degrades,
   loudly logged.

Final: hermetic 2119 passed / 9 skipped, ruff clean, Playwright 45,
oracles 0 findings, integration 47, all CI checks green.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Quiz generation now avoids recently served questions when suitable history is available.
  • Quiz questions receive stable identities to support consistent repetition prevention.
  • Quiz responses better reflect whether course material was successfully retrieved and used.
  • Tutor and quiz activity can preserve more specific mastery-event details.

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved handling of retrieval failures and unavailable course data without interrupting quiz generation.
  • Mastery updates continue when event recording encounters compatibility issues.

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The PR adds quiz provenance, stable question identity, repetition filtering, prompt-dimension telemetry, retrieval-failure classification, empty-result diagnostics, namespaced mastery events, and an offline prompt-budget benchmark.

Changes

Quiz observability and generation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Telemetry and event contracts backend/agents/..., backend/services/..., backend/tests/...	Adds feature metadata, prompt capture, empty-result reporting, event taxonomy entries, namespaced mastery events, failure-safe event persistence, and related tests.
Question identity and repetition lookup backend/services/quiz_identity.py, backend/services/quiz_repetition.py, backend/tests/test_quiz_identity_e5.py, backend/tests/test_quiz_repetition_e6.py	Adds stable question hashes and best-effort retrieval of recent questions for deduplication and prompt construction.
Quiz generation provenance and grounding backend/routes/quiz.py, backend/services/rag_service.py, backend/tests/test_quiz_provenance_e5_e6.py, backend/tests/test_event_capture_seams.py	Tracks grounding status, retrieval failures, prompt dimensions, serving models, question provenance, repetition data, and client response shaping.
Prompt budget measurement and documentation backend/scripts/bench_quiz_prompt_budget.py, docs/quiz-prompt-budget.md, CLAUDE.md, backend/e2e_oracles/gather.py	Adds a lazy real-mode Gemini token benchmark and documents measured prompt budgets, attribution, and encrypted-column scope.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90+ minutes

Merge Risk:🔵 Low · up to affde

This PR adds question provenance, repetition guidance, and quiz diagnostics. Mergeability is generally good, but retrieval state can leak between calls and some retrieval failures may be reported as missing course content, which can distort diagnostics; owners should address or explicitly accept these bounded risks.

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Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
participant Client
participant QuizRoute
participant RAGService
participant QuizRepetition
participant QuizAgent
participant EventService
Client->>QuizRoute: request quiz generation
QuizRoute->>RAGService: retrieve course material
QuizRoute->>QuizRepetition: retrieve recent questions
QuizRoute->>QuizAgent: generate quiz
QuizAgent-->>QuizRoute: return questions and served model
QuizRoute->>EventService: record provenance and prompt dimensions
QuizRoute-->>Client: return filtered questions

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The sink fixture is duplicated across two new test files. Both files define a near-identical sink fixture that calls events_service.reset_for_tests() and patches services.events_service.table with a MagicMock whose insert appends into a list. The only difference is the teardown drain. The shared root cause is that no common fixture exists for capturing enqueued events, so each new file writes its own. A third file that instruments a tool will copy it again, and the two copies can then drift in reset or drain behavior.

• backend/tests/test_tool_signals_f5.py#L23-L38: move this fixture into backend/tests/conftest.py and delete the local definition. Keep the post-yieldevents_service.flush_now() in the shared version, because it drains the queue while the table patch is still active.
• backend/tests/test_quiz_tool_instrumentation.py#L23-L36: delete the local sink fixture and use the shared one. This copy omits the teardown drain, so a queued event can outlive the patch.

As per coding guidelines: "Backend tests live in backend/tests/ and run via pytest; shared fixtures (mock Supabase, mock Gemini) are in tests/conftest.py."

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In `@backend/tests/test_tool_signals_f5.py` around lines 23 - 38, Move the
duplicated sink fixture into backend/tests/conftest.py, preserving
events_service.reset_for_tests(), the patched table MagicMock capture behavior,
and the post-yield events_service.flush_now() teardown. Delete the local sink
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Inline comments:
In `@backend/agents/tools/graph_read.py`:
- Around line 441-448: Update the misconception-reading flow around
read_misconceptions_for_course to resolve the course offering through
services/academics.py first, then pass the resolved offering_id to the query and
related empty-result reporting payload instead of ctx.deps.course_id. Preserve
the existing enrollment expectation and result handling.
In `@backend/agents/tools/quiz_history.py`:
- Around line 290-301: Keep the existing read_recent_quiz_attempts check for
completed attempts, and add a separate report_empty_result_async check for the
quiz-context digest using bool(history.summary) as its count. Set its
expectation according to whether existing attempts for the current user and
concept require a digest, while preserving the existing concept_node_id scope
and relevant payload context.
In `@backend/scripts/bench_quiz_prompt_budget.py`:
- Around line 52-57: Update the raw Google GenAI client setup around _client and
MODEL to use the provider configuration and model_mode() gate, matching the
model selection used by quiz generation. Ensure google.genai.Client is only
constructed within the provider-approved gated path and remove the hard-coded
model selection.
In `@backend/services/events_service.py`:
- Around line 39-41: Update the documented quiz.started dimensions in the events
service to list blocks, k_chunks, material_chars, recent_asked, routing_chars,
and adaptive, matching the route payload; remove digest_present because it is
conditional and not part of the consistently emitted dimension set.
In `@backend/services/graph_service.py`:
- Around line 759-771: The submit_quiz flow must not lose graded attempts when
node_mastery_events insertion fails. In apply_graph_update, isolate the
table("node_mastery_events").insert(event_row) operation so its failure is
caught and logged without propagating, while preserving score and answer
persistence; alternatively reorder submit_quiz to persist score and answers
before apply_graph_update. Ensure migration
20260814051517_node_mastery_events_event_type.sql is applied before deployment.
In `@backend/services/prompt_dimensions.py`:
- Around line 74-83: Update snapshot() in backend/services/prompt_dimensions.py
at lines 74-83 to return a deep copy of the current dimensions, preserving the
empty-dictionary fallback so nested mutable values such as blocks cannot affect
the active accumulator. Update backend/tests/test_prompt_dimensions_f6.py at
lines 56-63 to append to the returned blocks list and verify a later snapshot
remains unchanged.
In `@backend/services/tool_signals.py`:
- Around line 99-111: Update the database probe exception handler around the
table select to log at warning level instead of debug, including expect.value
and table_name in the message while preserving traceback output via
exc_info=True; continue returning None after logging.
In `@backend/tests/test_event_capture_seams.py`:
- Around line 619-624: Update the grounded fixture used by the assertions around
payload["k_chunks"] to set k_chunks explicitly to 2 alongside its chunk_ids,
ensuring the test exercises the configured field when chunk count and ID count
agree.
In `@backend/tests/test_graph_service.py`:
- Around line 748-766: Update test_event_type_omitted_when_caller_supplies_none
to pass an explicit {"event_type": None} through _apply_with_event_type,
covering the None branch while preserving the assertion that the key is absent.
Also revise the stale comment in test_mastery_change_appends_event_row to
describe that event_type is omitted when the caller does not supply it, rather
than claiming the schema lacks the column.
In `@docs/quiz-prompt-budget.md`:
- Around line 6-8: Declare the shell language for the fenced command block by
changing its opening fence to use sh, while leaving the command unchanged.
- Around line 70-74: Update the documented F6 dimensions list for the
quiz.started event to include only blocks, k_chunks, material_chars,
recent_asked, routing_chars, and adaptive. Remove digest_present, digest_chars,
recent_attempts, and misconceptions, and preserve the note that
misconceptions_requested is represented within blocks.
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In `@backend/tests/test_tool_signals_f5.py`:
- Around line 23-38: Move the duplicated sink fixture into
backend/tests/conftest.py, preserving events_service.reset_for_tests(), the
patched table MagicMock capture behavior, and the post-yield
events_service.flush_now() teardown. Delete the local sink fixtures from
backend/tests/test_tool_signals_f5.py lines 23-38 and
backend/tests/test_quiz_tool_instrumentation.py lines 23-36 so both tests use
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Code review — quiz provenance, repetition guard, silent-empty seam

This PR adds question identity + provenance (E5), a recently-asked repetition read (E6), event_type persistence on mastery events (E7), grounding-coverage reporting (E8), a generic silent-empty detector (F5), prompt-composition capture (F6), taxonomy entries (F7), and an otel compat shim that fixes a live 405→500. I read every substantive changed file at HEAD rather than the hunks. All three headline goals are genuinely delivered: question_hash is a stable, version-tagged SHA-256 over the normalized stem + sorted option set and is stamped on every emitted question (routes/quiz.py:433), and provenance is excluded from both client shapes — the keyless allowlist and the new _INTERNAL_QUESTION_KEYS denylist for the still-default keyed branch (routes/quiz.py:447-457); I checked the other three readers of questions_json (get_attempt, answer_question, submit_quiz) and nothing leaks. The repetition read is bounded (6 attempts scanned, 15 stems out, deduped by identity) and prompt-side only, which the description states as a deliberate trade — it cannot loop or exhaust a pool. The empty case is not swallowed: _quiz_via_agent raises on empty wire_questions and generate_quiz turns it into a typed 502 plus quiz.generation_failed. Every new except was checked; none are silent. DB access is entirely through db/connection.py::table(), the migration is additive with a timestamp basename per the Infrastructure doc's #509 convention, and the new event payloads carry ids/counts/enums only. One P1 blocks merge, plus two P2s worth folding in.

Findings

[P1] E7's "only the quiz supplies event_type" premise is false — the tutor already supplies it — backend/services/graph_service.py:799-803

# Omitted rather than written as an explicit null when absent: every# non-quiz caller (tutor tools, the document pipeline, manual adds)# supplies none, and naming a column PostgREST's schema cache doesn't# have is a hard 400 — so omitting keeps THOSE paths working on an# environment that took this code before the migration.

There are exactly two production producers of updated_nodes: routes/quiz.py::submit_quiz and agents/tools/graph.py::update_mastery_tool. The second is registered on the chat tutor (agents/chat_tutor.py:162) with a system prompt that says to call it in every turn where the student demonstrates understanding, and it has always passed an event_type:

# backend/agents/tools/graph.py:55event_type: Literal["interaction", "correction", "quiz"] =Field(
default="interaction",
description="Event category for the mastery-event log.",
)
# backend/agents/tools/graph.py:141"event_type": u.event_type,

apply_graph_update simply discarded it until now, so it never mattered; this PR turns it on for both callers at once. Three consequences: (1) the pre-migration deploy analysis is wrong about scope — every tutor mastery write also 400s and takes the _insert_mastery_event retry, a wasted round-trip plus a WARNING per event on the highest-volume writer, not the quiet no-op the comment describes; (2) the column receives two disjoint vocabularies from day one — correct|partial|confusion from the quiz, interaction|correction|quiz from the tutor — where interaction is a schema default, i.e. exactly the "default that would make un-categorised events indistinguishable from confident ones" that 20260814051517_node_mastery_events_event_type.sql:12-16 says it is avoiding, and event_type='quiz' can only have come from the tutor because a real quiz submit never writes that string; (3) test_graph_service.py:748-757's docstring asserts the same false fact about the codebase and passes only because it calls apply_graph_update directly rather than through the tool. Pick one vocabulary (or namespace them) and make the comments and the test match which callers actually classify.

[P2] quiz.tool_empty is category="error" and fires once per generation while #553 is live — backend/services/tool_signals.py:182-192

log_event(
"quiz.tool_empty",
category="error",
user_id=user_id,
payload={
"tool": tool,
"feature": feature,
"expect": expect.value,
**(payloador {}),
},
)

/api/admin/analytics/errors scans category = error newest-first (routes/admin_analytics.py:453-456) — the exact reasoning that made review round 2 re-file quiz.rag_uncovered as usage. The volume profile is the same here: the quiz system prompt tells the agent to call read_misconceptions_for_course on every run (agents/quiz.py:93), the tool still passes the abstract course id into an offering_id filter (#553, explicitly not fixed here — agents/tools/graph_read.py:436), and COURSE_HAS_AGGREGATES returns True for any class that has offering_concept_stats rows. So every generation by every enrolled student in such a class emits one error-category event plus a WARNING, indefinitely, burying quiz.context_write_failed and rag.retrieval_failed under routine traffic. If the loudness is intentional it needs its own category or a de-dupe, not the shared error feed.

[P2] Misconceptions offering resolution runs on every call, not only the empty path — backend/agents/tools/graph_read.py:452-460

offering_ids: list[str] = []
ifctx.deps.course_id:
try:
offering_ids=awaitasyncio.to_thread(
user_offering_ids_for_course, ctx.deps.user_id, ctx.deps.course_id
)
exceptException:
logger.debug("misconceptions probe: offering resolution failed", exc_info=True)
ifoffering_ids:
awaitreport_empty_result_async(

The gate is ctx.deps.course_id, not not out. user_offering_ids_for_course (services/academics.py:185) is uncached and issues two unbounded PostgREST reads — every course_offerings row for the course, then every one of the user's enrollments. That is two extra Supabase round-trips on the request path of every quiz generation, including the non-empty path, contradicting tool_signals.py's own contract ("one owner-scoped indexed read, only on the empty path") and the PR description's identical claim. Invisible today only because #553 makes out always empty; pure waste the moment #553 lands.

[P3] E8 labels a failed course lookup as course_unresolved — backend/routes/quiz.py:676-683

ifmaterial.bu_codeisNone:
reason="course_unresolved"elifmaterial.course_chunksisNone:
reason="coverage_unknown"elifmaterial.course_chunks==0:
reason="no_chunks_for_course"else:
reason="no_match_for_concept"

_resolve_bu_code (:506-511) returns None both for "this course has no BU code" and for "the courses read threw", and any raise inside _course_material degrades to _EMPTY_MATERIAL with bu_code=None (:821-826). All three land on course_unresolved. E8 exists to tell different problems apart, and coverage_unknown is already the honest can't-tell label.

[P3] New log lines print the raw user_id — backend/services/tool_signals.py:177-181

logger.warning(
"%s returned no rows for user=%s despite %s — a personalization ""input may be silently broken (F5)",
tool, user_id, expect.value,
)

Canopy Engineering Style Guide §8: "Don't log request/response bodies, user IDs, emails, names, tokens, or decrypted columns." Same in services/quiz_repetition.py:90-94. Not a blocker given how widespread this already is in routes/quiz.py, but these are new lines and both already carry request_id correlation through the event they emit.

What's good

• _insert_mastery_event's one-shot retry-without-event_type is the right shape for the ordering hazard, and the judgement that the journal is not worth a graded attempt is correct — submit_quiz really does call apply_graph_update after the atomic completed_at claim and before the score write.
• Running _course_material and recent_question_identities concurrently under asyncio.gather(return_exceptions=True) with both results individually inspected: a bare gather would have 502'd a quiz over one unreadable past attempt.
• Splitting grounded into rag_grounded + catalog, with chunk_count falling back to len(chunk_ids), keeps provenance from asserting something false about a catalog-only course. I confirmed format_rag_context returns "" only for an empty chunk list, so k_chunks > 0 really does imply RAG text in the prompt.
• Measuring the prompt with count_tokens instead of inheriting the audit's estimate, and publishing the caveat that llm_usage.prompt_tokens remains the authority on totals.

Verdict: request changes — the E7 finding needs resolving before merge; the two P2s are worth folding in while you are in here.

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Review fixes applied

Every outstanding finding on this PR (human review + CodeRabbit) has been addressed and pushed.

Blocker

• event_type vocabulary collision. The claim in graph_service.py that "every non-quiz caller supplies none" was false — agents/tools/graph.py:55 has always sent one from the chat tutor. Both vocabularies are now namespaced and disjoint (tutor_interaction|tutor_correction|tutor_quiz vs quiz_correct|quiz_partial|quiz_confusion), the tutor field no longer defaults to a real category (omitted when None, mirroring apply_graph_update), and the migration + service comments now document the real six-value set and the real pre-migration blast radius. New tests drive the tutor path end to end.

Major

• quiz.tool_empty moved from category="error" to "usage" — it was firing once per generation into the feed /api/admin/analytics/errors scans, burying quiz.context_write_failed and rag.retrieval_failed.
• Misconceptions probe now gates on not out, so user_offering_ids_for_course (uncached, two unbounded reads) no longer runs on the non-empty path of every quiz generation.

Minor / nits

• E8 tells a failed courses read apart from "no BU code" (coverage_unknown, not course_unresolved), via a new tri-state lookup.
• Bench script's raw google.genai.Client is now behind a model_mode() gate and uses model_name_for("quiz"); CLAUDE.md's raw-client inventory corrected (it was already wrong — a fourth site existed).
• prompt_dimensions.snapshot() deep-copies; tool_signals probe failure logs at warning; k_chunks pinned explicitly in the grounded fixture; explicit-Noneevent_type case covered; stale "schema has no event_type column" comment fixed; doc fence language + F6 dimension list corrected; raw user_id removed from new log lines; duplicated sink fixture moved to conftest.py.

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659-692: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

A failed retrieve_chunks call is reported as a content gap, not as unknown coverage.

Line 667 swallows a retrieval exception and sets chunks = []. The returned CourseMaterial then carries resolution_failed=False. _log_rag_uncovered therefore reports no_chunks_for_course or no_match_for_concept. Both are assertions about the course data, but retrieval failed and the coverage was never learned.

This is the same mislabeling that BuCodeLookup.failed fixes for the course_code read. Set resolution_failed when retrieval raises, so the event reports coverage_unknown.

🛠️ Proposed fix

 try:
chunks = retrieve_chunks(concept_name, course_id=bu_code, k=_RAG_K)
+ retrieval_failed = False
except Exception:
chunks = []
+ retrieval_failed = True
@@
return CourseMaterial(
block="\n\n".join(blocks),
chunk_ids=chunk_ids,
k_chunks=len(chunks),
has_catalog=bool(catalog),
course_chunks=None if chunks else _course_chunk_coverage(bu_code),
bu_code=bu_code,
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Verify against the real database before merging

I could not reach a live database while working on this — there are no credentials on this machine (only .env.example files) and the local Supabase stack needs a container runtime that wouldn't start. So everything below was verified statically, by replaying every migration in ledger order to build a schema model and checking this PR's DB access against it. That model found 0 schema mismatches here, and it is trustworthy enough to have independently reproduced the documents.course_id absence that caused #562/#534 — but it cannot see data, and it cannot see whether staging's ledger actually matches the repo.

These are the checks that need a real connection.

1. Ordering is load-bearing — migration BEFORE code

This PR's own comment says it, and the review confirmed the failure mode: submit_quiz calls apply_graph_updateafter the atomic completed_at claim and before the score write, so a pre-migration insert failure loses a graded attempt. _insert_mastery_event retries once without event_type and degrades loudly, but that is a safety net, not a licence to deploy first.

-- Must return one row, is_nullable = YES, before any code shipsSELECT column_name, data_type, is_nullable
FROMinformation_schema.columnsWHERE table_name ='node_mastery_events'AND column_name ='event_type';

2. Existing rows must be untouched

SELECT event_type, count(*) FROM node_mastery_events GROUP BY1ORDER BY2DESC;

Before deploy: expect a single NULL bucket (the PR reports 26 rows on staging). Nothing should have a value yet.

3. After deploy — the namespacing must hold

The fix in this PR namespaced the two producers because the tutor's update_mastery_tool has always sent an event_type (agents/tools/graph.py), it was simply discarded until now. Re-run the same query after traffic:

• Expected values: NULL, tutor_interaction, tutor_correction, tutor_quiz, quiz_correct, quiz_partial, quiz_confusion.
• Any bare interaction / correction / quiz / correct / partial / confusion means a writer bypassed the namespacing — that is the exact ambiguity this change exists to prevent, and it should be investigated rather than accepted.

4. Volume expectation

The tutor is the higher-volume writer of the two, not the quiz. If tutor_* rows are absent after real tutor traffic, update_mastery_tool is silently not persisting and the omit-when-None path is swallowing it.

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Third review round + the live-DB checks

Picking this back up. Two things were outstanding: Jose's three fix commits had never themselves been reviewed, and the pre-merge database checks were left unrun because that environment had no credentials.

Live DB — both pre-merge checks pass on staging

Run through the session-mode pooler (scripts/pooler_url.py; the .env.staging value is the IPv6-only direct host and is unreachable from here):

check	result
event_type column	one row, text, is_nullable = YES, no default
existing rows	single bucket: 26 × NULL
ledger	migration recorded

So the migration is applied strictly before this code ships, which is the ordering the E7 comment calls load-bearing. Checks 3 and 4 (namespacing holds, tutor_* rows appear) are post-traffic and stay open as a post-deploy watch.

I also diffed the edited migration: the header comments were rewritten, but the DDL is byte-identical (ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS event_type TEXT), and the ledger keys on basename — no immutability violation, nothing re-runs.

Review of the fix commits — affde139

No correctness bugs. Four low findings, all fixed:

1. prompt_dimensions.snapshot() lost the whole payload on one bad value. The deep copy sits inside a try whose except returned {}, so a single un-deepcopyable value shipped quiz.started with no dimensions — measuring nothing while looking like a healthy event, which is the exact bug class F6 exists to end. Degrades to a shallow copy now, and warns. Its docstring's rationale was also just wrong (nothing mutates a recorded list in place), so that's corrected rather than left as a false comment.
2. E8 called a failed retrieval no_match_for_concept.retrieve_chunks swallows its own failures and returns [] — the same value a clean miss returns. So a course with material indexed whose retrieval broke was recorded as "it has material, none of it covers this concept": a claim about data we never read, which is precisely what the reason taxonomy exists to stop. Added retrieve_chunks_detailed, which says whether the empty result is a fault or a fact; a fault now reports coverage_unknown. The RAG embedding path sits below the SAPLING_MODEL_MODE seam — live embed calls fire even in function mode #439 seam skip is deliberately not a fault — otherwise every function-mode E2E run would report broken retrieval. retrieve_chunks keeps its list contract, so learn.py and benchmark_quiz.py are untouched.
3. Bench script promised a keyless run "fails loudly here" but still fell back to a dummy key, dying later inside count_tokens on an opaque auth error. It now fails where it says it does.
4. EVENT_TAXONOMY's quiz.started row and docs/quiz-prompt-budget.md disagreed about which dimensions come from the route vs. only when the agent calls the recording tool. Reconciled.

Both behavioural fixes are pinned by tests written to fail first.

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Merged. Filed the unrelated Playwright failure as #566 — the landing drag-field scroll-follow assertion, red on main since #524, which is what has kept the e2e browser lane red there.

Remaining from the addendum: Workstream H (#553–#557), plus #545 and #546.

Post-deploy watch still owed on this one — checks 3 and 4 from the DB comment above (namespacing holds; tutor_* rows actually appear once real tutor traffic lands). Nothing to run until it deploys.

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Part 2 of the #537 addendum: E5–E8 and F5–F7, shipped as one PR because
they all land in routes/quiz.py and would otherwise conflict.

E5 — question identity + provenance

A generated question had no identity: it was written into the encrypted
questions_json blob, graded, and forgotten. Nothing could ask "have we
asked this before?", "which prompt wrote it?", or "was it grounded in our
materials?".

• services/quiz_identity.py — question_hash, a stable SHA-256 over the
  normalized stem + option set. Insensitive to whitespace, case and option
  order; sensitive to stem and option content; version-tagged so a
  future normalization change is visibly disjoint rather than quietly
  colliding.
• Each stored question now carries question_hash plus a provenance
  block: prompt_version (the system-prompt hash, previously reachable
  only as agent trace metadata), the served model, the grounding chunk
  ids, and rag_grounded/catalog.
• Chunk ids were resolved and dropped on the floor — _course_material_block
  returned a bare string. It now returns a CourseMaterial record.
  match_course_chunks already returned id, so this was a local
  refactor, not the schema change the brief flagged as a stop-and-report risk.
• Provenance never reaches the client, on both response shapes — the
  keyed branch is still the default until quiz: flip include_answer_key default to false, then delete it once the #537 client ships #546 flips it, so guarding only
  the keyless allowlist would have shipped chunk ids to every browser today.

Dedupe: the within-attempt check is keyed on question_hash as specified,
and retains the stem check. The hash covers stem and options, so it is
the narrower of the two — a model re-emitting one stem with reworded options
passes it. Dropping the stem check would have quietly narrowed #543's
duplicate-question guard, which E5 has no need to trade away.

E6 — repetition guard

Past questions_json was never re-read, so a student could be served the
same question repeatedly with nothing able to notice.

• services/quiz_repetition.py reads the last ~15 distinct items for this
  (student, concept) and generation is told not to repeat them.
• Fetched raw, not precomputed into the digest — noted as asked. The
  audit's end-state (precompute in quiz_context) belongs with the digest
  schema work in quiz H2: mine answers_json into the digest (distractor profile) + digest schema version #554; this is bounded hard (6 attempts scanned, 15 stems out)
  in the meantime.
• Deliberately not filtered to completed attempts, unlike the history
  tool: a student who generated a quiz and walked away still saw those
  questions.
• Prompt-side guidance only — repeats are not hard-dropped. The
  function-mode seam returns the same 3 questions regardless of prompt, so
  dropping repeats would empty every second quiz in the test(e2e): journey — quiz answer → mastery update (UI + DB) #393 journey and 502
  it. Stems are delimiter-neutralized ([P2] Agent migration: prompt-injection hardening on student-supplied content #150) on the way back into the prompt.

E7 — stop dropping event_type

Submit computed correct/partial/confusion from the score ratio and discarded
it at the write. Migration 20260814051517 adds a nullable event_type to
node_mastery_events; apply_graph_update persists it and omits the key
when absent, so every non-quiz caller keeps working on an environment that
took the code before the DDL. Applied to staging and verified (26 existing
rows keep NULL).

E8 — grounding is a decision, not an accident

A coverage check runs when retrieval comes back empty, and quiz.rag_uncovered
distinguishes three different problems that used to look identical:
course_unresolved, no_chunks_for_course, no_match_for_concept
(plus coverage_unknown). Generation is never blocked on it.

F5 — the general fix for silent-empty

services/tool_signals.py::report_empty_result. Three personalization inputs
were empty for months because an empty list is exactly what "this student has
nothing yet" looks like. The helper supplies the missing half — whether the
student plausibly should have data (enrolled / has attempts / has a graph,
one owner-scoped indexed read, only on the empty path) — and emits
quiz.tool_empty when the two disagree. Feature-agnostic so the tutor's tools
use it too; wired into all three quiz read tools. Never raises; a failed probe
means "can't tell", which is silence.

F6 — measure the prompt before anyone tunes it

services/prompt_dimensions.py captures prompt composition per request and
rides quiz.started, which shares a request_id with the llm_usage row.
The load-bearing detail: digest_present is only knowable inside an agent
tool running under asyncio.to_thread, so the accumulator mutates a shared
dict rather than rebinding a ContextVar — pinned by test.

The audit's ~2–4k estimate was low. Measured via count_tokens
(scripts/bench_quiz_prompt_budget.py, results in docs/quiz-prompt-budget.md):

	measured	audit
System prompt	1,317	~800
read_concepts_for_user @ cap	1,340	~250
Today, grounded, 13-concept graph	3,992	2–4k
Worst case	6,839	—

The concepts tool at cap costs more than a five-chunk RAG block at typical
chunk sizes — so "COURSE MATERIAL is the dominant variable cost" is only true
for long chunks, and the proposed ~4–5k redesign budget is approximately the
current bill rather than headroom.

F7 — taxonomy

quiz.tool_empty and quiz.rag_uncovered added to EVENT_TAXONOMY, the
module docstring table, and the pin test.

Also

• Documented the ciphertext oracle's deliberate omission of quiz_responses
  where the manifest lives (owed from the addendum's Part 1, item 3).
• agents/usage.py::served_model_name is public and now coerces to str —
  the model name flows into encrypt_json via provenance, and a non-string
  would have 502'd a generation that had already succeeded.

Verification

• Hermetic suite: 2103 passed, 9 skipped (was 1997 — +106 tests).
• ruff check . clean.
• Full local E2E cycle: Playwright, oracles, integration lane.
• Migration applied to staging before merge.

Review round (commit 2)

/code-review high returned six findings, all valid, all fixed in cb56970f:

1. The F5 probe blocked the event loop — a sync Supabase read called
   inline from async tool bodies, while every other read in those tools uses
   to_thread for exactly that reason. It fires on the empty path, which
   today is the common one. Added report_empty_result_async.
2. +3. The probes asked a broader question than the tools did —
   HAS_ATTEMPTS checked all concepts while the tool read one;
   HAS_GRAPH checked the whole graph while the read was course-scoped. Both
   would have flagged ordinary progress (first quiz on a new concept; taking
   two courses) as "silently broken" — the precise alarm-fatigue failure F5
   exists to prevent. Probes now take a scope.
   3b. feature defaulted to "quiz" on a tool the tutor also registers,
   contradicting the contract this PR added to CLAUDE.md. SaplingDeps
   carries feature now; default "unknown", since wrong attribution is
   worse than absent.
3. grounded was RAG-only but named "any course material" — a
   catalog-only course persisted every question as ungrounded. Split into
   rag_grounded + catalog.
4. The E7 comment implied the omit-when-absent trick made the quiz path safe
   pre-migration. It does not, and the failure loses the graded attempt.
   Comment now states the ordering requirement.
5. CLAUDE.md's "exactly two raw genai.Client sites" invariant, made false by
   this PR's bench script.

Re-verified after the fixes: hermetic 2103 passed / 9 skipped, ruff clean,
Playwright 45, oracles 0 findings, integration 47 passed.

The review-fix commit has not itself been through a second review round.

CI fix (commit 3) — a live 405→500 bug, pre-existing on main

Backend (pytest) had been red on main since the FastAPI 0.138 lock
(0effc9ee fails identically), on one test, with

AttributeError: '_IncludedRouter' object has no attribute 'path'

from otel's FastAPI instrumentation. Not test-only: otel's _get_route_details
guards its FULL-match .path read with except AttributeError but its
PARTIAL-match branch does not — and a PARTIAL match is exactly a wrong-method
request. So the error escaped the middleware and every 405 returned 500.
Staging and prod install the same lock, so that was live behaviour.

Nothing to upgrade to: the unguarded line is in every released
opentelemetry-instrumentation-fastapi through 0.65b0 (checked against the
published wheels). services/otel_fastapi_compat.py wraps the resolver,
absorbing only AttributeError and falling back to scope["path"] — otel's
own FULL-branch fallback. Reproduced and the fix verified at the locked
versions in a scratch env, since the dev venv (fastapi 0.136) cannot
reproduce it.

Review round 2 (commit 4)

1. quiz.rag_uncovered was category="error", but
   /api/admin/analytics/errors scans category = error newest-first. Firing
   per-generation would have buried quiz.context_write_failed and
   rag.retrieval_failed — degrading the surface workstream B just repaired.
   Now usage, which is also the honest label for a legitimate mode.
2. The misconceptions probe was the one left unscoped. It now asks whether
   aggregates exist for this student's offerings of this course — the only
   formulation that detects quiz H1: misconceptions tool filters offering_id with the abstract course id — verify live, then fix + seed test #553's keyspace mismatch without firing on every
   class that simply has no aggregates yet. Non-owner-scoped probes now refuse
   to run unscoped.
3. The quiz-history probe could not detect the failure its own comment
   cites: quiz_context lost UNIQUE (user_id, concept_node_id) in 0025 — save_quiz_context's upsert 42P10s and the failure is swallowed #529 presents as an empty digest while attempts exist, and the
   helper short-circuits on a non-zero count. Split into a digest-keyed check
   plus the attempt-list one.
4. _course_chunk_coverage reported a degraded count as 0, making E8 assert
   "nothing indexed" about a possibly fully-indexed course.
5. A node_mastery_events insert failure could permanently lose a graded
   quiz (it runs after submit's atomic completed_at claim, before score is
   written, unwrapped). Now retries once without event_type then degrades,
   loudly logged.

Final: hermetic 2119 passed / 9 skipped, ruff clean, Playwright 45,
oracles 0 findings, integration 47, all CI checks green.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Quiz generation now avoids recently served questions when suitable history is available.
  • Quiz questions receive stable identities to support consistent repetition prevention.
  • Quiz responses better reflect whether course material was successfully retrieved and used.
  • Tutor and quiz activity can preserve more specific mastery-event details.

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved handling of retrieval failures and unavailable course data without interrupting quiz generation.
  • Mastery updates continue when event recording encounters compatibility issues.

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The PR adds quiz provenance, stable question identity, repetition filtering, prompt-dimension telemetry, retrieval-failure classification, empty-result diagnostics, namespaced mastery events, and an offline prompt-budget benchmark.

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Quiz observability and generation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Telemetry and event contracts backend/agents/..., backend/services/..., backend/tests/...	Adds feature metadata, prompt capture, empty-result reporting, event taxonomy entries, namespaced mastery events, failure-safe event persistence, and related tests.
Question identity and repetition lookup backend/services/quiz_identity.py, backend/services/quiz_repetition.py, backend/tests/test_quiz_identity_e5.py, backend/tests/test_quiz_repetition_e6.py	Adds stable question hashes and best-effort retrieval of recent questions for deduplication and prompt construction.
Quiz generation provenance and grounding backend/routes/quiz.py, backend/services/rag_service.py, backend/tests/test_quiz_provenance_e5_e6.py, backend/tests/test_event_capture_seams.py	Tracks grounding status, retrieval failures, prompt dimensions, serving models, question provenance, repetition data, and client response shaping.
Prompt budget measurement and documentation backend/scripts/bench_quiz_prompt_budget.py, docs/quiz-prompt-budget.md, CLAUDE.md, backend/e2e_oracles/gather.py	Adds a lazy real-mode Gemini token benchmark and documents measured prompt budgets, attribution, and encrypted-column scope.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90+ minutes

Merge Risk:🔵 Low · up to affde

This PR adds question provenance, repetition guidance, and quiz diagnostics. Mergeability is generally good, but retrieval state can leak between calls and some retrieval failures may be reported as missing course content, which can distort diagnostics; owners should address or explicitly accept these bounded risks.

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sequenceDiagram
participant Client
participant QuizRoute
participant RAGService
participant QuizRepetition
participant QuizAgent
participant EventService
Client->>QuizRoute: request quiz generation
QuizRoute->>RAGService: retrieve course material
QuizRoute->>QuizRepetition: retrieve recent questions
QuizRoute->>QuizAgent: generate quiz
QuizAgent-->>QuizRoute: return questions and served model
QuizRoute->>EventService: record provenance and prompt dimensions
QuizRoute-->>Client: return filtered questions

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The sink fixture is duplicated across two new test files. Both files define a near-identical sink fixture that calls events_service.reset_for_tests() and patches services.events_service.table with a MagicMock whose insert appends into a list. The only difference is the teardown drain. The shared root cause is that no common fixture exists for capturing enqueued events, so each new file writes its own. A third file that instruments a tool will copy it again, and the two copies can then drift in reset or drain behavior.

• backend/tests/test_tool_signals_f5.py#L23-L38: move this fixture into backend/tests/conftest.py and delete the local definition. Keep the post-yieldevents_service.flush_now() in the shared version, because it drains the queue while the table patch is still active.
• backend/tests/test_quiz_tool_instrumentation.py#L23-L36: delete the local sink fixture and use the shared one. This copy omits the teardown drain, so a queued event can outlive the patch.

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In `@backend/tests/test_tool_signals_f5.py` around lines 23 - 38, Move the
duplicated sink fixture into backend/tests/conftest.py, preserving
events_service.reset_for_tests(), the patched table MagicMock capture behavior,
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Inline comments:
In `@backend/agents/tools/graph_read.py`:
- Around line 441-448: Update the misconception-reading flow around
read_misconceptions_for_course to resolve the course offering through
services/academics.py first, then pass the resolved offering_id to the query and
related empty-result reporting payload instead of ctx.deps.course_id. Preserve
the existing enrollment expectation and result handling.
In `@backend/agents/tools/quiz_history.py`:
- Around line 290-301: Keep the existing read_recent_quiz_attempts check for
completed attempts, and add a separate report_empty_result_async check for the
quiz-context digest using bool(history.summary) as its count. Set its
expectation according to whether existing attempts for the current user and
concept require a digest, while preserving the existing concept_node_id scope
and relevant payload context.
In `@backend/scripts/bench_quiz_prompt_budget.py`:
- Around line 52-57: Update the raw Google GenAI client setup around _client and
MODEL to use the provider configuration and model_mode() gate, matching the
model selection used by quiz generation. Ensure google.genai.Client is only
constructed within the provider-approved gated path and remove the hard-coded
model selection.
In `@backend/services/events_service.py`:
- Around line 39-41: Update the documented quiz.started dimensions in the events
service to list blocks, k_chunks, material_chars, recent_asked, routing_chars,
and adaptive, matching the route payload; remove digest_present because it is
conditional and not part of the consistently emitted dimension set.
In `@backend/services/graph_service.py`:
- Around line 759-771: The submit_quiz flow must not lose graded attempts when
node_mastery_events insertion fails. In apply_graph_update, isolate the
table("node_mastery_events").insert(event_row) operation so its failure is
caught and logged without propagating, while preserving score and answer
persistence; alternatively reorder submit_quiz to persist score and answers
before apply_graph_update. Ensure migration
20260814051517_node_mastery_events_event_type.sql is applied before deployment.
In `@backend/services/prompt_dimensions.py`:
- Around line 74-83: Update snapshot() in backend/services/prompt_dimensions.py
at lines 74-83 to return a deep copy of the current dimensions, preserving the
empty-dictionary fallback so nested mutable values such as blocks cannot affect
the active accumulator. Update backend/tests/test_prompt_dimensions_f6.py at
lines 56-63 to append to the returned blocks list and verify a later snapshot
remains unchanged.
In `@backend/services/tool_signals.py`:
- Around line 99-111: Update the database probe exception handler around the
table select to log at warning level instead of debug, including expect.value
and table_name in the message while preserving traceback output via
exc_info=True; continue returning None after logging.
In `@backend/tests/test_event_capture_seams.py`:
- Around line 619-624: Update the grounded fixture used by the assertions around
payload["k_chunks"] to set k_chunks explicitly to 2 alongside its chunk_ids,
ensuring the test exercises the configured field when chunk count and ID count
agree.
In `@backend/tests/test_graph_service.py`:
- Around line 748-766: Update test_event_type_omitted_when_caller_supplies_none
to pass an explicit {"event_type": None} through _apply_with_event_type,
covering the None branch while preserving the assertion that the key is absent.
Also revise the stale comment in test_mastery_change_appends_event_row to
describe that event_type is omitted when the caller does not supply it, rather
than claiming the schema lacks the column.
In `@docs/quiz-prompt-budget.md`:
- Around line 6-8: Declare the shell language for the fenced command block by
changing its opening fence to use sh, while leaving the command unchanged.
- Around line 70-74: Update the documented F6 dimensions list for the
quiz.started event to include only blocks, k_chunks, material_chars,
recent_asked, routing_chars, and adaptive. Remove digest_present, digest_chars,
recent_attempts, and misconceptions, and preserve the note that
misconceptions_requested is represented within blocks.
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In `@backend/tests/test_tool_signals_f5.py`:
- Around line 23-38: Move the duplicated sink fixture into
backend/tests/conftest.py, preserving events_service.reset_for_tests(), the
patched table MagicMock capture behavior, and the post-yield
events_service.flush_now() teardown. Delete the local sink fixtures from
backend/tests/test_tool_signals_f5.py lines 23-38 and
backend/tests/test_quiz_tool_instrumentation.py lines 23-36 so both tests use
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Code review — quiz provenance, repetition guard, silent-empty seam

This PR adds question identity + provenance (E5), a recently-asked repetition read (E6), event_type persistence on mastery events (E7), grounding-coverage reporting (E8), a generic silent-empty detector (F5), prompt-composition capture (F6), taxonomy entries (F7), and an otel compat shim that fixes a live 405→500. I read every substantive changed file at HEAD rather than the hunks. All three headline goals are genuinely delivered: question_hash is a stable, version-tagged SHA-256 over the normalized stem + sorted option set and is stamped on every emitted question (routes/quiz.py:433), and provenance is excluded from both client shapes — the keyless allowlist and the new _INTERNAL_QUESTION_KEYS denylist for the still-default keyed branch (routes/quiz.py:447-457); I checked the other three readers of questions_json (get_attempt, answer_question, submit_quiz) and nothing leaks. The repetition read is bounded (6 attempts scanned, 15 stems out, deduped by identity) and prompt-side only, which the description states as a deliberate trade — it cannot loop or exhaust a pool. The empty case is not swallowed: _quiz_via_agent raises on empty wire_questions and generate_quiz turns it into a typed 502 plus quiz.generation_failed. Every new except was checked; none are silent. DB access is entirely through db/connection.py::table(), the migration is additive with a timestamp basename per the Infrastructure doc's #509 convention, and the new event payloads carry ids/counts/enums only. One P1 blocks merge, plus two P2s worth folding in.

Findings

[P1] E7's "only the quiz supplies event_type" premise is false — the tutor already supplies it — backend/services/graph_service.py:799-803

# Omitted rather than written as an explicit null when absent: every# non-quiz caller (tutor tools, the document pipeline, manual adds)# supplies none, and naming a column PostgREST's schema cache doesn't# have is a hard 400 — so omitting keeps THOSE paths working on an# environment that took this code before the migration.

There are exactly two production producers of updated_nodes: routes/quiz.py::submit_quiz and agents/tools/graph.py::update_mastery_tool. The second is registered on the chat tutor (agents/chat_tutor.py:162) with a system prompt that says to call it in every turn where the student demonstrates understanding, and it has always passed an event_type:

# backend/agents/tools/graph.py:55event_type: Literal["interaction", "correction", "quiz"] =Field(
default="interaction",
description="Event category for the mastery-event log.",
)
# backend/agents/tools/graph.py:141"event_type": u.event_type,

apply_graph_update simply discarded it until now, so it never mattered; this PR turns it on for both callers at once. Three consequences: (1) the pre-migration deploy analysis is wrong about scope — every tutor mastery write also 400s and takes the _insert_mastery_event retry, a wasted round-trip plus a WARNING per event on the highest-volume writer, not the quiet no-op the comment describes; (2) the column receives two disjoint vocabularies from day one — correct|partial|confusion from the quiz, interaction|correction|quiz from the tutor — where interaction is a schema default, i.e. exactly the "default that would make un-categorised events indistinguishable from confident ones" that 20260814051517_node_mastery_events_event_type.sql:12-16 says it is avoiding, and event_type='quiz' can only have come from the tutor because a real quiz submit never writes that string; (3) test_graph_service.py:748-757's docstring asserts the same false fact about the codebase and passes only because it calls apply_graph_update directly rather than through the tool. Pick one vocabulary (or namespace them) and make the comments and the test match which callers actually classify.

[P2] quiz.tool_empty is category="error" and fires once per generation while #553 is live — backend/services/tool_signals.py:182-192

log_event(
"quiz.tool_empty",
category="error",
user_id=user_id,
payload={
"tool": tool,
"feature": feature,
"expect": expect.value,
**(payloador {}),
},
)

/api/admin/analytics/errors scans category = error newest-first (routes/admin_analytics.py:453-456) — the exact reasoning that made review round 2 re-file quiz.rag_uncovered as usage. The volume profile is the same here: the quiz system prompt tells the agent to call read_misconceptions_for_course on every run (agents/quiz.py:93), the tool still passes the abstract course id into an offering_id filter (#553, explicitly not fixed here — agents/tools/graph_read.py:436), and COURSE_HAS_AGGREGATES returns True for any class that has offering_concept_stats rows. So every generation by every enrolled student in such a class emits one error-category event plus a WARNING, indefinitely, burying quiz.context_write_failed and rag.retrieval_failed under routine traffic. If the loudness is intentional it needs its own category or a de-dupe, not the shared error feed.

[P2] Misconceptions offering resolution runs on every call, not only the empty path — backend/agents/tools/graph_read.py:452-460

offering_ids: list[str] = []
ifctx.deps.course_id:
try:
offering_ids=awaitasyncio.to_thread(
user_offering_ids_for_course, ctx.deps.user_id, ctx.deps.course_id
)
exceptException:
logger.debug("misconceptions probe: offering resolution failed", exc_info=True)
ifoffering_ids:
awaitreport_empty_result_async(

The gate is ctx.deps.course_id, not not out. user_offering_ids_for_course (services/academics.py:185) is uncached and issues two unbounded PostgREST reads — every course_offerings row for the course, then every one of the user's enrollments. That is two extra Supabase round-trips on the request path of every quiz generation, including the non-empty path, contradicting tool_signals.py's own contract ("one owner-scoped indexed read, only on the empty path") and the PR description's identical claim. Invisible today only because #553 makes out always empty; pure waste the moment #553 lands.

[P3] E8 labels a failed course lookup as course_unresolved — backend/routes/quiz.py:676-683

ifmaterial.bu_codeisNone:
reason="course_unresolved"elifmaterial.course_chunksisNone:
reason="coverage_unknown"elifmaterial.course_chunks==0:
reason="no_chunks_for_course"else:
reason="no_match_for_concept"

_resolve_bu_code (:506-511) returns None both for "this course has no BU code" and for "the courses read threw", and any raise inside _course_material degrades to _EMPTY_MATERIAL with bu_code=None (:821-826). All three land on course_unresolved. E8 exists to tell different problems apart, and coverage_unknown is already the honest can't-tell label.

[P3] New log lines print the raw user_id — backend/services/tool_signals.py:177-181

logger.warning(
"%s returned no rows for user=%s despite %s — a personalization ""input may be silently broken (F5)",
tool, user_id, expect.value,
)

Canopy Engineering Style Guide §8: "Don't log request/response bodies, user IDs, emails, names, tokens, or decrypted columns." Same in services/quiz_repetition.py:90-94. Not a blocker given how widespread this already is in routes/quiz.py, but these are new lines and both already carry request_id correlation through the event they emit.

What's good

• _insert_mastery_event's one-shot retry-without-event_type is the right shape for the ordering hazard, and the judgement that the journal is not worth a graded attempt is correct — submit_quiz really does call apply_graph_update after the atomic completed_at claim and before the score write.
• Running _course_material and recent_question_identities concurrently under asyncio.gather(return_exceptions=True) with both results individually inspected: a bare gather would have 502'd a quiz over one unreadable past attempt.
• Splitting grounded into rag_grounded + catalog, with chunk_count falling back to len(chunk_ids), keeps provenance from asserting something false about a catalog-only course. I confirmed format_rag_context returns "" only for an empty chunk list, so k_chunks > 0 really does imply RAG text in the prompt.
• Measuring the prompt with count_tokens instead of inheriting the audit's estimate, and publishing the caveat that llm_usage.prompt_tokens remains the authority on totals.

Verdict: request changes — the E7 finding needs resolving before merge; the two P2s are worth folding in while you are in here.

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• event_type vocabulary collision. The claim in graph_service.py that "every non-quiz caller supplies none" was false — agents/tools/graph.py:55 has always sent one from the chat tutor. Both vocabularies are now namespaced and disjoint (tutor_interaction|tutor_correction|tutor_quiz vs quiz_correct|quiz_partial|quiz_confusion), the tutor field no longer defaults to a real category (omitted when None, mirroring apply_graph_update), and the migration + service comments now document the real six-value set and the real pre-migration blast radius. New tests drive the tutor path end to end.

Major

• quiz.tool_empty moved from category="error" to "usage" — it was firing once per generation into the feed /api/admin/analytics/errors scans, burying quiz.context_write_failed and rag.retrieval_failed.
• Misconceptions probe now gates on not out, so user_offering_ids_for_course (uncached, two unbounded reads) no longer runs on the non-empty path of every quiz generation.

Minor / nits

• E8 tells a failed courses read apart from "no BU code" (coverage_unknown, not course_unresolved), via a new tri-state lookup.
• Bench script's raw google.genai.Client is now behind a model_mode() gate and uses model_name_for("quiz"); CLAUDE.md's raw-client inventory corrected (it was already wrong — a fourth site existed).
• prompt_dimensions.snapshot() deep-copies; tool_signals probe failure logs at warning; k_chunks pinned explicitly in the grounded fixture; explicit-Noneevent_type case covered; stale "schema has no event_type column" comment fixed; doc fence language + F6 dimension list corrected; raw user_id removed from new log lines; duplicated sink fixture moved to conftest.py.

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659-692: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

A failed retrieve_chunks call is reported as a content gap, not as unknown coverage.

Line 667 swallows a retrieval exception and sets chunks = []. The returned CourseMaterial then carries resolution_failed=False. _log_rag_uncovered therefore reports no_chunks_for_course or no_match_for_concept. Both are assertions about the course data, but retrieval failed and the coverage was never learned.

This is the same mislabeling that BuCodeLookup.failed fixes for the course_code read. Set resolution_failed when retrieval raises, so the event reports coverage_unknown.

🛠️ Proposed fix

 try:
chunks = retrieve_chunks(concept_name, course_id=bu_code, k=_RAG_K)
+ retrieval_failed = False
except Exception:
chunks = []
+ retrieval_failed = True
@@
return CourseMaterial(
block="\n\n".join(blocks),
chunk_ids=chunk_ids,
k_chunks=len(chunks),
has_catalog=bool(catalog),
course_chunks=None if chunks else _course_chunk_coverage(bu_code),
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Verify against the real database before merging

I could not reach a live database while working on this — there are no credentials on this machine (only .env.example files) and the local Supabase stack needs a container runtime that wouldn't start. So everything below was verified statically, by replaying every migration in ledger order to build a schema model and checking this PR's DB access against it. That model found 0 schema mismatches here, and it is trustworthy enough to have independently reproduced the documents.course_id absence that caused #562/#534 — but it cannot see data, and it cannot see whether staging's ledger actually matches the repo.

These are the checks that need a real connection.

1. Ordering is load-bearing — migration BEFORE code

This PR's own comment says it, and the review confirmed the failure mode: submit_quiz calls apply_graph_updateafter the atomic completed_at claim and before the score write, so a pre-migration insert failure loses a graded attempt. _insert_mastery_event retries once without event_type and degrades loudly, but that is a safety net, not a licence to deploy first.

-- Must return one row, is_nullable = YES, before any code shipsSELECT column_name, data_type, is_nullable
FROMinformation_schema.columnsWHERE table_name ='node_mastery_events'AND column_name ='event_type';

2. Existing rows must be untouched

SELECT event_type, count(*) FROM node_mastery_events GROUP BY1ORDER BY2DESC;

Before deploy: expect a single NULL bucket (the PR reports 26 rows on staging). Nothing should have a value yet.

3. After deploy — the namespacing must hold

The fix in this PR namespaced the two producers because the tutor's update_mastery_tool has always sent an event_type (agents/tools/graph.py), it was simply discarded until now. Re-run the same query after traffic:

• Expected values: NULL, tutor_interaction, tutor_correction, tutor_quiz, quiz_correct, quiz_partial, quiz_confusion.
• Any bare interaction / correction / quiz / correct / partial / confusion means a writer bypassed the namespacing — that is the exact ambiguity this change exists to prevent, and it should be investigated rather than accepted.

4. Volume expectation

The tutor is the higher-volume writer of the two, not the quiz. If tutor_* rows are absent after real tutor traffic, update_mastery_tool is silently not persisting and the omit-when-None path is swallowing it.

_{Static verification only — no live database was reachable from this environment. Schema model built by replaying backend/db/migrations/ in ledger order.}

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Third review round + the live-DB checks

Picking this back up. Two things were outstanding: Jose's three fix commits had never themselves been reviewed, and the pre-merge database checks were left unrun because that environment had no credentials.

Live DB — both pre-merge checks pass on staging

Run through the session-mode pooler (scripts/pooler_url.py; the .env.staging value is the IPv6-only direct host and is unreachable from here):

check	result
event_type column	one row, text, is_nullable = YES, no default
existing rows	single bucket: 26 × NULL
ledger	migration recorded

So the migration is applied strictly before this code ships, which is the ordering the E7 comment calls load-bearing. Checks 3 and 4 (namespacing holds, tutor_* rows appear) are post-traffic and stay open as a post-deploy watch.

I also diffed the edited migration: the header comments were rewritten, but the DDL is byte-identical (ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS event_type TEXT), and the ledger keys on basename — no immutability violation, nothing re-runs.

Review of the fix commits — affde139

No correctness bugs. Four low findings, all fixed:

1. prompt_dimensions.snapshot() lost the whole payload on one bad value. The deep copy sits inside a try whose except returned {}, so a single un-deepcopyable value shipped quiz.started with no dimensions — measuring nothing while looking like a healthy event, which is the exact bug class F6 exists to end. Degrades to a shallow copy now, and warns. Its docstring's rationale was also just wrong (nothing mutates a recorded list in place), so that's corrected rather than left as a false comment.
2. E8 called a failed retrieval no_match_for_concept.retrieve_chunks swallows its own failures and returns [] — the same value a clean miss returns. So a course with material indexed whose retrieval broke was recorded as "it has material, none of it covers this concept": a claim about data we never read, which is precisely what the reason taxonomy exists to stop. Added retrieve_chunks_detailed, which says whether the empty result is a fault or a fact; a fault now reports coverage_unknown. The RAG embedding path sits below the SAPLING_MODEL_MODE seam — live embed calls fire even in function mode #439 seam skip is deliberately not a fault — otherwise every function-mode E2E run would report broken retrieval. retrieve_chunks keeps its list contract, so learn.py and benchmark_quiz.py are untouched.
3. Bench script promised a keyless run "fails loudly here" but still fell back to a dummy key, dying later inside count_tokens on an opaque auth error. It now fails where it says it does.
4. EVENT_TAXONOMY's quiz.started row and docs/quiz-prompt-budget.md disagreed about which dimensions come from the route vs. only when the agent calls the recording tool. Reconciled.

Both behavioural fixes are pinned by tests written to fail first.

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Merged. Filed the unrelated Playwright failure as #566 — the landing drag-field scroll-follow assertion, red on main since #524, which is what has kept the e2e browser lane red there.

Remaining from the addendum: Workstream H (#553–#557), plus #545 and #546.

Post-deploy watch still owed on this one — checks 3 and 4 from the DB comment above (namespacing holds; tutor_* rows actually appear once real tutor traffic lands). Nothing to run until it deploys.

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Part 2 of the #537 addendum: E5–E8 and F5–F7, shipped as one PR because
they all land in routes/quiz.py and would otherwise conflict.

E5 — question identity + provenance

A generated question had no identity: it was written into the encrypted
questions_json blob, graded, and forgotten. Nothing could ask "have we
asked this before?", "which prompt wrote it?", or "was it grounded in our
materials?".

• services/quiz_identity.py — question_hash, a stable SHA-256 over the
  normalized stem + option set. Insensitive to whitespace, case and option
  order; sensitive to stem and option content; version-tagged so a
  future normalization change is visibly disjoint rather than quietly
  colliding.
• Each stored question now carries question_hash plus a provenance
  block: prompt_version (the system-prompt hash, previously reachable
  only as agent trace metadata), the served model, the grounding chunk
  ids, and rag_grounded/catalog.
• Chunk ids were resolved and dropped on the floor — _course_material_block
  returned a bare string. It now returns a CourseMaterial record.
  match_course_chunks already returned id, so this was a local
  refactor, not the schema change the brief flagged as a stop-and-report risk.
• Provenance never reaches the client, on both response shapes — the
  keyed branch is still the default until quiz: flip include_answer_key default to false, then delete it once the #537 client ships #546 flips it, so guarding only
  the keyless allowlist would have shipped chunk ids to every browser today.

Dedupe: the within-attempt check is keyed on question_hash as specified,
and retains the stem check. The hash covers stem and options, so it is
the narrower of the two — a model re-emitting one stem with reworded options
passes it. Dropping the stem check would have quietly narrowed #543's
duplicate-question guard, which E5 has no need to trade away.

E6 — repetition guard

Past questions_json was never re-read, so a student could be served the
same question repeatedly with nothing able to notice.

• services/quiz_repetition.py reads the last ~15 distinct items for this
  (student, concept) and generation is told not to repeat them.
• Fetched raw, not precomputed into the digest — noted as asked. The
  audit's end-state (precompute in quiz_context) belongs with the digest
  schema work in quiz H2: mine answers_json into the digest (distractor profile) + digest schema version #554; this is bounded hard (6 attempts scanned, 15 stems out)
  in the meantime.
• Deliberately not filtered to completed attempts, unlike the history
  tool: a student who generated a quiz and walked away still saw those
  questions.
• Prompt-side guidance only — repeats are not hard-dropped. The
  function-mode seam returns the same 3 questions regardless of prompt, so
  dropping repeats would empty every second quiz in the test(e2e): journey — quiz answer → mastery update (UI + DB) #393 journey and 502
  it. Stems are delimiter-neutralized ([P2] Agent migration: prompt-injection hardening on student-supplied content #150) on the way back into the prompt.

E7 — stop dropping event_type

Submit computed correct/partial/confusion from the score ratio and discarded
it at the write. Migration 20260814051517 adds a nullable event_type to
node_mastery_events; apply_graph_update persists it and omits the key
when absent, so every non-quiz caller keeps working on an environment that
took the code before the DDL. Applied to staging and verified (26 existing
rows keep NULL).

E8 — grounding is a decision, not an accident

A coverage check runs when retrieval comes back empty, and quiz.rag_uncovered
distinguishes three different problems that used to look identical:
course_unresolved, no_chunks_for_course, no_match_for_concept
(plus coverage_unknown). Generation is never blocked on it.

F5 — the general fix for silent-empty

services/tool_signals.py::report_empty_result. Three personalization inputs
were empty for months because an empty list is exactly what "this student has
nothing yet" looks like. The helper supplies the missing half — whether the
student plausibly should have data (enrolled / has attempts / has a graph,
one owner-scoped indexed read, only on the empty path) — and emits
quiz.tool_empty when the two disagree. Feature-agnostic so the tutor's tools
use it too; wired into all three quiz read tools. Never raises; a failed probe
means "can't tell", which is silence.

F6 — measure the prompt before anyone tunes it

services/prompt_dimensions.py captures prompt composition per request and
rides quiz.started, which shares a request_id with the llm_usage row.
The load-bearing detail: digest_present is only knowable inside an agent
tool running under asyncio.to_thread, so the accumulator mutates a shared
dict rather than rebinding a ContextVar — pinned by test.

The audit's ~2–4k estimate was low. Measured via count_tokens
(scripts/bench_quiz_prompt_budget.py, results in docs/quiz-prompt-budget.md):

	measured	audit
System prompt	1,317	~800
read_concepts_for_user @ cap	1,340	~250
Today, grounded, 13-concept graph	3,992	2–4k
Worst case	6,839	—

The concepts tool at cap costs more than a five-chunk RAG block at typical
chunk sizes — so "COURSE MATERIAL is the dominant variable cost" is only true
for long chunks, and the proposed ~4–5k redesign budget is approximately the
current bill rather than headroom.

F7 — taxonomy

quiz.tool_empty and quiz.rag_uncovered added to EVENT_TAXONOMY, the
module docstring table, and the pin test.

Also

• Documented the ciphertext oracle's deliberate omission of quiz_responses
  where the manifest lives (owed from the addendum's Part 1, item 3).
• agents/usage.py::served_model_name is public and now coerces to str —
  the model name flows into encrypt_json via provenance, and a non-string
  would have 502'd a generation that had already succeeded.

Verification

• Hermetic suite: 2103 passed, 9 skipped (was 1997 — +106 tests).
• ruff check . clean.
• Full local E2E cycle: Playwright, oracles, integration lane.
• Migration applied to staging before merge.

Review round (commit 2)

/code-review high returned six findings, all valid, all fixed in cb56970f:

1. The F5 probe blocked the event loop — a sync Supabase read called
   inline from async tool bodies, while every other read in those tools uses
   to_thread for exactly that reason. It fires on the empty path, which
   today is the common one. Added report_empty_result_async.
2. +3. The probes asked a broader question than the tools did —
   HAS_ATTEMPTS checked all concepts while the tool read one;
   HAS_GRAPH checked the whole graph while the read was course-scoped. Both
   would have flagged ordinary progress (first quiz on a new concept; taking
   two courses) as "silently broken" — the precise alarm-fatigue failure F5
   exists to prevent. Probes now take a scope.
   3b. feature defaulted to "quiz" on a tool the tutor also registers,
   contradicting the contract this PR added to CLAUDE.md. SaplingDeps
   carries feature now; default "unknown", since wrong attribution is
   worse than absent.
3. grounded was RAG-only but named "any course material" — a
   catalog-only course persisted every question as ungrounded. Split into
   rag_grounded + catalog.
4. The E7 comment implied the omit-when-absent trick made the quiz path safe
   pre-migration. It does not, and the failure loses the graded attempt.
   Comment now states the ordering requirement.
5. CLAUDE.md's "exactly two raw genai.Client sites" invariant, made false by
   this PR's bench script.

Re-verified after the fixes: hermetic 2103 passed / 9 skipped, ruff clean,
Playwright 45, oracles 0 findings, integration 47 passed.

The review-fix commit has not itself been through a second review round.

CI fix (commit 3) — a live 405→500 bug, pre-existing on main

Backend (pytest) had been red on main since the FastAPI 0.138 lock
(0effc9ee fails identically), on one test, with

AttributeError: '_IncludedRouter' object has no attribute 'path'

from otel's FastAPI instrumentation. Not test-only: otel's _get_route_details
guards its FULL-match .path read with except AttributeError but its
PARTIAL-match branch does not — and a PARTIAL match is exactly a wrong-method
request. So the error escaped the middleware and every 405 returned 500.
Staging and prod install the same lock, so that was live behaviour.

Nothing to upgrade to: the unguarded line is in every released
opentelemetry-instrumentation-fastapi through 0.65b0 (checked against the
published wheels). services/otel_fastapi_compat.py wraps the resolver,
absorbing only AttributeError and falling back to scope["path"] — otel's
own FULL-branch fallback. Reproduced and the fix verified at the locked
versions in a scratch env, since the dev venv (fastapi 0.136) cannot
reproduce it.

Review round 2 (commit 4)

1. quiz.rag_uncovered was category="error", but
   /api/admin/analytics/errors scans category = error newest-first. Firing
   per-generation would have buried quiz.context_write_failed and
   rag.retrieval_failed — degrading the surface workstream B just repaired.
   Now usage, which is also the honest label for a legitimate mode.
2. The misconceptions probe was the one left unscoped. It now asks whether
   aggregates exist for this student's offerings of this course — the only
   formulation that detects quiz H1: misconceptions tool filters offering_id with the abstract course id — verify live, then fix + seed test #553's keyspace mismatch without firing on every
   class that simply has no aggregates yet. Non-owner-scoped probes now refuse
   to run unscoped.
3. The quiz-history probe could not detect the failure its own comment
   cites: quiz_context lost UNIQUE (user_id, concept_node_id) in 0025 — save_quiz_context's upsert 42P10s and the failure is swallowed #529 presents as an empty digest while attempts exist, and the
   helper short-circuits on a non-zero count. Split into a digest-keyed check
   plus the attempt-list one.
4. _course_chunk_coverage reported a degraded count as 0, making E8 assert
   "nothing indexed" about a possibly fully-indexed course.
5. A node_mastery_events insert failure could permanently lose a graded
   quiz (it runs after submit's atomic completed_at claim, before score is
   written, unwrapped). Now retries once without event_type then degrades,
   loudly logged.

Final: hermetic 2119 passed / 9 skipped, ruff clean, Playwright 45,
oracles 0 findings, integration 47, all CI checks green.

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• New Features

  • Quiz generation now avoids recently served questions when suitable history is available.
  • Quiz questions receive stable identities to support consistent repetition prevention.
  • Quiz responses better reflect whether course material was successfully retrieved and used.
  • Tutor and quiz activity can preserve more specific mastery-event details.

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved handling of retrieval failures and unavailable course data without interrupting quiz generation.
  • Mastery updates continue when event recording encounters compatibility issues.

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The PR adds quiz provenance, stable question identity, repetition filtering, prompt-dimension telemetry, retrieval-failure classification, empty-result diagnostics, namespaced mastery events, and an offline prompt-budget benchmark.

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Quiz observability and generation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Telemetry and event contracts backend/agents/..., backend/services/..., backend/tests/...	Adds feature metadata, prompt capture, empty-result reporting, event taxonomy entries, namespaced mastery events, failure-safe event persistence, and related tests.
Question identity and repetition lookup backend/services/quiz_identity.py, backend/services/quiz_repetition.py, backend/tests/test_quiz_identity_e5.py, backend/tests/test_quiz_repetition_e6.py	Adds stable question hashes and best-effort retrieval of recent questions for deduplication and prompt construction.
Quiz generation provenance and grounding backend/routes/quiz.py, backend/services/rag_service.py, backend/tests/test_quiz_provenance_e5_e6.py, backend/tests/test_event_capture_seams.py	Tracks grounding status, retrieval failures, prompt dimensions, serving models, question provenance, repetition data, and client response shaping.
Prompt budget measurement and documentation backend/scripts/bench_quiz_prompt_budget.py, docs/quiz-prompt-budget.md, CLAUDE.md, backend/e2e_oracles/gather.py	Adds a lazy real-mode Gemini token benchmark and documents measured prompt budgets, attribution, and encrypted-column scope.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90+ minutes

Merge Risk:🔵 Low · up to affde

This PR adds question provenance, repetition guidance, and quiz diagnostics. Mergeability is generally good, but retrieval state can leak between calls and some retrieval failures may be reported as missing course content, which can distort diagnostics; owners should address or explicitly accept these bounded risks.

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Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
participant Client
participant QuizRoute
participant RAGService
participant QuizRepetition
participant QuizAgent
participant EventService
Client->>QuizRoute: request quiz generation
QuizRoute->>RAGService: retrieve course material
QuizRoute->>QuizRepetition: retrieve recent questions
QuizRoute->>QuizAgent: generate quiz
QuizAgent-->>QuizRoute: return questions and served model
QuizRoute->>EventService: record provenance and prompt dimensions
QuizRoute-->>Client: return filtered questions

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23-38: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

The sink fixture is duplicated across two new test files. Both files define a near-identical sink fixture that calls events_service.reset_for_tests() and patches services.events_service.table with a MagicMock whose insert appends into a list. The only difference is the teardown drain. The shared root cause is that no common fixture exists for capturing enqueued events, so each new file writes its own. A third file that instruments a tool will copy it again, and the two copies can then drift in reset or drain behavior.

• backend/tests/test_tool_signals_f5.py#L23-L38: move this fixture into backend/tests/conftest.py and delete the local definition. Keep the post-yieldevents_service.flush_now() in the shared version, because it drains the queue while the table patch is still active.
• backend/tests/test_quiz_tool_instrumentation.py#L23-L36: delete the local sink fixture and use the shared one. This copy omits the teardown drain, so a queued event can outlive the patch.

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In `@backend/tests/test_tool_signals_f5.py` around lines 23 - 38, Move the
duplicated sink fixture into backend/tests/conftest.py, preserving
events_service.reset_for_tests(), the patched table MagicMock capture behavior,
and the post-yield events_service.flush_now() teardown. Delete the local sink
fixtures from backend/tests/test_tool_signals_f5.py lines 23-38 and
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Inline comments:
In `@backend/agents/tools/graph_read.py`:
- Around line 441-448: Update the misconception-reading flow around
read_misconceptions_for_course to resolve the course offering through
services/academics.py first, then pass the resolved offering_id to the query and
related empty-result reporting payload instead of ctx.deps.course_id. Preserve
the existing enrollment expectation and result handling.
In `@backend/agents/tools/quiz_history.py`:
- Around line 290-301: Keep the existing read_recent_quiz_attempts check for
completed attempts, and add a separate report_empty_result_async check for the
quiz-context digest using bool(history.summary) as its count. Set its
expectation according to whether existing attempts for the current user and
concept require a digest, while preserving the existing concept_node_id scope
and relevant payload context.
In `@backend/scripts/bench_quiz_prompt_budget.py`:
- Around line 52-57: Update the raw Google GenAI client setup around _client and
MODEL to use the provider configuration and model_mode() gate, matching the
model selection used by quiz generation. Ensure google.genai.Client is only
constructed within the provider-approved gated path and remove the hard-coded
model selection.
In `@backend/services/events_service.py`:
- Around line 39-41: Update the documented quiz.started dimensions in the events
service to list blocks, k_chunks, material_chars, recent_asked, routing_chars,
and adaptive, matching the route payload; remove digest_present because it is
conditional and not part of the consistently emitted dimension set.
In `@backend/services/graph_service.py`:
- Around line 759-771: The submit_quiz flow must not lose graded attempts when
node_mastery_events insertion fails. In apply_graph_update, isolate the
table("node_mastery_events").insert(event_row) operation so its failure is
caught and logged without propagating, while preserving score and answer
persistence; alternatively reorder submit_quiz to persist score and answers
before apply_graph_update. Ensure migration
20260814051517_node_mastery_events_event_type.sql is applied before deployment.
In `@backend/services/prompt_dimensions.py`:
- Around line 74-83: Update snapshot() in backend/services/prompt_dimensions.py
at lines 74-83 to return a deep copy of the current dimensions, preserving the
empty-dictionary fallback so nested mutable values such as blocks cannot affect
the active accumulator. Update backend/tests/test_prompt_dimensions_f6.py at
lines 56-63 to append to the returned blocks list and verify a later snapshot
remains unchanged.
In `@backend/services/tool_signals.py`:
- Around line 99-111: Update the database probe exception handler around the
table select to log at warning level instead of debug, including expect.value
and table_name in the message while preserving traceback output via
exc_info=True; continue returning None after logging.
In `@backend/tests/test_event_capture_seams.py`:
- Around line 619-624: Update the grounded fixture used by the assertions around
payload["k_chunks"] to set k_chunks explicitly to 2 alongside its chunk_ids,
ensuring the test exercises the configured field when chunk count and ID count
agree.
In `@backend/tests/test_graph_service.py`:
- Around line 748-766: Update test_event_type_omitted_when_caller_supplies_none
to pass an explicit {"event_type": None} through _apply_with_event_type,
covering the None branch while preserving the assertion that the key is absent.
Also revise the stale comment in test_mastery_change_appends_event_row to
describe that event_type is omitted when the caller does not supply it, rather
than claiming the schema lacks the column.
In `@docs/quiz-prompt-budget.md`:
- Around line 6-8: Declare the shell language for the fenced command block by
changing its opening fence to use sh, while leaving the command unchanged.
- Around line 70-74: Update the documented F6 dimensions list for the
quiz.started event to include only blocks, k_chunks, material_chars,
recent_asked, routing_chars, and adaptive. Remove digest_present, digest_chars,
recent_attempts, and misconceptions, and preserve the note that
misconceptions_requested is represented within blocks.
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In `@backend/tests/test_tool_signals_f5.py`:
- Around line 23-38: Move the duplicated sink fixture into
backend/tests/conftest.py, preserving events_service.reset_for_tests(), the
patched table MagicMock capture behavior, and the post-yield
events_service.flush_now() teardown. Delete the local sink fixtures from
backend/tests/test_tool_signals_f5.py lines 23-38 and
backend/tests/test_quiz_tool_instrumentation.py lines 23-36 so both tests use
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Code review — quiz provenance, repetition guard, silent-empty seam

This PR adds question identity + provenance (E5), a recently-asked repetition read (E6), event_type persistence on mastery events (E7), grounding-coverage reporting (E8), a generic silent-empty detector (F5), prompt-composition capture (F6), taxonomy entries (F7), and an otel compat shim that fixes a live 405→500. I read every substantive changed file at HEAD rather than the hunks. All three headline goals are genuinely delivered: question_hash is a stable, version-tagged SHA-256 over the normalized stem + sorted option set and is stamped on every emitted question (routes/quiz.py:433), and provenance is excluded from both client shapes — the keyless allowlist and the new _INTERNAL_QUESTION_KEYS denylist for the still-default keyed branch (routes/quiz.py:447-457); I checked the other three readers of questions_json (get_attempt, answer_question, submit_quiz) and nothing leaks. The repetition read is bounded (6 attempts scanned, 15 stems out, deduped by identity) and prompt-side only, which the description states as a deliberate trade — it cannot loop or exhaust a pool. The empty case is not swallowed: _quiz_via_agent raises on empty wire_questions and generate_quiz turns it into a typed 502 plus quiz.generation_failed. Every new except was checked; none are silent. DB access is entirely through db/connection.py::table(), the migration is additive with a timestamp basename per the Infrastructure doc's #509 convention, and the new event payloads carry ids/counts/enums only. One P1 blocks merge, plus two P2s worth folding in.

Findings

[P1] E7's "only the quiz supplies event_type" premise is false — the tutor already supplies it — backend/services/graph_service.py:799-803

# Omitted rather than written as an explicit null when absent: every# non-quiz caller (tutor tools, the document pipeline, manual adds)# supplies none, and naming a column PostgREST's schema cache doesn't# have is a hard 400 — so omitting keeps THOSE paths working on an# environment that took this code before the migration.

There are exactly two production producers of updated_nodes: routes/quiz.py::submit_quiz and agents/tools/graph.py::update_mastery_tool. The second is registered on the chat tutor (agents/chat_tutor.py:162) with a system prompt that says to call it in every turn where the student demonstrates understanding, and it has always passed an event_type:

# backend/agents/tools/graph.py:55event_type: Literal["interaction", "correction", "quiz"] =Field(
default="interaction",
description="Event category for the mastery-event log.",
)
# backend/agents/tools/graph.py:141"event_type": u.event_type,

apply_graph_update simply discarded it until now, so it never mattered; this PR turns it on for both callers at once. Three consequences: (1) the pre-migration deploy analysis is wrong about scope — every tutor mastery write also 400s and takes the _insert_mastery_event retry, a wasted round-trip plus a WARNING per event on the highest-volume writer, not the quiet no-op the comment describes; (2) the column receives two disjoint vocabularies from day one — correct|partial|confusion from the quiz, interaction|correction|quiz from the tutor — where interaction is a schema default, i.e. exactly the "default that would make un-categorised events indistinguishable from confident ones" that 20260814051517_node_mastery_events_event_type.sql:12-16 says it is avoiding, and event_type='quiz' can only have come from the tutor because a real quiz submit never writes that string; (3) test_graph_service.py:748-757's docstring asserts the same false fact about the codebase and passes only because it calls apply_graph_update directly rather than through the tool. Pick one vocabulary (or namespace them) and make the comments and the test match which callers actually classify.

[P2] quiz.tool_empty is category="error" and fires once per generation while #553 is live — backend/services/tool_signals.py:182-192

log_event(
"quiz.tool_empty",
category="error",
user_id=user_id,
payload={
"tool": tool,
"feature": feature,
"expect": expect.value,
**(payloador {}),
},
)

/api/admin/analytics/errors scans category = error newest-first (routes/admin_analytics.py:453-456) — the exact reasoning that made review round 2 re-file quiz.rag_uncovered as usage. The volume profile is the same here: the quiz system prompt tells the agent to call read_misconceptions_for_course on every run (agents/quiz.py:93), the tool still passes the abstract course id into an offering_id filter (#553, explicitly not fixed here — agents/tools/graph_read.py:436), and COURSE_HAS_AGGREGATES returns True for any class that has offering_concept_stats rows. So every generation by every enrolled student in such a class emits one error-category event plus a WARNING, indefinitely, burying quiz.context_write_failed and rag.retrieval_failed under routine traffic. If the loudness is intentional it needs its own category or a de-dupe, not the shared error feed.

[P2] Misconceptions offering resolution runs on every call, not only the empty path — backend/agents/tools/graph_read.py:452-460

offering_ids: list[str] = []
ifctx.deps.course_id:
try:
offering_ids=awaitasyncio.to_thread(
user_offering_ids_for_course, ctx.deps.user_id, ctx.deps.course_id
)
exceptException:
logger.debug("misconceptions probe: offering resolution failed", exc_info=True)
ifoffering_ids:
awaitreport_empty_result_async(

The gate is ctx.deps.course_id, not not out. user_offering_ids_for_course (services/academics.py:185) is uncached and issues two unbounded PostgREST reads — every course_offerings row for the course, then every one of the user's enrollments. That is two extra Supabase round-trips on the request path of every quiz generation, including the non-empty path, contradicting tool_signals.py's own contract ("one owner-scoped indexed read, only on the empty path") and the PR description's identical claim. Invisible today only because #553 makes out always empty; pure waste the moment #553 lands.

[P3] E8 labels a failed course lookup as course_unresolved — backend/routes/quiz.py:676-683

ifmaterial.bu_codeisNone:
reason="course_unresolved"elifmaterial.course_chunksisNone:
reason="coverage_unknown"elifmaterial.course_chunks==0:
reason="no_chunks_for_course"else:
reason="no_match_for_concept"

_resolve_bu_code (:506-511) returns None both for "this course has no BU code" and for "the courses read threw", and any raise inside _course_material degrades to _EMPTY_MATERIAL with bu_code=None (:821-826). All three land on course_unresolved. E8 exists to tell different problems apart, and coverage_unknown is already the honest can't-tell label.

[P3] New log lines print the raw user_id — backend/services/tool_signals.py:177-181

logger.warning(
"%s returned no rows for user=%s despite %s — a personalization ""input may be silently broken (F5)",
tool, user_id, expect.value,
)

Canopy Engineering Style Guide §8: "Don't log request/response bodies, user IDs, emails, names, tokens, or decrypted columns." Same in services/quiz_repetition.py:90-94. Not a blocker given how widespread this already is in routes/quiz.py, but these are new lines and both already carry request_id correlation through the event they emit.

What's good

• _insert_mastery_event's one-shot retry-without-event_type is the right shape for the ordering hazard, and the judgement that the journal is not worth a graded attempt is correct — submit_quiz really does call apply_graph_update after the atomic completed_at claim and before the score write.
• Running _course_material and recent_question_identities concurrently under asyncio.gather(return_exceptions=True) with both results individually inspected: a bare gather would have 502'd a quiz over one unreadable past attempt.
• Splitting grounded into rag_grounded + catalog, with chunk_count falling back to len(chunk_ids), keeps provenance from asserting something false about a catalog-only course. I confirmed format_rag_context returns "" only for an empty chunk list, so k_chunks > 0 really does imply RAG text in the prompt.
• Measuring the prompt with count_tokens instead of inheriting the audit's estimate, and publishing the caveat that llm_usage.prompt_tokens remains the authority on totals.

Verdict: request changes — the E7 finding needs resolving before merge; the two P2s are worth folding in while you are in here.

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Review fixes applied

Every outstanding finding on this PR (human review + CodeRabbit) has been addressed and pushed.

Blocker

• event_type vocabulary collision. The claim in graph_service.py that "every non-quiz caller supplies none" was false — agents/tools/graph.py:55 has always sent one from the chat tutor. Both vocabularies are now namespaced and disjoint (tutor_interaction|tutor_correction|tutor_quiz vs quiz_correct|quiz_partial|quiz_confusion), the tutor field no longer defaults to a real category (omitted when None, mirroring apply_graph_update), and the migration + service comments now document the real six-value set and the real pre-migration blast radius. New tests drive the tutor path end to end.

Major

• quiz.tool_empty moved from category="error" to "usage" — it was firing once per generation into the feed /api/admin/analytics/errors scans, burying quiz.context_write_failed and rag.retrieval_failed.
• Misconceptions probe now gates on not out, so user_offering_ids_for_course (uncached, two unbounded reads) no longer runs on the non-empty path of every quiz generation.

Minor / nits

• E8 tells a failed courses read apart from "no BU code" (coverage_unknown, not course_unresolved), via a new tri-state lookup.
• Bench script's raw google.genai.Client is now behind a model_mode() gate and uses model_name_for("quiz"); CLAUDE.md's raw-client inventory corrected (it was already wrong — a fourth site existed).
• prompt_dimensions.snapshot() deep-copies; tool_signals probe failure logs at warning; k_chunks pinned explicitly in the grounded fixture; explicit-Noneevent_type case covered; stale "schema has no event_type column" comment fixed; doc fence language + F6 dimension list corrected; raw user_id removed from new log lines; duplicated sink fixture moved to conftest.py.

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backend/routes/quiz.py (1)

659-692: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

A failed retrieve_chunks call is reported as a content gap, not as unknown coverage.

Line 667 swallows a retrieval exception and sets chunks = []. The returned CourseMaterial then carries resolution_failed=False. _log_rag_uncovered therefore reports no_chunks_for_course or no_match_for_concept. Both are assertions about the course data, but retrieval failed and the coverage was never learned.

This is the same mislabeling that BuCodeLookup.failed fixes for the course_code read. Set resolution_failed when retrieval raises, so the event reports coverage_unknown.

🛠️ Proposed fix

 try:
chunks = retrieve_chunks(concept_name, course_id=bu_code, k=_RAG_K)
+ retrieval_failed = False
except Exception:
chunks = []
+ retrieval_failed = True
@@
return CourseMaterial(
block="\n\n".join(blocks),
chunk_ids=chunk_ids,
k_chunks=len(chunks),
has_catalog=bool(catalog),
course_chunks=None if chunks else _course_chunk_coverage(bu_code),
bu_code=bu_code,
+ resolution_failed=retrieval_failed,
)

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In `@backend/routes/quiz.py` around lines 659 - 692, Track whether retrieve_chunks
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resolution_failed field to true when that exception occurs. Preserve the
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In `@backend/routes/quiz.py`:
- Around line 659-692: Track whether retrieve_chunks fails in the
course-material retrieval flow, and set the returned CourseMaterial
resolution_failed field to true when that exception occurs. Preserve the
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backend/tests/test_hermetic_llm_guard.py constructs a genai.Client, so the repository has five construction sites. State that the count excludes test-only clients.

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Verify against the real database before merging

I could not reach a live database while working on this — there are no credentials on this machine (only .env.example files) and the local Supabase stack needs a container runtime that wouldn't start. So everything below was verified statically, by replaying every migration in ledger order to build a schema model and checking this PR's DB access against it. That model found 0 schema mismatches here, and it is trustworthy enough to have independently reproduced the documents.course_id absence that caused #562/#534 — but it cannot see data, and it cannot see whether staging's ledger actually matches the repo.

These are the checks that need a real connection.

1. Ordering is load-bearing — migration BEFORE code

This PR's own comment says it, and the review confirmed the failure mode: submit_quiz calls apply_graph_updateafter the atomic completed_at claim and before the score write, so a pre-migration insert failure loses a graded attempt. _insert_mastery_event retries once without event_type and degrades loudly, but that is a safety net, not a licence to deploy first.

-- Must return one row, is_nullable = YES, before any code shipsSELECT column_name, data_type, is_nullable
FROMinformation_schema.columnsWHERE table_name ='node_mastery_events'AND column_name ='event_type';

2. Existing rows must be untouched

SELECT event_type, count(*) FROM node_mastery_events GROUP BY1ORDER BY2DESC;

Before deploy: expect a single NULL bucket (the PR reports 26 rows on staging). Nothing should have a value yet.

3. After deploy — the namespacing must hold

The fix in this PR namespaced the two producers because the tutor's update_mastery_tool has always sent an event_type (agents/tools/graph.py), it was simply discarded until now. Re-run the same query after traffic:

• Expected values: NULL, tutor_interaction, tutor_correction, tutor_quiz, quiz_correct, quiz_partial, quiz_confusion.
• Any bare interaction / correction / quiz / correct / partial / confusion means a writer bypassed the namespacing — that is the exact ambiguity this change exists to prevent, and it should be investigated rather than accepted.

4. Volume expectation

The tutor is the higher-volume writer of the two, not the quiz. If tutor_* rows are absent after real tutor traffic, update_mastery_tool is silently not persisting and the omit-when-None path is swallowing it.

_{Static verification only — no live database was reachable from this environment. Schema model built by replaying backend/db/migrations/ in ledger order.}

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Third review round + the live-DB checks

Picking this back up. Two things were outstanding: Jose's three fix commits had never themselves been reviewed, and the pre-merge database checks were left unrun because that environment had no credentials.

Live DB — both pre-merge checks pass on staging

Run through the session-mode pooler (scripts/pooler_url.py; the .env.staging value is the IPv6-only direct host and is unreachable from here):

check	result
event_type column	one row, text, is_nullable = YES, no default
existing rows	single bucket: 26 × NULL
ledger	migration recorded

So the migration is applied strictly before this code ships, which is the ordering the E7 comment calls load-bearing. Checks 3 and 4 (namespacing holds, tutor_* rows appear) are post-traffic and stay open as a post-deploy watch.

I also diffed the edited migration: the header comments were rewritten, but the DDL is byte-identical (ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS event_type TEXT), and the ledger keys on basename — no immutability violation, nothing re-runs.

Review of the fix commits — affde139

No correctness bugs. Four low findings, all fixed:

1. prompt_dimensions.snapshot() lost the whole payload on one bad value. The deep copy sits inside a try whose except returned {}, so a single un-deepcopyable value shipped quiz.started with no dimensions — measuring nothing while looking like a healthy event, which is the exact bug class F6 exists to end. Degrades to a shallow copy now, and warns. Its docstring's rationale was also just wrong (nothing mutates a recorded list in place), so that's corrected rather than left as a false comment.
2. E8 called a failed retrieval no_match_for_concept.retrieve_chunks swallows its own failures and returns [] — the same value a clean miss returns. So a course with material indexed whose retrieval broke was recorded as "it has material, none of it covers this concept": a claim about data we never read, which is precisely what the reason taxonomy exists to stop. Added retrieve_chunks_detailed, which says whether the empty result is a fault or a fact; a fault now reports coverage_unknown. The RAG embedding path sits below the SAPLING_MODEL_MODE seam — live embed calls fire even in function mode #439 seam skip is deliberately not a fault — otherwise every function-mode E2E run would report broken retrieval. retrieve_chunks keeps its list contract, so learn.py and benchmark_quiz.py are untouched.
3. Bench script promised a keyless run "fails loudly here" but still fell back to a dummy key, dying later inside count_tokens on an opaque auth error. It now fails where it says it does.
4. EVENT_TAXONOMY's quiz.started row and docs/quiz-prompt-budget.md disagreed about which dimensions come from the route vs. only when the agent calls the recording tool. Reconciled.

Both behavioural fixes are pinned by tests written to fail first.

Verification

Hermetic 2128 passed / 9 skipped (+2), ruff clean, oracles 0 findings, integration 47 passed, Playwright 47 passed.

The one Playwright failure is landing-drag-field.spec.ts:332, and it is not from this PR — it fails identically on main (same line, all three retries) and has since the #524 landing-v5 merge on Aug 16, which is when the e2e browser lane on main went red. This PR touches no frontend code. Filing that separately.

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Merged. Filed the unrelated Playwright failure as #566 — the landing drag-field scroll-follow assertion, red on main since #524, which is what has kept the e2e browser lane red there.

Remaining from the addendum: Workstream H (#553–#557), plus #545 and #546.

Post-deploy watch still owed on this one — checks 3 and 4 from the DB comment above (namespacing holds; tutor_* rows actually appear once real tutor traffic lands). Nothing to run until it deploys.

[AndresL230]

Part 2 of the #537 addendum: E5–E8 and F5–F7, shipped as one PR because
they all land in routes/quiz.py and would otherwise conflict.

E5 — question identity + provenance

A generated question had no identity: it was written into the encrypted
questions_json blob, graded, and forgotten. Nothing could ask "have we
asked this before?", "which prompt wrote it?", or "was it grounded in our
materials?".

• services/quiz_identity.py — question_hash, a stable SHA-256 over the
  normalized stem + option set. Insensitive to whitespace, case and option
  order; sensitive to stem and option content; version-tagged so a
  future normalization change is visibly disjoint rather than quietly
  colliding.
• Each stored question now carries question_hash plus a provenance
  block: prompt_version (the system-prompt hash, previously reachable
  only as agent trace metadata), the served model, the grounding chunk
  ids, and rag_grounded/catalog.
• Chunk ids were resolved and dropped on the floor — _course_material_block
  returned a bare string. It now returns a CourseMaterial record.
  match_course_chunks already returned id, so this was a local
  refactor, not the schema change the brief flagged as a stop-and-report risk.
• Provenance never reaches the client, on both response shapes — the
  keyed branch is still the default until quiz: flip include_answer_key default to false, then delete it once the #537 client ships #546 flips it, so guarding only
  the keyless allowlist would have shipped chunk ids to every browser today.

Dedupe: the within-attempt check is keyed on question_hash as specified,
and retains the stem check. The hash covers stem and options, so it is
the narrower of the two — a model re-emitting one stem with reworded options
passes it. Dropping the stem check would have quietly narrowed #543's
duplicate-question guard, which E5 has no need to trade away.

E6 — repetition guard

Past questions_json was never re-read, so a student could be served the
same question repeatedly with nothing able to notice.

• services/quiz_repetition.py reads the last ~15 distinct items for this
  (student, concept) and generation is told not to repeat them.
• Fetched raw, not precomputed into the digest — noted as asked. The
  audit's end-state (precompute in quiz_context) belongs with the digest
  schema work in quiz H2: mine answers_json into the digest (distractor profile) + digest schema version #554; this is bounded hard (6 attempts scanned, 15 stems out)
  in the meantime.
• Deliberately not filtered to completed attempts, unlike the history
  tool: a student who generated a quiz and walked away still saw those
  questions.
• Prompt-side guidance only — repeats are not hard-dropped. The
  function-mode seam returns the same 3 questions regardless of prompt, so
  dropping repeats would empty every second quiz in the test(e2e): journey — quiz answer → mastery update (UI + DB) #393 journey and 502
  it. Stems are delimiter-neutralized ([P2] Agent migration: prompt-injection hardening on student-supplied content #150) on the way back into the prompt.

E7 — stop dropping event_type

Submit computed correct/partial/confusion from the score ratio and discarded
it at the write. Migration 20260814051517 adds a nullable event_type to
node_mastery_events; apply_graph_update persists it and omits the key
when absent, so every non-quiz caller keeps working on an environment that
took the code before the DDL. Applied to staging and verified (26 existing
rows keep NULL).

E8 — grounding is a decision, not an accident

A coverage check runs when retrieval comes back empty, and quiz.rag_uncovered
distinguishes three different problems that used to look identical:
course_unresolved, no_chunks_for_course, no_match_for_concept
(plus coverage_unknown). Generation is never blocked on it.

F5 — the general fix for silent-empty

services/tool_signals.py::report_empty_result. Three personalization inputs
were empty for months because an empty list is exactly what "this student has
nothing yet" looks like. The helper supplies the missing half — whether the
student plausibly should have data (enrolled / has attempts / has a graph,
one owner-scoped indexed read, only on the empty path) — and emits
quiz.tool_empty when the two disagree. Feature-agnostic so the tutor's tools
use it too; wired into all three quiz read tools. Never raises; a failed probe
means "can't tell", which is silence.

F6 — measure the prompt before anyone tunes it

services/prompt_dimensions.py captures prompt composition per request and
rides quiz.started, which shares a request_id with the llm_usage row.
The load-bearing detail: digest_present is only knowable inside an agent
tool running under asyncio.to_thread, so the accumulator mutates a shared
dict rather than rebinding a ContextVar — pinned by test.

The audit's ~2–4k estimate was low. Measured via count_tokens
(scripts/bench_quiz_prompt_budget.py, results in docs/quiz-prompt-budget.md):

	measured	audit
System prompt	1,317	~800
read_concepts_for_user @ cap	1,340	~250
Today, grounded, 13-concept graph	3,992	2–4k
Worst case	6,839	—

The concepts tool at cap costs more than a five-chunk RAG block at typical
chunk sizes — so "COURSE MATERIAL is the dominant variable cost" is only true
for long chunks, and the proposed ~4–5k redesign budget is approximately the
current bill rather than headroom.

F7 — taxonomy

quiz.tool_empty and quiz.rag_uncovered added to EVENT_TAXONOMY, the
module docstring table, and the pin test.

Also

• Documented the ciphertext oracle's deliberate omission of quiz_responses
  where the manifest lives (owed from the addendum's Part 1, item 3).
• agents/usage.py::served_model_name is public and now coerces to str —
  the model name flows into encrypt_json via provenance, and a non-string
  would have 502'd a generation that had already succeeded.

Verification

• Hermetic suite: 2103 passed, 9 skipped (was 1997 — +106 tests).
• ruff check . clean.
• Full local E2E cycle: Playwright, oracles, integration lane.
• Migration applied to staging before merge.

Review round (commit 2)

/code-review high returned six findings, all valid, all fixed in cb56970f:

1. The F5 probe blocked the event loop — a sync Supabase read called
   inline from async tool bodies, while every other read in those tools uses
   to_thread for exactly that reason. It fires on the empty path, which
   today is the common one. Added report_empty_result_async.
2. +3. The probes asked a broader question than the tools did —
   HAS_ATTEMPTS checked all concepts while the tool read one;
   HAS_GRAPH checked the whole graph while the read was course-scoped. Both
   would have flagged ordinary progress (first quiz on a new concept; taking
   two courses) as "silently broken" — the precise alarm-fatigue failure F5
   exists to prevent. Probes now take a scope.
   3b. feature defaulted to "quiz" on a tool the tutor also registers,
   contradicting the contract this PR added to CLAUDE.md. SaplingDeps
   carries feature now; default "unknown", since wrong attribution is
   worse than absent.
3. grounded was RAG-only but named "any course material" — a
   catalog-only course persisted every question as ungrounded. Split into
   rag_grounded + catalog.
4. The E7 comment implied the omit-when-absent trick made the quiz path safe
   pre-migration. It does not, and the failure loses the graded attempt.
   Comment now states the ordering requirement.
5. CLAUDE.md's "exactly two raw genai.Client sites" invariant, made false by
   this PR's bench script.

Re-verified after the fixes: hermetic 2103 passed / 9 skipped, ruff clean,
Playwright 45, oracles 0 findings, integration 47 passed.

The review-fix commit has not itself been through a second review round.

CI fix (commit 3) — a live 405→500 bug, pre-existing on main

Backend (pytest) had been red on main since the FastAPI 0.138 lock
(0effc9ee fails identically), on one test, with

AttributeError: '_IncludedRouter' object has no attribute 'path'

from otel's FastAPI instrumentation. Not test-only: otel's _get_route_details
guards its FULL-match .path read with except AttributeError but its
PARTIAL-match branch does not — and a PARTIAL match is exactly a wrong-method
request. So the error escaped the middleware and every 405 returned 500.
Staging and prod install the same lock, so that was live behaviour.

Nothing to upgrade to: the unguarded line is in every released
opentelemetry-instrumentation-fastapi through 0.65b0 (checked against the
published wheels). services/otel_fastapi_compat.py wraps the resolver,
absorbing only AttributeError and falling back to scope["path"] — otel's
own FULL-branch fallback. Reproduced and the fix verified at the locked
versions in a scratch env, since the dev venv (fastapi 0.136) cannot
reproduce it.

Review round 2 (commit 4)

1. quiz.rag_uncovered was category="error", but
   /api/admin/analytics/errors scans category = error newest-first. Firing
   per-generation would have buried quiz.context_write_failed and
   rag.retrieval_failed — degrading the surface workstream B just repaired.
   Now usage, which is also the honest label for a legitimate mode.
2. The misconceptions probe was the one left unscoped. It now asks whether
   aggregates exist for this student's offerings of this course — the only
   formulation that detects quiz H1: misconceptions tool filters offering_id with the abstract course id — verify live, then fix + seed test #553's keyspace mismatch without firing on every
   class that simply has no aggregates yet. Non-owner-scoped probes now refuse
   to run unscoped.
3. The quiz-history probe could not detect the failure its own comment
   cites: quiz_context lost UNIQUE (user_id, concept_node_id) in 0025 — save_quiz_context's upsert 42P10s and the failure is swallowed #529 presents as an empty digest while attempts exist, and the
   helper short-circuits on a non-zero count. Split into a digest-keyed check
   plus the attempt-list one.
4. _course_chunk_coverage reported a degraded count as 0, making E8 assert
   "nothing indexed" about a possibly fully-indexed course.
5. A node_mastery_events insert failure could permanently lose a graded
   quiz (it runs after submit's atomic completed_at claim, before score is
   written, unwrapped). Now retries once without event_type then degrades,
   loudly logged.

Final: hermetic 2119 passed / 9 skipped, ruff clean, Playwright 45,
oracles 0 findings, integration 47, all CI checks green.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Quiz generation now avoids recently served questions when suitable history is available.
  • Quiz questions receive stable identities to support consistent repetition prevention.
  • Quiz responses better reflect whether course material was successfully retrieved and used.
  • Tutor and quiz activity can preserve more specific mastery-event details.

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved handling of retrieval failures and unavailable course data without interrupting quiz generation.
  • Mastery updates continue when event recording encounters compatibility issues.

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The PR adds quiz provenance, stable question identity, repetition filtering, prompt-dimension telemetry, retrieval-failure classification, empty-result diagnostics, namespaced mastery events, and an offline prompt-budget benchmark.

Changes

Quiz observability and generation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Telemetry and event contracts backend/agents/..., backend/services/..., backend/tests/...	Adds feature metadata, prompt capture, empty-result reporting, event taxonomy entries, namespaced mastery events, failure-safe event persistence, and related tests.
Question identity and repetition lookup backend/services/quiz_identity.py, backend/services/quiz_repetition.py, backend/tests/test_quiz_identity_e5.py, backend/tests/test_quiz_repetition_e6.py	Adds stable question hashes and best-effort retrieval of recent questions for deduplication and prompt construction.
Quiz generation provenance and grounding backend/routes/quiz.py, backend/services/rag_service.py, backend/tests/test_quiz_provenance_e5_e6.py, backend/tests/test_event_capture_seams.py	Tracks grounding status, retrieval failures, prompt dimensions, serving models, question provenance, repetition data, and client response shaping.
Prompt budget measurement and documentation backend/scripts/bench_quiz_prompt_budget.py, docs/quiz-prompt-budget.md, CLAUDE.md, backend/e2e_oracles/gather.py	Adds a lazy real-mode Gemini token benchmark and documents measured prompt budgets, attribution, and encrypted-column scope.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90+ minutes

Merge Risk:🔵 Low · up to affde

This PR adds question provenance, repetition guidance, and quiz diagnostics. Mergeability is generally good, but retrieval state can leak between calls and some retrieval failures may be reported as missing course content, which can distort diagnostics; owners should address or explicitly accept these bounded risks.

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Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
participant Client
participant QuizRoute
participant RAGService
participant QuizRepetition
participant QuizAgent
participant EventService
Client->>QuizRoute: request quiz generation
QuizRoute->>RAGService: retrieve course material
QuizRoute->>QuizRepetition: retrieve recent questions
QuizRoute->>QuizAgent: generate quiz
QuizAgent-->>QuizRoute: return questions and served model
QuizRoute->>EventService: record provenance and prompt dimensions
QuizRoute-->>Client: return filtered questions

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The sink fixture is duplicated across two new test files. Both files define a near-identical sink fixture that calls events_service.reset_for_tests() and patches services.events_service.table with a MagicMock whose insert appends into a list. The only difference is the teardown drain. The shared root cause is that no common fixture exists for capturing enqueued events, so each new file writes its own. A third file that instruments a tool will copy it again, and the two copies can then drift in reset or drain behavior.

• backend/tests/test_tool_signals_f5.py#L23-L38: move this fixture into backend/tests/conftest.py and delete the local definition. Keep the post-yieldevents_service.flush_now() in the shared version, because it drains the queue while the table patch is still active.
• backend/tests/test_quiz_tool_instrumentation.py#L23-L36: delete the local sink fixture and use the shared one. This copy omits the teardown drain, so a queued event can outlive the patch.

As per coding guidelines: "Backend tests live in backend/tests/ and run via pytest; shared fixtures (mock Supabase, mock Gemini) are in tests/conftest.py."

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duplicated sink fixture into backend/tests/conftest.py, preserving
events_service.reset_for_tests(), the patched table MagicMock capture behavior,
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In `@backend/agents/tools/graph_read.py`:
- Around line 441-448: Update the misconception-reading flow around
read_misconceptions_for_course to resolve the course offering through
services/academics.py first, then pass the resolved offering_id to the query and
related empty-result reporting payload instead of ctx.deps.course_id. Preserve
the existing enrollment expectation and result handling.
In `@backend/agents/tools/quiz_history.py`:
- Around line 290-301: Keep the existing read_recent_quiz_attempts check for
completed attempts, and add a separate report_empty_result_async check for the
quiz-context digest using bool(history.summary) as its count. Set its
expectation according to whether existing attempts for the current user and
concept require a digest, while preserving the existing concept_node_id scope
and relevant payload context.
In `@backend/scripts/bench_quiz_prompt_budget.py`:
- Around line 52-57: Update the raw Google GenAI client setup around _client and
MODEL to use the provider configuration and model_mode() gate, matching the
model selection used by quiz generation. Ensure google.genai.Client is only
constructed within the provider-approved gated path and remove the hard-coded
model selection.
In `@backend/services/events_service.py`:
- Around line 39-41: Update the documented quiz.started dimensions in the events
service to list blocks, k_chunks, material_chars, recent_asked, routing_chars,
and adaptive, matching the route payload; remove digest_present because it is
conditional and not part of the consistently emitted dimension set.
In `@backend/services/graph_service.py`:
- Around line 759-771: The submit_quiz flow must not lose graded attempts when
node_mastery_events insertion fails. In apply_graph_update, isolate the
table("node_mastery_events").insert(event_row) operation so its failure is
caught and logged without propagating, while preserving score and answer
persistence; alternatively reorder submit_quiz to persist score and answers
before apply_graph_update. Ensure migration
20260814051517_node_mastery_events_event_type.sql is applied before deployment.
In `@backend/services/prompt_dimensions.py`:
- Around line 74-83: Update snapshot() in backend/services/prompt_dimensions.py
at lines 74-83 to return a deep copy of the current dimensions, preserving the
empty-dictionary fallback so nested mutable values such as blocks cannot affect
the active accumulator. Update backend/tests/test_prompt_dimensions_f6.py at
lines 56-63 to append to the returned blocks list and verify a later snapshot
remains unchanged.
In `@backend/services/tool_signals.py`:
- Around line 99-111: Update the database probe exception handler around the
table select to log at warning level instead of debug, including expect.value
and table_name in the message while preserving traceback output via
exc_info=True; continue returning None after logging.
In `@backend/tests/test_event_capture_seams.py`:
- Around line 619-624: Update the grounded fixture used by the assertions around
payload["k_chunks"] to set k_chunks explicitly to 2 alongside its chunk_ids,
ensuring the test exercises the configured field when chunk count and ID count
agree.
In `@backend/tests/test_graph_service.py`:
- Around line 748-766: Update test_event_type_omitted_when_caller_supplies_none
to pass an explicit {"event_type": None} through _apply_with_event_type,
covering the None branch while preserving the assertion that the key is absent.
Also revise the stale comment in test_mastery_change_appends_event_row to
describe that event_type is omitted when the caller does not supply it, rather
than claiming the schema lacks the column.
In `@docs/quiz-prompt-budget.md`:
- Around line 6-8: Declare the shell language for the fenced command block by
changing its opening fence to use sh, while leaving the command unchanged.
- Around line 70-74: Update the documented F6 dimensions list for the
quiz.started event to include only blocks, k_chunks, material_chars,
recent_asked, routing_chars, and adaptive. Remove digest_present, digest_chars,
recent_attempts, and misconceptions, and preserve the note that
misconceptions_requested is represented within blocks.
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In `@backend/tests/test_tool_signals_f5.py`:
- Around line 23-38: Move the duplicated sink fixture into
backend/tests/conftest.py, preserving events_service.reset_for_tests(), the
patched table MagicMock capture behavior, and the post-yield
events_service.flush_now() teardown. Delete the local sink fixtures from
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Code review — quiz provenance, repetition guard, silent-empty seam

This PR adds question identity + provenance (E5), a recently-asked repetition read (E6), event_type persistence on mastery events (E7), grounding-coverage reporting (E8), a generic silent-empty detector (F5), prompt-composition capture (F6), taxonomy entries (F7), and an otel compat shim that fixes a live 405→500. I read every substantive changed file at HEAD rather than the hunks. All three headline goals are genuinely delivered: question_hash is a stable, version-tagged SHA-256 over the normalized stem + sorted option set and is stamped on every emitted question (routes/quiz.py:433), and provenance is excluded from both client shapes — the keyless allowlist and the new _INTERNAL_QUESTION_KEYS denylist for the still-default keyed branch (routes/quiz.py:447-457); I checked the other three readers of questions_json (get_attempt, answer_question, submit_quiz) and nothing leaks. The repetition read is bounded (6 attempts scanned, 15 stems out, deduped by identity) and prompt-side only, which the description states as a deliberate trade — it cannot loop or exhaust a pool. The empty case is not swallowed: _quiz_via_agent raises on empty wire_questions and generate_quiz turns it into a typed 502 plus quiz.generation_failed. Every new except was checked; none are silent. DB access is entirely through db/connection.py::table(), the migration is additive with a timestamp basename per the Infrastructure doc's #509 convention, and the new event payloads carry ids/counts/enums only. One P1 blocks merge, plus two P2s worth folding in.

Findings

[P1] E7's "only the quiz supplies event_type" premise is false — the tutor already supplies it — backend/services/graph_service.py:799-803

# Omitted rather than written as an explicit null when absent: every# non-quiz caller (tutor tools, the document pipeline, manual adds)# supplies none, and naming a column PostgREST's schema cache doesn't# have is a hard 400 — so omitting keeps THOSE paths working on an# environment that took this code before the migration.

There are exactly two production producers of updated_nodes: routes/quiz.py::submit_quiz and agents/tools/graph.py::update_mastery_tool. The second is registered on the chat tutor (agents/chat_tutor.py:162) with a system prompt that says to call it in every turn where the student demonstrates understanding, and it has always passed an event_type:

# backend/agents/tools/graph.py:55event_type: Literal["interaction", "correction", "quiz"] =Field(
default="interaction",
description="Event category for the mastery-event log.",
)
# backend/agents/tools/graph.py:141"event_type": u.event_type,

apply_graph_update simply discarded it until now, so it never mattered; this PR turns it on for both callers at once. Three consequences: (1) the pre-migration deploy analysis is wrong about scope — every tutor mastery write also 400s and takes the _insert_mastery_event retry, a wasted round-trip plus a WARNING per event on the highest-volume writer, not the quiet no-op the comment describes; (2) the column receives two disjoint vocabularies from day one — correct|partial|confusion from the quiz, interaction|correction|quiz from the tutor — where interaction is a schema default, i.e. exactly the "default that would make un-categorised events indistinguishable from confident ones" that 20260814051517_node_mastery_events_event_type.sql:12-16 says it is avoiding, and event_type='quiz' can only have come from the tutor because a real quiz submit never writes that string; (3) test_graph_service.py:748-757's docstring asserts the same false fact about the codebase and passes only because it calls apply_graph_update directly rather than through the tool. Pick one vocabulary (or namespace them) and make the comments and the test match which callers actually classify.

[P2] quiz.tool_empty is category="error" and fires once per generation while #553 is live — backend/services/tool_signals.py:182-192

log_event(
"quiz.tool_empty",
category="error",
user_id=user_id,
payload={
"tool": tool,
"feature": feature,
"expect": expect.value,
**(payloador {}),
},
)

/api/admin/analytics/errors scans category = error newest-first (routes/admin_analytics.py:453-456) — the exact reasoning that made review round 2 re-file quiz.rag_uncovered as usage. The volume profile is the same here: the quiz system prompt tells the agent to call read_misconceptions_for_course on every run (agents/quiz.py:93), the tool still passes the abstract course id into an offering_id filter (#553, explicitly not fixed here — agents/tools/graph_read.py:436), and COURSE_HAS_AGGREGATES returns True for any class that has offering_concept_stats rows. So every generation by every enrolled student in such a class emits one error-category event plus a WARNING, indefinitely, burying quiz.context_write_failed and rag.retrieval_failed under routine traffic. If the loudness is intentional it needs its own category or a de-dupe, not the shared error feed.

[P2] Misconceptions offering resolution runs on every call, not only the empty path — backend/agents/tools/graph_read.py:452-460

offering_ids: list[str] = []
ifctx.deps.course_id:
try:
offering_ids=awaitasyncio.to_thread(
user_offering_ids_for_course, ctx.deps.user_id, ctx.deps.course_id
)
exceptException:
logger.debug("misconceptions probe: offering resolution failed", exc_info=True)
ifoffering_ids:
awaitreport_empty_result_async(

The gate is ctx.deps.course_id, not not out. user_offering_ids_for_course (services/academics.py:185) is uncached and issues two unbounded PostgREST reads — every course_offerings row for the course, then every one of the user's enrollments. That is two extra Supabase round-trips on the request path of every quiz generation, including the non-empty path, contradicting tool_signals.py's own contract ("one owner-scoped indexed read, only on the empty path") and the PR description's identical claim. Invisible today only because #553 makes out always empty; pure waste the moment #553 lands.

[P3] E8 labels a failed course lookup as course_unresolved — backend/routes/quiz.py:676-683

ifmaterial.bu_codeisNone:
reason="course_unresolved"elifmaterial.course_chunksisNone:
reason="coverage_unknown"elifmaterial.course_chunks==0:
reason="no_chunks_for_course"else:
reason="no_match_for_concept"

_resolve_bu_code (:506-511) returns None both for "this course has no BU code" and for "the courses read threw", and any raise inside _course_material degrades to _EMPTY_MATERIAL with bu_code=None (:821-826). All three land on course_unresolved. E8 exists to tell different problems apart, and coverage_unknown is already the honest can't-tell label.

[P3] New log lines print the raw user_id — backend/services/tool_signals.py:177-181

logger.warning(
"%s returned no rows for user=%s despite %s — a personalization ""input may be silently broken (F5)",
tool, user_id, expect.value,
)

Canopy Engineering Style Guide §8: "Don't log request/response bodies, user IDs, emails, names, tokens, or decrypted columns." Same in services/quiz_repetition.py:90-94. Not a blocker given how widespread this already is in routes/quiz.py, but these are new lines and both already carry request_id correlation through the event they emit.

What's good

• _insert_mastery_event's one-shot retry-without-event_type is the right shape for the ordering hazard, and the judgement that the journal is not worth a graded attempt is correct — submit_quiz really does call apply_graph_update after the atomic completed_at claim and before the score write.
• Running _course_material and recent_question_identities concurrently under asyncio.gather(return_exceptions=True) with both results individually inspected: a bare gather would have 502'd a quiz over one unreadable past attempt.
• Splitting grounded into rag_grounded + catalog, with chunk_count falling back to len(chunk_ids), keeps provenance from asserting something false about a catalog-only course. I confirmed format_rag_context returns "" only for an empty chunk list, so k_chunks > 0 really does imply RAG text in the prompt.
• Measuring the prompt with count_tokens instead of inheriting the audit's estimate, and publishing the caveat that llm_usage.prompt_tokens remains the authority on totals.

Verdict: request changes — the E7 finding needs resolving before merge; the two P2s are worth folding in while you are in here.

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Review fixes applied

Every outstanding finding on this PR (human review + CodeRabbit) has been addressed and pushed.

Blocker

• event_type vocabulary collision. The claim in graph_service.py that "every non-quiz caller supplies none" was false — agents/tools/graph.py:55 has always sent one from the chat tutor. Both vocabularies are now namespaced and disjoint (tutor_interaction|tutor_correction|tutor_quiz vs quiz_correct|quiz_partial|quiz_confusion), the tutor field no longer defaults to a real category (omitted when None, mirroring apply_graph_update), and the migration + service comments now document the real six-value set and the real pre-migration blast radius. New tests drive the tutor path end to end.

Major

• quiz.tool_empty moved from category="error" to "usage" — it was firing once per generation into the feed /api/admin/analytics/errors scans, burying quiz.context_write_failed and rag.retrieval_failed.
• Misconceptions probe now gates on not out, so user_offering_ids_for_course (uncached, two unbounded reads) no longer runs on the non-empty path of every quiz generation.

Minor / nits

• E8 tells a failed courses read apart from "no BU code" (coverage_unknown, not course_unresolved), via a new tri-state lookup.
• Bench script's raw google.genai.Client is now behind a model_mode() gate and uses model_name_for("quiz"); CLAUDE.md's raw-client inventory corrected (it was already wrong — a fourth site existed).
• prompt_dimensions.snapshot() deep-copies; tool_signals probe failure logs at warning; k_chunks pinned explicitly in the grounded fixture; explicit-Noneevent_type case covered; stale "schema has no event_type column" comment fixed; doc fence language + F6 dimension list corrected; raw user_id removed from new log lines; duplicated sink fixture moved to conftest.py.

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659-692: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

A failed retrieve_chunks call is reported as a content gap, not as unknown coverage.

Line 667 swallows a retrieval exception and sets chunks = []. The returned CourseMaterial then carries resolution_failed=False. _log_rag_uncovered therefore reports no_chunks_for_course or no_match_for_concept. Both are assertions about the course data, but retrieval failed and the coverage was never learned.

This is the same mislabeling that BuCodeLookup.failed fixes for the course_code read. Set resolution_failed when retrieval raises, so the event reports coverage_unknown.

🛠️ Proposed fix

 try:
chunks = retrieve_chunks(concept_name, course_id=bu_code, k=_RAG_K)
+ retrieval_failed = False
except Exception:
chunks = []
+ retrieval_failed = True
@@
return CourseMaterial(
block="\n\n".join(blocks),
chunk_ids=chunk_ids,
k_chunks=len(chunks),
has_catalog=bool(catalog),
course_chunks=None if chunks else _course_chunk_coverage(bu_code),
bu_code=bu_code,
+ resolution_failed=retrieval_failed,
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Verify against the real database before merging

I could not reach a live database while working on this — there are no credentials on this machine (only .env.example files) and the local Supabase stack needs a container runtime that wouldn't start. So everything below was verified statically, by replaying every migration in ledger order to build a schema model and checking this PR's DB access against it. That model found 0 schema mismatches here, and it is trustworthy enough to have independently reproduced the documents.course_id absence that caused #562/#534 — but it cannot see data, and it cannot see whether staging's ledger actually matches the repo.

These are the checks that need a real connection.

1. Ordering is load-bearing — migration BEFORE code

This PR's own comment says it, and the review confirmed the failure mode: submit_quiz calls apply_graph_updateafter the atomic completed_at claim and before the score write, so a pre-migration insert failure loses a graded attempt. _insert_mastery_event retries once without event_type and degrades loudly, but that is a safety net, not a licence to deploy first.

-- Must return one row, is_nullable = YES, before any code shipsSELECT column_name, data_type, is_nullable
FROMinformation_schema.columnsWHERE table_name ='node_mastery_events'AND column_name ='event_type';

2. Existing rows must be untouched

SELECT event_type, count(*) FROM node_mastery_events GROUP BY1ORDER BY2DESC;

Before deploy: expect a single NULL bucket (the PR reports 26 rows on staging). Nothing should have a value yet.

3. After deploy — the namespacing must hold

The fix in this PR namespaced the two producers because the tutor's update_mastery_tool has always sent an event_type (agents/tools/graph.py), it was simply discarded until now. Re-run the same query after traffic:

• Expected values: NULL, tutor_interaction, tutor_correction, tutor_quiz, quiz_correct, quiz_partial, quiz_confusion.
• Any bare interaction / correction / quiz / correct / partial / confusion means a writer bypassed the namespacing — that is the exact ambiguity this change exists to prevent, and it should be investigated rather than accepted.

4. Volume expectation

The tutor is the higher-volume writer of the two, not the quiz. If tutor_* rows are absent after real tutor traffic, update_mastery_tool is silently not persisting and the omit-when-None path is swallowing it.

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Third review round + the live-DB checks

Picking this back up. Two things were outstanding: Jose's three fix commits had never themselves been reviewed, and the pre-merge database checks were left unrun because that environment had no credentials.

Live DB — both pre-merge checks pass on staging

Run through the session-mode pooler (scripts/pooler_url.py; the .env.staging value is the IPv6-only direct host and is unreachable from here):

check	result
event_type column	one row, text, is_nullable = YES, no default
existing rows	single bucket: 26 × NULL
ledger	migration recorded

So the migration is applied strictly before this code ships, which is the ordering the E7 comment calls load-bearing. Checks 3 and 4 (namespacing holds, tutor_* rows appear) are post-traffic and stay open as a post-deploy watch.

I also diffed the edited migration: the header comments were rewritten, but the DDL is byte-identical (ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS event_type TEXT), and the ledger keys on basename — no immutability violation, nothing re-runs.

Review of the fix commits — affde139

No correctness bugs. Four low findings, all fixed:

1. prompt_dimensions.snapshot() lost the whole payload on one bad value. The deep copy sits inside a try whose except returned {}, so a single un-deepcopyable value shipped quiz.started with no dimensions — measuring nothing while looking like a healthy event, which is the exact bug class F6 exists to end. Degrades to a shallow copy now, and warns. Its docstring's rationale was also just wrong (nothing mutates a recorded list in place), so that's corrected rather than left as a false comment.
2. E8 called a failed retrieval no_match_for_concept.retrieve_chunks swallows its own failures and returns [] — the same value a clean miss returns. So a course with material indexed whose retrieval broke was recorded as "it has material, none of it covers this concept": a claim about data we never read, which is precisely what the reason taxonomy exists to stop. Added retrieve_chunks_detailed, which says whether the empty result is a fault or a fact; a fault now reports coverage_unknown. The RAG embedding path sits below the SAPLING_MODEL_MODE seam — live embed calls fire even in function mode #439 seam skip is deliberately not a fault — otherwise every function-mode E2E run would report broken retrieval. retrieve_chunks keeps its list contract, so learn.py and benchmark_quiz.py are untouched.
3. Bench script promised a keyless run "fails loudly here" but still fell back to a dummy key, dying later inside count_tokens on an opaque auth error. It now fails where it says it does.
4. EVENT_TAXONOMY's quiz.started row and docs/quiz-prompt-budget.md disagreed about which dimensions come from the route vs. only when the agent calls the recording tool. Reconciled.

Both behavioural fixes are pinned by tests written to fail first.

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In `@backend/services/rag_service.py`:
- Around line 123-137: Update Retrieval’s default handling so each instance
receives a fresh chunks list instead of the shared class-level [] default;
preserve the NamedTuple API and ensure every clean disabled/empty path
constructs Retrieval(chunks=[]) while every failure path constructs
Retrieval(chunks=[], failed=True).

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[AndresL230]

Merged. Filed the unrelated Playwright failure as #566 — the landing drag-field scroll-follow assertion, red on main since #524, which is what has kept the e2e browser lane red there.

Remaining from the addendum: Workstream H (#553–#557), plus #545 and #546.

Post-deploy watch still owed on this one — checks 3 and 4 from the DB comment above (namespacing holds; tutor_* rows actually appear once real tutor traffic lands). Nothing to run until it deploys.