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fix(quiz): read misconceptions from the offering keyspace (#553) - #567
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`offering_concept_stats.offering_id` holds `course_offerings.id`. The
misconceptions tool handed it `ctx.deps.course_id` — the abstract
`courses.id` the graph and the HTTP boundary carry. Two disjoint keyspaces,
so the read matched nothing for every student since the tool was written,
and `use_shared_context` has been a no-op. An empty list is exactly what
"this class has no misconceptions yet" looks like, which is why it survived.
Verified live before changing anything, as the issue requires:
| | stats rows | key on an offering | key on a course | filter by course id | filter by the student's offerings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| staging | 72 | 72 | 0 | **0** | 68 + 4 |
| prod | 73 | 73 | 0 | **0** | 73 |
The tool now resolves course -> the student's offerings through
`services/academics.py`, which owns that resolution, and filters
`offering_id=in.(...)`. Plural throughout: a student can hold more than one
offering of the same course (the rich seed's active user has CS in two
terms), and scoping to a single "current" offering would silently drop the
other class's aggregates.
Two things fell out of doing it properly:
- **A bare `str` is a `Sequence[str]`.** An unguarded comprehension would
iterate the id per CHARACTER and build a well-formed filter that matches
nothing — the same shape that had the quiz_history coercer spraying "- r"
into prompts earlier in this batch. Guarded explicitly.
- **The F5 probe had to get narrower, or this fix would ship a false alarm
to every generation.** `COURSE_HAS_AGGREGATES` asked whether any stats row
exists. The aggregation writes a row per concept as soon as a class has
activity and only fills `common_misconceptions` when it has something to
say — 0 of 72 rows on staging and 0 of 73 on prod carry text today. So the
moment the keyspace was fixed, every student would trip `quiz.tool_empty`
on every quiz. The probe now asks for rows that actually carry text
(`neq.{}`, verified against staging PostgREST), which is what the
expectation always meant.
Tests: the hermetic half pins the filter shape; the real-DB half exists
because a mocked `table()` can assert a filter STRING without ever learning
that the string selects nothing — the blind spot that let #529 live 51 days.
The rich seed gains `offering_concept_stats` rows shaped to tell a fix from
a coincidence: two offerings of one course (both the active user's), one row
with an empty array, and one belonging to a class they are NOT in whose text
must never leak.
Hermetic 2129 passed / 9 skipped, integration 7/7 new + 51 total.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe misconception reader now resolves student course enrollments to offering IDs, queries all matching offerings, handles empty inputs, and scopes empty-result signals to populated misconception data. Seed data and tests cover multi-offering reads, student isolation, and empty arrays. ChangesOffering-scoped misconception flow
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk:🟡 Moderate · up to The change can still return no misconceptions for a class that has populated misconception data when newer empty aggregate rows consume the 20-row limit, potentially producing incorrect quiz behavior and false alerts. The result filtering should occur before limiting rows, with regression coverage, before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant QuizToolWrapper
participant read_misconceptions_for_course
participant offering_concept_stats
participant tool_signals
QuizToolWrapper->>QuizToolWrapper: Resolve student course to offering IDs
QuizToolWrapper->>read_misconceptions_for_course: Pass offering IDs
read_misconceptions_for_course->>offering_concept_stats: Query offering_id with IN filter
read_misconceptions_for_course-->>QuizToolWrapper: Return offering-scoped misconceptions
QuizToolWrapper->>tool_signals: Probe populated aggregates when the result is empty
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In `@backend/agents/tools/graph_read.py`:
- Around line 416-420: The offering_concept_stats query in the graph reader must
exclude empty common_misconceptions arrays before applying limit=20. Add the
same common_misconceptions neq.{} filter used by the tool_signals probe, and add
a regression test covering more than 20 rows with newer empty arrays and an
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Five findings from `/code-review high`. Two changed the shape of the fix. **The read could still return [] for a class that HAS misconceptions.** It kept `updated_at.desc LIMIT 20` with no filter on rows carrying text — and `course_context_service` stamps every row of one aggregation pass with the same timestamp, so ordering within an offering is arbitrary. Text-bearing rows are the rare minority (0 of 72 rows on staging, 0 of 73 on prod carry text today), so the window fills with empty rows and the tool hands back nothing: the exact symptom #553 exists to fix, surviving the fix. The read now filters `common_misconceptions=neq.{}`, which also makes it ask the SAME question the F5 probe asks — otherwise every such class emits a permanent false `quiz.tool_empty` on every generation. **The Class-intel opt-out was never actually enforced.** The tool is registered on quiz_agent unconditionally and system-prompt step 2 tells the model to call it every run; `use_shared_context` only ever APPENDED a routing sentence when true. That looked correct only because the read was keyspace-broken and returned [] for everyone — fixing #553 would have started feeding other students' aggregated misconceptions to students who opted out, while the same run recorded `misconceptions_requested: False`. The consent now rides `SaplingDeps.share_class_context` and the tool returns [] before reading anything. Enforced at the tool, not in the prompt: a system-prompt instruction is a request to a model, and consent is not something to leave to one. Also: - **Per-offering reads.** One shared `LIMIT` over `in.(a,b)` with an arbitrary sort meant an offering with a full window starved its sibling — reintroducing, per offering, the silent drop that taking a LIST was added to prevent. Students hold one or two offerings of a course, so this is one or two indexed reads. - **Cap what reaches the prompt.** The old cap counted ROWS, and each row carries an unbounded array, so the block's real size was never bounded. `_MAX_MISCONCEPTIONS` bounds the unit that costs tokens. - Probe filter pinned by integration tests against real PostgREST (a typo would degrade to "can't tell" and leave the seam inert while looking like "no discrepancies found"), plus one asserting probe and read agree. - `Expect.COURSE_HAS_AGGREGATES` docstring said "aggregates exist" when the probe now means "aggregates carrying text". - The two premise tests the review flagged as FK-guaranteed now say so, rather than presenting as guards they aren't. Hermetic 2131 passed / 9 skipped, ruff clean. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Review round + the gradebook investigation
Plus per-offering reads (one shared LIMIT let one offering starve its sibling), a cap on misconception strings rather than rows, the probe filter pinned by integration tests against real PostgREST, and two doc-drift fixes. The gradebook journey — investigated, not waved through
What I ran:
The third arm is the one that matters: the resolver change is present and the test passes, which exonerates it. A DB snapshot taken straight after a full-suite run confirms the seed is correct ( I called it "my change" at one point on an n=1 control; that was wrong and the larger sample corrected it. Tracked as #569 with the full data, because a guard whose failure looks identical to the regression it guards is a defect in its own right. VerificationHermetic 2131 passed / 9 skipped, ruff clean, oracles 0 findings, integration 56 passed, Playwright 47 passed (the one failure is #566, red on |
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Closes#553. Workstream H1 of epic #537.
The bug
offering_concept_stats.offering_idholdscourse_offerings.id. The misconceptions tool handed itctx.deps.course_id— the abstractcourses.idthat the graph and the HTTP boundary carry. Two disjoint keyspaces, so the read matched nothing for every student since the tool was written, anduse_shared_contexthas been a no-op. An empty list is exactly what "this class has no misconceptions yet" looks like, which is why nobody noticed.Verified live before changing anything
The issue's first instruction, and the audit had this flagged as code-verified only. Run through the session-mode pooler against both environments:
course_offeringscoursesConfirmed, not inferred. (Prod's pooler prefix is
aws-0-, not staging'saws-1-—scripts/pooler_url.pytakes it as an argument.)The fix
The tool resolves course → the student's offerings through
services/academics.py, which owns that resolution, and filtersoffering_id=in.(...).Plural throughout. A student can hold more than one offering of the same course — a repeat, or a course spanning terms; the rich seed's active user has CS in two. Scoping to a single "current" offering would silently drop the other class's aggregates, which is the same failure in a smaller costume.
The resolution moved from probe-only to unconditional, which reverses a micro-optimisation from #563's review. That was correct when only the probe needed the ids; the read needs them now, so the two PostgREST round-trips are the price of asking the right question at all. Noted in the test that pinned the old behaviour.
Two things that fell out
A bare
stris aSequence[str]. An unguarded comprehension would iterate the id per character and buildin.(c,a,s,-,c,s,...)— a perfectly well-formed filter that matches nothing. That is the same shape that had thequiz_historycoercer spraying- r/- e/- cinto prompts earlier in this batch, and the entire lesson of #553 is that a silently-matching-nothing filter survives for months. Guarded explicitly.The F5 probe had to get narrower, or this fix ships a false alarm to every generation.
COURSE_HAS_AGGREGATESasked whether any stats row exists. But the aggregation writes a row per concept as soon as a class has any activity and only fillscommon_misconceptionswhen it has something to say — 0 of 72 rows on staging and 0 of 73 on prod carry text today. So the moment the keyspace was fixed, every student would tripquiz.tool_emptyon every quiz: precisely the alarm fatigue F5 exists to prevent, and the same trap #563's second review round caught forquiz.rag_uncovered. The probe now asks for rows that actually carry text (neq.{}, verified against staging's PostgREST), which is what the expectation always meant.Tests
The hermetic half pins the filter shape. The real-DB half exists because a mocked
table()can assert a filter string without ever learning that the string selects nothing — the blind spot that let #529 live 51 days, and the reason this bug is being fixed at all.db/seed_local_rich.pygains anoffering_concept_statsblock shaped to tell a fix from a coincidence:Verification
landing-drag-field.spec.ts:332— e2e lane red on main since #524: a dropped landing node doesn't scroll with the page #566, red onmainsince the feat(landing): port Sapling Landing v5 #524 landing-v5 merge; diagnosed there as the test being wrong, fix in flight separately.gradebook.spec.ts:35— environmental. One failure across ~6 executions of that spec (3/3 green here in isolation, plus 3/3 from a parallel session, both with this change live), CI green onbe47a04b, and the failure mode is a visibility timeout on the "Exams" heading rather than the wrong-enrollment value mismatch a shared-resolver regression would produce. Checked rather than assumed, because "a course taken in two terms" is exactly a multi-offering assertion.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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