"""Harness-supplied answer verification: external checks the agent cannot author. Why this module replaces `vera.checks` as the source of the verification signal. Asking the model to write checks over its own artifacts was measured and failed: **0 of 17 emitted checks constrained anything**, and that did not change when the model was told in the prompt that vacuous checks score zero. A model that could author a falsifier for its own claim would already know the claim was wrong. So verification here is chosen by the *harness* from the answer's type and run against the staged data. That follows rbio1's finding that biological world models can act as soft verifiers where formal verification is unavailable, but applies it at inference time rather than as a training reward -- BioMysteryBench's licence forbids training on it. **Abstention is a first-class result.** A verifier that fires on everything is the vacuous check problem again, one level up. Each verifier states the conditions under which it is valid and returns `None` otherwise, and `None` must never be coerced to a score: an answer nobody can check is not an answer that failed. """ from __future__ import annotations import gzip import re from dataclasses import dataclass from pathlib import Path # Chromosome-1 length by assembly, in base pairs. A genome build claim is decidable from # the data alone, so it needs no model at all. BUILD_CHR1 = { "hg38": 248_956_422, "grch38": 248_956_422, "hg19": 249_250_621, "grch37": 249_250_621, "mm10": 195_471_971, "grcm38": 195_471_971, "mm39": 195_154_279, "grcm39": 195_154_279, } _TOKEN = re.compile(r"[A-Za-z0-9_.:+-]{2,}") _STOP = {"the", "and", "for", "with", "from", "sample", "samples", "gene", "genes", "cell", "cells", "type", "answer", "is", "are", "of", "in"} @dataclass(frozen=True) class Verdict: """Outcome of verifying one answer. Attributes: verifier: Which verifier ran, or "" when none applied. score: Confidence in [0, 1], or None when no verifier applied. None means *unknown*, never *wrong*. detail: Why, in one line. """ verifier: str score: float | None detail: str = "" @property def abstained(self) -> bool: """True when no verifier was valid for this answer.""" return self.score is None def _read_text(path: Path, limit: int = 4_000_000) -> str: """Read a possibly-gzipped text file, capped, returning "" on any failure.""" try: opener = gzip.open if path.suffix == ".gz" else open with opener(path, "rt", errors="replace") as fh: # type: ignore[operator] return fh.read(limit) except (OSError, EOFError, UnicodeDecodeError): return "" def answer_tokens(answer: str) -> list[str]: """Identifier-like tokens from an answer, minus common English words.""" return [t for t in _TOKEN.findall(answer or "") if t.lower() not in _STOP and not t.isdigit()] def verify_grounded(answer: str, workspace: Path, *, max_files: int = 40) -> Verdict: """Check that identifiers named in the answer occur in the staged data. Valid only when the answer names identifier-like tokens *and* the workspace holds readable text. An answer naming a sample or gene absent from the data it was derived from is very likely wrong; an answer naming an organism is not checkable this way, which is why this abstains rather than scoring such answers low. Args: answer: The candidate answer. workspace: Directory holding the staged data files. max_files: Cap on files scanned, to bound cost. Returns: Fraction of the answer's tokens found in the data, or an abstention. """ tokens = answer_tokens(answer) if not tokens: return Verdict("grounded", None, "answer names no identifiers") # Only identifier-shaped answers are groundable: prose and species names are not. idish = [t for t in tokens if any(c.isdigit() for c in t) or t.isupper() or "_" in t] if not idish: return Verdict("grounded", None, "answer has no identifier-shaped token") haystack = [] for path in sorted(p for p in workspace.rglob("*") if p.is_file())[:max_files]: haystack.append(_read_text(path)) blob = "\n".join(haystack) if not blob.strip(): return Verdict("grounded", None, "no readable staged text to check against") hits = [t for t in idish if t in blob] score = len(hits) / len(idish) return Verdict("grounded", score, f"{len(hits)}/{len(idish)} identifiers present in the data") def verify_genome_build(answer: str, workspace: Path) -> Verdict: """Decide a genome-build claim by comparing chromosome 1 length to known assemblies. Valid only when the answer names a build this module knows and the workspace exposes a chromosome-1 length. Fully deterministic: no model is involved. """ claimed = next((b for b in BUILD_CHR1 if b in (answer or "").lower()), None) if claimed is None: return Verdict("genome_build", None, "answer names no known assembly") observed = None for path in sorted(p for p in workspace.rglob("*") if p.is_file())[:40]: text = _read_text(path, limit=400_000) for m in re.finditer(r"^(?:chr)?1\b[^\n]*?(\d{8,10})", text, re.M | re.I): observed = int(m.group(1)) break if observed: break if observed is None: return Verdict("genome_build", None, "no chromosome-1 length found in the data") want = BUILD_CHR1[claimed] ok = abs(observed - want) <= max(1000, int(0.0001 * want)) return Verdict("genome_build", 1.0 if ok else 0.0, f"chr1 observed {observed:,} vs {claimed} {want:,}") VERIFIERS = (verify_genome_build, verify_grounded) def verify(answer: str, workspace: Path) -> Verdict: """Run the first applicable verifier, most specific first. Args: answer: Candidate answer. workspace: Staged data directory. Returns: The first non-abstaining `Verdict`, else an abstention naming no verifier. The order matters: a decidable check (genome build) must win over a probabilistic one (grounding), or a confident wrong answer could be scored on the weaker signal. """ for fn in VERIFIERS: verdict = fn(answer, workspace) if not verdict.abstained: return verdict return Verdict("", None, "no verifier applies to this answer") def select(candidates: list[str], workspace: Path) -> tuple[str, Verdict]: """Choose among candidate answers by verification score. Ties, and the all-abstain case, fall back to the first candidate: with no signal the method must not pretend to have one. Callers should treat an abstaining verdict as "unselected" rather than "verified". Args: candidates: Answers from independent trajectories, best-effort order preserved. workspace: Staged data directory. Returns: ``(answer, verdict)`` for the chosen candidate. """ usable = [c for c in candidates if (c or "").strip()] if not usable: return "", Verdict("", None, "no candidate answers") scored = [(c, verify(c, workspace)) for c in usable] best = max(scored, key=lambda cv: (cv[1].score is not None, cv[1].score or 0.0)) if best[1].abstained: return usable[0], Verdict("", None, "no verifier applied to any candidate") return best