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Closes #1188

Summary

  • Before: Eval-v2 run summaries were stored truncated mid-sentence due to a structured output format that resulted in silent truncation.
  • Now: Summaries are stored correctly as plain text, preventing truncation and allowing all text blocks to be included.
  • Removed unnecessary JSON schema that caused issues.
  • Implemented a warning for cases where truncation still occurs.

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Before submitting a pull request, please ensure that you mark these task.

  • Ran fastapi run --reload app/main.py or docker compose up in the repository root and test.
  • If you've fixed a bug or added code that is tested and has test cases.

Notes

Two things a reviewer should know are deliberately out of scope:

  1. The already-truncated rows stay truncated. A backfill would mean re-running the summary call against each run's stored traces. Happy to do it as a follow-up if wanted.
  2. The quote-termination class is still open on prompt_improvement. Its new guard catches max_tokens only; an early string close reports end_turn, so the guard passes.
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Issue

Closes #1188

Summary

Eval-v2 run summaries (EvaluationRun.score.overall.ai_summary) were being stored truncated mid-sentence — 11 of 74 rows in a local ai_platform DB:

... All five repeats omit the required     <- ends here
... because the model never names          <- ends here
... adds Linnaeus's nationality (          <- ends here

Root cause

generate_run_ai_summary requested Anthropic structured output for what is a single prose field:

output_config={"format": {"type": "json_schema", "schema": _OUTPUT_SCHEMA}}
# _OUTPUT_SCHEMA = {"summary": {"type": "string"}}

Structured outputs work by constrained decoding. Inside the string value of {"summary": "..."}, a bare " is a grammatically legal token — it is the string terminator. When the summary reached a quoted phrase (omit the required "wellness message", nationality ("Swedish")) and the sampler emitted the raw " instead of \ + ", the grammar read it as end-of-string. The object closed, generation finished normally, json.loads succeeded.

Every layer reported success: valid JSON, stop_reason == "end_turn", and a non-fatal except Exception with nothing to log.

Ruled out first

  • max_tokens — cap is 3000; truncated rows measured 354-842 chars (~90-220 output tokens), while complete summaries in the same table reach 2000+.
  • Column limit — score is JSONB, containing columns are Text; no constraint in save_score.
  • Display clamp — ruled out with SELECT length(...) in psql rather than reading a DB-client grid cell.

Evidence for the mechanism:

rows contain a "
complete 58 11
truncated 16 1

Quotes are near-absent from truncated summaries, because the first quote is what ended generation. Cut points land exactly where a quote would open. Per-quote coin flip: ~11 rows got lucky with \", ~11 did not.

Changes

crud/evaluations/summary.py — schema deleted. A one-field JSON wrapper bought nothing and caused the bug. Removing it closed three problems at once:

before after
quote closes the string -> silent truncation no grammar, prose is prose
next(b.text for b in ...) took only the first text block joins every text block
malformed JSON -> whole summary degraded to None no parse step to fail

Plus a stop_reason != "end_turn" warning — partial text is still returned (a short summary still reads usefully), it is just no longer silent.

services/evaluations/prompt_improvement.py — schema kept; two fields plus maxLength: 200 on rationale earn it. But improved_instructions is persisted as a new config_version, so a truncated draft becomes a live system prompt. Added a stop_reason guard that raises prompt_generation_failed, with except RuntimeError: raise above the generic handler so the precise cause is not flattened. The existing worker wrapping turns it into Job FAILED plus a failure callback.

"end_turn" verified against the installed SDK, not memory — anthropic/types/stop_reason.py: Literal["end_turn", "max_tokens", "stop_sequence", "tool_use", "pause_turn", "refusal"].

Tests — mocks moved from json.dumps({"summary": ...}) to plain text with stop_reason, across test_run_ai_summary.py, test_fast_judge.py, test_improve_prompt{,_v2}.py. New cases: quotes survive intact, truncated output still returned, truncation guard raises. 315 pass in app/tests/crud/evaluations + both prompt-improvement suites.

Wiki — docs/wiki/modules/evaluations.md said "structured JSON output" for summary.py; now records plain-text output plus why the schema is deliberately absent, and the prompt-improvement guard. No domain-map.md change: no entities, tables, or edges moved, and the ai_summary / ConfigVersion shapes are identical.

Checklist

  • Ran fastapi run --reload app/main.py or docker compose up in the repository root and test.
  • If you've fixed a bug or added code that is tested and has test cases.

Notes

Two things a reviewer should know are deliberately out of scope:

  1. The already-truncated rows stay truncated. A backfill would mean re-running the summary call against each run's stored traces. Happy to do it as a follow-up if wanted.
  2. The quote-termination class is still open on prompt_improvement. Its new guard catches max_tokens only; an early string close reports end_turn, so the guard passes. Worse there than in summary.py: with two required fields, after the string closes early the grammar forces ,"rationale":..., so json.loads returns both keys with improved_instructions amputated — zero signal. Closing it means dropping json_schema there too and switching to delimiter-separated output. Left out of this PR to keep the blast radius small; say the word and it is a small follow-up.

One caveat on confidence: the diagnosis is correlational — strong correlation and a verified mechanism, but not a controlled reproduction. The new warning is the falsification test: if truncation reappears with stop_reason=end_turn, the quote theory was wrong and the model is simply stopping early. The fix is right either way, since a one-field JSON wrapper never earned its place.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved AI-generated evaluation summaries so quoted text is preserved correctly.
    • Handles incomplete AI responses and logs a truncation warning.
    • Prevents truncated prompt drafts from being saved as configuration versions, returning a clear error instead.
    • Provides more useful details when prompt-improvement requests fail.
  • Documentation

    • Updated evaluation documentation to describe plain-text response handling, truncation behavior, and provider error details.

`generate_run_ai_summary` requested Anthropic structured output for what
is a single prose field. Under constrained decoding a bare `"` inside the
string value of `{"summary": "..."}` is a legal string terminator, so when
the summary reached a quoted phrase and the sampler emitted the raw quote
instead of `\"`, the object closed early. The result was valid JSON with an
amputated sentence, `stop_reason == "end_turn"`, and nothing to log — 11 of
74 stored summaries were affected.

Drop the schema: a one-field JSON wrapper bought nothing and also hid two
other defects, since `next(b.text ...)` discarded every text block after the
first and any parse failure degraded the whole summary to `None`. Text blocks
are now joined and a non-`end_turn` stop is logged as a truncation warning.

`_call_prompt_drafting_llm` keeps its schema — two fields plus a `maxLength`
cap on the rationale earn it — but now raises `prompt_generation_failed` on a
non-`end_turn` stop, so a `max_tokens`-truncated draft fails the job instead
of being persisted as a live system prompt.

Closes #1188

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The change removes schema-constrained output for evaluation summaries and concatenates raw text blocks. It logs incomplete summary responses. Prompt drafting now rejects non-complete Anthropic responses. Tests and documentation cover both behaviors.

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Plain-text evaluation summaries
backend/app/crud/evaluations/summary.py, backend/app/tests/crud/evaluations/test_run_ai_summary.py, backend/app/tests/crud/evaluations/test_fast_judge.py, docs/wiki/modules/evaluations.md
Evaluation summaries use plain-text response blocks instead of JSON-schema output. Multiple text blocks are concatenated. Non-end_turn responses produce truncation warnings while remaining returnable. Tests cover quoted prose, missing text, and truncated responses.
Prompt draft completion guard
backend/app/services/evaluations/prompt_improvement.py, backend/app/tests/api/routes/test_improve_prompt.py, backend/app/tests/api/routes/test_improve_prompt_v2.py, docs/wiki/modules/evaluations.md
Prompt drafting raises RuntimeError when Anthropic returns a non-end_turn stop reason. The specific error propagates unchanged. Tests cover complete and max_tokens-truncated responses.

Priority: ➖ Normal — Schedule the evaluation summary change because it prevents incomplete AI summaries and prompt drafts from being saved, addressing a medium-severity data-quality issue.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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Evaluation summaries now retain plain response text, including quotations, while incomplete prompt drafts are rejected before persistence. No actionable merge-readiness risk remains.

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backend/app/tests/crud/evaluations/test_run_ai_summary.py (1)

77-80: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Extract repeated stop reasons into test constants.

The test module repeats "end_turn" in _message and the no-text fixture. Define a local constant for the complete stop reason, and use constants for other tested stop reasons. This keeps fixtures aligned and removes magic values.

As per coding guidelines: “Do not use magic values; extract repeated literals into constants, enums, or settings.”

Also applies to: 291-292

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In `@backend/app/tests/crud/evaluations/test_run_ai_summary.py` around lines 77 -
80, Define module-local constants for each stop reason used by the evaluation
tests, including the complete “end_turn” reason and the other tested reasons,
then update _message and the no-text fixture to reference those constants
instead of repeated string literals.

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In `@backend/app/tests/crud/evaluations/test_run_ai_summary.py`:
- Around line 77-80: Define module-local constants for each stop reason used by
the evaluation tests, including the complete “end_turn” reason and the other
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Added some small comments.

Comment thread backend/app/crud/evaluations/summary.py Outdated

# Headroom for the overall read + up to 3 flagged items + closing line; too low
# truncates into invalid JSON.
# Headroom for the overall read + up to 3 flagged items + closing line.

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not needed, these types of comments.

Comment thread backend/app/crud/evaluations/summary.py Outdated
Comment thread backend/app/crud/evaluations/summary.py Outdated
Comment on lines +163 to +164
# No json_schema: a quote in the prose reads as the JSON string
# terminator and silently amputates the rest.

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remove the all unnecessary comments. if the logic is too hard to understand then only that case need to add these types of comments.

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right now, it's adding the comments in the every new added line.

Comment thread backend/app/crud/evaluations/summary.py Outdated
"additionalProperties": False,
}
# Anything else (max_tokens, refusal) means the text is partial.
_STOP_REASON_COMPLETE: str = "end_turn"

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this same thing use in the two places one is here and another is here. just use the one single variable and export from here and use it in the another file.

for make this publicable accessable remove the prefix _.

Comment thread backend/app/services/evaluations/prompt_improvement.py Outdated
Comment thread backend/app/crud/evaluations/summary.py Outdated
).strip()
stop_reason: str | None = response.stop_reason

# Deliberately broad: a summary failure must never fail the run.

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# Deliberately broad: a summary failure must never fail the run.

Comment thread backend/app/crud/evaluations/summary.py Outdated
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return None

# A partial summary still reads usefully; operators just need to know.

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# A partial summary still reads usefully; operators just need to know.

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except RuntimeError:
raise

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is this actually needed? if yes, then return some raise error.

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this overwrite the message with "unexpected error during prompt generation" adn lets the specific message (stop_reason=max_tokens — retry) reach Job.error_message intact.

response = MagicMock()
response.content = [content_block]
response.id = "msg_test_id"
response.stop_reason = "end_turn"

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response.stop_reason = "end_turn"
response.stop_reason = STOP_REASON_COMPLETE

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content=[SimpleNamespace(type="text", text=text)],
stop_reason="end_turn",

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content=[SimpleNamespace(type="text", text=text)],
stop_reason="end_turn",
content=[SimpleNamespace(type="text", text=text)],
stop_reason= STOP_REASON_COMPLETE,

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backend/app/tests/api/routes/test_improve_prompt.py (1)

929-929: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Use the repository JSON-object type.

_anthropic_response passes body as an HTTP JSON payload. Annotate it as JsonObject (dict[str, JsonValue]), or use dict[str, object] if importing the alias is not suitable.

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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In `@backend/app/tests/api/routes/test_improve_prompt.py` at line 929, Update the
_anthropic_response helper’s body parameter annotation to use the repository’s
JsonObject type, or dict[str, object] if importing JsonObject is unsuitable,
while preserving its existing response behavior.

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In `@backend/app/tests/api/routes/test_improve_prompt.py`:
- Line 929: Update the _anthropic_response helper’s body parameter annotation to
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AkhileshNegi and others added 2 commits September 8, 2026 22:16
Address PR review: the "end_turn" stop-reason literal was defined twice
(summary.py, prompt_improvement.py) and repeated across four test modules.
Hoist it to services/llm/providers/claude.py, already the shared home for
one-shot Anthropic call-site helpers.

Also drop the "what" comments the review flagged in summary.py.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per PR review. The json_schema rationale stays documented in
docs/wiki/modules/evaluations.md.

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