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Finishes quest/m0/benchmark/reviewer-eval.md: the PRs that broke something, with each defect located from its fix, and a set of PRs known clean, now form an eval that a command scores reviewers on.

Summary

• quest eval add <pr> records a merged PR of origin's repository in review-eval.json. Pass --clean for one that broke nothing, or --defect path:from-to (repeatable, one per place) with --fix and --what for a culprit's defect. A culprit already in the set gains each further defect. The first time it reads the PR's last head and base from GitHub, fetches them, and records the merge base, the size and latest writer from ## Models, and the classifier's tier.
• quest eval run reviews each case at its head in a detached checkout under the clone's common Git directory, removed afterwards. It gives the size's pick (avoiding the case's writer) and its shadow, or --harness's reviewer alone with --model/--effort, the exact first round quest review gives: the base's AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md, the case's tier, this build's prompts and reviewer table, and the running checkout's committed REVIEW.md. It reports defects found and clean findings by severity for pick, shadow, and either, by size and by tier, each case's rounds, and the cost token-max prices for the run's sessions and their sub-sessions.
• review.ts: the new-session first round is factored into open(), shared by reviewWith and the new firstRound(), so the eval cannot drift from live review.
• review-eval.json: moq-dev/quest's set, 13 culprits with 15 defects and 13 clean PRs.
• The root AGENTS.md now requires a change to the reviewers, the review prompts, or a REVIEW.md to run quest eval run with the base's build and the head's, and to put both scores and their cost in ## Validation. Mistake audit now adds each catchable escape to its repository's set, and model check scores reviewer changes on it.
• The fake reviewer CLIs moved from test/review.test.ts to test/review-fakes.ts so test/eval.test.ts can use them. That move carries feat(records)!: split each session's time into categories with a cheap model #725's two classifier lines.

How the set was built

• Culprits: all 18 ## Caused by pairs in moq-dev/quest. Three Opus 5.5 sub-agents read each culprit and its fix, confirmed the culprit's own diff introduced the defect, judged it catchable, maybe, or runtime, and located it at the culprit's head. I checked a sample by hand at the culprit heads (feat: quest usage reports models, cost, and accuracy #570 usage.ts:395-410, feat(agent)!: run quest agent on the logged-in account, dropping API keys #492 agent.ts:94-104, feat(worktree): supervise runs in systemd scopes and release automatically #178 supervise.ts:34-36), and all three matched. Excluded: The gate owns its command's descendants #261 (macOS EPERM), chore(deps): bump nixpkgs from d3b13ad to 885ba4d in the nix group across 1 directory #502 (opencode upstream behavior), and feat!: quest review runs DeepSeek beside the size's reviewer on every head #621 (a test race), which are runtime; and feat(runner)!: drive opencode 2.x through @opencode/client #480, which knowingly deferred the leak it is blamed for. feat(worktree): remove finished checkouts and stop crashed runs #186's line names two defects, so it holds two. feat(gate): yield the CPU to the interactive session #585 holds one defect for each of its two fixes. Its stale-help defect also gets a place in lines feat(gate): yield the CPU to the interactive session #585 changed, the owner() doc comment it rewrote (gate.ts:681-686, apart from the signal defect's line 692 so one finding cannot score both), since its help strings sit outside feat(gate): yield the CPU to the interactive session #585's diff and a reviewer anchors findings on changed lines (round 1's finding 5).
• Clean: merged 2026-10-21 to 2026-11-07, at least a week ago, changing src/, 20 to 1,500 changed lines, and named by no ## Caused by. No fix before moq-dev/quest#490 named its culprit, so a candidate is also dropped when any later fix/revert commit on main changed a line blame gives to it. 13 were sampled with a fixed seed from the 59 left.

Validation

• just check and just test pass, after merging feat(records)!: split each session's time into categories with a cheap model #725.
• test/eval.test.ts runs the real CLI against the fake reviewers and a fake GitHub: add from the API (clean, a culprit, a second defect with two places, a duplicate, lines past the file's end, an unknown PR), then run (scores, either-seat noise, rules from the checkout's HEAD and not the base's, the base's AGENTS.md and not the head's, no checkout left behind, --pr, --harness). Writing it caught add --clean writing a case that was not clean.
• Fetching a merged PR's head by SHA works from a fresh empty clone of GitHub (git fetch --depth 1 <url> <sha>).
• Round 1 found that a fork's clone could not run the set, among four other findings. The test now clones a fork with --no-local (so it lacks the PR heads), then adds a defect and runs the eval there, fetching the heads by SHA from the set's repository.
• Real trial, kept small: quest eval run --pr 492 --pr 503 on Codex, since Claude Code is not logged in on this host. moq-dev/quest#492 (M, culprit): Sol high and its shadow, Sol medium, both scored 9 and found 0/1. Their transcripts show both reading limit.ts and agent.ts and still missing the duplicated LIMIT, the defect an online reviewer flagged at the time. That matches the audit's finding that every escape passed a local Sol review. moq-dev/quest#503 (XS, clean): Sol medium and low both scored 10, with no findings. Wall time was about 1.5 minutes.
• Online review fixes (4eaf2c7): quest eval add 999999 --defect src/a.ts:9-4 --fix 1 --what x, run with no GitHub token and no gh on PATH, exits 2 on the --defect syntax, so it is now checked before any request or classifier session; --what "" exits 2 as an invalid argument. The end-to-end test now puts a fake token-max on PATH and asserts its cost ($0.75 from the seats' session and its review sub-session, ignoring an unrelated one) instead of null. Reverting the null-ID guard in priced makes the new unit assertion fail. Local review then moved a case's quest size to the base tip, as quest review reads it. The quest size at merge base and at tip matches for all 26 cases, so no recorded size changed.
• Trial cost: token-max is not installed on this host, so run printed it as unpriced. From the Codex session logs, 8 sessions (4 seats and their review sub-sessions) used 573,569 input tokens (376,064 cached) and 3,409 output. That puts a full 26-case run, with pick and shadow, at roughly 7.5M input tokens.

Public API

• New commands: quest eval run and quest eval add. New file format: review-eval.json at a repository's root.
• No change to quest review's behavior, output, or wire. No !.

Choices made without asking

• Top-level quest eval: I first nested it as quest review eval, but Commander then hands --harness, --model, and --json to quest review. Positional options would fix that only if enabled program-wide, which breaks --root after a subcommand.
• Matching is by place: a finding finds a defect when it names a line inside one of the defect's ranges. A finding with no line finds nothing. There is no model judge, so the score is deterministic and free. It may undercount a finding that describes the defect but points at a caller.
• Noise: every finding on a clean PR counts as noise, reported by severity. A clean PR may still hold a real latent bug, so this is an upper bound.
• Inputs: each case's tier and reason are stored when it is added, so a run spends nothing on classifying. The reviewer gets the running checkout's committed REVIEW.md (to score a rules change) but the case's base AGENTS.md (to stay faithful to what the original reviewer saw).
• Failures: cases run one at a time, with their seats at once. The first failure fails the run, as quest context asks of partial failures.
• Forks: run fetches from the set's repository: a remote that names it, else its GitHub URL in origin's scheme. A new set takes the repository origin's fork chain leads to, as quest start does.
• Where the set lives: in each repository, beside its REVIEW.md. A private repository's set stays in that repository, and this PR names none.

Decisions

Settled by the maintainer in this comment:

• Pick: ✅ /quest-merge once the open review findings are fixed or refuted (rejected: skip, /quest-delete).
• moq-dev/moq eval set follow-up: ✅ keep, for /quest-plan in moq-dev/moq's tree (rejected: drop).
• The private product repository's eval set follow-up: ✅ keep, for /quest-plan in that repository's tree (rejected: drop).

Follow-ups

Both are decided (kept, see ## Decisions) and belong to other repositories' quest trees, so this PR plans neither here.

• moq-dev/moq: build its set with quest eval add from its ## Caused by culprits, for /quest-plan in its own tree. Its REVIEW.md is the main other rules file a change would score.
• The maintainer's private product repository: the same, in its own tree, keeping the set there.

Models

• Size: L
• Implementer: Claude Code, claude-opus-5-5, high effort
• Implementer: Claude Code, claude-opus-5-5, unknown effort (iterate, S)

(Written by Claude Opus 5.5 with high; iterated by Claude Opus 5.5)

Review

Rewritten by quest review after each round.

• Head: 36c88dd

• Base: origin/main at ee98a03

• Risk: high, The new eval commands and required evaluation runs launch model sessions across historical PRs, potentially spending contributors’ and maintainers’ paid usage that a revert cannot recover.

• Classified: high by Codex, gpt-6.1-sol, low effort, session 01a1db85-f35e-7b50-bb18-5e38a02e8711

• Reviewer: Codex, gpt-6.1-sol, xhigh effort

• Session: 01a1db7d-d891-7161-9dda-a2d613629999, round 2

• Score: 10/10, The follow-up fixes the overlapping labels and aligns size selection with quest review, with no remaining findings in the reviewed scope.

• Rounds: 2; first round 1 (medium 1); findings 1 (medium 1): fixed 1, refuted 0, open 0

• Findings: none

• The last round's findings, at 4eaf2c7:

  • Fixed: medium, review-eval.json:420: Separate the overlapping #585 defect labels; review-eval.json:422 now ends the stale-help range at gate.ts:686, leaving gate.ts:692 exclusive to the signal-forwarding defect so a finding there receives credit only once.

• Reviewer: Codex, gpt-6.1-sol, high effort, shadow

• Session: 01a1db7d-d891-78e2-8d08-d90e3f9dacb1, round 2

• Score: 10/10, Both reported defects are fixed, and the changes since the previous review introduce no new blocking findings.

• Rounds: 2; first round 2 (medium 2); findings 2 (medium 2): fixed 2, refuted 0, open 0

• Findings: none

• The last round's findings, at 4eaf2c7:

  • Fixed: medium, src/cli/review-eval.ts:291: Resolve quest sizes from the fetched base tip; resolveCase now passes the fetched base tip to reviewSize while retaining the merge base for the reviewed diff.
  • Fixed: medium, review-eval.json:420: Restrict the stale-help defect to its help-text locations; The stale-help range now ends at gate.ts:686, excluding the signal-forwarding defect at line 692 and preventing the reported double credit.

[pullfrog]

ℹ️ No critical issues. One minor suggestion inline.

Reviewed changes

I reviewed the whole PR at d25ff38: the new quest eval add/run commands, the review.ts refactor they share, the checked-in set, and the docs and quest updates. Type-check, prettier, test/eval.test.ts (8 tests), and test/review.test.ts (95 tests) pass locally.

• quest eval add: finds the set's repository through upstream(), fetches the PR's head and base tip from source(), and records the merge base, size, writer, and classifier tier. It then checks each --defect place against the file at the head.
• quest eval run: picks every seat before any model runs. It then reviews each case in a detached worktree under the common Git directory, using the shared firstRound(). Findings are scored by place and every clean finding counts as noise. Cost comes from token-max sessions and their sub-sessions.
• open()/firstRound() in src/cli/review.ts: the new-session review and report turns are factored out, so reviewWith and the eval send the same prompts.
• reviewFailure in src/cli/main.ts: quest review and both eval commands now share one exit-code mapping (2, 3, or 1).
• review-eval.json and docs: the PR adds moq-dev/quest's 26-case set, the README's "Score the reviewer" section, and a root AGENTS.md rule to score reviewer changes. It also updates the mistake-audit and model-check quests and deletes the finished quest.

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The change adds quest eval add and quest eval run for recording clean or defect cases and evaluating reviewers at recorded revisions. The evaluation engine validates case data, runs reviews, matches findings to defect locations, and reports scores and optional session costs. The change also adds an evaluation set, tests, and contributor guidance. New reviewer sessions use a review turn followed by a schema-constrained reporting turn.

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The new eval commands work as described, but a few edge cases need fixing: cost totals can include unrelated sessions, an empty defect description corrupts the eval set until it is hand-edited, and one test depends on whether token-max is installed on the host. These are small, contained fixes and carry little risk of production impact.

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- Line 1687: Update the --what option used by addCase to use the existing
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- Line 559: Update the descendant lookup in the `review-eval.ts` flow so `ours`
is extended only when the matched session’s `each.id` is non-null. Keep the
matched session’s cost in the total, but do not add null IDs to `ours`.

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- Line 324: Control token-max discovery in the end-to-end eval test’s eval run
so the result is independent of tools installed on the host. Either set a
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Maintainer decision (via /quest-run, 2026-11-14):

• Pick: ✅ /quest-merge once the open review findings are fixed or refuted (rejected: skip, /quest-delete).
• Follow-up, moq-dev/moq eval set: ✅ keep, for /quest-plan in moq-dev/moq's tree (rejected: drop).
• Follow-up, the maintainer's private product repository eval set: ✅ keep, for /quest-plan in that repository's tree (rejected: drop).

Both follow-ups belong to other repositories' quest trees, so they stay in ## Follow-ups for /quest-plan there.

(Written by Claude Opus 5.5)

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✅ No new issues found. The new commits fix the earlier finding and every review comment.

Reviewed changes

I reviewed the changes from d25ff38 to 36c88dd (4eaf2c7 and 36c88dd).

• Defect syntax checked first: addCase now parses every --defect before upstream(), the GitHub lookup, the fetch, and classify(). --what now rejects an empty value through nonEmpty.
• No-ID sub-sessions in priced: a session with a null id still counts toward the cost, but it is no longer added to ours, so it cannot claim top-level sessions as its children. A new unit test covers this.
• Quest size read at the base tip: resolveCase now passes the base tip to reviewSize, which is where quest review reads it. The merge base is still used for the reviewed diff.
• #585's defect ranges no longer overlap: the stale-help range now ends at gate.ts:686, so line 692 belongs only to the signal-forwarding defect.
• Cost test no longer depends on the host: the end-to-end test puts a fake token-max on PATH and checks the exact cost ($0.75) instead of null. It also checks that the syntax error and the empty --what are rejected for a PR the fake GitHub does not have.

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