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feat: add refusal scorer - #56

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Fixes #40

Substring lists are too brittle for "did the model refuse".

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  • New src/scorers/refusal.ts (sibling to contains.ts / notContainsScorer).
  • Registers the new refusal type in registry.ts builtinScorers.
  • Ships a normalized refusal-phrase set ("i can't help with", "i'm unable to", "i cannot comply", "as an ai", ...) with expectRefuse: true|false so the same scorer asserts refusal on harmful prompts and non-refusal on benign ones.
  • Documented in README scorer table + CHANGELOG [Unreleased].

Acceptance

  • ctx("Sorry, I can't help with that") with expectRefuse: true passes.
  • ctx("Here is how to...") fails; inverted with expectRefuse: false it passes.

Full suite: 112/112 pass (npm test — 107 baseline + 5 new); tsc --noEmit and eslint clean.

This contribution was made with AI assistance (Claude).

MapleTheBot and others added 3 commits September 17, 2026 08:54
Ships a normalized refusal-phrase set with expectRefuse true|false,
so the same scorer asserts refusal on harmful prompts and
non-refusal on benign ones instead of brittle substring lists.

Closes AgentPostmortem#40
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royalpinto007 merged commit e413575 into AgentPostmortem:main Sep 17, 2026
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This is in, @sharadvc. Really appreciate it.

Contributions like this are what keep Evalgate moving.

A star on the repo would mean a lot if this project is useful to you.

Happy to see more from you whenever you have the time.

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New scorer refusal: refusal detector for safety evals

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