fix(#61): --for --detail names a max_tokens ceiling it did not apply — disclose it - #77
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hermesnow has a dedicatedripwire wrap hermesrecipe, but the adjacent documentation still says “one of the six above” and “not one of the six.” Update both references, or explain whyhermesis excluded from that count. Otherwise, the MCP setup guidance is inconsistent.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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…— disclose it `ripwire . --for=Q --detail=30 --max-tokens=300` printed `max_tokens="300"` on the <ctx> root and delivered `est_tokens="2640"` — 8.8x the ceiling it named — with no over_ceiling= anywhere. Reported by YogevKr as #61, reproduced verbatim on 2026-09-09, the third of three honesty-class issues from that reporter. The flag was never inert: it shapes the body count, and `<bodies capped="1">` disclosed THAT cut honestly right beside the silence. What --max-tokens does not do is bound the document — verbs_for.h turns it into detailBodyBudget, a budget over the BODIES alone, so the header, signatures, legend and symbol table are never charged against it. METHODOLOGY §9 #6 states the defect in one sentence: "a ceiling attribute names the ceiling actually applied." DISCLOSURE, NOT ENFORCEMENT — and the argument, because this is a §9 decision. §9 #2: "when a ceiling would cut something above the cliff, compress first, move prose into attributes second, and if it still does not fit, exceed the ceiling with over_ceiling="1" rather than drop the row that would have terminated the search." Thirty small functions totalling ~3.4K tokens, complete, ARE the terminating answer. A rung that trimmed them to fit 300 tokens would make the tool worse and would still have been perfectly honest, so no rung was added. The ladder was applied first and came up empty on this shape: the reporter measured --legend=compact at 8,761 B / est 2,974, still far past 300. What was missing is the VERDICT the default map has computed since §F5 (main.cpp, maxTokensFit.isOverCeiling) — the "as the default map does" the reporter's own Expected behavior cites. THE OPEN QUESTION, decided explicitly: --max-tokens is NOT converged onto the whole bundle. The tool already has a flag that means "bound the document" (--token-budget, the reporter's verified workaround: est 902 at --token-budget=1000) and one that means "shape the map" (--max-tokens). Convergence is allowed under one-step-smart-defaults and new-tool-no-compat-debt, but it is a DEFAULT change whose effect is to CUT rows, which is the direction §9 #1 says the data does not support — the budget flag "trims a ranking from the tail and cannot know which row would have ended the search". The two meanings stay, and both are now documented on --max-tokens and --detail in --help. WHAT CHANGED - src/verbs_for.h forLensOverCeiling: the XML dialect's over-ceiling predicate, a free function beside its JSON twin (forLensJsonOverCeiling) for the same reason that one is — runForLens is one of the largest bodies in the file and this is a contract of its own. Same rule, same unit, same attribute budget_tokens already answers to (packtask.h F2): over_ceiling="1" whenever est_tokens exceeds a ceiling the root states. Reused, not re-derived. The label is decided INSIDE the existing est_tokens fixpoint, so its own 17 bytes and its legend clause are charged — a disclosure that made est_tokens wrong is the one place that error matters most. - src/serialize.h: the legend sentence for a max_tokens-keyed verdict, beside the budget_tokens one, plus overCeilingLegendFor so no surface picks the wording by hand. Keyed on which ceilings the ROOT CARRIES, not on which one fired, so the choice cannot be made stale by the fixpoint it rides inside. A budget-only document is byte-identical to before. - src/cli.h / docs/COMMANDS.md (regenerated): --max-tokens and --detail=N now state what the flag bounds, what it does not, and which flag bounds the document. MEASURED, this repo's fixture of 30 tiny TS functions: --max-tokens=300 goes 9,647 -> 9,714 B (the 67-byte disclosure) and now reads `max_tokens="300" est_tokens="3589" over_ceiling="1"`; --max-tokens=8000 fits and is byte-identical at 14,968 B with no attribute. GATE FIRST (non-negotiable #1). test/formaxtokenscheck.sh, written before the code and red on the pre-fix binary at 6 of 9 band points plus the named reproduction. Arms: (A) the biconditional est_tokens > ceiling <=> over_ceiling="1", swept across a band that provably contains BOTH states, with non-vacuity asserted on each half; (B) no --max-tokens => no ceiling attribute and no verdict; (C) est_tokens re-derived exactly from the delivered bytes at both rates, at every point, which is what catches an emitted-but-uncharged disclosure; (D) the legend defines the attribute against the ceiling actually on that root; (E) --token-budget alone and beside --max-tokens; (F) determinism; (G) five mutation controls, each re-running the SAME judge over a deliberately corrupted real document. Presence tests read the root element through an XML parser, never a text grep — the legend DEFINES over_ceiling= (verbs_for.h:719). test/shapingflagcheck.sh (A) re-pinned 20 -> 21 --max-tokens read sites: the new site is a DISCLOSURE of a budget --for --detail=N already honored, so kShapingVerbs' honorsMaxTokens column is unchanged. Gate count 568 -> 569 in all 8 published sites, DERIVED from regression.sh's own loop on this tip. Worth recording how that number was nearly wrong: the previous revision of this branch published 568, and the lane that landed underneath it (#85, tgrep) had itself bumped 567 -> 568. So README.md, docs/EVALS.md and the deck did NOT conflict on rebase — the two lanes had written IDENTICAL text — and git auto-merged them to a tree publishing 568 while this branch's own loop names 569. That is the silent-merge failure this repo keeps re-learning, and the only thing that catches it is re-deriving from the loop rather than trusting a clean merge. A gate-count bump that merges CLEAN onto a main which has landed a gate since you branched is the failure, not the success; regression.sh conflicted loudly and the three prose sites did not. test/printf_parity.manifest: the `help` hash re-pinned, 72b76cbc... -> d9b77634..., because this commit edits --help on purpose. printffmtparitycheck is a byte-parity fence over 12 labels and `help` is one of them; its FAIL text ("any file whose conversion moved these bytes must be reverted") is written for the printf -> std::print conversion case, where the whole claim is that the bytes must NOT move. There is no conversion here — the two new --help blocks are the change, so the bytes moved deliberately and the pin is what needs updating, not the prose. Reviewed rather than rubber-stamped: the manifest diff is EXACTLY ONE LINE, `help` STDOUT; the other 11 labels are byte-identical and help's own STDERR hash is unchanged (still e3b0c442..., the empty-string digest). The baseline it moves FROM is main's, re-read on this rebase tip rather than carried from the branch's pre-rebase value — a hash computed against an older main would pin bytes no binary in this history produces. Pre-flighted against the WIDENED fence lane/stdprint-conversion brings (40 labels, purely additive — it rewrites none of the 12): 39 pass, 1 fail, and the one is `help`. So this change moves exactly one label out of forty, and the one-line invariant survives that landing whichever order the two lanes take. --test-gate does not name printffmtparitycheck for a help edit: it routes by call edges, and script-to-binary is not one — it discloses that as script_gates_unmodelled= rather than implying the list is complete. If you touch printUsage, run that gate by hand. Local, on this rebase tip after a --clean-first rebuild (five landings under this branch, and an incremental build across a branch switch can produce a binary that exists at no single commit — CLAUDE.md documents that failure at length): formaxtokenscheck, printffmtparity, manifest, shapingflag, docscommands, deck, deckclaim, readmedrift, readmeexample, fordisclosure, w3fixbudget and legendcoverage all green; determinism + golden + xmllint clean; --quality-delta exit 0 (its one gating row, short-horizon-churn churn=self on runForLens, acked with its reason). Every pinned number here was RE-DERIVED on this tip — the gate count from regression.sh's own loop, the read-site count from the gate's own grep expression, the parity hash from the rebuilt binary — none carried forward from the pre-rebase branch. docs/COMMANDS.md is regenerated from that same binary. Closes #61 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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… the two stair-steps toward it The page said what ripwire does and never said what it is FOR. This is the objective in a reader's terms rather than a maintainer's: terminality, and the two properties that make it reachable in practice. Deliberately not written as a hard cap. An earlier draft said "answers are bounded, so a complete answer cannot cost you the context it was supposed to protect", which is false by the tool's own design — METHODOLOGY §9 principle 2 exceeds the ceiling with over_ceiling="1" rather than drop the row that would have terminated the search. A hard-cap claim would also undercut the terminality paragraph directly above it. It now reads as a budget you ask for with disclosed overshoot, which is both true and the stronger form of the point. Two other claims pulled back to what is actually true: "an answer never looks more complete than it is" rather than "never a confident wrong one" (the honesty attributes stop an answer OVERSTATING itself; they do not make the resolver infallible — amb="K" exists to disclose exactly that), and "an answer CAN be given a token budget" rather than every answer being bounded, since cli.h's flag table carries honorsMaxTokens per verb. No counts, no flag names, no published number — nothing here collides with the delivery queue's count sites or the absorb line. Sequenced to land AFTER PR #77 (issue #61): the overshoot sentence is the contract, over_ceiling ships, and #61 is an open bug against that contract on the --for --detail path. Landing the claim after the fix rather than before it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Closes #61.
--for --detailnamed a ceiling it did not apply.--max-tokens=Nwas applied as a budget over the bodies only — signatures, the header, the legend and the symbol table were never charged against it — while the root printedmax_tokens="N"regardless. The reporter's table, reproduced exactly:--max-tokensest_tokensover_ceilingshown=5 total=30 capped=1shown=19 total=30 capped=1At 300 the answer cost 8.8× the ceiling it named.
METHODOLOGY§9 principle 6 says a ceiling attribute must name the ceiling actually applied; this one didn't, so it is an honesty defect in the disclosure — which is how @YogevKr filed it.The fix is disclosure, not enforcement, which is what the issue's own Expected behavior asked for. §9 principle 2 says that where a ceiling would cut above the relevance cliff we compress first, move prose into attributes second, and exceed the ceiling with
over_ceiling="1"rather than drop the row that would have ended the search. Thirty small functions totalling 3,444 tokens is the complete answer; trimming it to fit 300 would serve the caller less while looking more obedient. The reproduction now readsmax_tokens="300" est_tokens="3589" over_ceiling="1".printUsagegains two blocks stating what--max-tokensbounds on a--for --detail=Nrun and what it does not.The help-text edit moved
--help's bytes, andprintffmtparitycheckcaught it — a byte-parity fence over twelve verb labels. That gate's own header anticipates exactly this: "a legitimate disclosure added by an unrelated lane just as surely as a bad printf conversion." Re-pinned as a one-row diff (72b76cbc…→d9b77634…), stderr digest untouched, with the reason in the commit message. The gate was run first, before the manifest was touched, and the red set confirmed to be exactly{help}— a re-pin made without that check would silence a fence rather than update it.Worth recording for anyone editing help text:
--test-gatewill not nameprintffmtparitycheckfor you. It routes by call edges and script-to-binary is not one — it discloses that honestly asscript_gates_unmodelled="616"rather than implying its list is complete. Fifty-six targeted gates passed locally on a commit that reddened seven CI jobs.Four pinned values were re-derived on the final tip, none carried: the gate count from
regression.sh's own loop (568 → 569),shapingflagcheckarm (A)'scfg.maxTokensread-site count (20 → 21), the parity hash from a--clean-firstrebuild, anddocs/COMMANDS.mdregenerated from that binary.The silent-merge failure fired in this lane's own rebase, and it is the clearest instance the round produced:
The lane ahead bumped 567 → 568; this branch already held 568. Identical text, so git auto-merged all three prose sites cleanly — leaving a tree that publishes 568 while its own loop names 569, with nothing complaining. Only re-derivation caught it. Stated as a rule: a gate-count bump that merges clean onto a main which has landed a gate since you branched is the failure, not the success.
CI: run 34402451409 — 26/26 green on
1dfdb040. Gate count 568 → 569.Thanks @YogevKr — three careful, reproducible honesty-class issues, and this one came with the workaround already verified.
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