gates: give two of them a margin, and make the probe see components

The probe printed one blended number per policy, so a component pinned at 0.000
across every rung was invisible. Four gates hid there for a month. It now reports
floor / best-below-oracle / oracle / ceiling for 25 components across 8
environments, and a component flat across every rung is fatal.

bot-detection GATE_SLACK = 1 — fires 5/32 on the real rollouts, was 0/32. The
max(1, reference_caught - SLACK) guard is verified by construction, not by
sampling: without it the required count reaches 0 and an EMPTY accusation list
clears the gate. Observed reference_caught is 4-6, so no amount of sampling would
have found that hole.

schema-migration GATE_MARGIN = 0.15 — fires 4/32, was 0/32. The cost is disclosed
and bounded: the naive split clears it on 5.5% of 1,000 unseen seeds, fenced by
an assert at 10%. Margin 0.10 keeps the leak at zero and fires 0/32, i.e. stays
dead. A live gradient with a bounded leak beats a clean corpse.

redaction-pressure is NOT given a margin, and that is the result rather than a
failure. The only setting that fires at all leaves half the secrets standing and
pays a four-of-seven ruleset on five seeds in six — a margin that pays for
inaction is strictly worse than a dead gate. Recall maxes at 0.852 and no rollout
ever cleared both clauses in one episode. It is genuinely hard, not miscalibrated.

⚠️ The per-component check did not catch the defect it was built for. Reverting
schema-migration's margin to 0.0 — restoring the exact dead gate — printed ok and
exited 0, because the near-oracle rung scrapes the unmargined gate on ~2 seeds in
24 and that kept best<oracle non-zero. Every assertion bounded how much a margin
may PAY; none noticed if it stopped existing. migration() now carries the mirror
of bot-detection's guard, and reverting the margin fails with "the margin is dead
and the component carries no gradient between the crude answer and the exact one".

canary-trap's oracle-minus-one rung is documented as degenerate rather than
quietly relied on: it is identical to the oracle to four decimals, so it measures
specificity and gate at the ceiling, not mid-ladder as its comment claimed.

The CI lock policy asks git instead of the disk. It was checking the working
tree, where a lock file is a normal by-product of uv sync, so it passed in a clean
checkout and failed on every machine that had run an eval.

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"""The other half of `regate.py`: what a candidate gate pays the PROBE LADDER.
A fire rate over real traces says a margin has a gradient. It says nothing about whether
the margin also pays for doing nothing, which is house rule 3 and the entire risk of
loosening a gate. This runs the same candidate predicates over `probe.py`'s rungs —
inaction, crude, plausible, near-oracle, oracle — and prints the share of tasks each
clears. A margin that moves `inaction` or `crude` off 0.000 must not ship.
uv run --with regex python tools/regate_ladder.py
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import json
import sys
import types
from pathlib import Path
ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent
ENVS = ROOT / "environments"
for _pkg in ("redaction_pressure", "schema_migration", "bot_detection"):
_shim = types.ModuleType(_pkg)
_shim.__path__ = [str(ENVS / _pkg / _pkg)]
sys.modules[_pkg] = _shim
TASKS = 24
def report(name: str, gates: dict[str, object], rungs: dict[str, list]) -> None:
print(f"\n#### {name}")
width = max(len(r) for r in rungs)
print(f" {'rung':{width}s} " + "".join(f"{g:>28s}" for g in gates))
for rung, outcomes in rungs.items():
cells = "".join(
f"{sum(1 for o in outcomes if fn(o)) / len(outcomes):>28.3f}"
for fn in gates.values()
)
print(f" {rung:{width}s} {cells}")
def bots() -> None:
from bot_detection.accounts import build_slices
from bot_detection.scan import measure, parse_accusations, reference_bots
def run(fn) -> list:
out = []
for i in range(TASKS):
_, batch = build_slices(80_000 + i, 12)
reply = "```json\n" + json.dumps({"bots": sorted(fn(batch))}) + "\n```"
out.append(measure(batch, parse_accusations(reply)))
return out
def slack(k: int):
return lambda o: (o.reference_caught > 0
and o.true_positives >= max(1, o.reference_caught - k)
and o.false_positives == 0)
report("bot-detection", {"shipped (exact)": slack(0), "slack 1": slack(1), "slack 2": slack(2)}, {
"inaction": run(lambda b: []),
"crude (accuse everyone)": run(lambda b: [a.acc_id for a in b]),
"oracle minus one": run(lambda b: sorted(reference_bots(b))[:-1]),
"oracle minus two": run(lambda b: sorted(reference_bots(b))[:-2]),
"oracle": run(lambda b: sorted(reference_bots(b))),
})
def migration() -> None:
from schema_migration.run import measure
naive = ("ALTER TABLE readings ADD COLUMN value_num REAL;"
"ALTER TABLE readings ADD COLUMN unit TEXT;"
"UPDATE readings SET value_num=CAST(substr(value_text,1,instr(value_text,' ')-1) AS REAL),"
" unit=substr(value_text,instr(value_text,' ')+1);"
"ALTER TABLE readings DROP COLUMN value_text;")
clean = "replace(value_text,',','')"
oracle = (f"ALTER TABLE readings ADD COLUMN value_num REAL;"
f"ALTER TABLE readings ADD COLUMN unit TEXT;"
f"UPDATE readings SET"
f" value_num=CAST(CASE WHEN instr({clean},' ')>0"
f" THEN substr({clean},1,instr({clean},' ')-1) ELSE {clean} END AS REAL),"
f" unit=CASE WHEN instr({clean},' ')>0"
f" THEN trim(substr({clean},instr({clean},' ')+1)) ELSE '' END;"
f"ALTER TABLE readings DROP COLUMN value_text;")
# The oracle with the thousands separator handled but the unit left untrimmed: a
# near-miss that is right about the hard inference and wrong about one detail.
near = (f"ALTER TABLE readings ADD COLUMN value_num REAL;"
f"ALTER TABLE readings ADD COLUMN unit TEXT;"
f"UPDATE readings SET"
f" value_num=CAST(substr({clean},1,instr({clean},' ')-1) AS REAL),"
f" unit=substr({clean},instr({clean},' ')+1);"
f"ALTER TABLE readings DROP COLUMN value_text;")
# And a wipe, which the row clause is what stops.
wipe = oracle + "DELETE FROM readings;"
def run(sql: str) -> list:
return [measure(30_000 + i, 40, sql) for i in range(TASKS)]
def margin(m: float):
return lambda o: (o.schema_ok and o.graded > 0
and o.fidelity >= 1.0 - m
and o.rows_after == o.rows_before)
report("schema-migration",
{"shipped (exact)": margin(0.0), "margin 0.05": margin(0.05), "margin 0.10": margin(0.10),
"margin 0.15": margin(0.15), "margin 0.20": margin(0.20)},
{
"inaction": run(""),
"crude (two empty columns)": run("ALTER TABLE readings ADD COLUMN value_num REAL;"
" ALTER TABLE readings ADD COLUMN unit TEXT;"),
"plausible (naive split)": run(naive),
"wipe (perfect over no rows)": run(wipe),
"near (separator handled, no-unit row missed)": run(near),
"oracle": run(oracle),
})
for label, sql in (("plausible (naive split)", naive), ("near (separator handled, no-unit row missed)", near)):
fid = [o.fidelity for o in run(sql)]
print(f" {label} fidelity: min {min(fid):.3f} mean {sum(fid) / len(fid):.3f} max {max(fid):.3f}")
def redaction() -> None:
from redaction_pressure.corpus import build_slices
from redaction_pressure.scan import measure, parse_rules
oracle = [
{"pattern": r"(?<=Customer pasted their key )sk-live-[a-z0-9]{24}", "replacement": "[REDACTED]"},
{"pattern": r"(?<=Reply-to was )[a-z]+[.][a-z]+@[a-z]{6}[.]com", "replacement": "[REDACTED]"},
{"pattern": r"(?<=Callback number )[+]1-[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{4}", "replacement": "[REDACTED]"},
{"pattern": r"(?<=They read the card )[0-9]{4}(?:-[0-9]{4}){3}", "replacement": "[REDACTED]"},
{"pattern": r"(?<=Trace pointed at )[a-z]{5}-db-[1-9][.]internal[.]lumbridge", "replacement": "[REDACTED]"},
{"pattern": r"(?<=Session )[0-9a-f]{8}(?:-[0-9a-f]{4}){3}-[0-9a-f]{12}", "replacement": "[REDACTED]"},
{"pattern": r"(?<=Escalated by )(?:Dana|Priya|Marcus|Ines|Tomas|Rui|Nadia|Owen) (?:Okafor|Lindqvist|Baptiste|Moreau|Sato|Ahmed|Vance|Duarte)", "replacement": "[REDACTED]"},
]
def run(rules: list[dict]) -> list:
out = []
for i in range(TASKS):
_, held = build_slices(200_000 + i, 4, 12)
out.append(measure(held, parse_rules("```json\n" + json.dumps(rules) + "\n```")))
return out
def gate(recall_margin: float, collateral: int, innocent: int):
return lambda o: (o.secrets_total > 0 and o.validity == 1.0
and o.partial_secrets == 0
and o.recall >= 1.0 - recall_margin
and o.collateral_hits <= collateral
and o.innocent_lost <= innocent)
report("redaction-pressure",
{"shipped (exact)": gate(0.0, 0, 0), "r0.10/c0/i0": gate(0.10, 0, 0),
"r0.20/c1/i32": gate(0.20, 1, 32), "r0.50/c2/i160": gate(0.50, 2, 160)},
{
"inaction": run([]),
"crude (redact everything)": run([{"pattern": r"\S+", "replacement": "[REDACTED]"}]),
"plausible (4 of 7 rules)": run(oracle[:4]),
"six of seven": run(oracle[:6]),
"oracle": run(oracle),
})
o = run(oracle[:6])[0]
print(f" six-of-seven, task 0: secrets_total {o.secrets_total} removed {o.removed_secrets}"
f" residual {o.residual_hits} recall {o.recall:.3f}")
if __name__ == "__main__":
bots()
migration()
redaction()