Combined run 1 (orig/min/stateless) + run 2 (lean/stateless). Key result: the
SAME stateless variant used 5.96M tokens in run 1 and 9.27M in run 2 (±55%) —
nondeterministic iteration count dominates every between-variant gap. So:
- prose minimization ~-6% (small, same-invocation)
- lean (full per-gate review) ~= stateless (batched): full review is ~free
- the earlier "-45% from context hygiene" is NOT reproducible — mostly noise
Honest conclusion: need >=5 runs/variant to resolve the context-hygiene effect;
log_tokens now makes that easy to collect.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
All three completed the 3-phase calculator to SEQUENCE-COMPLETE with full
adversary verification (calc correct, tests OK). Tokens:
orig 10,756,363
min 10,119,225 (-5.9%)
stateless 5,964,829 (-44.5%)
Prompt-prose minimization barely moved tokens; context hygiene (stateless)
nearly halved them, driven by ~48% lower cache_read. Quality held.
Also fix the runner's success check: it grepped the word "veto" and matched
"No veto" → false failures; now matches the "## VETO" marker.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- bump engine submodule to 985d33d (adds builder-adversary-stateless example)
- run-harness-bench.sh: pre-trust each work dir in ~/.claude.json so interactive
claude (tmux) skips the workspace-trust dialog (--dangerously-skip-permissions
only skips it for redirected/headless output); benchmark all three variants
- (fixes from this session: bare repo default branch → main; unique session
prefix per run)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- plans/calc/{lex,parse,eval}.md: a 3-phase calculator with multiple gates per
phase (tokenizer → recursive-descent parser → evaluator+CLI), rich adversarial
edge cases (precedence/associativity/unary/div-zero)
- run-harness-bench.sh: stands up a real agents.py up Builder/Adversary loop pair
+ watchdog over a shared work repo per variant, runs to SEQUENCE-COMPLETE, and
clocks tokens from the session transcripts (AI-as-adversary kept intact)
- RESULTS.md: baseline single-pass roman-numeral run (prompt size had ~0 token
effect; cache-read of the working context dominates)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A standalone repo (engine vendored as a submodule at the examples commit) that
runs a head-to-head between the builder-adversary and builder-adversary-min
example variants: same task, independent headless runs, both on Sonnet, with
token counts. Includes the roman-numeral test problem and run-bench.sh.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
