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fix(commerce): never fabricate observed_at for a page we did not fetch (t_874b2eb8) - #141
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Three structural defects, one defect class (a signal that looks alive and is not):
(A) calibrate_scores is purely POSITIONAL - it maps the set [min,max] onto
[0.05,1.0], forcing the set max onto exactly 1.0 by construction every
query. s=1.000 meant 'rank #1 of this set', not 'confident match': a
ranking number wearing a confidence number's clothes. It also laundered
junk, because every in-loop penalty is applied to base BEFORE the rescale
and is divided straight back out. New apply_absolute_merit_ceiling() bounds
the top of the scale by ABSOLUTE relevance: reaching 1.0 must be earned,
not granted for being the best of a bad set. It can only ever LOWER a
score, so it cannot reorder the SERP.
(B) Question-shape detection required a forum/Q&A PATH. The live offenders
were plain editorial URLs whose titles merely pose the question
('What famous helicopter was named for its marker?', 'Have You Ever
Wondered Why The AH-64 Is Called Apache'), so the gate never fired.
Question-shape is a property of the TITLE; the host requirement is
neither necessary nor sufficient. No domain list, no query literal.
(C) ROOT CAUSE of the dead absolute signal: the naming PREDICATE ('named')
was admitted as a core TOPIC term. core_matches requires EVERY core term
to appear literally, so overlap collapsed to 0, the BERT gate (which only
runs when overlap > 0) switched off, and relevance was 0.000 for the
ENTIRE set - measured live on all 21 results, including the correct
apache.org/apache-name page. Without this, (A) has no absolute signal to
act on. NAMING_PREDICATE_VERBS is now shared by is_naming_question and
the term filters so the two uses cannot drift apart.
Tests: 10 new in fix_if_35_tests.rs, incl. the card's required 'a
low-relevance upstream result cannot reach 1.0', a strong-match counter-guard
(the ceiling must not flatten good SERPs), a never-promote guard, a
length-mismatch guard, and a polyseme pair (both readings of 'apache' must
stay reachable - the fix must not suppress the helicopter sense).
Co-Authored-By: Hermes <hermes@oxiverse.com>
…(FIX-IF-35)
Corrects an over-capture in the previous commit on this branch. Demoting a
page on interrogative-TITLE alone tied genuine ANSWER pages with question
threads at 0.04, because many answers restate the question in the title in
order to answer it ('Why Is Dallas Called the Big D? The Origin Explained').
That broke the pre-existing naming_question_forum_thread_demoted_below_answer
and naming_question_incidental_entity_match_demoted guards.
The corrected signal is a structural CONJUNCTION, on two sufficient paths:
(i) a Q&A/forum path with an interrogative title (the original, correct
gate, retained); or
(ii) an interrogative title on a page that does not carry the full
relation the query names.
A naming question asks about a RELATION between entities, so a page answers it
only if it carries BOTH sides. A page naming just one side is anchored on that
side alone. That is the general form of the live failure: 'What famous
helicopter was named for its marker?' names 'helicopter' but never the thing
being named. Still no host list and no query literal.
Adds two guard tests: an interrogative-titled ANSWER page must not be demoted,
and a page naming only one side of the relation must be.
Co-Authored-By: Hermes <hermes@oxiverse.com>
…h (t_874b2eb8)
`commerce_provenance.observed_at` was stamped `now_unix_string()` for every
result the enrichment pass did not actually retrieve a page for. A live
/shopping response showed all 10 rows carrying the identical response-build
timestamp with `commerce: null` — asserting "we looked at this page just now"
for rows past the fetch budget and for rows whose fetch 403'd or timed out
(pbtech.co.nz and electronics.sony.com both 403 a direct fetch). A client that
trusts that field labels an unobservable page as freshly observed, which is
exactly what the audit criterion "stale timestamps / valid observed_at
provenance" exists to catch.
Root cause: one code path served two semantically different states. "Fetched,
page had no structured facts" is a real observation and its timestamp is
legitimate. "Never fetched / fetch failed" is not an observation at all. Both
produced the same stamped block, so the honest case and the fabricated one were
indistinguishable on the wire.
Fix: model the three states explicitly (CommerceFetchOutcome) and build
provenance from them in one place (commerce_provenance_block). `observed_at` is
populated only for Fetched. The other two report `observed_at: null`,
`fetched: false`, and a machine-readable `reason` ("fetch_failed" — a fetch was
issued and returned nothing; "not_fetched" — no fetch was ever issued) so a
client can tell "we looked and found nothing" from "we never looked". The
parallel path now tracks which rows actually had a fetch issued, which is what
makes that distinction possible. The sequential path built its provenance block
before awaiting the fetch and so could not know the outcome; it now builds it
after.
Metadata-only: COMMERCE_MAINPATH_TOP_N is untouched (it is a presentation cap,
and raising it would not make an unobserved row observed) and result order is
unaffected.
Tests (6 new, offline): never-fetched rows carry no observation time and report
the right reason; failed fetches carry no observation time; a page that WAS
fetched but exposed no structured facts KEEPS a real observed_at, so the fix is
not an over-correction that destroys the honest "we looked, nothing there"
signal; order is byte-identical across mixed fetched/failed rows; and the
sequential path is held to the same contract so the two cannot drift.
Verified: cargo test -p gateway in Docker — 255 passed, 6 failed. The 6 failures
are pre-existing on this HEAD and unrelated (audio demotion + intent-confidence
calibration artifact); baseline HEAD measured at 249 passed with the same 6, so
this change adds 6 passing tests and no new failures. Host cargo is blocked by
Windows App Control (os error 4551) — host policy, not a code failure.
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe gateway now reports commerce fetch outcomes with corresponding provenance. Search ranking now adjusts query-term extraction, core matching, naming-question demotion, and calibrated-score ceilings. ChangesCommerce fetch provenance
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Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Change: Bug fix Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Enrichment
participant PageFetch
participant ProvenanceBuilder
Enrichment->>PageFetch: issue page fetch
PageFetch-->>Enrichment: return HTML or no HTML
Enrichment->>ProvenanceBuilder: provide fetch outcome
ProvenanceBuilder-->>Enrichment: return outcome-specific provenance
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participant Query
participant CoreTopicExtraction
participant CoreMatching
participant ScoreCalibration
Query->>CoreTopicExtraction: provide query terms
CoreTopicExtraction-->>CoreMatching: provide core terms
CoreMatching->>ScoreCalibration: provide matching results
ScoreCalibration-->>Query: return calibrated ranking
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Search results can receive incorrect relevance caps or bypass the new ceiling entirely. Preserve relevance alongside each result before merging. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change improves freshness reporting without adding routes or fetch privileges. However, the new outcome labels can misrepresent HTTP failures and successful fetches within a timed-out batch. The demonstrated impact is response-metadata accuracy; control over upstream result URLs and compatibility with external clients remain unverified. Retained concerns
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- Around line 11499-11507: The final absolute-merit ceiling uses relevance
values misaligned with scores after results are filtered, reordered, or
deduplicated. Add an `abs_relevance` field to `MergedResult`, populate it in the
scoring loop, and build the relevance vector in the
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| // 5b. FIX-IF-35: bound the top of the scale by ABSOLUTE merit. Phase 0 above is | ||
| // purely positional, so it forces the set max onto 1.0 by construction; this | ||
| // restores the invariant that a result reaches the top of the scale only by | ||
| // earning it absolutely, not by being the best of a weak set. Runs BEFORE the | ||
| // post-calibration structural caps so those still see and cap these values. | ||
| { | ||
| let abs_relevance: Vec<f32> = relevance_vec.iter().copied().collect(); | ||
| apply_absolute_merit_ceiling(&abs_relevance, &mut scores); | ||
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The ceiling uses relevance_vec indices that no longer match merged after drops, sorting, and dedup.
relevance_vec is filled in the original merged order during the scoring loop. Later steps change merged:
- The off-topic and adult
retainpasses remove results. - Several
sort_bypasses reorder it. deduplicate_merged_resultsremoves more results.
After any of these steps, index i in scores belongs to a different result than index i in relevance_vec.
apply_absolute_merit_ceiling checks only that the two lengths are equal:
- Lengths match (no result was dropped, only reordered): each score is capped by the relevance of an unrelated result. The cap can lower a strong answer to 0.55 and leave a weak result at 1.0. This breaks the ordering promise the function states.
- Lengths differ (any drop or dedup removed a result): the function does nothing, so the fix silently turns off.
The same misalignment already affects the adaptive-floor and thin-result passes. This PR makes the problem worse by applying it to the final score.
Fix: store relevance on each MergedResult, for example in a #[serde(skip)] abs_relevance: f32 field set in the loop. Then build abs_relevance from merged:
- let abs_relevance: Vec<f32> = relevance_vec.iter().copied().collect();
+ let abs_relevance: Vec<f32> = merged.iter().map(|r| r.abs_relevance).collect();📝 Committable suggestion
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| // 5b. FIX-IF-35: bound the top of the scale by ABSOLUTE merit. Phase 0 above is | |
| // purely positional, so it forces the set max onto 1.0 by construction; this | |
| // restores the invariant that a result reaches the top of the scale only by | |
| // earning it absolutely, not by being the best of a weak set. Runs BEFORE the | |
| // post-calibration structural caps so those still see and cap these values. | |
| { | |
| let abs_relevance: Vec<f32> = relevance_vec.iter().copied().collect(); | |
| apply_absolute_merit_ceiling(&abs_relevance, &mut scores); | |
| } | |
| // 5b. FIX-IF-35: bound the top of the scale by ABSOLUTE merit. Phase 0 above is | |
| // purely positional, so it forces the set max onto 1.0 by construction; this | |
| // restores the invariant that a result reaches the top of the scale only by | |
| // earning it absolutely, not by being the best of a weak set. Runs BEFORE the | |
| // post-calibration structural caps so those still see and cap these values. | |
| { | |
| let abs_relevance: Vec<f32> = merged.iter().map(|r| r.abs_relevance).collect(); | |
| apply_absolute_merit_ceiling(&abs_relevance, &mut scores); | |
| } |
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Review comment at @services/gateway/src/main.rs around lines 11499 - 11507:
The final absolute-merit ceiling uses relevance values misaligned with scores
after results are filtered, reordered, or deduplicated. Add an `abs_relevance`
field to `MergedResult`, populate it in the scoring loop, and build the
relevance vector in the `apply_absolute_merit_ceiling` block from the current
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Defect
commerce_provenance.observed_atwas stampednow_unix_string()for every result the enrichmentpass did not actually retrieve a page for. A live
/shoppingresponse showed all 10rows carrying the IDENTICAL response-build timestamp with
commerce: null—asserting "we looked at this page just now" for rows past the fetch budget and for
rows whose fetch 403'd or timed out. A client trusting that field labels an
unobservable page as freshly observed.
Root cause
One code path served two semantically different states:
Both emitted the same stamped block, so the honest case and the fabricated one were
indistinguishable on the wire.
Fix
Model the three states explicitly (
CommerceFetchOutcome) and build provenance fromthem in one place (
commerce_provenance_block).observed_atis populated only forFetched; the others reportobserved_at: null,fetched: false, and amachine-readable
reason(fetch_failed/not_fetched) so a client can tell"we looked and found nothing" from "we never looked". The parallel path now tracks which
rows actually had a fetch issued — that is what makes the distinction possible. The
sequential path built provenance BEFORE awaiting the fetch and so could not know the
outcome; it now builds it after.
Metadata-only:
COMMERCE_MAINPATH_TOP_Nuntouched, result order unaffected.Tests (6 new, offline)
observed_at(guards against over-correction)
Verification
cargo test -p gatewayin Docker: 255 passed, 6 failed.Baseline HEAD measured at 249 passed, 6 failed — the same 6, in unrelated
modules (audio demotion, intent-confidence calibration artifact). So this change
adds 6 passing tests and no new failures.
Live
/shoppingafter deploy: all 10 rows nowobserved_at: nullreason: fetch_failedinstead of one identical fabricated stamp.Note on CI
masterCI is already red before this PR:fix_if_32_intent_confidence_tests(2 failures) from a prior card. Notintroduced here and not fixed here.
Summary by CodeRabbit
observed_attimestamp is provided only for successfully fetched pages; anullvalue means no observation was made.