Add A/B harness plumbing for knowledge transfer experiment (#25)#60
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Three features to support the Knowledge Transfer A/B experiment: 1. resetDbBetweenTasks condition flag — wipes the DB before each task for the control condition, isolating per-task knowledge 2. --repeats N CLI flag — runs sequences multiple times for statistical robustness, each repeat gets a fresh DB 3. LLM-as-judge scoring — calls Haiku with a 3-dimension rubric (completion, knowledge utilization, quality) to score task output Also adds ab-control/ab-treatment condition configs, quality columns in comparison and HTML reports, and fixes a stale full-hybrid test.
Control (DB wiped per task): 2 runs, 10/10 tasks, 17 autonomous saves Treatment (DB persists): 2 runs, 10/10 tasks, 7 autonomous saves Key finding: zero searches in both conditions — agent saves memories but never searches, even with MANDATORY instructions. This is the critical gap to address before the full experiment.
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resetDbBetweenTaskscondition flag to wipe DB between tasks (control condition)--repeats NCLI flag for statistical robustness (multiple runs per condition)ab-controlandab-treatmentcondition configs using winning Experiment: Instruction mode comparison (P0) #24 config (full-hybrid + tmux)Test plan
pnpm --prefix bench test:eval)ab-control.json— verify[reset] Wiping DBlog messagesab-treatment.json— verify KB grows across tasks--repeats 2produces 2 JSONL files with distinct timestampsANTHROPIC_API_KEY, JSONL shows non-zerotask_qualityandjudge_reasoning