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M7.2: share the loop's parts
Shared parts, not a shared scheduler (agreed): nisse-review will have its
own small scheduler; a common one waits until two exist to compare.

- nisse_core.loop.driver: the driver run, moved; the agent names its
  waiting tools per run (nisse-dev's are WAITING_TOOLS), and execution
  goes to any Executor (ToolOutcome moves with it).
- nisse_core.loop.tools: the tool helper and the tools any agent offers
  (notes, memory, memory_done, ask_expert); nisse_core.loop.expert.
- nisse_core.knowledge.handlers: Knowledge, the vault and memory as
  control tools, the index and prompt text, out of LoopAgent.
- nisse_core.config: file reading, references, people, tuning sections of
  the agent's own, LLM numbers, the vault.
- New core tests: a driver run with a non-workspace executor and the
  agent's own waiting set; Knowledge alone; the shared config pieces.

Docs: the Development Plan marks M7.2 done; Architecture Part L and the
nisse-core README name the new parts.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01J5Utyfzw7gF7UhjRDEtjTk
2026-10-13 21:31:29 +00:00

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"""Capability matrix across models (architecture L9, Q).
The thresholds that depend on local capability (L9: the failure count, the
consult budget, the manifest size) are tuned on the real hardware. This is the
measurement that makes that possible, rather than reasoning about model
strength from reputation.
What it measures is the thing that actually breaks: whether a model can hold
the tool-call contract our loops depend on. llama3.2 could not — it returned
`{` as an entire plan — and no amount of prompt work fixed it.
Opt in by naming the models to measure, for one run:
uv run pytest -m integration tests/integration/test_model_capability.py \
--capability-models=local-fast,local-coder
Skipped otherwise, because it spends real tokens across every model listed.
Which models to measure is a question for a particular run, so it is an
argument, not configuration.
"""
import pytest
from nisse_core.log.canonical import (
AssistantText,
StoredEvent,
ToolCall,
ToolResult,
UserMessage,
)
from nisse_core.loop.expert import parse_answer
from nisse_core.models.catalog import ModelCatalog, select_client
from nisse_core.models.llm import AnthropicPassthroughClient, LiteLLMClient, LLMError
from nisse_dev.config import AgentConfig
from nisse_dev.loop.tools import ASK_HUMAN, FINISH_MILESTONE, RESTATE
from nisse_dev.tools import EXECUTION_TOOLS
pytestmark = pytest.mark.integration
def pytest_generate_tests(metafunc: pytest.Metafunc) -> None:
if "model" not in metafunc.fixturenames:
return
raw = metafunc.config.getoption("--capability-models")
models = [m.strip() for m in raw.split(",") if m.strip()]
if models:
metafunc.parametrize("model", models)
else:
metafunc.parametrize(
"model",
[
pytest.param(
None,
marks=pytest.mark.skip(
reason="no models to measure; pass --capability-models"
),
)
],
)
@pytest.fixture
def routes(
litellm: LiteLLMClient, passthrough: AnthropicPassthroughClient
) -> tuple[LiteLLMClient, AnthropicPassthroughClient]:
return litellm, passthrough
@pytest.fixture(scope="module")
def catalog(live_config: AgentConfig) -> ModelCatalog:
"""The live catalog this key can see. /model/info is scoped per key, so
the probe list and the key have to agree."""
return ModelCatalog.discover(live_config.llm_base_url, live_config.llm_token)
def assert_answered(client: object, model: str, catalog: ModelCatalog) -> None:
"""A proxy fallback answers under another model's name. Crediting its
answer to this model is how a local model once 'held the tool contract
20/20' while never answering at all."""
reported = getattr(client, "last_model", None)
assert catalog.facts(model).answered(reported), (
f"{reported} answered instead of {model}: a fallback, not a measurement"
)
def user(text: str) -> list[StoredEvent]:
return [StoredEvent(id=1, ts="t", event=UserMessage(text=text, source="probe"))]
def test_model_answers_at_all(model: str, catalog: ModelCatalog, routes) -> None:
normalized, passthrough = routes
client = select_client(model, normalized, passthrough, catalog)
produced = client.complete(
user("Reply with exactly one word: pong"), None, model, system="Be terse."
)
assert_answered(client, model, catalog)
texts = [e.text for e in produced if isinstance(e, AssistantText)]
assert texts, f"{model} produced no text: {produced!r}"
def test_model_holds_the_restatement_contract(
model: str, catalog: ModelCatalog, routes
) -> None:
"""L3's go-ahead is structural at the tool layer: a driver that answers
in prose cannot be gated, because there is no restatement to agree to."""
normalized, passthrough = routes
client = select_client(model, normalized, passthrough, catalog)
produced = client.complete(
user("Issue #1: add a command-line slug generator."),
[RESTATE, ASK_HUMAN],
model,
system=(
"You must answer by calling exactly one tool: restate or "
"ask_human. Plain prose is not accepted."
),
)
assert_answered(client, model, catalog)
calls = [e for e in produced if isinstance(e, ToolCall)]
assert calls, f"{model} answered in prose instead of calling a tool"
assert calls[0].tool in {"restate", "ask_human"}
if calls[0].tool == "restate":
content = calls[0].arguments.get("text", "")
# llama3.2 emitted "{" here — structurally a tool call, substantively
# nothing. Length is a crude proxy, but it separates the two.
assert len(str(content)) > 80, f"{model} restated degenerately: {content!r}"
def test_model_round_trips_a_tool_result(
model: str, catalog: ModelCatalog, routes
) -> None:
"""The driver's run feeds results back; a model that cannot consume its
own tool result cannot run a milestone."""
normalized, passthrough = routes
client = select_client(model, normalized, passthrough, catalog)
events = user("List the files in the current directory using your tools.")
produced = client.complete(events, EXECUTION_TOOLS, model, system="Use a tool.")
calls = [e for e in produced if isinstance(e, ToolCall)]
assert calls, f"{model} made no tool call"
next_id = 2
for event in produced:
events.append(StoredEvent(id=next_id, ts="t", event=event))
next_id += 1
events.append(
StoredEvent(
id=next_id,
ts="t",
event=ToolResult(
call_id=calls[0].call_id, result="app.py\ntests/", success=True
),
)
)
assert_answered(client, model, catalog)
follow_up = client.complete(events, EXECUTION_TOOLS, model, system="Use a tool.")
assert follow_up, f"{model} produced nothing after its tool result"
def test_model_holds_the_prompt_level_json_contract(
model: str, catalog: ModelCatalog, routes
) -> None:
"""L9 contracts structured output at the prompt level because vendors
differ on JSON enforcement. This measures whether that holds per model."""
normalized, passthrough = routes
client = select_client(model, normalized, passthrough, catalog)
produced = client.complete(
user("Is SQLite sufficient for a single-process agent's task state?"),
None,
model,
system=(
"Reply with a single JSON object and nothing else: "
'{"answer": "...", "confidence": "high"|"medium"|"low", '
'"caveats": "..."}'
),
)
assert_answered(client, model, catalog)
text = "\n".join(e.text for e in produced if isinstance(e, AssistantText))
assert parse_answer(text) is not None, (
f"{model} did not produce parseable JSON: {text[:200]!r}"
)
def test_route_selection_matches_the_model(
model: str, catalog: ModelCatalog, routes
) -> None:
"""A non-Anthropic model must not be sent Anthropic-shaped bodies. This
was hardcoded until gpt-6-astra made it observable, and name-sniffed until
semantic aliases made the name stop meaning anything."""
normalized, passthrough = routes
facts = catalog.facts(model)
chosen = select_client(model, normalized, passthrough, catalog)
if facts.provider == "anthropic":
assert chosen is passthrough
else:
assert chosen is normalized
# And the chosen route must actually work for this model.
try:
chosen.complete(user("say pong"), None, model, system="Be terse.")
except LLMError as exc:
pytest.fail(f"{model} failed on its selected route: {exc}")
assert_answered(chosen, model, catalog)
FINISH_TOOLS = [*EXECUTION_TOOLS, FINISH_MILESTONE]
OFFERED = {tool["function"]["name"] for tool in FINISH_TOOLS}
def test_model_calls_only_the_tools_it_was_offered(
model: str, catalog: ModelCatalog, routes
) -> None:
"""Measured on a server that did not enforce tool_choice: a model asked
to chat called "chat", "say_hello" and "respond", none of them offered.
The driver answers those as failures; this measures how often."""
normalized, passthrough = routes
client = select_client(model, normalized, passthrough, catalog)
produced = client.complete(
user("Hi! How are you today? Just chat with me for a moment."),
FINISH_TOOLS,
model,
system="You are an agent. Every reply must be a tool call.",
)
assert_answered(client, model, catalog)
called = {e.tool for e in produced if isinstance(e, ToolCall)}
assert called <= OFFERED, (
f"{model} called tools it was never offered: {called - OFFERED}"
)
def test_supports_tool_choice_is_declared_truthfully(
model: str, catalog: ModelCatalog, routes
) -> None:
"""The agent asks for tool_choice only of models LiteLLM declares
supports_tool_choice for, so the declaration must be true. Asked of a
model that can't honour it, "required" can be worse than not asking:
qwen3-14b can't stop, and writes until the output ceiling."""
facts = catalog.facts(model)
if facts.supports_tool_choice is not True:
pytest.skip(
f"{model} is not declared to support tool_choice, so is never asked"
)
normalized, passthrough = routes
client = select_client(model, normalized, passthrough, catalog)
produced = client.complete(
user("Hi! How are you today? Just chat with me for a moment."),
FINISH_TOOLS,
model,
system="You are a helpful assistant.",
require_tool_call=True,
)
assert_answered(client, model, catalog)
calls = [e for e in produced if isinstance(e, ToolCall)]
assert calls, (
f"{model} is declared supports_tool_choice but answered a required call "
"in prose; set it to false in LiteLLM"
)
assert {c.tool for c in calls} <= OFFERED