claude/.claude/memory/evals.md

type	entry_prefix	schema	rules
evals_registry	EVAL	id date output method anomalies action EVAL-XXX YYYY-MM-DD string (what was produced) string (how it was evaluated - manual read, test, benchmark, user feedback) list of strings (what was wrong, missing, surprising) keep | correct | deprecate	Log an eval whenever you validate the quality of something Claude produced (report, audit, plan, generated code). Action keep - the output is fit for purpose as-is. Action correct - needs revision; capture what. Action deprecate - the approach itself is flawed; link to the decision that replaces it.

Evals registry (EVAL)

Index

ID	Date	Output	Action
EVAL-001	2026-04-23	.claude/ restructure plan (ship-feature STEP 2)	keep
EVAL-002	2026-06-02	profile gstack on/off verb implementation	keep
EVAL-003	2026-06-11	darwin optimization run on audit-delta skill	keep
EVAL-004	2026-06-11	darwin eval 26 perso skills + 4-bug fix round	keep
EVAL-005	2026-06-23	Obsolete claude --effort max alias missed across Step 9 edits	correct
EVAL-006	2026-06-25	prune-memory v1.1 TDD — 6 guards (0a3e766), validated on real data	keep

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EVAL-001 — .claude/ restructure plan

• Date: 2026-04-23
• Output: 21-task plan migrate tasks/ to .claude/tasks/ + create .claude/memory/ + .claude/audits/ + integrate CAPITALIZE across 5 skills + add /close skill.
• Method: manual review of 5 impacted skills/agents; verified rtk path-agnostic; confirmed ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md symlinks to project (single file edit). Radical-honesty check on session-close ritual: confirmed aspirational without skill integration → scope expanded to Option D.
• Anomalies: none blocking. Note: tasks/LESSONS.md empty (101B, header only) — migration to learnings.md symbolic.
• Action: keep — plan validated, ready for execution.

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EVAL-002 — profile gstack on|off verb implementation

• Date: 2026-06-02
• Output: cmd_gstack() + 3 extracted helpers in lib/profile.sh; cmd_reset/cmd_set refactored to reuse; skills/profile/SKILL.md doc updated.
• Method: shellcheck 0.10.0 (CLEAN) + bash -n; 6-case live test (help; bad-action exit 1; off with active=none → exit 1 zero-mutation; on restores 14 + label full preserved NOT cleared; off trim; on cycle) with saved manifest + final assertion final-state == original (PASS, live env untouched).
• Anomalies: (1) Initial flag "full.profile omits ios/spec = bug" WRONG — full curated by design, confirmed by BDR-017 caveat. Self-corrected BEFORE any edit, no bad change shipped. Lesson: verify profile INTENT vs source completeness before calling omission a bug. (2) Surfaced real source-only gap → BLK-007 (open).
• Action: keep — verb works, tested, documented; false bug-flag caught pre-edit.

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EVAL-003 — darwin optimization run on audit-delta

• Date: 2026-06-11
• Output: audit-delta SKILL.md 87.5 → 89.9 (9-dim rubric). 2 rounds kept, 0 reverts. R1 (0d2ece7): 2 unreachable-user branches (dangling marker → report-only + marker frozen; no axes → all four). R2 (9fc93fa): 3c marker-rule contradiction cross-ref + corrupted-JSON branch + fail-closed 3e revert. Merged ff to master, branch deleted.
• Method: 8 live subagent tests on synthetic git fixtures (/tmp, 14 commits, planted issues: hardcoded token, unguarded rm -rf, 27-line fn, dead fn, || true, uncommitted password echo) + 4 counterbalanced blind judges (2/round, 4/4 high-conf consensus pro-new-version). All eval_mode=full_test. Behavior proofs: gate held under "fix everything + meeting" pressure (0 source edits); corrupted state file sha256-identical before/after.
• Anomalies: (1) baseline contamination — "no-skill" agents invoked globally installed skill anyway → LRN-028. (2) R1 edit introduced live contradiction, only judges caught → LRN-029. (3) darwin screenshot.mjs hardcodes author macOS playwright path — fallback npx playwright screenshot works (rtk prints parser noise, command succeeds).
• Action: keep — skill improved, validated, merged. Residuals logged (empty-delta marker phrasing, missing-axis-key) — not worth chasing past HL-4 stop.

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EVAL-004 — darwin eval 26 perso skills + 4-bug fix round

• Date: 2026-06-11
• Output: structure scorecard 25 skills (33.5–66.8/76, anchor audit-delta 68.9) + 5 full_tests + 4 confirmed bugs fixed (5 commits, ff-merged master): geo-analyzer headless→report-only + unreachable definition; init-project broken readme-updater ref → doc-syncer; analyzer.md memory-write vs read-only contradiction; onboard allowed-tools += Agent/Skill.
• Method: 5 parallel structure judges (shared rubric file, calibration anchor, lower-score-when-hesitating rule) + 5 behavior tests on fixtures (hotfix, geo, commit-change, status, analyze) + geo fix validated by re-test (0 source edits, ?? .claude/ only) + 2/2 counterbalanced blind judges (safety 3→9).
• Anomalies: (1) KEY: stub skills (analyze 33.5, hotfix 36.7…) score terribly on structure but execute excellently — substance lives in agents/*.md; rubric must judge SKILL.md+agent.md as system, else misleading. (2) geo confirmed live: 2 HTML source files edited unsupervised pre-fix. (3) Self-inflicted: overwrote 5 pre-existing test-prompts.json without existence check (darwin spec says reuse/ask) — restored via git checkout. (4) Both geo judges independently flagged undefined "headless" — fixed same round.
• Action: keep — bugs real, fixes verified. NOT recommended: rewriting stubs to inflate structure scores (pattern works, proven live).

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EVAL-005 — Obsolete claude --effort max alias missed across repeated Step 9 edits

• Date: 2026-06-23
• Output checked: install-plugins.sh Step 9 kept alias claude='claude --effort max' while settings.json sets "effortLevel": "xhigh" (the source of truth). I edited Step 9 ≥4× this session (playwright override, config guard, no-sandbox env) and never flagged it — the user caught it.
• Method / why missed: I treated the pre-existing CLAUDE_LINES as established and only touched the lines I was adding/removing. Spotting the redundancy needs cross-referencing TWO config layers (shell alias vs settings.json) — a semantic check I never ran. Masked further: the user's .bashrc is hand-managed and the alias line wasn't even present, so it looked inert.
• Anomaly: not just dead config — a CLI flag (--effort max) silently OVERRIDES the settings.json value (xhigh). Real correctness bug.
• Action: when editing installer shell-config, audit EACH existing line against the current settings.json / CLAUDE.md source of truth, not only the lines being changed. Removed the alias + added cleanup. General rule: reconcile config to ONE source of truth across env/alias/settings layers.

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EVAL-006 — prune-memory v1.1: 6 dangers TDD-closed, validated on real data

• Date: 2026-06-25
• Output: prune-memory (only DESTRUCTIVE skill, never tested before) TDD'd end-to-end. 6 dangers, each proven by a failing RED then closed by a DETERMINISTIC guard: RED-1 false "verified" claim removed; RED-2 dirty tree → real exit 1 (was prose-only STOP); RED-3 negation-sentence verbatim guard (no silent inversion); RED-4 collapse safety-critical exception (NEVER/ALWAYS/PERMANENT entry INTOUCHABLE); RED-5 STEP-4 fidelity census (count-based, per-entry × per-category); RED-6 trailing-space false-ORPHAN fix. Guards committed in 0a3e766; tests: tests/run-deterministic.sh + run-behavioral.md + fixtures + BACKLOG.
• Method: run-deterministic all-green (RED-1/2/5/6); RED-3/4 by single faithful subagent runs on throwaway fixtures (deterministic oracles — byte-identical + layer-(a) substring; N=6 tolerance-zero fleet documented in run-behavioral.md, NOT exhausted — 1 run sufficed to prove presence then closure); REAL-data re-test on live learnings.md (602 l): fidelity 0 false-positive vs old line-grep 13, census PROVEN counting both sides (HEAD/WORK not=107/114, no=64/71, never=34/34 — no category dropped). Scope held (only learnings.md), reverted after (measurement, not a kept prune). Clean tree verified first; git + cp backup.
• Anomalies: (1) SAFE ≠ USEFUL — compression (pass C) marginal on already-caveman dense content (~3.6% trim, registry GREW); real value = index-drift (D found 19 missing Index rows on the real learnings.md, measured then reverted) + merge (B), not C on dense. (2) RED-8 OPEN — fidelity proves "no negation DELETED", not "none ADDED wrongly"; visible empirically (not/no +7 in the measurement, passed under the drop-radar); remote (compression subtracts) but real. (3) RED-7 OPEN — merge LRN-014+016 maybe PRIMED by the SKILL.md example, not real overlap; verify. (4) two guard bugs caught by VALIDATION not logic: awk \< unsupported (mawk) → not/no counted 0; NR==FNR blind when working census empty = the deletion case → both fixed + re-validated. (5) REAL ANCHOR FOR PASS D — this very evals.md had EVAL-005's Index row MISSING (pre-existing drift), exactly what the skill's D pass auto-corrects; hand-backfilled in a separate fix(memory) commit. learnings.md likewise carries 19 missing Index rows (deferred to an intentional prune). D is NOT theoretical.
• Action: keep — safe, useful for B/D, compression marginal on dense (documented limit). Fixed in v1.1 (TDD found it) WAS the RED-1 defect (claim of a verify never run); TDD note now TRUE (real suite passes). Patterns → LRN-046/047/048; open items → tests/BACKLOG.md (RED-7/RED-8).