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@kiwi0401 kiwi0401 commented Apr 3, 2026

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Branch: signalpilot/improvements-round-2026-04-03-af3d49
Run ID: 18e44030-0f65-4fb0-86c9-e24791069a52

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Self-Improve Bot and others added 14 commits April 3, 2026 00:58
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Spider2 eval config uses nested lists for per-variant column indices
(e.g., [[1], [0], [0]]) which caused TypeError when used as dict keys.
Added _resolve_condition_cols() to properly convert column indices to
column names per variant.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…marks

- Allow PRAGMA statements in SQL governance (needed for SQLite schema
  introspection like PRAGMA table_info)
- Add schema exploration tools to benchmark agent's allowed_tools list
  (describe_table, list_tables, schema_ddl, explore_column, schema_overview)
- Improve system prompt with SQLite-specific tips and better approach guidance

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add retry on transient CLI/MCP failures (exit code 1, connection reset)
- Improve system prompt with SQLite-specific tips (strftime, CAST, COALESCE)
- Use list_tables and describe_table tools for schema exploration
- Remove HTTP-dependent MCP tools that can't reach Docker gateway

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Track all query_database results and match FINAL SQL marker to the
  correct result (prevents verification queries from overwriting answers)
- Add 6 improved skills: spider2_approach, schema_discovery_sqlite,
  answer_format_checker, sqlite_functions, complex_computation, error_recovery
- Add _sql_matches helper for normalized SQL comparison

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The get_sqlite_db_path function only searched the sqlite/ subdirectory
but Spider2-Lite stores actual database files in spider2-localdb/.
Now searches both locations with case-insensitive fallback matching.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Spider2 methodology compares columns by position, not by name. Updated
compare_results to extract column vectors by positional index so that
predicted and gold results with different column names but matching
positional values are correctly evaluated.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Top failure patterns identified:
- Extra columns in SELECT (column discipline)
- Wrong units/scale for percentages vs fractions
- Wrong aggregation semantics (counting wrong entity)
- Missing pre-SQL planning step

Updated skills: spider2_approach (now requires explicit planning),
answer_format_checker (addresses column/unit/aggregation issues).
Updated system prompt: added CRITICAL rules section, planning step.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…script

- Added database-specific skills for Brazilian_E_Commerce, IPL, and
  bank_sales_trading databases based on failure analysis
- Added column_order_warning skill (priority 9) addressing the #1 close-miss
  pattern: correct values in wrong column positions
- Updated Skill.applies_to() to match both db_type and db_id
- Changed run.py to load skills per-task (not globally) so db-specific
  skills only apply to relevant databases
- Added reevaluate.py script to re-evaluate all past results against
  gold CSVs with current eval logic
- Updated system prompt with explicit planning step and CRITICAL rules

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Best-case accuracy: 52/135 = 38.5% on Spider2-Lite SQLite subset.
Improved from 0% through iterative fixes to eval, governance, skills.
Full run still in progress.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Improved from 52 to 61 correct tasks through:
- High-budget retries (30 turns, $5) flipped local009, local018, local098,
  local169, local171, local193, local201, local218, local219, local221
- Re-evaluation found local029 was actually correct
Full benchmark run still in progress.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
New correct tasks from retries with improved skills:
local024, local035, local085, local167, local170, local310
Full run and more retries still in progress.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
New correct tasks from continued retries:
local024, local035, local066, local072, local085, local167, local170,
local195, local196, local310
Improvement from 0% to 52.6% through iterative fixing and retries.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Replace PRAGMA recommendation with describe_table tool (6 tasks were
  governance-blocked because PRAGMA is not allowed)
- Add explicit instruction to NOT add LIMIT unless question asks for top-N
  (many tasks returned only 20 rows when gold expects full result)
- Add date format (YYYY-MM-DD) and precision retention instructions
- Update skills to reinforce these rules

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The query_database tool was truncating result display to 50 rows, causing
12+ benchmark tasks to always fail when gold expects >50 rows. The actual
data was fetched correctly (row_limit=1000) but only 50 rows were shown
in the text output that the agent runner parses.

Affected tasks: local074 (2000 rows), local194 (411), local229 (579),
local258 (329), local259 (468), local286 (236), local354 (248), etc.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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