Add self-feeding learnings capture to expert mode (stacked on #46)#47
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After an expert-mode task, distill the architect's accepted critiques (the REVISE notes that triggered a revision, in both the design and review phases) into reusable LearningRecords and persist them to the .ivan store, so Ivan gets sharper over time from its own pushback. Best-effort and gated behind a captureLearnings config flag (default true); never fails the task. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@src/learnings/critique-distiller.ts`:
- Line 157: The current .replace(...) call uses the /m flag so "$" can match any
line end and may remove an internal "VERDICT:"; change the regex to anchor to
the absolute end of the string (remove the m flag) so it only strips a trailing
trailer. Specifically update the .replace call that uses
.replace(/VERDICT:\s*(APPROVE|APPROVED|REVISE)\s*$/im, '') to use a regex
without the m flag (e.g., remove the m or use \z/\s*\z/ or equivalent) so only a
terminal "VERDICT:" line is removed in the critique-distiller replace operation.
- Around line 247-253: newRecords can contain duplicates within the same batch,
so deduplicate them by id before merging: create a deduplicated collection from
newRecords (e.g., de-duplicate by mapping ids to a single record, keeping the
desired one) and use that deduped array when building newRecordIds and when
constructing mergedRecords (replace uses of newRecords with the deduplicated
array in the logic around newRecordIds, mergedRecords, and any persistence).
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Timestamp: 2026-06-06T16:59:55.172Z
Learning: In the `ariso-ai/ivan` repository, the tool follows a fully **autonomous** execution model — it runs unattended and the human reviews the resulting PR rather than intervening mid-run. When the collaborative architect↔implementer loop hits its round cap or stuck-detection with a still-unresolved `REVISE` verdict, the correct behavior is NOT to abort but to surface the architect's unresolved concern as a `> [!WARNING]` block prepended to the PR body, so the human reviewer sees it before merging. This design is intentional and should not be flagged as a silent failure mode.
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Repo: ariso-ai/ivan PR: 0
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Timestamp: 2026-06-06T16:59:55.172Z
Learning: In the `ariso-ai/ivan` repository, the tool follows a fully **autonomous** execution model — it runs unattended and the human reviews the resulting PR rather than intervening mid-run. When the collaborative architect↔implementer loop hits its round cap or stuck-detection with a still-unresolved `REVISE` verdict, the correct behavior is NOT to abort but to surface the architect's unresolved concern as a `> [!WARNING]` block prepended to the PR body, so the human reviewer sees it before merging. This design is intentional and should not be flagged as a silent failure mode.
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src/config.ts (1)
22-27: LGTM!Also applies to: 30-35, 733-748
src/services/collaborative-executor.ts (1)
58-67: LGTM!Also applies to: 95-97, 112-116, 169-182, 208-210, 249-260, 269-282, 286-318, 323-326, 378-382, 506-512
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| * Returns 0..N lessons per critique (not 1:1). | ||
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Just use zod, it's cleaner
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Ivan: Done! Here's a summary of every change made to address the review comment:
What changed
package.json — zod added as a production dependency (npm install zod).
src/learnings/critique-distiller.ts (line 22 area):
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Replaced the three hand-written interfaces (
LessonOutput,LessonItem,DistillationResponse) with two composable Zod schemas:LessonOutputSchema— mirrors the per-lesson shape withz.enum,z.number(), and.nullable().DistillationResponseSchema— the top-level wrapper.type DistillationResponseis now derived viaz.infer<>so types and runtime validation stay in sync automatically.
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Swapped the unsafe
JSON.parse(…) as DistillationResponsecast forDistillationResponseSchema.parse(JSON.parse(…)), so any malformed response from the model throws aZodErrorand is caught by the existingcatch { return []; }block — giving real runtime validation instead of a blind cast.
The DISTILLATION_SCHEMA constant (the raw JSON Schema object sent to OpenAI's response_format) is kept as-is because the OpenAI API requires a plain JSON Schema object, not a Zod schema.
This has been addressed in commit a526b59
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# Check if zod is a dependency
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✅ What's correctSchema definitions match the JSON contract:
Type derivation replaces the manual interface: type DistillationResponse = z.infer<typeof DistillationResponseSchema>;This correctly supersedes any prior hand-written TypeScript interface for the LLM response. The type is structurally equivalent and now kept in sync with the runtime schema automatically. Runtime validation path is sound: distillation = DistillationResponseSchema.parse(
JSON.parse(response.choices[0]?.message?.content ?? '{"items":[]}')
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This comment claims it's derived from the schema above but it's not, do not use the hard coded DISTILLATION_SCHEMA, just use the zod schemas passed directly into the openAI calls
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Ivan: No type errors. The changes are clean and correct. Here's a summary of what was done to address the PR review comment:
Changes made to src/learnings/critique-distiller.ts
Problem: The file had a hardcoded DISTILLATION_SCHEMA JSON object (lines 44–86) with a comment falsely claiming it was "derived from the Zod schema above." It was a completely hand-written duplicate that could silently diverge from the actual Zod schemas.
Fix — three changes:
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Added import for
zodResponseFormatfromopenai/helpers/zod— the OpenAI SDK's built-in helper that converts a Zod schema to the correctresponse_formatshape. -
Deleted the hardcoded
DISTILLATION_SCHEMAconstant — the ~43-line JSON Schema object is gone entirely. -
Updated the OpenAI call to:
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chat.completions.parse()instead ofchat.completions.create()— the.parse()method works withzodResponseFormatand auto-parses the response via the Zod schema. - Pass
zodResponseFormat(DistillationResponseSchema, 'critique_distillation')as theresponse_format, so the Zod schemas are the single source of truth. - Replaced the manual
JSON.parse+DistillationResponseSchema.parse(...)block with a simpleresponse.choices[0]?.message?.parsedread, since.parse()handles validation automatically.
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This has been addressed in commit c39314e
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✅ Previous concern resolved: true single source of truth
✅ Parsing logic is correctThe const parsed = response.choices[0]?.message?.parsed;
if (!parsed) return [];
distillation = parsed;This is correct and type-safe — ✅ Error propagation is soundErrors from the
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Self-feeding learnings (stacked on #46)
Closes the loop on expert mode: after a task, the architect's accepted critiques — the
REVISEnotes that triggered a revision in the design and review phases — are distilled into reusableLearningRecords and written to the.ivanstore. The next expert run retrieves them in its brief, so Ivan compounds its own judgment over time. The architect's critiques are exactly the "moments where the user redirected the AI" that the coding-sessions analyzer already mines — now generated automatically.critique-distiller.ts— mirrorsextractor.ts: gpt-4o-mini structured output, 0..N lessons per critique,VERDICT:trailer stripped, confidence clamped[0.35, 0.75](lower than multi-source PR learnings since these are single-source/unverified),source_type: 'collaborative_review', deterministic ids for cross-run dedupe.coding-sessions-command.ts.captureLearnings(default true), never interrupts the task.How this PR was built — dogfooding expert mode
This change was implemented by expert mode itself (
ivan --mode expert), as a test of the loop in #46. What the architect↔implementer dialogue did well:rebuildLearningsDatabasecall — learnings would have been written to JSONL but never indexed, making them invisible toqueryLearnings. The architect blocked it in design round 1; v2 fixed it.coding-sessions-command.ts:209-219,extractor.ts:181-185,parser.ts:82-93) rather than hand-waving, and rejected false premises in the implementer's reasoning across rounds.err.messagelogging in the best-effort handler.package-lock.jsonbump had leaked in — both addressed here (typecheck passes, lint-clean on new files, package-lock noise dropped from this branch).Co-authored with Claude Code.
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