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The agentic and single-shot search_tool scorers disagree, and the agentic one — which is what --kind search_tool dispatches to — is the stale one.

core/evaluators/search_tool.py already documents and applies the exclusion:

# Only keywords and object_types determine semantic correctness.
# limit is optional with a server-side default; emit_widget was renamed to
# user_requested_search in the tool schema — neither affects search quality.

core/agentic/search_tool.py never got it.

Two causes

1. limit. The agentic scorer compares every key the fixture names. Fixtures written against the older signature say limit: 10; the agent sends the server default 20. That fails the call on an implementation default, not on search quality.

2. Exact element equality on lists. A fixture that tokenizes — ["abandonment", "rate", "3ds"] — can never be a subset of an agent that searches the object's title as one phrase — ["Abandonment Rate - 3DS"]. Both name the same object.

Measured, not estimated

Over 143 recorded search_objects calls from a live corpus (12 distinct questions, October 2026):

tool_correctness true in    3 / 244 evaluations   (~1%)
tool_selection   true in  244 / 244               (100%)

All 12 questions failed on keywords + limit; 11 of 12 failed on nothing else.

Replaying the same 143 calls through the patched scorer:

11 of 12 questions   correct on every run
 1 of 12             correct on 1 of 7 runs

The twelfth is a natural-language question that phrases its search differently on all 10 recorded runs — real instability, and it should stay red.

Why it went unnoticed

An item passes on tool_selection alone. pass@k sat at 91–100% while tool_correctness was 1%, and the derived quality_score — the mean of the two boolean checks — was pinned at exactly 0.5 for every search_tool item in the suite. The only visible symptom was "every search_tool eval is 50%".

The change

In _tool_correctness:

  • ignore limit, emit_widget, user_requested_search, matching the single-shot evaluator's existing rationale
  • match list elements by case-insensitive substring in either direction

Extra arguments the agent adds (compatible_with_afm, kda_eligible) were already ignored — only expected keys are iterated — so they were never part of the problem.

No fixture changes required.

Tests

7 new, including one pinned to the real failure (tokenized keywords vs title phrase) and one asserting an unrelated keyword still fails. packages/gooddata-eval: 1855 passed, 1 skipped.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Search evaluations now match expected string values when either value contains the other, including keywords found within longer phrases. For expected lists, each item must match an actual string; additional actual items are allowed.
    • Evaluations ignore differences in the limit, emit_widget, and user_requested_search arguments. Other argument comparisons remain unchanged.
    • Missing expected list items and unrelated string values continue to count as mismatches.

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The search-tool correctness check ignores limit, emit_widget, and user_requested_search. It uses case-insensitive bidirectional containment for strings and list elements. New tests cover matching, ignored arguments, extra values, and mismatches.

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The correctness check skips selected arguments and uses case-insensitive bidirectional containment for strings and expected list elements. Tests cover ignored arguments, extra actual values, empty keywords, and mismatches.

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Some invalid object-type arguments can receive a correct score. Align object-type matching with the controlled enum values before merging, or accept this bounded scoring discrepancy.

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Tomkess force-pushed the fix/agentic-search-tool-arg-matching branch from 565cc8a to 1afa681 Compare October 22, 2026 08:36
…lid calls

The agentic and single-shot search_tool scorers disagree, and the agentic one --
which is what `--kind search_tool` dispatches to -- is the stale one.

`core/evaluators/search_tool.py` already documents and applies the exclusion:

    # limit is optional with a server-side default; emit_widget was renamed to
    # user_requested_search in the tool schema -- neither affects search quality.

`core/agentic/search_tool.py` never got it. It compares every key the fixture
names, so a fixture written against the older tool signature fails on `limit`
alone (fixtures say 10, the agent sends the server default 20).

The second cause is list matching. Expected elements were compared with exact
string equality, so a fixture that tokenizes -- ["abandonment", "rate", "3ds"] --
never matches an agent that searches the object's title as one phrase,
["Abandonment Rate - 3DS"]. Both name the same object.

Measured over 143 recorded search_objects calls from a live corpus (12 distinct
questions, October 2026): tool_correctness was true in 3 of 244 evaluations,
~1%. Every one of those 12 questions failed on `keywords` + `limit`, and 11 of
12 failed on nothing else.

This changes two things in `_tool_correctness`:

- ignore `limit`, `emit_widget` and `user_requested_search`, matching the
  single-shot evaluator's existing rationale
- match list elements by case-insensitive substring in either direction rather
  than exact equality, so differing tokenization of the same object name passes

Replayed against those same 143 calls, 11 of 12 questions now score correct on
every run. The twelfth scores 1 of 7 and should: it phrases its search
differently on every run, which is real instability rather than a scorer
artifact.

Nothing in the suite surfaced this, because an item passes on `tool_selection`
alone -- pass@k stayed at 91-100% while `tool_correctness` sat at 1% and the
derived quality_score was pinned at exactly 0.5 for every search_tool item.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

An empty search term matches nothing: "" is a substring of every string, so
_loosely_contains would otherwise accept an empty agent keyword against any
expected keyword, and the reverse.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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object_types holds controlled values, so the loose case-insensitive substring
match that tokenized keywords need would accept "METRIC" for "metric". The
single-shot evaluator already compares them case-sensitively; keywords stay
loose, every other list is exact.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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