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In context mode, an agent that hit a MAQL error and asked "Should I retry with this corrected formula?" was classified as asking a question instead of asking for confirmation. The clarification judge graded that question as lost context. The simulated user was then asked to restate what had been said earlier. The only formula said earlier was the agent's own rejected proposal, so the simulated user sent it back. agent_conversations item 0 failed even though the agent finally created the expected metric.

Changes in core/agentic/_conversation_context.py:

  • Confirmation phrases: retry / try (it|this|that) again / resubmit after "should/shall/may/can I", "do you want me to" and "would you like me to" now count as a confirmation, so the simulated user answers "Yes, go ahead."
    • use and run stay out, so choice questions such as "Which one should I use?" are still questions.
    • The verb group now ends on a word boundary, so "Should I address…" is no longer read as "Should I add".
  • Prompt rule: reply_restating and reply_from_facts tell the simulated user never to write MAQL, SQL, formulas or object definitions.
  • Post-check: a generated reply that still contains MAQL (uppercase SELECT, or a {metric/…}, {fact/…}, {label/…}, {attribute/…} or {dataset/…} reference in braces or angle brackets) is replaced with NO_ANSWER_REPLY. Both callers answer a question, so the fallback has to answer one too. Fixture set answers are sent unchanged.

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  • New unit tests in tests/test_agentic_conversation.py:
    • Classification cases: retry phrasings are confirmations; "Which one should I use?", "Should I use gross or net revenue?", "Should I address…" and "Would you like me to add a region filter?" stay questions.
    • Replay of item 0's T0–T1. The judge stub still returns lost context, and the user answers "Yes, go ahead." both times. No message contains MAQL, reply_restating is not called, and the turn is neither lost-context nor stalled.
    • The MAQL post-check, and a plain "Select the first option." left unchanged.
  • The new tests fail without the fix and pass with it.
  • make -C packages/gooddata-eval format-fix lint-fix type-check passes, and TEST_ENVS=py314 make -C packages/gooddata-eval test gives 2122 passed and 1 skipped.
  • Live run of agent_conversations item 0 (tavern-e2e on staging, gpt-5.6-luna, LOW effort, context mode, this branch installed editable) passed with context_success=1, lost_context_clarifications=0 and stalled_turns=0.
    • The agent hit the same MAQL error and was answered "Yes, go ahead." without any MAQL.
    • In this run it phrased the follow-up as "Should I create the metric with this corrected formula?", so the retry wording itself is covered by the unit replay, not by the live run.

Risk

low: only the eval harness's simulated user and reply classification change. Agent behaviour and scoring are unchanged.

JIRA: QA-29876

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved retry-confirmation detection while distinguishing questions, alternatives, and code or formula content.
    • Prevents simulated-user responses from exposing query syntax, formulas, or object definitions.
    • Unsafe generated replies now use a safe fallback response.
    • Confirmation replies avoid unnecessarily repeating restricted content or rejected formulas.
  • Tests
    • Expanded coverage for retry confirmations, rejected metrics, safe fallbacks, formulas, filters, and harmless uses of query-related terms.

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The conversation context now recognizes retry confirmations, excludes retry-choice questions, and filters simulated-user replies that contain MAQL, formulas, or object definitions. Tests cover classification, rejected metric retries, fallback replies, and harmless “select” wording.

Changes: Conversation context handling

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Retry confirmation handling
packages/gooddata-eval/src/gooddata_eval/core/agentic/_conversation_context.py, packages/gooddata-eval/tests/test_agentic_conversation.py
Retry wording is classified as confirmation unless the question presents retry alternatives. Formula, reference, and quoted-literal spans are masked during alternative detection. Tests cover clarification questions and rejected metric retries.
Simulated-user reply filtering
packages/gooddata-eval/src/gooddata_eval/core/agentic/_conversation_context.py, packages/gooddata-eval/tests/test_agentic_conversation.py
Prompts prohibit definitions and formula-like content. Fact-based and restatement replies use NO_ANSWER_REPLY when MAQL-like syntax is detected. Tests preserve ordinary replies that mention “select”.

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Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 96343

Some simulated conversations may answer a retry request as a question or confirm an action choice without selecting an option. These bounded classification gaps warrant follow-up but do not prevent merge.

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reaching reply helpers, while preserving the existing behavior for ordinary text
like “Select the first option.”
- Around line 42-45: Update classify_reply and the _CONFIRMATION_RE handling so
questions containing retry alternatives, such as “Should I retry ... or ...?”,
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- Line 52: The retry-choice detection in _RETRY_CHOICE_RE must recognize
alternatives when the first retry option ends with punctuation, including
“Should I retry? Or adjust the formula first?”. Extend the matching logic so
classify_reply selects the choice path instead of returning “confirmation”, and
update the corresponding expectation in test_classify_reply to reflect the
corrected classification.
- Around line 253-254: Update _MAQL_RE and _without_maql to recognize standalone
aggregation formulas such as SUM, COUNT, AVG, MIN, MAX, MEDIAN, and DISTINCT,
including formulas embedded in explanatory replies. Add a test case covering a
reply like “Use SUM(revenue) / COUNT(orders) for the metric” and verify the
formula is excluded from the next simulated-user message.
- Around line 253-254: Update the _MAQL_RE pattern in the conversation context
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In context mode an agent that hit a MAQL error and asked "Should I
retry with this corrected formula?" was classified as asking a
question, not as asking for confirmation. The question went to the
clarification judge, which graded it as lost context. The simulated
user was then asked to restate what had been said earlier, and the
only formula said earlier was the agent's own rejected proposal, so it
sent that back. The turn failed even though the metric the agent
finally created matched the expected one.

- Treat retry / try (it|this|that) again / resubmit after
  "should/shall/may/can I", "do you want me to" and "would you like
  me to" as a confirmation, so the user approves the revised proposal
  with "Yes, go ahead."
  - A retry that offers a choice stays a question: "Should I retry
    with gross or net revenue?" and "Should I retry? Or adjust the
    formula first?". An OR inside an inline formula or a {type/id}
    reference is not a choice, and a dot inside a token ("2.5") does
    not end the sentence.
  - `use` and `run` stay out, because they would turn choice
    questions such as "Which one should I use?" into confirmations.
  - The verbs now end on a word boundary, so "Should I address ..." is
    no longer read as "Should I add".
- Tell the simulated user in reply_restating and reply_from_facts
  never to write MAQL, SQL, formulas or object definitions.
- Replace any generated reply that still contains MAQL or SQL with
  NO_ANSWER_REPLY. That covers uppercase SELECT, an uppercase
  aggregation call (SUM(...), COUNT(...), ...), "select" in any case
  before an aggregation call, lowercase SQL shaped as select * /
  a column list / a table followed by where, group by, order by or
  join, and {metric/...}, {fact/...}, {label/...}, {attribute/...} or
  {dataset/...} references in braces or angle brackets. A plain
  "Select the first option from the list." is left alone. Both
  callers answer a question, so the fallback has to answer one too,
  not just approve. Fixture set answers are sent unchanged.

jira: QA-29876
risk: low
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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require SQL-specific syntax instead, while retaining detection for aggregate or
DISTINCT SELECT expressions. Add a test covering an uppercase plain-choice
response and verify it preserves the selected reply rather than substituting
NO_ANSWER_REPLY.
- Around line 45-55: Extend _RETRY_CHOICE_RE to recognize “alternatively”
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The retry choice check read any "or" after "Should I retry" as a
second option, so the common "Should I retry with this corrected
formula, or would you like to adjust it?" went to the clarification
judge again, which is the lost-context path the retry confirmation
was meant to avoid. The MAQL filter, in turn, read any uppercase
SELECT as MAQL.

- An "or" followed by not, would/do you like/want/prefer to, is/are
  there, anything, something, if you or let me know hands the turn
  back to the user and is not an option.
- Only a prose "or"/"Or" counts. An uppercase MAQL OR in a formula
  written without backticks, or an "or" inside a double- or
  single-quoted literal ('Processed or Shipped'), is part of the
  proposal. A single quote counts only outside a word, so apostrophes
  ("today's data or last week's") do not hide a real choice.
- "Alternatively" offers a second option like "or" does: "Should I
  retry? Alternatively, should I adjust the formula first?" is a
  question.
- "try once more" is a retry, like "try again".
- An uppercase SELECT counts as MAQL only when a reference, "(", "*",
  DISTINCT or a call follows it, so a plain "SELECT the second
  option." is no longer replaced by an answer that picks the first.
- The MAQL filter also catches a lowercase aggregation call with the
  parenthesis attached ("sum(units) / count(orders)"); "Count (all)"
  is still left alone.

jira: QA-29876
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questions are not treated as retry confirmations. Preserve the existing matches
for retry, try again/once more, and resubmit.
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