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sanderling/internal/runner/llm_source.go
pj 76dce1a75e experiment instrumentation: step budgets, arm labels, campaign runner (#72)
* feat(cli): add --max-steps for step-bounded runs

runner.Options.MaxSteps already worked but was unreachable from the command
line. A step budget is what makes two generators comparable: one making a
model call per step and one drawing from a PRNG are not comparable per second.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01A5KmftdEJ49A9z5mF5ESrX

* feat(trace): record arm membership and host in meta.json

meta.json recorded the seed but not which picker ran, how it was configured,
what budget it was given, or which machine produced it. A directory of runs
cannot be attributed to an experiment cell without those, which makes any
factorial computed from such a directory unanalysable after the fact.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01A5KmftdEJ49A9z5mF5ESrX

* feat(cli): add --arm and populate run meta from it

Model and instructions are recorded only when the LLM picker is the one that
will actually run, so a spec declaring generator = llm() that is run under the
seeded picker does not label its trace with a model it never called.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01A5KmftdEJ49A9z5mF5ESrX

* feat(campaign): sweep seeds for one experiment cell

campaign.json lists the seeds a sweep intended to run and is written before
the first run, so a host that dropped runs shows up as missing seeds rather
than as a smaller sample. Seed 0 is rejected: sanderling test reads it as
"derive a seed from the clock", which is why conformance/gates.sh controls
nothing today.

Each run contributes one runs.jsonl line carrying steps to first violation by
origin step, the step that armed the failed obligation, so the survival
analysis never reopens a trace.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01A5KmftdEJ49A9z5mF5ESrX

* fix(runner): no silent generator fallback, and llm on web

--generator llm against a spec declaring no generator = llm(...) logged a
warning and ran the seeded picker. For a comparison campaign that is silent
arm corruption: the run completes, the directory looks correct, and the wrong
policy drove it. It is now fatal.

pickSources also returned the V8 source for both action and extractor on web
before it looked at the generator, so the llm policy was unreachable there.
The two axes are now independent: the driver picks the extractor source, the
flag picks the action source, and llmSource composes with either because the
runner populates the candidate list and screenshot on every platform.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01A5KmftdEJ49A9z5mF5ESrX

* fix(chrome): make the hierarchy dump agree with the web runtime

Three facts differed between the dump the goja host reads and the DOM the V8
host reads, so the two enumerated different candidates on one page.

scrollable was never emitted, and worker.go reads exactly that attribute while
targets.ts requires it for scrolls, so the goja host could not offer a single
web scroll. clickable tested el.onclick, which React assigns to its root
container for event delegation, making the whole viewport a tap target here and
in no other enumeration. Both now resolve through the selector sets in
pkg/spec/src/web-runtime.ts.

The dump also rooted at body while collectTargets walks querySelectorAll("*"),
so the goja host never saw html, where page-level scrolling lives. It now roots
at documentElement and skips the head subtree, which is all zero-bounds and
would otherwise carry script and title text into the trace.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01A5KmftdEJ49A9z5mF5ESrX

* fix(conformance): give the gate reproducible seeds

SEED defaulted to 0 and sanderling test reads --seed 0 as "derive a seed from
the clock", so the tunable controlled nothing and a gate failure could not be
re-run. SEEDS now takes one explicit non-zero seed per run, recorded in the
results table so a failing row names its stream.

The five runs stay on five different streams: a gate that scored one path five
times would catch less than one that scores five.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01A5KmftdEJ49A9z5mF5ESrX

* fix(chrome): emit editable as a plain boolean

editable was emitted as `isEditable || null`, and an absent field sends
internal/hierarchy into the native fallback, which reads any class name
containing "EditText" as an Android text widget. On web that is just a CSS
class, so a page styling a div with it was editable to the goja host and not to
the web runtime, and the model policy could be offered typing into a div.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01A5KmftdEJ49A9z5mF5ESrX

* fix(spec): leave the head subtree out of the web target walk

collectTargets walked querySelectorAll("*") while the hierarchy dump skips head,
so the two hosts enumerated different element sets on every page with a <head>.
No candidate changes: builtinCandidates pushes only for targets acceptsTarget
admits, and head elements have no positive bounds, so the list the draw ranges
over is untouched. What changes is that targetIndex now means the same thing on
both hosts.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01A5KmftdEJ49A9z5mF5ESrX

* test(chrome): compare the facts both hosts derive from one DOM

The existing parity harness hand-authors the facts on both sides, so it proves
that given identical facts both hosts select identical candidates, and says
nothing about the two code paths that derive those facts from a real page. Four
divergences lived in that blind spot and it passed throughout.

This drives one real page and compares clickable, enabled, editable, scrollable
and positiveBounds element by element, plus the element sets themselves, which
is what catches a host that omits html or includes head. Reverting any of the
four fixes makes it fail naming the element and the fact.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01A5KmftdEJ49A9z5mF5ESrX

* chore(make): run the browser packages one at a time

Both launch Chrome and launching two at once has failed with "Launch: context
canceled".

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01A5KmftdEJ49A9z5mF5ESrX

* style: remove every em-dash and en-dash

Eighteen occurrences across fourteen files. Each sentence was repunctuated to
suit what the dash was doing rather than swapped for a hyphen, which produces
comma splices. The minus sign in folio-web's ledger is a minus sign and stays.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01A5KmftdEJ49A9z5mF5ESrX

* fix(chrome): honor the caller context in Launch

Launch and clearState ran against d.tabCtx, so a target that accepts the
connection and never answers wedged the process past its own --duration and
through SIGTERM, needing SIGKILL. Unattended that is a campaign worker lost for
the rest of the sweep with no diagnostic.

The browser is still allocated against d.tabCtx first, because chromedp starts
Chrome under whichever context calls Run first and allocating under a caller
deadline would kill the browser when Launch returns. Everything after
allocation goes through runCtx.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01A5KmftdEJ49A9z5mF5ESrX

* fix(sidecarassets): publish the extracted jar through a rename

Extract wrote a 96 MB jar with a plain WriteFile into a temp path every
sanderling process on the host shares. On a cold host several concurrent
workers all miss the checksum and all write the same path, and O_TRUNC lets one
spawn a JVM against another's half-written archive. A fresh experiment host is
exactly a cold host.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01A5KmftdEJ49A9z5mF5ESrX

* feat(campaign): kill a run that outlives --run-timeout

A wedged run holds its worker for the rest of the sweep, and on an unattended
host nothing else will send it a signal. Defaults to three times --duration and
must exceed it. A killed run is recorded as timed_out rather than as a generic
failure, so the analysis can tell a lost cell from a real crash.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01A5KmftdEJ49A9z5mF5ESrX

* style(test): gofmt browser_test.go

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01A5KmftdEJ49A9z5mF5ESrX
2026-08-12 22:20:31 +05:30

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package runner
import (
"bytes"
"context"
"encoding/base64"
"encoding/json"
"errors"
"fmt"
"image"
"image/color"
"image/png"
"log/slog"
"regexp"
"strings"
"github.com/priyanshujain/sanderling/internal/llmclient"
"github.com/priyanshujain/sanderling/internal/trace"
"github.com/priyanshujain/sanderling/internal/verifier"
)
const (
// llmMaxImageEdge downscales the screenshot's long edge to bound the payload
// while keeping the UI legible.
llmMaxImageEdge = 1024
// llmHistorySize is how many recent actions (and the screen each led to) the
// prompt carries as context.
llmHistorySize = 5
)
// llmSystemPrompt frames the selection task: a short, generic bug-hunting
// instruction. Each candidate is already a concrete, correctly-labeled action
// with a weight hinting the spec's testing priority; the model reads the
// screenshot, picks ONE number, and echoes that action so a mismatch can be
// caught. The app-specific description (spec instructions) is appended.
const llmSystemPrompt = "You are exercising a UI to find bugs. Each turn you get a screenshot and a numbered list of concrete actions, each with a weight hinting how much the test author wants it exercised (higher = more). " +
"Pick the ONE action most likely to make progress or expose a defect. Bugs often hide in repeated or rapid actions, so once a screen works, deliberately stress it (for example submitting the same form twice in a row to check it is not applied more than once) rather than only advancing. " +
"Respond with your reasoning, the chosen number, and chosen_action copied verbatim from that line. For a typing action, also provide the text to enter."
// llmSource selects each step's action with an OpenAI-compatible vision model
// instead of the seeded random pick. It replaces ONLY the pick: the candidate list, the input
// values, and action execution are all reused unchanged. The spec's JS setup
// still runs first each tick (setup precedence), and the LLM drives once setup
// yields nothing.
type llmSource struct {
verifier *verifier.Verifier
client *llmclient.Client
model string
// instructions is optional spec-level guidance appended to the system prompt
// to steer the model's bug-hunting (empty when unset).
instructions string
logger *slog.Logger
history *actionHistory
// lastSource/lastReasoning describe the most recent NextAction so the runner
// can stamp the trace. lastSource is "llm" only when the LLM (not setup)
// chose the action; lastReasoning is the model's rationale. lastChoice is the
// 1-based number it picked and lastChosenAction the description it echoed, so
// the trace shows what the model believed it was doing.
lastSource string
lastReasoning string
lastChoice int
lastChosenAction string
}
// llmSelection is the outcome of one LLM selection call.
type llmSelection struct {
action verifier.Action
reasoning string
choice int
chosenAction string
}
// NextAction returns the step's action. Setup precedence is preserved by
// running the JS path first (the llm marker is inert there, so a null result
// means setup yielded nothing); the LLM selection then takes over.
func (s *llmSource) NextAction(ctx context.Context) (verifier.Action, error) {
s.lastSource = ""
s.lastReasoning = ""
s.lastChoice = 0
s.lastChosenAction = ""
s.history.completeLast(s.verifier.CurrentScreen())
// Setup precedence only: the LLM replaces the seeded action root, so we run
// setup (e.g. login) first but never the weighted picker.
action, err := s.verifier.SetupAction()
if err == nil {
s.history.add(describeAction(action))
return action, nil
}
if !errors.Is(err, verifier.ErrNoAction) {
return verifier.Action{}, err
}
selection, ok := s.selectViaLLM(ctx)
if !ok {
// Any failure (HTTP error, unusable output, invalid choice, echo
// mismatch) skips the step; the next step re-observes and tries again.
return verifier.Action{}, verifier.ErrNoAction
}
s.lastSource = "llm"
s.lastReasoning = selection.reasoning
s.lastChoice = selection.choice
s.lastChosenAction = selection.chosenAction
s.history.add(describeAction(selection.action))
return selection.action, nil
}
// selectViaLLM runs one multimodal call and maps the chosen number to an action.
// It returns ok=false on any error/empty/invalid output, logging the cause; the
// caller turns that into a skipped step.
func (s *llmSource) selectViaLLM(ctx context.Context) (llmSelection, bool) {
candidates := s.verifier.Candidates()
if len(candidates) == 0 {
return llmSelection{}, false
}
response, err := s.client.ChatCompletion(ctx, s.buildRequest(candidates))
if err != nil {
s.logger.Warn("llm action selection failed", "err", err)
return llmSelection{}, false
}
if len(response.Choices) == 0 {
s.logger.Warn("llm returned no choices")
return llmSelection{}, false
}
output, err := parseChoice(response.Choices[0].Message.Content)
if err != nil {
s.logger.Warn("llm output unusable", "err", err)
return llmSelection{}, false
}
// choice is 1-based into the numbered list.
if output.Choice < 1 || output.Choice > len(candidates) {
s.logger.Warn("llm choice out of range", "choice", output.Choice, "candidates", len(candidates))
return llmSelection{}, false
}
candidate := candidates[output.Choice-1]
// Strict skip: the echoed action must match the numbered entry, so a model
// that reasoned about one target but named a number for another cannot act.
// Models copy the whole rendered line including its trailing "(w34)" weight
// annotation, so strip that before comparing to the (weight-free) description.
if stripWeightSuffix(output.ChosenAction) != candidate.Description {
s.logger.Warn("llm chosen_action mismatch; skipping",
"choice", output.Choice, "echoed", output.ChosenAction, "candidate", candidate.Description)
return llmSelection{}, false
}
action, err := s.actionForCandidate(candidate, output.Text)
if err != nil {
s.logger.Warn("building action from candidate failed", "choice", output.Choice, "err", err)
return llmSelection{}, false
}
return llmSelection{
action: action,
reasoning: output.Reasoning,
choice: output.Choice,
chosenAction: candidate.Description,
}, true
}
// actionForCandidate turns a chosen candidate into the executable action. The
// candidate already carries a ready action; only builtin typing needs the
// model's value spliced in (authored InputText keeps its sampled value, and any
// other kind runs verbatim).
func (s *llmSource) actionForCandidate(candidate verifier.ActionCandidate, text string) (verifier.Action, error) {
action := candidate.Action
if candidate.Kind == verifier.ActionKindInputText && candidate.LLMText {
if strings.TrimSpace(text) == "" {
// The model omitted a value; fall back to the shared corpus sampler
// so typing still exercises an edge-case string.
sampled, err := s.verifier.SampleInput()
if err != nil {
return verifier.Action{}, err
}
text = sampled
}
action.Text = text
}
return action, nil
}
// buildRequest assembles the one-shot multimodal request: a system frame, the
// numbered candidate list plus recent-action memory, and the downscaled
// screenshot. The strict json_schema response format pins the ranked output.
func (s *llmSource) buildRequest(candidates []verifier.ActionCandidate) llmclient.Request {
userParts := []llmclient.ContentPart{llmclient.TextPart(s.userPrompt(candidates))}
if screenshot := s.verifier.Screenshot(); len(screenshot) > 0 {
if dataURL, ok := screenshotDataURL(screenshot, llmMaxImageEdge); ok {
userParts = append(userParts, llmclient.ImagePart(dataURL))
}
}
return llmclient.Request{
Model: s.model,
Messages: []llmclient.Message{
{Role: "system", Content: []llmclient.ContentPart{llmclient.TextPart(s.systemPrompt())}},
{Role: "user", Content: userParts},
},
ResponseFormat: choiceResponseFormat(len(candidates)),
}
}
// systemPrompt is the base framing plus any spec-level instructions, appended as
// extra guidance so a spec can steer the model's bug-hunting without losing the
// candidate-kind semantics the base prompt establishes.
func (s *llmSource) systemPrompt() string {
if strings.TrimSpace(s.instructions) == "" {
return llmSystemPrompt
}
return llmSystemPrompt + "\n\n" + s.instructions
}
// userPrompt renders the numbered candidate list (with weights) and the
// recent-action memory.
func (s *llmSource) userPrompt(candidates []verifier.ActionCandidate) string {
var builder strings.Builder
builder.WriteString("Actions available on the current screen:\n")
for _, candidate := range candidates {
fmt.Fprintf(&builder, "%d. %s", candidate.Index, candidate.Description)
if candidate.Weighted {
fmt.Fprintf(&builder, " (w%d)", candidate.Weight)
}
builder.WriteByte('\n')
}
if recent := s.history.recent(); len(recent) > 0 {
builder.WriteString("\nYour recent actions (oldest first) and the screen each led to:\n")
for _, entry := range recent {
screen := entry.screen
if screen == "" {
screen = "(current screen)"
}
fmt.Fprintf(&builder, "- %s -> %s\n", entry.action, screen)
}
}
builder.WriteString("\nPick one action by its number.")
return builder.String()
}
// choiceResponseFormat is the strict structured-output schema. Field order is
// pinned via raw JSON with reasoning FIRST, so the model reasons before it
// commits to a number (a materially better ordering than answer-first). text is
// required by strict mode but empty for non-typing actions.
func choiceResponseFormat(candidateCount int) *llmclient.ResponseFormat {
schema := fmt.Sprintf(`{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"reasoning": {"type": "string", "description": "One short sentence on what you are trying to do and why this action."},
"choice": {"type": "integer", "minimum": 1, "maximum": %d, "description": "The number of the chosen action."},
"chosen_action": {"type": "string", "description": "The chosen action's text, copied verbatim from its numbered line."},
"text": {"type": "string", "description": "For a typing action, the text to enter; otherwise an empty string."}
},
"required": ["reasoning", "choice", "chosen_action", "text"],
"additionalProperties": false
}`, candidateCount)
return &llmclient.ResponseFormat{
Type: "json_schema",
JSONSchema: llmclient.JSONSchema{
Name: "action_choice",
Strict: true,
Schema: json.RawMessage(schema),
},
}
}
// choiceOutput is the model's structured response, reasoning first.
type choiceOutput struct {
Reasoning string `json:"reasoning"`
Choice int `json:"choice"`
ChosenAction string `json:"chosen_action"`
Text string `json:"text"`
}
// weightSuffix matches the trailing " (w34)" annotation appended to each
// numbered line, which models copy verbatim into chosen_action.
var weightSuffix = regexp.MustCompile(`\s*\(w\d+\)$`)
// stripWeightSuffix trims surrounding whitespace and a trailing weight
// annotation from the model's echoed action so it can be compared to the
// weight-free candidate description.
func stripWeightSuffix(echo string) string {
return strings.TrimSpace(weightSuffix.ReplaceAllString(strings.TrimSpace(echo), ""))
}
// parseChoice decodes the model's JSON content into the structured choice.
func parseChoice(content string) (choiceOutput, error) {
content = strings.TrimSpace(content)
if content == "" {
return choiceOutput{}, errors.New("empty content")
}
var out choiceOutput
if err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(content), &out); err != nil {
return choiceOutput{}, err
}
if out.Choice == 0 {
return choiceOutput{}, errors.New("no choice")
}
return out, nil
}
// describeAction renders a short action summary for the recent-action memory.
func describeAction(action verifier.Action) string {
switch action.Kind {
case verifier.ActionKindInputText:
return fmt.Sprintf("InputText %s = %q", actionTarget(action), action.Text)
case verifier.ActionKindScroll:
// A builtin gesture carries endpoints rather than a selector, so name the
// container by where the drag starts; that is what tells two scrollable
// regions apart in the recent-action memory.
target := action.On
if target == "" {
target = fmt.Sprintf("(%d,%d)", action.FromX, action.FromY)
}
return fmt.Sprintf("Scroll %s %s", action.Direction, target)
case verifier.ActionKindSwipe:
// Coordinates make a repeated identical swipe recognizable in the
// prompt's recent-action memory.
return fmt.Sprintf("Swipe from (%d,%d)", action.FromX, action.FromY)
case verifier.ActionKindPressKey:
return "PressKey " + action.Key
case verifier.ActionKindWait:
return "Wait"
default:
return fmt.Sprintf("%s %s", action.Kind, actionTarget(action))
}
}
func actionTarget(action verifier.Action) string {
if action.On != "" {
return action.On
}
return fmt.Sprintf("(%d,%d)", action.X, action.Y)
}
// historyEntry records one performed action and the screen it led to (filled on
// the following step, once that screen is observed).
type historyEntry struct {
action string
screen string
}
// actionHistory is a bounded ring of recent actions for the prompt.
type actionHistory struct {
entries []historyEntry
size int
}
func newActionHistory(size int) *actionHistory {
return &actionHistory{size: size}
}
// completeLast fills the most recent action's led-to screen with the
// just-observed screen, if it was still pending.
func (h *actionHistory) completeLast(screen string) {
if n := len(h.entries); n > 0 && h.entries[n-1].screen == "" {
h.entries[n-1].screen = screen
}
}
// add appends an action (its led-to screen pending) and trims to size.
func (h *actionHistory) add(action string) {
h.entries = append(h.entries, historyEntry{action: action})
if len(h.entries) > h.size {
h.entries = h.entries[len(h.entries)-h.size:]
}
}
func (h *actionHistory) recent() []historyEntry {
return h.entries
}
// stampActionSource records the backend that chose an action on the trace.
// Only an LLM-selected action (not a setup action the JS path produced) carries
// source="llm" and the model's reasoning.
func stampActionSource(traceAction *trace.Action, source ActionSource) {
if traceAction == nil {
return
}
llm, ok := source.(*llmSource)
if !ok || llm.lastSource == "" {
return
}
traceAction.Source = llm.lastSource
traceAction.LLMReasoning = llm.lastReasoning
traceAction.LLMChoice = llm.lastChoice
traceAction.LLMChosenAction = llm.lastChosenAction
}
// screenshotDataURL downscales the PNG and encodes it as a data URL for the
// image content part.
func screenshotDataURL(pngBytes []byte, maxEdge int) (string, bool) {
scaled := downscalePNG(pngBytes, maxEdge)
if len(scaled) == 0 {
return "", false
}
return "data:image/png;base64," + base64.StdEncoding.EncodeToString(scaled), true
}
// downscalePNG shrinks the image so its long edge is at most maxEdge, returning
// the original bytes when it is already small enough and nil on decode failure.
func downscalePNG(pngBytes []byte, maxEdge int) []byte {
source, err := png.Decode(bytes.NewReader(pngBytes))
if err != nil {
return nil
}
bounds := source.Bounds()
width, height := bounds.Dx(), bounds.Dy()
if width <= 0 || height <= 0 {
return nil
}
longEdge := max(width, height)
if longEdge <= maxEdge {
return pngBytes
}
scale := float64(maxEdge) / float64(longEdge)
newWidth := max(1, int(float64(width)*scale))
newHeight := max(1, int(float64(height)*scale))
var buffer bytes.Buffer
if err := png.Encode(&buffer, boxDownscale(source, newWidth, newHeight)); err != nil {
return nil
}
return buffer.Bytes()
}
// boxDownscale averages each destination pixel over its source box, a cheap
// dependency-free downscale that keeps text legible enough for the model.
func boxDownscale(source image.Image, newWidth, newHeight int) image.Image {
bounds := source.Bounds()
width, height := bounds.Dx(), bounds.Dy()
dest := image.NewRGBA(image.Rect(0, 0, newWidth, newHeight))
for dy := range newHeight {
sy0 := dy * height / newHeight
sy1 := max((dy+1)*height/newHeight, sy0+1)
for dx := range newWidth {
sx0 := dx * width / newWidth
sx1 := max((dx+1)*width/newWidth, sx0+1)
var r, g, b, a, count uint64
for sy := sy0; sy < sy1; sy++ {
for sx := sx0; sx < sx1; sx++ {
pr, pg, pb, pa := source.At(bounds.Min.X+sx, bounds.Min.Y+sy).RGBA()
r += uint64(pr)
g += uint64(pg)
b += uint64(pb)
a += uint64(pa)
count++
}
}
count = max(1, count)
dest.Set(dx, dy, color.RGBA64{
R: uint16(r / count),
G: uint16(g / count),
B: uint16(b / count),
A: uint16(a / count),
})
}
}
return dest
}