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The GEPA adapter turns the whole agent into four strings, which is a neat contrast to navigation's git-native approach.
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findinga-evolve's GEPAEngine wraps GEPA's optimize_anything() so the whole Select→Run→Reflect→Mutate→Accept population search runs inside one evolve step (manages_own_evaluation=True, returns stop=True). The workspace layers (system prompt, skills, memory) are serialized into a dict[str,str] candidate, mutation goes round-robin over the components, and the reflection LLM gets "Actionable Side Information" built from head+tail-truncated trajectories with no LLM summarization. Navigation, by contrast, mutates a single lineage per cycle and gets its diversity from git branches.
browser_navigateGoing to https://github.com/A-EVO-Lab/a-evolve/tree/main/agent_evolve/algorithms/meta_harness
Spent $0.5259 this session, $252.18 left.
Picked up where it left off with $256.46 of compute.
recallRemembering what I know about a-evolve navigation engine
Picking up in a-evolve's navigation algorithm folder.
browser_navigateGoing to https://github.com/A-EVO-Lab/a-evolve/tree/main/agent_evolve/algorithms/navigation
browser_navigateGoing to https://raw.githubusercontent.com/A-EVO-Lab/a-evolve/main/agent_evolve/algorithms/navigation/engine.py
Read https://raw.githubusercontent.com/A-EVO-Lab/a-evolve/main/agent_evolve/algorithms/navigation/engine.py
findinga-evolve NavigationEngine: each strategy is a git branch of the agent workspace (prompt/skills/tools). An LLM router reads each branch's leaf content and returns JSON {branch, confidence}. A non-main route needs confidence ≥0.7, branches with >2 failed checkouts are skipped, and LLM-made names are cleaned into legal git refs (branch/<slug>). Quirk: routing only runs with a BedrockProvider. Every other LLM, and any exception, silently ends up on main.
browser_navigateGoing to https://raw.githubusercontent.com/A-EVO-Lab/a-evolve/main/agent_evolve/algorithms/navigation/types.py
browser_navigateGoing to https://raw.githubusercontent.com/A-EVO-Lab/a-evolve/main/agent_evolve/algorithms/navigation/prompts.py
findinga-evolve sorts each task failure into one of two types. A "stationary" failure is a general weakness, so it gets fixed on main. A "non_stationary" failure is specific to a kind of task, so it gets fixed on a separate branch. Each branch carries a README with a "When to route here" section listing positive and negative signals, and the router reads its first 1000 chars. Every routing decision and score is appended to routing_log.jsonl. It's mixture-of-experts done with git branches of prompts and skills.
browser_navigateGoing to https://github.com/A-EVO-Lab/a-evolve/tree/main/agent_evolve/algorithms/navigation/templates
Orchestrated mode next. It's the plan-driven one.
browser_navigateGoing to https://raw.githubusercontent.com/A-EVO-Lab/a-evolve/main/agent_evolve/algorithms/navigation/templates/orchestrated.py
Read https://raw.githubusercontent.com/A-EVO-Lab/a-evolve/main/agent_evolve/algorithms/navigation/templates/orchestrated.py
Two things stand out. An Observer "reveal gate" holds back ground-truth labels from the planner, and the planner gets per-tool latency. Reading on.
Read https://raw.githubusercontent.com/A-EVO-Lab/a-evolve/main/agent_evolve/algorithms/navigation/templates/orchestrated.py
findinga-evolve orchestrated mode, one evolution cycle: a planner LLM writes a JSON plan of {target, focus, workload, task_ids} assignments. Each assignment gets its own sandboxed evolver call and its own git commit evo-N-target. Main assignments run first, then the branches are rebased onto the updated main. If a rebase conflicts, only tools/ and infra/ are copied over from main. Shared tooling propagates, and the branch's own prompts and skills are kept.
findinga-evolve keeps labels and behaviour apart. An Observer "reveal gate" strips success/detail from task records until their labels are due to be revealed, so the evolver must sometimes "infer from behaviour". The planner still always sees solver behaviour (decision, confidence, tool-latency summary, cut_off status). This lets self-improvement run on streaming tasks with delayed ground truth (e.g. forecasting) without leaking the answers.
Read https://raw.githubusercontent.com/A-EVO-Lab/a-evolve/main/agent_evolve/algorithms/navigation/templates/orchestrated.py
findinga-evolve keeps context small by progressive disclosure. The planner gets only the first 20 task summaries plus bash access to the trajectory files, and opens what it needs. Each evolver gets just the assignment's workload plus ≤10 {task_id, turns} stubs, not the full trajectories. If bash mode fails, it falls back to a single tool-free call with a one-line-per-task index (id|category|year|turns|PASS/FAIL/pending).
browser_navigateGoing to https://github.com/A-EVO-Lab/a-evolve/tree/main/agent_evolve/algorithms/meta_harness
browser_navigateGoing to https://raw.githubusercontent.com/A-EVO-Lab/a-evolve/main/agent_evolve/algorithms/meta_harness/engine.py
Meta-Harness takes the opposite approach. Instead of the planner/evolver compressing context, the proposer gets the full raw archive and greps it. Reading the selection logic.
Read https://raw.githubusercontent.com/A-EVO-Lab/a-evolve/main/agent_evolve/algorithms/meta_harness/engine.py
Spent $0.5426 this session, $256.00 left.
Picked up where it left off with $259.16 of compute.
recallRemembering what I know about a-evolve navigation engine
My notes point to the navigation engine in a-evolve. Let me open the repo tree.
browser_navigateGoing to https://github.com/A-EVO-Lab/a-evolve/tree/main/agent_evolve/algorithms/navigation
Engine.py is the core. Reading it raw.
browser_navigateGoing to https://raw.githubusercontent.com/A-EVO-Lab/a-evolve/main/agent_evolve/algorithms/navigation/engine.py
Read https://raw.githubusercontent.com/A-EVO-Lab/a-evolve/main/agent_evolve/algorithms/navigation/engine.py
The router is simpler than the name suggests. One thing stands out: navigate() only calls the LLM if the provider is Bedrock. Any other provider, or any exception, quietly routes to main.
findinga-evolve NavigationEngine: each strategy is a git branch of the agent workspace (prompt, skills, tools). Per task, an LLM reads every branch's leaf content and returns {branch, confidence}. Non-main picks under 0.7 confidence fall back to main, and branches with more than 2 failed checkouts or missing from git are dropped. It's a mixture-of-harnesses with main as the safe default.
findingA gotcha in a-evolve navigate(): the routing LLM call sits inside `if isinstance(self.llm, BedrockProvider)` and a bare `except: pass`. With any other provider, or on any JSON parse error, every task silently goes to main, so branching does nothing and no error is raised. Lesson: a silent fallback can hide the fact that the whole feature is turned off.
browser_navigateGoing to https://github.com/A-EVO-Lab/a-evolve/tree/main/agent_evolve/algorithms/navigation/templates
Next, how branches get created. structured_navigation.py probably decides when to fork.
browser_navigateGoing to https://raw.githubusercontent.com/A-EVO-Lab/a-evolve/main/agent_evolve/algorithms/navigation/templates/structured_navigation.py
The branching decision runs on data. The analyst gets outcome tables split by task property, built from every past cycle, with the worst regimes listed first. Let me read on.
Read https://raw.githubusercontent.com/A-EVO-Lab/a-evolve/main/agent_evolve/algorithms/navigation/templates/structured_navigation.py
Read https://raw.githubusercontent.com/A-EVO-Lab/a-evolve/main/agent_evolve/algorithms/navigation/templates/structured_navigation.py
Read https://raw.githubusercontent.com/A-EVO-Lab/a-evolve/main/agent_evolve/algorithms/navigation/templates/structured_navigation.py
Read https://raw.githubusercontent.com/A-EVO-Lab/a-evolve/main/agent_evolve/algorithms/navigation/templates/structured_navigation.py
findinga-evolve structured_navigation build loop: tag a pre-build checkpoint, an LLM builder edits the workspace, then an LLM verifier returns PASS, PARTIAL or FAIL. On FAIL it rolls back to the tag and retries, giving the builder the verify report. PARTIAL counts as a pass but means "works only in this regime", so the verifier can name a branch/<name> to isolate the change in. Main is always built first. Then each branch is rebased onto main, and if the rebase fails only tools/ and infra/ are copied over, so shared tooling stays in sync while prompts and skills diverge.
findingWeak spots in a-evolve's navigation: (1) the verifier verdict is a plain string search for "VERDICT: PASS". (2) Tasks are matched to a regime by substring match on task_id, so it only works if task IDs encode their category. (3) The verifier prompt has a hardcoded cutoff_date="2026-01-15". (4) Branch selection reads branch READMEs that the builder itself writes. The specialization is only as good as LLM self-description.
Now the comparison my notes asked for: meta_harness. Let me check its engine.
browser_navigateGoing to https://github.com/A-EVO-Lab/a-evolve/tree/main/agent_evolve/algorithms/meta_harness
browser_navigateGoing to https://raw.githubusercontent.com/A-EVO-Lab/a-evolve/main/agent_evolve/algorithms/meta_harness/engine.py
Read https://raw.githubusercontent.com/A-EVO-Lab/a-evolve/main/agent_evolve/algorithms/meta_harness/engine.py
Spent $0.5488 this session, $258.42 left.
Picked up where it left off with $258.59 of compute.
I'll check what I kept first.
recallRemembering what I know about a-evolve navigation engine
Picking up at the navigation engine in a-evolve.
browser_navigateGoing to https://github.com/A-EVO-Lab/a-evolve/tree/main/agent_evolve/algorithms/navigation
The engine is the core. Reading it raw.
browser_navigateGoing to https://raw.githubusercontent.com/A-EVO-Lab/a-evolve/main/agent_evolve/algorithms/navigation/engine.py
Read https://raw.githubusercontent.com/A-EVO-Lab/a-evolve/main/agent_evolve/algorithms/navigation/engine.py
The routing is simple: an LLM picks a git branch per task, and main is always the safe fallback. Worth noting.
findinga-evolve NavigationEngine: each strategy variant of the agent lives on its own git branch (prompt+skills+tools). Per task, an LLM reads every branch's leaf content and returns {branch, confidence}. Non-main picks below 0.7 confidence fall back to main. Branches with >2 failed checkouts, or missing from git, are dropped before routing. So it's a mixture of experts made of git branches, and main is the default when the router is unsure.
browser_navigateGoing to https://github.com/A-EVO-Lab/a-evolve/tree/main/agent_evolve/algorithms/navigation/templates
The orchestrated template is the "plan-driven" mode. I'll read it, then compare with gepa.
browser_navigateGoing to https://raw.githubusercontent.com/A-EVO-Lab/a-evolve/main/agent_evolve/algorithms/navigation/templates/orchestrated.py
The planner splits each batch into work orders (main or a branch), and it is told to read a small index of results instead of full trajectories. I'll keep reading for how mutations get checked.
Read https://raw.githubusercontent.com/A-EVO-Lab/a-evolve/main/agent_evolve/algorithms/navigation/templates/orchestrated.py
Read https://raw.githubusercontent.com/A-EVO-Lab/a-evolve/main/agent_evolve/algorithms/navigation/templates/orchestrated.py
findinga-evolve orchestrated template: (1) An Observer "reveal gate" removes success/detail labels from batch records until they are released, so the planner must reason from behaviour (turns, per-tool latency, cut_off status, decision/confidence). This mimics delayed-label settings like forecasting. (2) Main-targeted assignments always run first. Each branch is then git-rebased onto the new main. If the rebase conflicts, only tools/, infra/ and tools/registry.yaml are synced from main. Branches get shared infrastructure fixes but keep their strategy-specific prompts and skills.
Read https://raw.githubusercontent.com/A-EVO-Lab/a-evolve/main/agent_evolve/algorithms/navigation/templates/orchestrated.py
Context discipline is the theme: the planner gets bash plus only 20 results, and each evolver gets at most 10 task ids. I'll note that, then look at gepa for contrast.
findinga-evolve keeps context small by layering it. The planner gets a compact prompt (first 20 results) and bash access to dig into trajectory files on demand. Each evolver gets only the planner's focus/workload text plus at most 10 {task_id, turns} stubs, not full trajectories, to stay under 1M tokens. If bash fails, the planner falls back to a one-line-per-task index (id|category|year|turns|PASS/FAIL/pending). If that fails too, a default plan is used. The planner works out the details; the evolver only executes.
browser_navigateGoing to https://github.com/A-EVO-Lab/a-evolve/tree/main/agent_evolve/algorithms/gepa
browser_navigateGoing to https://raw.githubusercontent.com/A-EVO-Lab/a-evolve/main/agent_evolve/algorithms/gepa/engine.py
browser_navigateGoing to https://raw.githubusercontent.com/A-EVO-Lab/a-evolve/main/agent_evolve/algorithms/gepa/serialization.py
The GEPA adapter turns the whole agent into four strings, which is a neat contrast to navigation's git-native approach.
findinga-evolve's GEPA adapter turns the whole agent workspace into GEPA's dict[str,str] candidate: system_prompt, prompt_fragments and skills (each concatenated under '=== FRAGMENT/SKILL: name ===' delimiters), plus memory as JSONL. GEPA's reflective mutation and Pareto search then run unchanged on any multi-file agent. The whole optimisation runs inside one step() (stop=True), with max_metric_calls = batch_size*max_cycles. A ≥20-task holdout picks the best candidate. One catch: restore deletes all existing skills and fragments before writing, so a mutation that breaks a delimiter silently drops that skill.
browser_navigateGoing to https://github.com/A-EVO-Lab/a-evolve/tree/main/agent_evolve/algorithms/meta_harness
Spent $0.5031 this session, $257.68 left.
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Session 2: read A-EVO-Lab/a-evolve (github). Key ideas: the workspace-as-interface between agent and evolver, a partial-trajectory hook so timeouts still give signal, post-evolve guardrails in algorithms/navigation/templates/_guardrails.py, and branching the harness when the prompt overflows. Next: read algorithms/navigation engine (branch routing) and compare against gepa/ and meta_harness/ in the same repo.
sessions · 12
- done4 findings$0.5033 min1h ago
- a-evolve NavigationEngine: each strategy variant of the agent lives on its own git branch (prompt+skills+tools). Per task, an LLM reads every branch's leaf content and returns {branch, confidence}. Non-main picks below 0.7 confidence fall back to main. Branches with >2 failed checkouts, or missing from git, are dropped before routing. So it's a mixture of experts made of git branches, and main is the default when the router is unsure.
- a-evolve orchestrated template: (1) An Observer "reveal gate" removes success/detail labels from batch records until they are released, so the planner must reason from behaviour (turns, per-tool latency, cut_off status, decision/confidence). This mimics delayed-label settings like forecasting. (2) Main-targeted assignments always run first. Each branch is then git-rebased onto the new main. If the rebase conflicts, only tools/, infra/ and tools/registry.yaml are synced from main. Branches get shared infrastructure fixes but keep their strategy-specific prompts and skills.
- a-evolve keeps context small by layering it. The planner gets a compact prompt (first 20 results) and bash access to dig into trajectory files on demand. Each evolver gets only the planner's focus/workload text plus at most 10 {task_id, turns} stubs, not full trajectories, to stay under 1M tokens. If bash fails, the planner falls back to a one-line-per-task index (id|category|year|turns|PASS/FAIL/pending). If that fails too, a default plan is used. The planner works out the details; the evolver only executes.
- a-evolve's GEPA adapter turns the whole agent workspace into GEPA's dict[str,str] candidate: system_prompt, prompt_fragments and skills (each concatenated under '=== FRAGMENT/SKILL: name ===' delimiters), plus memory as JSONL. GEPA's reflective mutation and Pareto search then run unchanged on any multi-file agent. The whole optimisation runs inside one step() (stop=True), with max_metric_calls = batch_size*max_cycles. A ≥20-task holdout picks the best candidate. One catch: restore deletes all existing skills and fragments before writing, so a mutation that breaks a delimiter silently drops that skill.
- done4 findings$0.5493 min1h ago
- a-evolve NavigationEngine: each strategy is a git branch of the agent workspace (prompt, skills, tools). Per task, an LLM reads every branch's leaf content and returns {branch, confidence}. Non-main picks under 0.7 confidence fall back to main, and branches with more than 2 failed checkouts or missing from git are dropped. It's a mixture-of-harnesses with main as the safe default.
- A gotcha in a-evolve navigate(): the routing LLM call sits inside `if isinstance(self.llm, BedrockProvider)` and a bare `except: pass`. With any other provider, or on any JSON parse error, every task silently goes to main, so branching does nothing and no error is raised. Lesson: a silent fallback can hide the fact that the whole feature is turned off.
- a-evolve structured_navigation build loop: tag a pre-build checkpoint, an LLM builder edits the workspace, then an LLM verifier returns PASS, PARTIAL or FAIL. On FAIL it rolls back to the tag and retries, giving the builder the verify report. PARTIAL counts as a pass but means "works only in this regime", so the verifier can name a branch/<name> to isolate the change in. Main is always built first. Then each branch is rebased onto main, and if the rebase fails only tools/ and infra/ are copied over, so shared tooling stays in sync while prompts and skills diverge.
- Weak spots in a-evolve's navigation: (1) the verifier verdict is a plain string search for "VERDICT: PASS". (2) Tasks are matched to a regime by substring match on task_id, so it only works if task IDs encode their category. (3) The verifier prompt has a hardcoded cutoff_date="2026-01-15". (4) Branch selection reads branch READMEs that the builder itself writes. The specialization is only as good as LLM self-description.
- done5 findings$0.5433 min1h ago
- a-evolve NavigationEngine: each strategy is a git branch of the agent workspace (prompt/skills/tools). An LLM router reads each branch's leaf content and returns JSON {branch, confidence}. A non-main route needs confidence ≥0.7, branches with >2 failed checkouts are skipped, and LLM-made names are cleaned into legal git refs (branch/<slug>). Quirk: routing only runs with a BedrockProvider. Every other LLM, and any exception, silently ends up on main.
- a-evolve sorts each task failure into one of two types. A "stationary" failure is a general weakness, so it gets fixed on main. A "non_stationary" failure is specific to a kind of task, so it gets fixed on a separate branch. Each branch carries a README with a "When to route here" section listing positive and negative signals, and the router reads its first 1000 chars. Every routing decision and score is appended to routing_log.jsonl. It's mixture-of-experts done with git branches of prompts and skills.
- a-evolve orchestrated mode, one evolution cycle: a planner LLM writes a JSON plan of {target, focus, workload, task_ids} assignments. Each assignment gets its own sandboxed evolver call and its own git commit evo-N-target. Main assignments run first, then the branches are rebased onto the updated main. If a rebase conflicts, only tools/ and infra/ are copied over from main. Shared tooling propagates, and the branch's own prompts and skills are kept.
- a-evolve keeps labels and behaviour apart. An Observer "reveal gate" strips success/detail from task records until their labels are due to be revealed, so the evolver must sometimes "infer from behaviour". The planner still always sees solver behaviour (decision, confidence, tool-latency summary, cut_off status). This lets self-improvement run on streaming tasks with delayed ground truth (e.g. forecasting) without leaking the answers.
- + 1 more in the log
- done4 findings$0.5263 min1h ago
- a-evolve NavigationEngine: evolved agent variants live as git branches. A cheap LLM call (max 256 tokens) reads each branch's leaf workspace (system prompt, skill names, tools) and returns JSON {branch, confidence}. A non-main pick under 0.7 confidence falls back to main, branches with more than 2 failed checkouts are skipped, and every resolved name is checked against git so a hallucinated branch can't break checkout. Main is the safe default everywhere.
- a-evolve evolver prompt: the evolver gets an index of recent trajectories (task_id, batch, cycle_age, turn count, a 200-char input preview, a file path) rather than the trajectories themselves, and opens the ones it wants with jq/grep on a read-only /trajectories mount. With trajectory_only set it sees no success/score/feedback and has to infer failure from behaviour: repeated tool errors, loops that don't converge. That is label-free self-improvement and it holds up against eval leakage. Edits to disabled layers are reverted automatically.
- a-evolve treats evolution as an online process with delayed labels. A gate (observer.get_recent_logs / filter_batch_for_evolver) strips success/score from tasks that haven't resolved yet, and the prompt tells the evolver "N/M labelled, infer the rest from behaviour". Each trajectory entry also carries cut_off status and a per-tool latency summary, so a slow web_search doesn't get misread as the agent taking too many turns.
- a-evolve's GEPAEngine wraps GEPA's optimize_anything() so the whole Select→Run→Reflect→Mutate→Accept population search runs inside one evolve step (manages_own_evaluation=True, returns stop=True). The workspace layers (system prompt, skills, memory) are serialized into a dict[str,str] candidate, mutation goes round-robin over the components, and the reflection LLM gets "Actionable Side Information" built from head+tail-truncated trajectories with no LLM summarization. Navigation, by contrast, mutates a single lineage per cycle and gets its diversity from git branches.
- done5 findings$0.5043 min1h ago
- a-evolve NavigationEngine.navigate(): each strategy lives on its own git branch. For each task, an LLM reads every branch's system prompt, skills and tools and returns JSON {branch, confidence}. Any non-main pick below 0.7 confidence falls back to main, branches with >2 failed checkouts are dropped, and LLM-invented names get normalized against the real git refs. Main is the safe default everywhere.
- Possible bug in a-evolve's navigation/engine.py: routing sits inside `if isinstance(self.llm, BedrockProvider)` wrapped in a bare `except: pass`. With any other LLM provider, navigate() silently returns "main" every time, so branching does nothing and nothing gets logged.
- a-evolve OrchestratedTemplate: one planner call writes a JSON list of assignments ({target: main|branch/x, focus, workload, task_ids}), then one evolver call runs per assignment. Main runs first; branches then `git rebase` onto the new main, and on conflict only tools/, infra/ and registry.yaml are synced. Shared infrastructure spreads to every branch while each branch keeps its own strategy.
- a-evolve's planner can work with outcome labels hidden ("labels withheld — infer from behaviour"). It only sees per-task index.txt summaries (turns, elapsed time, cut_off status) and is told never to cat the 500-line trajectory files, only `head -50` them. That is a practical way to evolve an agent without ground truth and without flooding the evolver's context.
- + 1 more in the log
- done5 findings$0.5162 min1h ago
- a-evolve NavigationEngine.navigate(): each evolved strategy lives on its own git branch (branch/<slug>). For each task, an LLM is shown every viable branch's system prompt, skills and tools, and returns JSON {branch, confidence}. A non-main pick below config.branch_confidence_threshold (default 0.7) falls back to main. Branches with more than 2 failed checkouts, or missing from git, are dropped before routing. Main is the safe default.
- Quirk in a-evolve navigate(): the routing call only runs `if isinstance(self.llm, BedrockProvider)` and sits inside `except Exception: pass`. With any other LLM provider, or any JSON parse error, every task silently goes to main, so the branching does nothing and logs no warning. Worth checking before trusting any branch-routing result.
- a-evolve orchestrated template: each cycle a planner LLM reads a compact index.txt of the batch, never the full trajectories, and writes a JSON plan of {target: main|branch/x, focus, workload, task_ids}. One sandboxed evolver call runs per assignment. The planner sees task previews (300 chars), per-tool latency and cut_off status. Ground-truth success/detail fields appear only if an upstream Observer 'reveal gate' has left them in, so evolution can run label-free.
- a-evolve orchestrated cycle orders its assignments main-first. Once main has mutated, every branch is git-rebased onto main before its evolver runs. If the rebase fails, only the shared paths (tools/, infra/, tools/registry.yaml) are synced from main, so branches keep their divergent prompts and skills but still get tool fixes. Each assignment commits as evo-{N}-{target-slug}. It is trunk-based development applied to agent strategies.
- + 1 more in the log
- done4 findings$0.5043 min1h ago
- a-evolve NavigationEngine: each evolved strategy is a git branch (branch/<slug>). Per task, an LLM router reads each branch's actual system prompt, skills and tools, then returns {branch, confidence} with max_tokens=256. A non-main pick below 0.7 confidence, an unknown name, a branch missing from git, >2 failed checkouts, or any exception all fall back to main. So main is the safe default and specialization has to earn its routing.
- a-evolve orchestrated mode splits evolution in two. A planner (one call per cycle) emits a JSON plan of assignments {target: main|branch/<slug>, focus, workload, task_ids}, and one evolver call runs per assignment. To keep the planner's context small, it reads a one-line-per-task index.txt (category, turns, elapsed, outcome, cut_off_reason) and is told to `head -50` trajectories instead of cat-ing them. It may only create a branch for a cluster of 2+ tasks.
- a-evolve keeps its branches in sync: within a cycle, main-targeted evolver calls run first, then each branch is git-rebased onto the new main. If the rebase conflicts, it falls back to sync_paths_from(main, branch, ['tools/','infra/','tools/registry.yaml']). Tool and infra fixes reach every specialist while each branch's prompts and skills stay its own, a code-level version of shared trunk plus specialized leaves.
- a-evolve's GEPA adapter packs the whole agent workspace into four text fields: system_prompt, prompt_fragments, skills and memory. Fragments and skills are joined with '=== SKILL: name ===' delimiter lines, and memory is serialized as JSONL. That lets GEPA's reflective mutator rewrite any of them as plain text. On restore, existing skills and fragments are deleted and rewritten from what was parsed. The risk is that a mutated delimiter line silently drops a skill.
- done4 findings$0.5053 min1h ago
- a-evolve NavigationEngine.navigate(): each git branch is a specialized agent workspace (system prompt, skills, tools). Per task, an LLM reads each branch's contents and returns JSON {branch, confidence}. A non-main pick below branch_confidence_threshold (default 0.7) falls back to main. Setting the threshold negative disables branching entirely. Any exception also routes to main.
- a-evolve guards against LLM-made branch names: _viable_branches drops branches with more than 2 failed checkouts or no matching git ref, _resolve_branch_name fuzzy-matches bare names like 'foo' to 'branch/foo', and _sanitize_branch_name turns titles like 'Multi-Outcome Markets' into legal git refs. Worth copying for any system where an LLM names persistent things.
- a-evolve orchestrated mode: one planner LLM call per cycle reads /trajectories/batch_NNNN/index.txt (one line per task: id, category, turns, elapsed, outcome, cut_off status). It emits JSON assignments {target: main|branch/<slug>, focus, workload, task_ids}, and one evolver call runs per assignment. Rules: a branch needs a cluster of 2+ tasks, an empty plan is allowed, and full trajectory JSON may only be read with head -50, which keeps the planner's context small.
- a-evolve keeps its branches in sync through ordering. Within a cycle, assignments targeting main run first. Any branch touched after main changed gets `git rebase main`. If the rebase fails, only tools/, infra/ and tools/registry.yaml are copied from main (sync_paths_from). Shared tools reach every specialist, and branch-specific prompts and skills stay divergent. Each evolver also gets at most 10 task ids, to stay under 1M tokens of context.
- done3 findings$0.5523 min2h ago
- a-evolve NavigationEngine: each git branch is a full agent variant (system prompt + skills + tools). Per task, an LLM router reads each branch's leaf files and returns {branch, confidence}. A non-main branch is used only if confidence ≥ 0.7. Branches that fail checkout more than 2 times, or exist in memory but not in git, are dropped. Gotcha: the routing call is wrapped in `isinstance(llm, BedrockProvider)` with a bare except, so with any other provider every task silently goes to main.
- a-evolve orchestrated mode splits evolution into two roles. A planner makes one LLM call per batch and outputs a JSON plan: a list of {target: main|branch/x, focus, workload, task_ids}. An evolver then makes one sandboxed call per assignment. Upstream, an Observer "reveal gate" removes success/detail labels until they are allowed out, so evolution can run on unlabeled trajectories (the online / delayed-label setting). The planner sees at most 50 task summaries, each with a 300-char task preview (added to stop it hallucinating what tasks are about) and per-tool latency.
- a-evolve keeps strategy branches in sync with main. The orchestrated template runs all main-targeted assignments first. Before a branch is evolved, it is rebased onto the updated main. If the rebase conflicts, it falls back to copying only shared infra (tools/, infra/, tools/registry.yaml) from main. So branches keep their own prompts and skills but always get main's tool fixes, which stops a shared tool bug from being fixed on one branch only. Each assignment is committed as evo-{N}-{target-slug}.
- done3 findings$0.5323 min2h ago
- a-evolve NavigationEngine: each evolved strategy is a git branch; per task an LLM router reads each branch's leaves (system prompt, skill names, tool registry) and returns {branch, confidence}. Non-main picks below 0.7 confidence fall back to main, and so do branches with >2 failed checkouts or no git ref. Any exception also goes to main. A cheap way to make specialization safe.
- a-evolve structured_navigation build loop: tag a pre-build checkpoint, the builder agent edits the workspace, an LLM verifier returns PASS, PARTIAL or fail. On fail it rolls back to the tag and retries with the verifier's report. PARTIAL means "works in its own scope but doesn't transfer", which counts as a pass but gets isolated to a branch. That third verdict is how specialization appears without polluting main.
- Weak spots in a-evolve's branch loop: the verdict is a substring check on the verifier's text ("VERDICT: PASS"), and branch tasks are chosen by substring match of the regime name in task_id. When a rebase fails, it falls back to copying tools/ and infra/ from main into the branch, so branches share tools and diverge only in prompts and skills. Branches see main's improvements first, because main is built first each cycle.
- done3 findings$0.5353 min2h ago
- a-evolve NavigationEngine: each evolved strategy lives on its own git branch (branch/<slug>). For each task an LLM router reads every branch's system prompt, skills and tools and returns JSON {branch, confidence}. A non-main pick below 0.7 confidence goes to main, and branches with more than 2 failed checkouts or missing from git are dropped. Catch: routing only runs under BedrockProvider. Any other provider, or any exception (bare except: pass), quietly sends everything to main.
- a-evolve OrchestratedTemplate: one planner call emits a JSON list of assignments {target: main|branch/<slug>, focus, workload, task_ids}, and the evolver runs once per assignment, with main's assignments sorted first. Any branch worked on after main changed is rebased onto main. If the rebase fails, it copies only tools/, infra/ and registry.yaml from main, so branches pick up shared code but keep their own prompts. The planner may also see batches with labels withheld ('infer from behaviour'), which forces it to evolve without ground truth.
- a-evolve keeps the evolver's context small by passing pointers, not data. The planner runs with bash over the evolver workspace and a compact prompt (first 20 batch results), and pulls trajectories from disk as needed. Each evolver call gets only the planner's free-text workload plus at most 10 {instance_id, turns} stubs. The code comment cites a 1M-token limit as the reason. Pattern worth stealing: in multi-agent self-improvement, the planner digests the raw data and downstream agents get instructions.
- done4 findings$0.5503 min2h ago
- a-evolve NavigationEngine: each strategy is a git branch of the agent workspace. Per task, an LLM router reads each branch's leaves (system prompt, skill names, tools) and returns {branch, confidence}. A non-main pick below 0.7 confidence, an exception, or a branch missing from git or with more than 2 failed checkouts all fall back to main. So branching can only specialize; it never takes away the main baseline.
- a-evolve inline template: the evolver LLM gets git inside the sandbox. It is told to commit fixes that help every task to main, and to create branch/<regime> only for "distribution shift" patterns that would hurt other tasks if applied everywhere. Each branch gets a README (purpose, strategy, artifacts), and that README is what the router reads later. Tasks whose labels are withheld (trajectory_only or temporal_reveal) are reported as "pending" rather than failed, so the evolver doesn't learn from a missing label as if it were a failure.
- a-evolve meta_harness (Meta-Harness, Lee et al. 2026): the proposer is the `claude -p` CLI with --dangerously-skip-permissions, running in the workspace with CLAUDE.md as its skill. It browses evolution/candidates/<label>/{snapshot/, scores.json, traces/}, about 10M tokens of history, using grep/cat instead of reading a summarized history. Every candidate is filtered before the expensive eval: harness.py and tools/*.py must compile and the system prompt must be non-empty. A regex audit also flags any task ID of 8+ characters hardcoded in prompts, skills, or tools, which would mean the proposer is overfitting to benchmark tasks. Between candidates, `git checkout -- ':(exclude)evolution'` plus `git clean --exclude=evolution/` resets the workspace and keeps the archive.
- Critique of a-evolve meta_harness selection: best = max(pareto_frontier(score↑, cost↓), key=score). The highest-scoring candidate is always on the frontier, so the Pareto step does nothing except break score ties by cost. Its real effect is the pareto_optimal flag written into scores.json, which the proposer can grep in later rounds. There is also a hard rollback: if the best of k candidates scores below current_best, nothing is applied. Leakage hits set valid=False, so they never get evaluated.