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SESF-82. Nothing measured search quality or memory index freshness, so ranking settings were tuned by impression.
Changes
eval_retrieval.py (stdlib only, talks to the running server over MCP, never embeds):
run: scores a labelled JSONL query set. Reports recall@5, MRR and nDCG@10 per group, a current-first rate for superseded queries and the top hit score for no-answer queries. Writes JSON and Markdown.
run --env KEY=VALUE: refuses when /healthranking shows the server applies other values.
sweep --yes: launchctl setenv and kickstart -k per value, then unsets and restarts. Writes a comparison table per metric.
freshness: writes a canary fact (topic_keyeval:freshness), polls search_memories every 1 s up to 120 s, records the /health memory index state, then deletes it.
usage: rolls up the usage log (top-3 follow-up share, reformulation share within 60 s).
nightly: hybrid, relevance and freshness into one dated report.
search_log.py: SESSIONFLOW_SEARCH_LOG=1 appends search, get_memory and get_turns calls to ~/.sessionflow/search-log.jsonl (0600) with enforce-mode redacted queries and ranked IDs. Off by default; a write failure never fails the tool call.
rag_engine.ranking_settings() is used by _rank_results and reported in /health under ranking.
sessionflow-server.sh install-eval-agent | uninstall-eval-agent | eval-agent-status: nightly at 03:30. Needs SESSIONFLOW_EVAL_QUERIES and SESSIONFLOW_EVAL_OUT.
The real query set and reports go to the private companion vault. tests/eval/fixture_queries.jsonl is synthetic.
Differences from the issue text
--freshness and --usage are subcommands, not flags.
Two groups added from the Astra-6 comment: no-answer (expected is empty) and superseded (current decision must rank above the IDs in superseded).
Live smoke on 0.8.1: a 3-query run scored in hybrid and relevance; --env refused (server predates /healthranking); the freshness canary hit in 1.3 s and was deleted.
After merge
Restart the server, build the private query set, run the baseline and the SESSIONFLOW_RECENCY_WEIGHT 0, 0.15, 0.3, 0.5 sweep.
Version: 0.9.0 (minor): adds the eval_retrieval.py CLI, the SESSIONFLOW_SEARCH_LOG env var, the /healthranking field and eval-agent commands.
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New Features
Added retrieval evaluation with relevance metrics, freshness checks, and reports for queries scored against a running server.
Added options to compare ranking settings and schedule nightly evaluation.
Added optional search and follow-up activity logging. Logging is off by default, and queries are redacted in enforce mode.
Health checks now report the active ranking settings.
Documentation
Added guidance for running evaluations, configuring search logging, and managing scheduled evaluations.
…ge log
Nothing measured search quality or memory index freshness, so ranking
settings were tuned by impression and stalls went unnoticed.
- eval_retrieval.py scores a labelled JSONL query set over the local MCP
endpoint: recall@5, MRR and nDCG@10 per group, a current-first rate for
superseded decisions and the top hit score for no-answer queries.
Subcommands run, sweep, freshness, usage and nightly.
- run --env refuses when the server applies other ranking settings;
/health reports them under "ranking" via rag_engine.ranking_settings.
- sweep sets each value with launchctl setenv, restarts the LaunchAgent,
and restores the server afterwards. It needs --yes.
- freshness writes a canary fact (topic_key eval:freshness), polls
search_memories until it appears, records the /health memory index state
and deletes it.
- search_log.py: SESSIONFLOW_SEARCH_LOG=1 appends search, get_memory and
get_turns calls with redacted queries and ranked IDs. Off by default.
- sessionflow-server.sh install-eval-agent runs nightly at 03:30.
The real query set and reports stay in the private companion vault;
tests/eval/fixture_queries.jsonl is synthetic.
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @eval_retrieval.py:
- Line 28: Normalize DEFAULT_URL before creating the MCP client: when
SESSIONFLOW_URL is a server base URL without the MCP path, append /mcp/;
preserve URLs that already include the MCP path to avoid duplicating it.
- Around line 569-577: Add an explicit marker that the server records in usage
log entries for evaluation traffic, then update the usage_rollup loop around
timed events to skip marked entries before updating searches or reformulations.
Do not identify evaluation traffic by comparing client to "eval-retrieval".
- Around line 669-673: Update the sweep cleanup in the `finally` block to
preserve the prior launchd value before changing the environment, aborting if
that lookup fails. Attempt `client.close()`, environment restoration,
`_restart_server`, and `wait_ready` independently, recording and reporting each
cleanup failure without masking a sweep exception; when the sweep succeeds, make
`main` return status 1 if any cleanup step failed, otherwise preserve its
success status.
- Around line 471-477: In the add_memory EvalError handler, recover a canary
that may have persisted by searching with the token, then delete only a result
with a memory_id whose full text matches canary_text(token). Do not delete the
first search result; preserve the original error and record cleanup failures in
the result.
Review comments at @search_log.py:
- Around line 44-45: Update the JSON serialization in the logging write path so
lone Unicode surrogates cannot cause a UTF-8 encoding error; use ASCII escaping
for non-ASCII characters and preserve the existing handling of write errors.
- Line 42: Update the file-opening flow around os.open so an existing log file
is restricted to owner-only permissions before any data is appended; the 0o600
creation mode alone does not change permissions on an existing file. Preserve
the current append behavior.
Review comments at @sessionflow-server.sh:
- Around line 662-669: In the evaluation setup validation, require both
SESSIONFLOW_EVAL_QUERIES and SESSIONFLOW_EVAL_OUT to be absolute paths before
checking whether the query file exists; reject relative values with a clear
error and exit, while preserving the existing missing-value and file-existence
checks.
- Around line 662-669: Update do_install_eval_agent to verify that the project
interpreter at ${SCRIPT_DIR}/venv/bin/python exists and is executable before
writing the plist or returning success; otherwise, report the missing
interpreter and exit with failure.
- Around line 630-649: Update write_eval_agent_plist to XML-escape
SESSIONFLOW_EVAL_QUERIES and SESSIONFLOW_EVAL_OUT before interpolating them into
the plist, so valid paths containing special XML characters produce a loadable
agent.
Review comments at @tests/test_ranking_settings.py:
- Around line 43-44: Replace the permanent sys.modules.pop call in the
http_server import setup with monkeypatch.delitem using raising=False, and add
the monkeypatch fixture to the test so pytest restores the prior module entry
afterward.
Review comments at @tools.py:
- Line 896: Update the search and follow-up logging calls in call_tool to run in
a worker thread so redaction and synchronous file writes do not block the event
loop. Capture the client key in the coroutine and pass it to _log_turn_search
and follow-up logging rather than retrieving it inside the logging work.
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AGENTS.md
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README.md
eval_retrieval.py
http_server.py
rag_engine.py
search_log.py
sessionflow-server.sh
tests/conftest.py
tests/eval/fixture_queries.jsonl
tests/test_eval_retrieval.py
tests/test_ranking_settings.py
tests/test_search_log.py
tools.py
version.py
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The release adds a retrieval-evaluation CLI for a running MCP server, ranking settings in /health, and optional search and follow-up logging. It also adds freshness and usage commands, ranking sweeps, nightly reports, and LaunchAgent management.
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Retrieval evaluation and observability
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Summary
Ranking settings and health reporting rag_engine.py, http_server.py, eval_retrieval.py, tests/conftest.py, tests/test_ranking_settings.py, tests/test_eval_retrieval.py
ranking_settings() provides the recency weight and decay period used by hybrid ranking and returned by /health. Evaluation checks requested ranking values against the health response.
Optional search and follow-up logging search_log.py, tools.py, tests/test_search_log.py, README.md
When enabled, successful search and follow-up calls append JSONL entries. Search queries are redacted in enforce mode, and records include result identifiers and call metadata.
Query evaluation and reports eval_retrieval.py, tests/eval/fixture_queries.jsonl, tests/test_eval_retrieval.py
The CLI validates query sets, calls the MCP server, calculates recall@5, MRR, and nDCG@10, and writes JSON and Markdown reports.
The CLI adds freshness probes, usage rollups, ranking sweeps, and nightly reports. The shell script adds commands to install, remove, and check the nightly evaluation LaunchAgent. Documentation and release metadata describe these additions.
lbruton/SessionFlow#81: Adds memory-index health reporting that the freshness probe records.
Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review ff7b3
Evaluation can fail with the documented URL, and a sweep may leave the server on the wrong setting. Nightly evaluation can also appear installed without running. Resolve these workflow failures before merging.
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The usage log keyed calls by MCP session only, so the harness's own
queries counted as user reformulations. The client key now carries the
MCP clientInfo name, and usage_rollup skips eval-retrieval clients and
reports how many it skipped.
A base SESSIONFLOW_URL such as http://127.0.0.1:7102 posted MCP requests
to / and every query failed with 404; McpClient now appends /mcp/ when
the URL has no path.
Two probes sharing the canary topic_key replaced each other's record, so
one could time out or take the other's record as its hit. The topic_key
names the host, probes on one host take turns on a file lock, and a hit
needs the probe's own token in the returned text.
record_search accepts a project name, a list of project roots, or None from its shown callers. Declare that type on its public signature. As per path instructions, “Verify type hints on public function signatures.”
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Review comment at @search_log.py around lines 49 - 50:
Update the public signature of record_search to annotate project as accepting a
project name, a list of project roots, or None.
Make the recency-weight test fail if the env var is ignored.
With weight 0, the expected order matches the default weight 0.3. At weight 0, old scores its semantic value 1.0 and new scores 0. At the default 0.3, old keeps about 0.7 and new gets at most 0.3 from recency. A _rank_results that ignores SESSIONFLOW_RECENCY_WEIGHT still passes.
At weight 1, recency alone decides the order, so new ranks first. That order differs from the default. Keep the zero-weight case and add the weight-1 case, so the test covers both.
Proposed fix
-def test_hybrid_rank_uses_the_reported_weight(monkeypatch):- monkeypatch.setenv("SESSIONFLOW_RECENCY_WEIGHT", "0")+@pytest.mark.parametrize(("weight", "expected"), [("0", ["old", "new"]), ("1", ["new", "old"])])+def test_hybrid_rank_uses_the_reported_weight(monkeypatch, weight, expected):+ monkeypatch.setenv("SESSIONFLOW_RECENCY_WEIGHT", weight)
rows = [{"_rrf_score": 1.0, "timestamp": "2020-01-01T00:00:00Z", "doc_id": "old"},
{"_rrf_score": 0.5, "timestamp": "2026-10-30T00:00:00Z", "doc_id": "new"}]
ranked = rag_engine._rank_results(rows, "hybrid", 2)
- assert [r["doc_id"] for r in ranked] == ["old", "new"]+ assert [r["doc_id"] for r in ranked] == expected
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Review comment at @tests/test_ranking_settings.py around lines 30 - 34:
Update the test for rag_engine._rank_results to retain the weight-0 case and add
a weight-1 case that expects the newer result first. Parameterize the weight and
expected document order so the test fails if SESSIONFLOW_RECENCY_WEIGHT is
ignored.
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @eval_retrieval.py:
- Line 28: Normalize DEFAULT_URL before creating the MCP client: when
SESSIONFLOW_URL is a server base URL without the MCP path, append /mcp/;
preserve URLs that already include the MCP path to avoid duplicating it.
- Around line 569-577: Add an explicit marker that the server records in usage
log entries for evaluation traffic, then update the usage_rollup loop around
timed events to skip marked entries before updating searches or reformulations.
Do not identify evaluation traffic by comparing client to "eval-retrieval".
- Around line 669-673: Update the sweep cleanup in the `finally` block to
preserve the prior launchd value before changing the environment, aborting if
that lookup fails. Attempt `client.close()`, environment restoration,
`_restart_server`, and `wait_ready` independently, recording and reporting each
cleanup failure without masking a sweep exception; when the sweep succeeds, make
`main` return status 1 if any cleanup step failed, otherwise preserve its
success status.
- Around line 471-477: In the add_memory EvalError handler, recover a canary
that may have persisted by searching with the token, then delete only a result
with a memory_id whose full text matches canary_text(token). Do not delete the
first search result; preserve the original error and record cleanup failures in
the result.
Review comments at @search_log.py:
- Around line 44-45: Update the JSON serialization in the logging write path so
lone Unicode surrogates cannot cause a UTF-8 encoding error; use ASCII escaping
for non-ASCII characters and preserve the existing handling of write errors.
- Line 42: Update the file-opening flow around os.open so an existing log file
is restricted to owner-only permissions before any data is appended; the 0o600
creation mode alone does not change permissions on an existing file. Preserve
the current append behavior.
Review comments at @sessionflow-server.sh:
- Around line 662-669: In the evaluation setup validation, require both
SESSIONFLOW_EVAL_QUERIES and SESSIONFLOW_EVAL_OUT to be absolute paths before
checking whether the query file exists; reject relative values with a clear
error and exit, while preserving the existing missing-value and file-existence
checks.
- Around line 662-669: Update do_install_eval_agent to verify that the project
interpreter at ${SCRIPT_DIR}/venv/bin/python exists and is executable before
writing the plist or returning success; otherwise, report the missing
interpreter and exit with failure.
- Around line 630-649: Update write_eval_agent_plist to XML-escape
SESSIONFLOW_EVAL_QUERIES and SESSIONFLOW_EVAL_OUT before interpolating them into
the plist, so valid paths containing special XML characters produce a loadable
agent.
Review comments at @tests/test_ranking_settings.py:
- Around line 43-44: Replace the permanent sys.modules.pop call in the
http_server import setup with monkeypatch.delitem using raising=False, and add
the monkeypatch fixture to the test so pytest restores the prior module entry
afterward.
Review comments at @tools.py:
- Line 896: Update the search and follow-up logging calls in call_tool to run in
a worker thread so redaction and synchronous file writes do not block the event
loop. Capture the client key in the coroutine and pass it to _log_turn_search
and follow-up logging rather than retrieving it inside the logging work.
---
Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @search_log.py:
- Around line 49-50: Update the public signature of record_search to annotate
project as accepting a project name, a list of project roots, or None.
Review comments at @tests/test_ranking_settings.py:
- Around line 30-34: Update the test for rag_engine._rank_results to retain the
weight-0 case and add a weight-1 case that expects the newer result first.
Parameterize the weight and expected document order so the test fails if
SESSIONFLOW_RECENCY_WEIGHT is ignored.
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AGENTS.md
CHANGELOG.md
CLAUDE.md
README.md
eval_retrieval.py
http_server.py
rag_engine.py
search_log.py
sessionflow-server.sh
tests/conftest.py
tests/eval/fixture_queries.jsonl
tests/test_eval_retrieval.py
tests/test_ranking_settings.py
tests/test_search_log.py
tools.py
version.py
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- sweep restores the launchd value it found, runs every restore step even
when one fails, and exits 1 when the restore fails.
- A freshness add that errors after committing deletes the canary whose
text matches exactly.
- The usage log runs on a worker thread, tightens an existing log file
to 0600 and escapes non-ASCII, so an odd query cannot fail a call.
- install-eval-agent requires absolute paths, XML-escapes them, passes
--url from SESSIONFLOW_URL or SESSIONFLOW_PORT and refuses a plist
that plutil rejects.
- The recency-weight test fails when the env var is ignored, and the
/health test restores http_server in sys.modules.
Bash 5.2 (CI) expands & in a ${s//x/y} replacement to the match, so
< became <lt; and the plist was malformed; bash 3.2 keeps a
backslash escape literally. sed behaves the same in both.
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SESF-82. Nothing measured search quality or memory index freshness, so ranking settings were tuned by impression.
Changes
eval_retrieval.py(stdlib only, talks to the running server over MCP, never embeds):run: scores a labelled JSONL query set. Reports recall@5, MRR and nDCG@10 per group, a current-first rate forsupersededqueries and the top hit score forno-answerqueries. Writes JSON and Markdown.run --env KEY=VALUE: refuses when/healthrankingshows the server applies other values.sweep --yes:launchctl setenvandkickstart -kper value, then unsets and restarts. Writes a comparison table per metric.freshness: writes a canaryfact(topic_keyeval:freshness), pollssearch_memoriesevery 1 s up to 120 s, records the/healthmemory index state, then deletes it.usage: rolls up the usage log (top-3 follow-up share, reformulation share within 60 s).nightly:hybrid,relevanceandfreshnessinto one dated report.search_log.py:SESSIONFLOW_SEARCH_LOG=1appends search,get_memoryandget_turnscalls to~/.sessionflow/search-log.jsonl(0600) with enforce-mode redacted queries and ranked IDs. Off by default; a write failure never fails the tool call.rag_engine.ranking_settings()is used by_rank_resultsand reported in/healthunderranking.sessionflow-server.sh install-eval-agent | uninstall-eval-agent | eval-agent-status: nightly at 03:30. NeedsSESSIONFLOW_EVAL_QUERIESandSESSIONFLOW_EVAL_OUT.tests/eval/fixture_queries.jsonlis synthetic.Differences from the issue text
--freshnessand--usageare subcommands, not flags.no-answer(expected is empty) andsuperseded(current decision must rank above the IDs insuperseded).Tests
tests/test_eval_retrieval.py,tests/test_search_log.py,tests/test_ranking_settings.py.ruff check .clean.pytest -rs: 904 passed, 120 skipped (Postgres DSN unset).hybridandrelevance;--envrefused (server predates/healthranking); the freshness canary hit in 1.3 s and was deleted.After merge
SESSIONFLOW_RECENCY_WEIGHT0, 0.15, 0.3, 0.5 sweep.Version: 0.9.0 (minor): adds the
eval_retrieval.pyCLI, theSESSIONFLOW_SEARCH_LOGenv var, the/healthrankingfield and eval-agent commands.Summary by CodeRabbit