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Partially addresses #84 (Adds CLI flag, but full flakiness config pending)

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Pull request overview

Adds CLI and result/statistics enhancements to support running eval tasks multiple times and surfacing flakiness/pass-rate information in outputs.

Changes:

  • Document a new --trials flag for waza run and add CLI parsing/validation + spec override behavior.
  • Extend per-task TestStats with run counts and flakiness percentage, and print flakiness in the CLI summary.
  • Add tests around --trials handling and basic flakiness percent computation.

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site/src/content/docs/reference/cli.mdx Documents --trials flag for multi-trial runs.
internal/orchestration/runner_orchestration_test.go Adds unit test for flakiness percent/run counts in computeTestStats.
internal/orchestration/runner.go Computes additional per-task stats (PassedRuns, FailedRuns, ErrorRuns, TotalRuns, FlakinessPercent).
internal/models/outcome.go Extends TestStats JSON model with run counts + flakiness_percent.
cmd/waza/cmd_run_test.go Adds tests for --trials parsing, validation, and spec override reflected in output JSON.
cmd/waza/cmd_run.go Introduces --trials flag, validates it, applies it to spec.Config.RunsPerTest, and prints flakiness percent in summary.
README.md Documents --trials flag in CLI options table.
.squad/log/2026-03-05T00-36-issue-assignment-pipeline.md Adds squad session log (process/workflow).
.squad/log/2026-03-05T00-26-rusty-token-diff-design.md Adds squad session log (token diff strategy).
.squad/decisions.md Records decisions (includes token-diff strategy + workflow directive).
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internal/orchestration/runner_orchestration_test.go:350

  • This test only covers pass/fail runs where Validations is populated, so it won’t catch the common error-path cases where StatusError runs have Validations == nil (e.g., engine.Execute error / grader execution error). Adding an assertion that an error run reduces PassRate and increments ErrorRuns (and does not increment PassedRuns) would prevent regressions in the stats bucketing logic.
func TestComputeTestStats_FlakinessPercent(t *testing.T) {
	runner := NewTestRunner(config.NewBenchmarkConfig(&models.BenchmarkSpec{}), nil)
	runs := []models.RunResult{
		{
			Status:     models.StatusPassed,
			DurationMs: 10,
			Validations: map[string]models.GraderResults{
				"check": {Passed: true, Score: 1},
			},
		},
		{
			Status:     models.StatusPassed,
			DurationMs: 20,
			Validations: map[string]models.GraderResults{
				"check": {Passed: true, Score: 1},
			},
		},
		{
			Status:     models.StatusFailed,
			DurationMs: 30,
			Validations: map[string]models.GraderResults{
				"check": {Passed: false, Score: 0},
			},
		},
	}

	stats := runner.computeTestStats(runs)
	require.NotNil(t, stats)
	assert.Equal(t, 3, stats.TotalRuns)
	assert.Equal(t, 2, stats.PassedRuns)
	assert.Equal(t, 1, stats.FailedRuns)
	assert.Equal(t, 0, stats.ErrorRuns)
	assert.InDelta(t, 66.6667, stats.PassRate*100, 0.1)
	assert.True(t, stats.Flaky)
	assert.InDelta(t, 33.3333, stats.FlakinessPercent, 0.1)
}

.squad/decisions.md:258

  • This PR is scoped/titled as implementing multi-trial flakiness detection for evals (issue #84), but this change adds a decision entry for an unrelated topic (token diff distribution strategy for issue #81). Consider moving the #81 decision/log updates to a separate PR (or to the PR for #81) so this PR remains focused and easier to review/revert.
## 2026-03-05: Token Diff Distribution Strategy (Issue #81)

**By:** Rusty (Lead / Architect)  
**Issue:** #81  
**Status:** APPROVED

### What

For the GitHub Action token budget PR comment feature (#81), **implement `waza tokens diff` CLI command + lightweight wrapper action**, not action-only or CLI-only.

### Implementation

internal/orchestration/runner.go:1302

  • The current counters can double-count error runs: a StatusError run that also has failing validations increments both failed (via the else) and errored, and a StatusError run with nil validations increments passed and errored. This can make PassedRuns+FailedRuns+ErrorRuns differ from TotalRuns and makes the individual run counts misleading. Suggest counting each run into exactly one bucket (passed/failed/error) based on run.Status, then computing PassRate from those buckets.

		if run.Status == models.StatusError {
			errored++
		}

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Verified by Rusty (Opus 4.6) — LGTM ✅

Solid implementation of multi-trial flakiness detection:

  • --trials\ flag with proper validation (>=1), clean override of \spec.Config.RunsPerTest\
  • \FlakinessPercent\ metric uses correct minority-outcomes formula
  • New stats fields (PassedRuns, FailedRuns, ErrorRuns, TotalRuns) provide full trial breakdown
  • Summary display updated with flakiness percentage
  • Tests cover flag parsing, invalid values, override behavior, and stats computation
  • Docs updated: README, CLI reference
  • CI green on ubuntu + windows + lint

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Pull request overview

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Code Review: PR #91 - feat: Add multi-trial flakiness detection

What Looks Good

  • Smart flag behavior - --trials only overrides when explicitly provided
  • Clean validation - rejects --trials 0 with clear error
  • Correct flakiness formula - minority outcomes / total gives 0-50% range
  • Backward compatible switch on run.Status with fallthrough
  • Comprehensive tests and docs updated

Low (1 finding)

  1. ErrorRuns is a subset of FailedRuns (PassedRuns + FailedRuns = TotalRuns). Consider documenting this in outcome.go for JSON consumers.

Overall Assessment: Approve

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Pull request overview

Copilot reviewed 8 out of 8 changed files in this pull request and generated 1 comment.

Comment thread cmd/waza/cmd_run.go
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Code Review: PR #91 — feat: Add multi-trial flakiness detection

✅ What Looks Good

  • cmd.Flags().Changed("trials") correctly prevents accidental override of spec config
  • Flakiness formula — minority-outcome metric is symmetric and intuitive
  • Error runs counted as failuresErrorRuns ⊂ FailedRuns, PassedRuns + FailedRuns == TotalRuns
  • Comprehensive tests — flag parsing, invalid value, spec override, flakiness %, error counting
  • Docs updated — README and site CLI reference both cover the new flag

Findings Summary

Priority Count
Critical 0
High 0
Medium 0
Low 1
Total 1

Overall Assessment: Approve — clean, well-tested feature addition. One low readability note.

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Addresses wbreza review feedback on PR #91.

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Addressed wbreza review feedback in 25ff560:

  • Added clarifying comment explaining dual-path logic for shouldOverrideTrials (CLI uses Changed(), tests fall back to trials > 0)

Addresses wbreza review feedback on PR microsoft#91.

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Reopening with fresh branch to resolve GitHub merge status cache issue.

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* feat: add multi-trial flakiness detection #84

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* fix: address review feedback on PR #91

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* fix: address PR #91 flakiness review comments

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* fix: add clarifying comment on dual-path trials override logic

Addresses wbreza review feedback on PR #91.

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* fix(runner): StatusError counts as error not fail, add --trials override test

- Updated computeTestStats to separate StatusError from StatusFailed buckets
- Updated unit tests to verify error/fail separation
- Added cmd/waza test for --trials flag override logic
- Fixes double-counting of error runs as failures

* fix: address PR #103 review feedback

- Fix task YAML schema: use inputs.prompt instead of prompts[]
- Fix gofmt indentation on test function
- Clarify --trials docs: omit to use config, explicit values must be >= 1

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