"""Generate a negative control: a plausible but incomplete attempt per task. Every task must score 0.0. This is the check that the verifier is measuring the whole task rather than one easy assertion. The controls are produced by mutating the oracle: the interesting failure mode for an agent is not "did nothing" but "fixed the obvious half". Run with: python tools/make_controls.py """ import json import sys from pathlib import Path ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent DATASET = ROOT / "TerminalBench-DockerLess.jsonl" OUTDIR = ROOT / "predictions" def mutate(text, old, new, label): if old not in text: raise SystemExit("control %s: anchor not found" % label) return text.replace(old, new) def build_controls(rows): by_id = {row["task_id"]: row for row in rows} controls = {} # 1. access-log: nearest-rank replaced by a 0-based index -> p95 is off by one # rank, everything else is right. solution = by_id["tbdl-access-log-report"]["solution"] controls["tbdl-access-log-report"] = mutate( solution, "p95 = durations[math.ceil(0.95 * count) - 1] if count else 0", "p95 = durations[int(round(0.95 * count)) - 1] if count else 0", "access-log", ) # 2. git-recovery: recovers the *wrong* historical revision and never # rescues the unreachable commit. solution = by_id["tbdl-git-recovery"]["solution"] solution = mutate(solution, "/ Add config loader$/", "/ Initial import$/", "git-recovery") solution = mutate( solution, 'git branch recovered "$wip_commit"', "true # gave up on the wip commit", "git-recovery-2" ) controls["tbdl-git-recovery"] = solution # 3. csv-canon: forgets the BOM and forgets to sort. solution = by_id["tbdl-csv-canon"]["solution"] solution = mutate(solution, 'encoding="utf-8-sig"', 'encoding="utf-8"', "csv-canon") solution = mutate( solution, 'rows.sort(key=lambda row: (row[0], row[1] if len(row) > 1 else ""))', "pass # rows arrive sorted, surely", "csv-canon-2", ) controls["tbdl-csv-canon"] = solution # 4. build-repair: fixes the shell bugs only, leaving both Python faults. controls["tbdl-build-repair"] = """#!/usr/bin/env bash set -euo pipefail cd "$TB_WORK" python - <<'PYEOF' from pathlib import Path path = Path("build.sh") text = path.read_text(encoding="utf-8") text = text.replace('mkdir -p "$OUTDIR"', 'mkdir -p "$OUT" build') path.write_text(text, encoding="utf-8", newline="\\n") PYEOF bash build.sh || true """ return controls def main(): OUTDIR.mkdir(exist_ok=True) rows = [json.loads(line) for line in open(DATASET, encoding="utf-8") if line.strip()] controls = build_controls(rows) target = OUTDIR / "partial.jsonl" with open(target, "w", encoding="utf-8", newline="\n") as handle: for row in rows: handle.write( json.dumps( { "task_id": row["task_id"], "agent_name": "control-partial", "agent_script": controls[row["task_id"]], } ) + "\n" ) print("wrote %s for %d tasks" % (target, len(rows))) if __name__ == "__main__": main()