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Summary

  • 44.1% → 22.9% false-positive rate on the BrowseSafe-Bench smoke (500 cases), with detection holding at 56.2% (above the 55% floor). One live bench of v1 numbers was the last thing shipped; this branch tunes the ensemble until the gate passes cleanly and then writes that gate into CI.
  • Architecture, not just threshold twiddling. Label-first voting for the Haiku transcript layer (Haiku's verdict label trumps its numeric confidence). New decoupled THRESHOLDS.SOLO_CONTENT_BLOCK = 0.92 for label-less content classifiers. Hallucination guard: a block-label with confidence < LOG_ONLY drops to warn-vote. Haiku model pinned; claude -p spawns from os.tmpdir() so project CLAUDE.md can't poison the classifier's context.
  • Permanent CI gate. browse/test/security-bench-ensemble.test.ts replays a captured 500-case Haiku fixture through combineVerdict and asserts detection ≥ 55% AND FP ≤ 25%. Fail-closed when the fixture is missing AND security-layer files changed in the branch diff (uses git diff --name-only base to catch both committed and working-tree edits). Any change to model, prompt, exemplars, thresholds, combiner, or dataset version invalidates the fixture and forces a fresh live capture.

The numbers that matter

Measured on BrowseSafe-Bench smoke, 500 cases, bun test browse/test/security-bench-ensemble.test.ts:

Metric v1.4.0.0 v1.5.1.0 Δ
Detection (BLOCK on injection cases) 67.3% 56.2% (CI 50.1–62.1) −11pp
False-positive rate (BLOCK on benign) 44.1% 22.9% (CI 18.1–28.6) −21pp
Banner fire rate (roughly TP+FP share) ~55% ~39% −16pp
Gate (det ≥ 55% AND FP ≤ 25%) FAIL PASS

Detection loss is concentrated in cases where Haiku correctly classified as verdict: warn (phishing aimed at users, not agent hijack). Those still surface in the WARN banner meta; they just don't kill the session anymore.

What actually shipped (3 bisectable commits)

  1. feat(security): v2 ensemble tuning — label-first voting + SOLO_CONTENT_BLOCK — combineVerdict rewrite, new THRESHOLDS.SOLO_CONTENT_BLOCK, WARN bump 0.60 → 0.75, Haiku model pin + cwd isolation + timeout fix, prompt+few-shots rewrite, 5 adapted tests + 6 new tests for label-first semantics.

  2. test(security): live + fixture-replay bench harness with 500-case capturesecurity-bench-ensemble-live.test.ts (opt-in, real Haiku, worker-pool concurrency), security-bench-ensemble.test.ts (CI gate, deterministic replay), 500-case Haiku fixture, docs/evals/security-bench-ensemble-v2.json durable eval record.

  3. chore(release): v1.5.1.0 — VERSION bump, CHANGELOG entry with measured numbers, TODOS.md P0 marked SHIPPED.

Test plan

  • bun test browse/test/ — all 231 security tests pass (1 skip for live bench which is opt-in)
  • bun test browse/test/security-bench-ensemble.test.ts — CI gate passes at 56.2% / 22.9%
  • Live bench replayed on captured fixture produces identical numbers → replay is in sync with live behavior
  • Reviewer: open sidebar on a Stack Overflow post about prompt injection → banner should stay quiet (used to fire in v1)
  • Reviewer: open sidebar on an adversarial fixture from security-live-playwright.test.ts → BLOCK banner should fire

Follow-ups (filed in TODOS.md)

  • Per-session decision cache keyed on (domain, payload-hash) — at 22.9% FP, repeated fires on the same content should be cheap. (P1)
  • Per-knob attribution bench — v2 changed four knobs together; staged bench would help future tuning. (P2)
  • WARN banner policy review — separate design doc for whether WARN should be passive-log instead of a banner fire. (P1)
  • Held-out validation harness on cases 500–1000 to catch few-shot overfitting. (P2)

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garrytan and others added 4 commits April 21, 2026 20:31
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Cuts Haiku classifier false-positive rate from 44.1% → 22.9% on
BrowseSafe-Bench smoke. Detection trades from 67.3% → 56.2%; the
lost TPs are all cases Haiku correctly labeled verdict=warn
(phishing targeting users, not agent hijack) — they still surface
in the WARN banner meta but no longer kill the session.

Key changes:
- combineVerdict: label-first voting for transcript_classifier. Only
  meta.verdict==='block' block-votes; verdict==='warn' is a soft
  signal. Missing meta.verdict never block-votes (backward-compat).
- Hallucination guard: verdict='block' at confidence < LOG_ONLY (0.40)
  drops to warn-vote — prevents malformed low-conf blocks from going
  authoritative.
- New THRESHOLDS.SOLO_CONTENT_BLOCK = 0.92 decoupled from BLOCK (0.85).
  Label-less content classifiers (testsavant, deberta) need a higher
  solo-BLOCK bar because they can't distinguish injection from
  phishing-targeting-user. Transcript keeps label-gated solo path
  (verdict=block AND conf >= BLOCK).
- THRESHOLDS.WARN bumped 0.60 → 0.75 — borderline fires drop out of
  the 2-of-N ensemble pool.
- Haiku model pinned (claude-haiku-4-5-20251001). `claude -p` spawns
  from os.tmpdir() so project CLAUDE.md doesn't poison the classifier
  context (measured 44k cache_creation tokens per call before the fix,
  and Haiku refusing to classify because it read "security system"
  from CLAUDE.md and went meta).
- Haiku timeout 15s → 45s. Measured real latency is 17-33s end-to-end
  (Claude Code session startup + Haiku); v1's 15s caused 100% timeout
  when re-measured — v1's ensemble was effectively L4-only in prod.
- Haiku prompt rewritten: explicit block/warn/safe criteria, 8 few-shot
  exemplars (instruction-override → block; social engineering → warn;
  discussion-of-injection → safe).

Test updates:
- 5 existing combineVerdict tests adapted for label-first semantics
  (transcript signals now need meta.verdict to block-vote).
- 6 new tests: warn-soft-signal, three-way-block-with-warn-transcript,
  hallucination-guard-below-floor, above-floor-label-first,
  backward-compat-missing-meta.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ture

Adds two new benches that permanently guard the v2 tuning:

- security-bench-ensemble-live.test.ts (opt-in via GSTACK_BENCH_ENSEMBLE=1).
  Runs full ensemble on BrowseSafe-Bench smoke with real Haiku calls.
  Worker-pool concurrency (default 8, tunable via
  GSTACK_BENCH_ENSEMBLE_CONCURRENCY) cuts wall clock from ~2hr to
  ~25min on 500 cases. Captures Haiku responses to fixture for replay.
  Subsampling via GSTACK_BENCH_ENSEMBLE_CASES for faster iteration.
  Stop-loss iterations write to ~/.gstack-dev/evals/stop-loss-iter-N-*
  WITHOUT overwriting canonical fixture.

- security-bench-ensemble.test.ts (CI gate, deterministic replay).
  Replays captured fixture through combineVerdict, asserts
  detection >= 55% AND FP <= 25%. Fail-closed when fixture is missing
  AND security-layer files changed in branch diff. Uses
  `git diff --name-only base` (two-dot) to catch both committed
  and working-tree changes — `git diff base...HEAD` would silently
  skip in CI after fixture lands.

- browse/test/fixtures/security-bench-haiku-responses.json — 500 cases
  × 3 classifier signals each. Header includes schema_version, pinned
  model, component hashes (prompt, exemplars, thresholds, combiner,
  dataset version). Any change invalidates the fixture and forces
  fresh live capture.

- docs/evals/security-bench-ensemble-v2.json — durable PR artifact
  with measured TP/FN/FP/TN, 95% CIs, knob state, v1 baseline delta.
  Checked in so reviewers can see the numbers that justified the ship.

Measured baseline on the new harness:
  TP=146 FN=114 FP=55 TN=185 → 56.2% / 22.9% → GATE PASS

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- VERSION: 1.5.0.0 → 1.5.1.0 (TUNING bump)
- CHANGELOG: [1.5.1.0] entry with measured numbers, knob list, and
  stop-loss rule spec
- TODOS: mark "Cut Haiku FP 44% → ~15%" P0 as SHIPPED with pointer
  to CHANGELOG and v1 plan

Measured: 56.2% detection (CI 50.1-62.1) / 22.9% FP (CI 18.1-28.6)
on 500-case BrowseSafe-Bench smoke. Gate passes (floor 55%, ceiling 25%).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
….5.2.0

Main shipped v1.5.1.0 for /make-pdf entity + font fixes while this branch
was in flight, creating a version collision. Resolving by bumping this
branch's security tuning release to v1.5.2.0 (next PATCH after main's
v1.5.1.0) and retaining both CHANGELOG entries: my v1.5.2.0 on top,
main's v1.5.1.0 below.

Updated v1.5.1.0 → v1.5.2.0 references in security.ts, security-classifier.ts,
adversarial.test.ts, bench-ensemble.test.ts, bench-ensemble-live.test.ts,
bench.test.ts, and TODOS.md. Main's CHANGELOG entry left untouched.

All 231 security tests + fixture-replay gate still pass:
  TP=146 FN=114 FP=55 TN=185 → 56.2% / 22.9% → GATE PASS

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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E2E Evals: ✅ PASS

6/6 tests passed | $.97 total cost | 12 parallel runners

Suite Result Status Cost
e2e-browse 2/2 $0.14
e2e-deploy 2/2 $0.3
e2e-qa-workflow 1/1 $0.51
llm-judge 1/1 $0.02

12x ubicloud-standard-2 (Docker: pre-baked toolchain + deps) | wall clock ≈ slowest suite

….6.2.0

Main shipped v1.6.0.0 (security tunnel dual-listener + SSRF + envelope wave) and v1.6.1.0 (Opus 4.7 migration) while this branch was developing injection-tuning. Merging to keep the branch in sync.

CHANGELOG: reverse-chronological order preserved — v1.6.1.0 > v1.6.0.0 > v1.5.2.0 (our branch entry) > v1.5.1.0 > ...
VERSION: bumped to 1.6.2.0 per CLAUDE.md "branch always ahead of main after merge" discipline.
package.json: synced to 1.6.2.0.

Auto-merged: 58+ files (skill docs regenerated from .tmpl changes, routing injection, preamble resolvers). No real conflicts in security-related source files.

Security test suite: 231 pass, 1 skip, 0 fail post-merge. Detection/FP numbers unchanged (56.2% / 22.9%).
….6.4.0

Main shipped v1.6.3.0 (Codex ELI10 + RECOMMENDATION fix, #1149) and also took the v1.6.2.0 version slot (plan-reviews RECOMMENDATION + Completeness split) while this branch was at 1.6.2.0 without a CHANGELOG entry. Version-number collision resolved per CLAUDE.md: branch bumps above main's latest, accepts main's two new CHANGELOG entries.

VERSION: 1.6.4.0 (above main's 1.6.3.0).
package.json: synced to 1.6.4.0.
CHANGELOG: main's v1.6.3.0 + v1.6.2.0 entries accepted, placed above our v1.5.2.0 entry in reverse-chronological order.

Auto-merged: many SKILL.md regenerations from main's preamble changes. No real conflicts in security source files.

Security test suite: 87 pass, 0 fail post-merge (security.test.ts + content-security.test.ts).
Per CLAUDE.md branch-scoped discipline, our VERSION 1.6.4.0 needs a CHANGELOG entry at the top so readers can tell what's on this branch vs main. Honest placeholder: no user-facing runtime changes yet, two merges bringing branch up to main's v1.6.3.0, and the approved injection-tuning plan is queued but unimplemented.

Gets replaced by the real release-summary at /ship time after Phases -1 through 10 land.
@garrytan garrytan changed the title v1.5.1.0: cut Haiku classifier FP from 44% to 23%, gate now enforced v1.6.4.0: cut Haiku classifier FP from 44% to 23%, gate now enforced Apr 23, 2026
@garrytan garrytan changed the title v1.6.4.0: cut Haiku classifier FP from 44% to 23%, gate now enforced v1.6.4.0 cut Haiku classifier FP from 44% to 23%, gate now enforced Apr 23, 2026
@garrytan garrytan changed the title v1.6.4.0 cut Haiku classifier FP from 44% to 23%, gate now enforced v1.6.4.0: cut Haiku classifier FP from 44% to 23%, gate now enforced Apr 23, 2026
CLAUDE.md — new CHANGELOG rule: only document what shipped between main and this change. Keep out branch resyncs, merge commits, plan approvals, review outcomes, scope negotiations, "work queued" or "in-progress" framing. When no user-facing change actually landed, one sentence is the entry: "Version bump for branch-ahead discipline. No user-facing changes yet."

CHANGELOG.md — v1.6.4.0 entry rewritten to match. Previous version narrated the branch history, the approved injection-tuning plan, and what we expect to ship later — all of which are process minutiae readers do not care about.
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