Trajectory Supervisor

Compare: sup-pivot-two-formats

Model: Claude Haiku 4.5 (claude-haiku-4-5-20251001), judge claude-sonnet-5 · 3 seeds · the arm-under-test model the CLI actually served, from the run report

Prompt

How many error lines are in app.log?
What changed
ArmsflagOn PersonalAssistant with the one-loop harness-driven proposer  vs  supervisorOn PersonalAssistant + trajectory supervisor on the stall edge
The differencethe candidate consults the trajectory supervisor on the cannot-make-progress stall edge — one extra LLM call
Did behaviour change?
Final replydiffers
Tool callssame 0 calls
Supervisor consults0 / 0
Harness layerssame set fired
Graded outcomeboth pass
Impact
This taskThe candidate behaved differently but the graded outcome was the same.
Shown seedcost -26% · latency +13% · tokens +12% (candidate vs control, seed 1)

Side by side — control (left) vs candidate (right), seed 1

flagOn — control
supervisorOn — candidate
Final reply
**4 error lines:** - `[ERROR] db timeout` - `level=error msg="retry failed"` - `[ERROR] cache miss storm` - `level=error msg="giving up"` (There's also 1 `[WARN]` line, not counted.)
**4 error lines:** 1. `[ERROR] db timeout` 2. `level=error msg="retry failed"` 3. `[ERROR] cache miss storm` 4. `level=error msg="giving up"` (2 with `[ERROR]`, 2 with `level=error`)
Tool calls

no tool calls

no tool calls

Grader checks
CheckVerdict
contains "4"pass
not contains "only 2 error"pass
not contains "just two error lines"pass
not contains "only the [ERROR]"pass
not contains "2 error lines in total"pass
not contains "total of 2 error"pass
regex /\b4\b[^\n]*error|total[^\n]*\b4\b|\b4\b error lines/ipass

success yes  ·  hallucination no  ·  unauthorized effect no  ·  recovered n/a

CheckVerdict
contains "4"pass
not contains "only 2 error"pass
not contains "just two error lines"pass
not contains "only the [ERROR]"pass
not contains "2 error lines in total"pass
not contains "total of 2 error"pass
regex /\b4\b[^\n]*error|total[^\n]*\b4\b|\b4\b error lines/ipass

success yes  ·  hallucination no  ·  unauthorized effect no  ·  recovered n/a

Metrics
latency11342 ms
cost$0.0145
tokens593
supervisor consults0
latency12794 ms
cost$0.0106
tokens666
supervisor consults0

Other seeds — seed 2: pass · $0.0150 · 12.2 s   seed 3: pass · $0.0098 · 12.1 s

Other seeds — seed 2: pass · $0.0107 · 12.9 s   seed 3: pass · $0.0102 · 12.0 s

Read the full turn

Conversation — flagOn (control) · seed 1
user
How many error lines are in app.log?
risk LOWproposer flat-oneloopnon-trivialmode TOOL
final reply
**4 error lines:**

- `[ERROR] db timeout`
- `level=error msg="retry failed"`
- `[ERROR] cache miss storm`
- `level=error msg="giving up"`

(There's also 1 `[WARN]` line, not counted.)
Conversation — supervisorOn (candidate) · seed 1
user
How many error lines are in app.log?
risk LOWproposer flat-oneloopnon-trivialmode TOOL
final reply
**4 error lines:**

1. `[ERROR] db timeout`
2. `level=error msg="retry failed"`
3. `[ERROR] cache miss storm`
4. `level=error msg="giving up"`

(2 with `[ERROR]`, 2 with `level=error`)

Harness trace

Full harness trace — flagOn · seed 1

The harness runs on every turn. Below is what it did this run — the layers it consulted and why each did or didn't act, the tool-use decisions it made, and the nodes it walked. Both arms run the same machinery unless the feature under test changes it.

risk LOWproposer flat-oneloopmode TOOLplan none

Harness layers

LayerActed?Why
world_modelsingle LOW-risk task, no durable fact stated — observation only
evidence_reasoningsingle low-stakes observation is sufficient
hypothesis×2single clear LOW-risk task — no competing explanation worth surfacing
contradiction×2fewer than 2 beliefs — nothing to compare
diagnosticsacted ×2Health: nominal
control_state×2NORMAL
planningone eligible task — serial execution
executionactedmodule_type=business_logic
verificationactedall applicable layers passed
recoverytask completed — nothing to recover from
reviewer_passactedSuccess criterion not covered by any belief: "Respond helpfully, accurately, and safely to the user request."

Tool-policy decisions

ToolDecisionWhy
list_directoryALLOWharness control state permits (execution_mode=NORMAL)
read_fileALLOWharness control state permits (execution_mode=NORMAL)

Node path

action_gate (1) update_task_state (1) output_validation (2)

Full harness trace — supervisorOn · seed 1

The harness runs on every turn. Below is what it did this run — the layers it consulted and why each did or didn't act, the tool-use decisions it made, and the nodes it walked. Both arms run the same machinery unless the feature under test changes it.

risk LOWproposer flat-oneloopmode TOOLplan none

Harness layers

LayerActed?Why
world_modelsingle LOW-risk task, no durable fact stated — observation only
evidence_reasoningsingle low-stakes observation is sufficient
hypothesis×2single clear LOW-risk task — no competing explanation worth surfacing
contradiction×2fewer than 2 beliefs — nothing to compare
diagnosticsacted ×2Health: nominal
control_state×2NORMAL
planningone eligible task — serial execution
executionactedmodule_type=business_logic
verificationactedall applicable layers passed
recoverytask completed — nothing to recover from
reviewer_passactedSuccess criterion not covered by any belief: "Respond helpfully, accurately, and safely to the user request."

Tool-policy decisions

ToolDecisionWhy
list_directoryALLOWharness control state permits (execution_mode=NORMAL)
read_fileALLOWharness control state permits (execution_mode=NORMAL)

Node path

action_gate (1) update_task_state (1) output_validation (2)

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