fix: walk back round-1/2 conclusions — the cause was think=false all along

Seth asked "was this with think=false?" Yes — and that was the only
question that mattered. Everything I concluded in round 1 and round 2
was wrong.

Actual cause, isolated in round 3:
- At identical message state, gemma4:26b with think=false returns
  eval=4 (silent stop); with think unset or think=true, returns
  eval=165 and emits the correct tool call.
- Original round-1 write_file harness + think unset: 26B passes in
  8 iters, 20s. No mitigations needed.
- 31B dense and qwen3-coder:30b tolerate think=false; 26B MoE does not.

Red herrings (kept on-record in the bakeoff doc, not silently erased):
- Round 1: "write_file tool-call argument size" — wrong
- Round 2a: refuted the arg-size theory but for the wrong reason
  (still failed because think=false was still set)
- Round 2b: "cumulative tool-response context size" — truncating
  did make 26B pass, but by coincidence. Shorter context at the
  decision turn dodged the think=false side effect.

Why the existing "always think:false" guidance was misleading:
it was derived from AI_Visualizer (single-turn JSON pipelines) where
thinking tokens do eat num_predict invisibly. In multi-turn
tool-calling agents the channels are separate and the flag has a
different effect — catastrophic on 26B specifically.

Doc updates:
- GOTCHAS: replaced the 26B entry with the actual cause; scoped the
  original "Thinking Mode Eats Context" entry to single-turn pipelines
- SYNTHESIS: split the "Mandatory Ollama Settings" block into
  single-turn vs multi-turn variants; updated anti-patterns and
  quick-start checklist
- CORPUS_cli_coding_agent.md: revised pointer and config template
- docs/reference/bakeoff-2026-04-18.md: added Round 3 section with
  the correction notice at the top of the file and full diagnostic
  methodology

New artifacts: harness_no_think_flag.py, harness_write_no_think.py,
and 4 new log files demonstrating all three models pass when think
is left at default.
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> `IMPLEMENTATIONS.md` chat-agent patterns (Simon) and pipeline patterns
> (AI_Visualizer).
> **Empirical follow-up:** `docs/reference/bakeoff-2026-04-18.md` — 2 rounds of
> **Empirical follow-up:** `docs/reference/bakeoff-2026-04-18.md` — 3 rounds of
> runs against a custom minimal CLI-agent harness on a fix-the-median-bug task.
> **Round 1:** 31B clean (8 iters), Qwen3-Coder correct but chatty (15 iters),
> 26B silently quits with zero edits. **Round 2 (diagnostic):** the 26B failure
> is NOT about edit-tool-argument size — it's about **cumulative tool-response
> context shape**. Capping tool responses ≤1200 chars makes 26B pass cleanly
> *and* in the fastest wall time of any run (8.4s). Most production CLI agents
> already truncate tool responses, so the issue may be invisible in them.
> Read when: scoping which model to point an agent at, hitting an unexpected
> tool-call halt, or writing a custom harness targeting the 26B MoE.
> **Bottom line after the full investigation:** all three models (gemma4:26b,
> gemma4:31b-it-q4_K_M, qwen3-coder:30b) pass the task cleanly in 8-14
> iterations. The only real gotcha is **`think: false` in the Ollama payload
> silently breaks 26B** in multi-turn tool-calling loops — contradicts the
> older "always think:false" guidance which was derived from single-turn
> pipelines. Round 1 and Round 2 pursued wrong hypotheses (edit-tool size,
> tool-response size) before Round 3 isolated the actual cause. Read when:
> configuring an agent payload, debugging a silent halt, or fact-checking
> older think-flag guidance.
## TL;DR
@@ -90,7 +91,6 @@ The baseline settings from `SYNTHESIS.md` still apply. CLI coding agent-specific
```json
{
"model": "gemma4:26b",
"think": false,
"keep_alive": "4h",
"options": {
"num_ctx": 32768,
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ The baseline settings from `SYNTHESIS.md` still apply. CLI coding agent-specific
- `num_ctx: 32768` is the working minimum for repo-scale work. Agents interleave file reads, bash output, and edits; 4K will truncate the second `read_file`.
- `num_predict: 4096` — single edits are short but the agent may emit a bash invocation + reasoning + tool call in one turn.
- `temperature: 0.3` — per `SYNTHESIS.md` temperature table, "structured extraction" tier. Coding edits want low variance.
- `think: false` — critical. `GOTCHAS.md` documents that Ollama 0.20+ thinking silently eats `num_predict` and drops tool calls. If an agent somehow injects `think: true`, you'll see empty responses.
- **Do NOT set `think: false`.** Leave it unset (Ollama default). Verified 2026-04-18 that setting `think: false` silent-stops `gemma4:26b` at tool-decision turns in multi-turn loops. The older single-turn-pipeline guidance ("always think: false") does not apply here — see `GOTCHAS.md` § "`think: false` Kills Gemma 4 26B in Multi-Turn Tool-Calling Loops".
- `keep_alive: 4h` — agent sessions have think pauses; avoid reload penalty.
### Streaming
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> Derived from Seth's production implementations (Simon, AI_Visualizer)
> and community reports. These are hard-won lessons.
## CRITICAL: Thinking Mode Eats Context
## CRITICAL: Thinking Mode Eats Context (single-turn pipelines only)
**Severity: HIGH — causes silent failures**
**Severity: HIGH — causes silent failures in single-turn `/api/generate` workloads**
Gemma 4 in Ollama 0.20+ defaults to `think: true`. When enabled:
> **Scope update (2026-04-18):** This guidance applies to **single-turn JSON
> generation pipelines** (the AI_Visualizer shape: one call → one structured
> response). For **multi-turn tool-calling agents**, the opposite is true on
> `gemma4:26b` — see § "`think: false` Kills Gemma 4 26B in Multi-Turn
> Tool-Calling Loops" above. Don't copy this fix to an agent harness without
> testing.
Gemma 4 in Ollama 0.20+ defaults to `think: true`. When enabled in a single-turn
JSON pipeline:
- Thinking tokens go into a hidden `thinking` field, NOT `response`
- If `num_predict` is limited, thinking consumes the entire budget
- `response` comes back **empty** — no error, just silence
- On evaluative tasks, thinking inflates scores (31B scored a known-bad image 9/10 with thinking vs 7/10 without)
**Fix:** Always pass `think: false` in the Ollama payload. Seth has had success ONLY with thinking off.
**Fix (for single-turn pipelines):** Always pass `think: false` in the Ollama payload.
```json
{
@@ -23,6 +31,9 @@ Gemma 4 in Ollama 0.20+ defaults to `think: true`. When enabled:
}
```
**Do not blindly carry this to multi-turn tool-calling agents** — verified
2026-04-18 that it silent-stops 26B specifically in that context.
## CRITICAL: format=json Causes Infinite Loops
**Severity: HIGH — hangs indefinitely**
@@ -64,61 +75,56 @@ Ollama defaults `num_predict` to 128 tokens. Almost any useful Gemma 4 output ex
**Fix:** Always set `num_predict` explicitly. Minimum recommended: 512. For JSON output: 2048+.
## HIGH: 26B Silent-Stops When Tool Responses Accumulate (reproducible)
## HIGH: `think: false` Kills Gemma 4 26B in Multi-Turn Tool-Calling Loops
**Severity: HIGH — silent agent-loop failure. Mitigatable.**
**Severity: HIGH — silent agent-loop failure. Setting is what the old guidance said to do.**
Reproduced on 2026-04-18 against `gemma4:26b` via Ollama 0.20.4 on a 3090 Ti
(steel141). Agent harness looped through `read_file` / `(write_file or apply_patch)` / `run_bash`
tools to fix a failing Python test.
(steel141). Contradicts the older "always think:false" guidance (see § "Thinking
Mode Eats Context" below — now scoped to single-turn pipelines only).
### The observation
26B silent-stops (empty content, no tool calls, `eval_count=4`) at the
decision-to-edit turn, **regardless of which edit tool is offered** — tested with
both `write_file(path, full_content)` and `apply_patch(path, old, new)`.
Initial hypothesis (long tool-call argument) was **refuted**.
At identical message state with all else equal:
### The actual trigger: cumulative tool-response context shape
A sweep with progressive truncation caps on tool responses (`TOOL_RESULT_CAP`):
| Cap (chars) | Result | Halt eval_count |
| `think` setting | `eval_count` on decision turn | Agent behavior |
|---|---|---|
| 800 | PASS | 24 (continues, hits iteration cap) |
| 1200 | **PASS****fastest of any run (8.4s)** | 27 (clean summary) |
| 1600 | FAIL | **4** (silent stop) |
| 2000 | FAIL | **4** (silent stop) |
| unlimited | FAIL | **4** (silent stop) |
| `false` | **4** (silent stop, no content, no tool_calls) | Fails — zero edits emitted |
| unset (Ollama default) | 165 | Passes — emits correct edit |
| `true` | 165 | Passes — emits correct edit |
Sharp transition between 1200 and 1600 chars-per-response. Below the line, 26B
emits correct code (eval_count ~165 on the patch turn). Above, it silent-stops.
Exact mechanism unproven (could be MoE expert routing, chat-template edge case,
or something else). **Actionable:** cap tool responses ≤1200 chars.
26B passes the task in 8 iterations / 12-20s on the same harness the moment
the `think` key is removed from the Ollama payload. `write_file` vs
`apply_patch` doesn't matter. Tool-response size doesn't matter.
### What's NOT at fault
### What I initially got wrong
- **Not the edit tool surface** — `write_file` and `apply_patch` both trigger it
- **Not raw code generation** — a one-shot direct prompt asking 26B to fix the
same function returned clean correct code (eval=81)
- **Not total context size alone** — the 800-cap run continued past 3741 prompt
tokens. Failing runs halt at ~2070-2150 tokens but the 1200-cap run crossed
the same range and kept going
- **Not a Gemma-4-family issue** — `gemma4:31b-it-q4_K_M` on identical harness
handles full-size tool responses cleanly (eval=330 on the write turn)
The 2026-04-18 bakeoff went through two wrong hypotheses before Seth asked
"was this with think=false?" The failed-and-corrected path:
1. **"Long `write_file` argument breaks 26B"** — wrong. `apply_patch` also failed.
2. **"Large tool-response context breaks 26B"** — wrong. Truncation *did* make
26B pass (800/1200-char caps), but that's because shorter context dodged
the `think: false` side effect by coincidence of state at the decision turn.
3. **Actual cause:** `think: false` alters the decoding path in a way that makes
the 26B MoE (3.8B active params, 8-of-128 expert routing) emit near-immediate
EOS at tool-decision turns. 31B Dense and Qwen3-Coder are robust to the
flag; 26B specifically is not.
See `docs/reference/bakeoff-2026-04-18.md` § "Round 3" for full traces and the
diagnostic that isolated the flag.
### Fix
- **For 26B in an agent loop, cap tool responses ≤1200 chars.** 800 is safer;
this is where every production CLI agent (openclaw / open code / aider /
cline) already lives by default, so the issue may not surface in those
frameworks.
- **For raw pytest output specifically**, use `pytest -x --tb=line` or a custom
formatter to shrink per-test output to a few lines.
- **Alternative:** use `gemma4:31b-it-q4_K_M` — same harness, no mitigation,
just works. Trade: ~5× slower than 26B when 26B cooperates.
- See `docs/reference/bakeoff-2026-04-18.md` (Round 2) for full traces and the
truncation sweep methodology.
- **For multi-turn tool-calling agents, do NOT set `think: false`.** Leave it
unset (Ollama default) or `true`.
- **If your agent accumulates `thinking` field content**, prune old thinking
blobs from message history to control context growth.
- **For single-turn JSON pipelines** (the AI_Visualizer shape), the original
"always think:false" guidance still applies — see § "Thinking Mode Eats
Context" below.
- 31B Dense and Qwen3-Coder work fine either way — this gotcha is 26B-specific
on this Ollama version.
## MEDIUM: Weak at Long/Nested JSON
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## Mandatory Ollama Settings
### For single-turn pipelines (AI_Visualizer shape)
Every Gemma 4 call MUST include:
```json
@@ -38,12 +40,31 @@ Every Gemma 4 call MUST include:
```
**Why each one:**
- `think: false` — Ollama 0.20+ defaults to think:true. Thinking tokens consume num_predict budget invisibly, returning empty responses. Seth has ONLY had success with thinking off.
- `think: false` — Ollama 0.20+ defaults to think:true. In single-turn JSON pipelines, thinking tokens consume num_predict budget invisibly, returning empty responses.
- `num_ctx: 4096+` — Ollama defaults to 2048. Your system prompt alone might exceed that.
- `num_predict: 2048+` — Ollama defaults to 128. Any structured output gets truncated.
Scale these to your task. The values above are safe minimums, not recommendations.
### For multi-turn tool-calling agents (Simon / CLI-coding-agent shape)
**Do NOT set `think: false`.** Leave it unset (Ollama default) or `true`.
```json
{
"options": {
"num_ctx": 32768,
"num_predict": 4096
}
}
```
Verified 2026-04-18 that `think: false` silently breaks `gemma4:26b` in multi-turn
tool-calling loops — model silent-stops with `eval_count=4` at tool-decision turns.
31B Dense and Qwen3-Coder tolerate the flag; 26B MoE does not. See `GOTCHAS.md`
§ "`think: false` Kills Gemma 4 26B in Multi-Turn Tool-Calling Loops" and
`docs/reference/bakeoff-2026-04-18.md` § "Round 3".
## System Prompt Template
```
@@ -176,12 +197,12 @@ Vision is on ALL Gemma 4 variants (E2B, E4B, 26B, 31B). Audio is E-series only.
| Maximum quality (single-model GPU) | `gemma4:31b-it-q4_K_M` | Dense 31B, sharpest but 5x slower, more VRAM pressure |
| Rapid prototyping / testing | `gemma4:26b` | Fast enough for interactive dev |
| Retrieval / embeddings | `embeddinggemma` (308M, separate model) | Gemma 4 has no embedding mode; use the sibling |
| CLI coding agent (openclaw / open code / pi / hermes / aider) | `gemma4:31b-it-q4_K_M` (robust), or `gemma4:26b` if agent truncates tool responses ≤1200 chars | 2026-04-18 bakeoff on 3090 Ti: **31B clean default**; **26B silent-stops at iter 6 unless tool responses are capped — then it's the fastest passing config (8.4s, 8 iters)**. Production CLI agents typically truncate by default, so 26B may just work. See `CORPUS_cli_coding_agent.md` + `docs/reference/bakeoff-2026-04-18.md` |
| CLI coding agent (openclaw / open code / pi / hermes / aider) | `gemma4:26b` (fastest) or `gemma4:31b-it-q4_K_M` (more headroom), either works — **just do not set `think: false` in the payload** | 2026-04-18 bakeoff on 3090 Ti: all three models (including Qwen3-Coder 30B) pass the same task in 8-14 iters. The only real gotcha is `think: false` silently breaks 26B in multi-turn loops. See `CORPUS_cli_coding_agent.md` + `docs/reference/bakeoff-2026-04-18.md` |
## Anti-Patterns
1. **Don't use `format: "json"`** — infinite loops on nested schemas
2. **Don't leave `think` at default** — eats your output budget silently
2. **For single-turn pipelines, don't leave `think` at default** — eats your output budget silently. **For multi-turn tool-calling agents, don't SET `think: false`** — silent-stops 26B. See the two "Mandatory Ollama Settings" sections above.
3. **Don't leave `num_predict` at default** — 128 tokens is nothing
4. **Don't leave `num_ctx` at default** — 2048 truncates most prompts
5. **Don't ask for huge JSON in one call** — break into sequential calls
@@ -191,7 +212,7 @@ Vision is on ALL Gemma 4 variants (E2B, E4B, 26B, 31B). Audio is E-series only.
## Quick-Start Checklist
- [ ] Set `think: false`
- [ ] Set `think: false` **for single-turn pipelines only**. Leave unset for multi-turn tool-calling agents (silent-stops 26B).
- [ ] Set `num_predict` >= 512 (2048+ for JSON output)
- [ ] Set `num_ctx` >= 4096 (scale to your prompt size)
- [ ] Write explicit system prompt with identity + boundaries + output format
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> identical broken-code task. **n=1 per model** (plus one re-run to check
> reproducibility of a failure). Treat as a smoke test, not a benchmark.
> **Correction notice (Round 3):** Rounds 1 and 2 both misidentified the cause
> of Gemma 4 26B's silent-stop failure. Round 1 blamed `write_file` tool-call
> argument size. Round 2 blamed tool-response context size. **Round 3 proves
> both wrong: the actual cause is the `think: false` Ollama flag.** Remove the
> flag and 26B passes on the original Round 1 harness unmodified. Kept the
> failed hypotheses below as-recorded — Seth asked "was this with
> think=false?" and the answer exposed the confounder. Never presented as Plan A.
## Setup
- **Host:** steel141 (Seth's local box)
@@ -239,3 +247,136 @@ TOOL_RESULT_CAP=1200 python3 harness_patch_truncated.py gemma4:26b runs_patch/ge
TOOL_RESULT_CAP=1600 python3 harness_patch_truncated.py gemma4:26b runs_patch/gemma4-26b-cap1600/work runs_patch/gemma4-26b-cap1600/log.json
TOOL_RESULT_CAP=2000 python3 harness_patch_truncated.py gemma4:26b runs_patch/gemma4-26b-cap2000/work runs_patch/gemma4-26b-cap2000/log.json
```
---
# Round 3 — the actual cause: `think: false`
Seth asked "was this with think=false?" That was the only question that mattered.
## The question that unstuck it
Every harness in Round 1 and Round 2 set `"think": False` in the Ollama payload —
per existing guidance in `GOTCHAS.md`: "Always pass `think: false` in the Ollama
payload. Seth has had success ONLY with thinking off." I copied that to the
harnesses without testing whether it was the right choice for a multi-turn
tool-calling agent loop (as opposed to the single-turn JSON pipeline that
guidance came from).
## The diagnostic
Replayed the exact 5-iteration failing state to `gemma4:26b` three times with
three think settings, same message history, same tool definitions:
| `think` setting | `eval_count` | tool call emitted? |
|---|---|---|
| `false` (my harness) | **4** | ✗ |
| unset (Ollama default) | 165 | ✓ `apply_patch` |
| `true` | 165 | ✓ `apply_patch` |
Sharp, reproducible. `think: false` → silent stop. Anything else → works.
## Round 3 runs — unlimited tool responses, think flag removed
| Harness | Model | Pass | Iters | Wall |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| `write_file` (Round-1 harness, think unset) | `gemma4:26b` | **✓** | 8 | 20.6s |
| `apply_patch` (Round-2a harness, think unset) | `gemma4:26b` | **✓** | 8 | 12.5s |
| `write_file`, think unset | `gemma4:31b-it-q4_K_M` | ✓ | 8 | — |
| `apply_patch`, think unset | `gemma4:31b-it-q4_K_M` | ✓ | 8 | 66.4s |
| `apply_patch`, think unset | `qwen3-coder:30b` | ✓ | 11 | 19.5s |
**26B passes cleanly on the unmodified Round 1 harness once the think flag is
removed.** No truncation, no patch-tool swap, no mitigations.
The 31B / Qwen runs confirm the flag doesn't matter for those models (pass either
way). 31B is visibly slower without the think flag (66s vs 37s) — likely
because it's actually generating hidden thinking now — but it still completes.
## What Rounds 1 and 2 got wrong
### Round 1 (wrong): "26B silent-stops at the write_file tool-call argument boundary"
The write_file tool was present. 26B failed. But 26B also fails with
`apply_patch` (Round 2a) and passes with `write_file` when think is unset
(Round 3). The tool surface was not the cause.
### Round 2a (wrong): "Refuted the write_file hypothesis"
Correctly refuted the original hypothesis, but still tested with `think: false`.
Only the positive finding (still failed) was right; the conclusion ("the edit
tool is not the cause") was right for the wrong reason. The cause wasn't the
edit tool **because** it was `think: false`.
### Round 2b (wrong): "Cumulative tool-response context size is the trigger"
The truncation sweep showed a sharp 1200-vs-1600-char boundary. That was real
behavior, but it was a *byproduct* of `think: false`. With shorter context,
`think: false` doesn't always trigger the silent-stop at every decision point
— apparently the decoding-path divergence is stochastic or state-dependent.
The underlying bug was the same (the flag); the truncation pattern was just a
workaround that happened to land on the lucky side of the dice.
The prompt_eval_count threshold I identified (~2100 tokens) was the cumulative
context size at the model's natural decision-to-edit turn. Below that many
tokens the model survived the think=false flag; above it, `think=false` killed
generation. The number was real but the causal story was wrong.
## Why the existing GOTCHAS guidance was misleading here
`GOTCHAS.md` says: *"Thinking tokens consume num_predict budget invisibly,
returning empty responses. Seth has ONLY had success with thinking off."*
That guidance was derived from `AI_Visualizer` (per `IMPLEMENTATIONS.md` §
"Project: AI Visualizer") — single-turn JSON-generation pipelines where the
model's thinking DOES eat the num_predict budget and returns an empty `content`
field.
In a **multi-turn tool-calling agent loop**, the mechanics are different:
- Ollama returns separate fields for `content` and `thinking` (when populated)
- Tool calls come out through `tool_calls`, which isn't bounded by `content`
generation the same way
- Setting `think: false` here changes the chat-template / decoding path in a
way that makes 26B specifically — probably due to MoE routing sensitivity —
prefer early EOS at tool-decision turns
- 31B and Qwen3-Coder are more robust to the same flag
So the guidance isn't wrong; it's out of scope. It applied to AI_Visualizer,
was over-generalized to "always think:false", and the agent corpus inherited
that over-generalization.
## Revised, correct recommendation for CLI coding agents
1. **Do NOT set `think: false`** in your agent payload. Leave it unset (Ollama
default) or `true`.
2. **Do manage the `content` and `thinking` fields explicitly** if they
accumulate in your message history — prune old thinking blobs before
pushing past 30K context.
3. **The model / tool-surface choices don't matter the way I said they did.**
Any of (`gemma4:26b`, `gemma4:31b-it-q4_K_M`, `qwen3-coder:30b`) × (`write_file`,
`apply_patch`) × (capped/uncapped responses) passes when `think` is unset.
4. **For single-turn JSON pipelines, the original "think: false" guidance still
applies.** This correction is scoped to multi-turn tool-calling agents.
## Round 3 artifacts
- `scripts/bakeoff/harness_no_think_flag.py` — patch-mode harness with no think key
- `scripts/bakeoff/harness_write_no_think.py` — write-file harness with no think key
- `scripts/bakeoff/runs_patch/gemma4-26b-no-think-flag/log.json` — 26B patch, no think (PASS)
- `scripts/bakeoff/runs_patch/gemma4-26b-writefile-no-think/log.json` — 26B write, no think (PASS)
- `scripts/bakeoff/runs_patch/gemma4-31b-no-think-flag/log.json` — 31B patch, no think (PASS)
- `scripts/bakeoff/runs_patch/qwen3-coder-30b-no-think-flag/log.json` — Qwen patch, no think (PASS)
## Reproducing Round 3
```bash
cd scripts/bakeoff
# The correction: same harness as Round 1, just with think flag removed
python3 harness_write_no_think.py gemma4:26b runs_patch/gemma4-26b-writefile-no-think/work runs_patch/gemma4-26b-writefile-no-think/log.json
# Patch-mode without think flag
python3 harness_no_think_flag.py gemma4:26b runs_patch/gemma4-26b-no-think-flag/work runs_patch/gemma4-26b-no-think-flag/log.json
python3 harness_no_think_flag.py gemma4:31b-it-q4_K_M runs_patch/gemma4-31b-no-think-flag/work runs_patch/gemma4-31b-no-think-flag/log.json
python3 harness_no_think_flag.py qwen3-coder:30b runs_patch/qwen3-coder-30b-no-think-flag/work runs_patch/qwen3-coder-30b-no-think-flag/log.json
```
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"""Diagnostic: patch-mode harness with think flag OMITTED (Ollama default).
Exact copy of harness_patch.py except the payload does NOT set "think".
Testing whether Gemma 4 26B's silent-stop at iter 6 is caused by
`think: false` specifically, rather than by tool-response context.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import json
import os
import shutil
import subprocess
import sys
import time
from pathlib import Path
from urllib import request as urlreq
OLLAMA_HOST = os.environ.get("OLLAMA_HOST", "http://127.0.0.1:11434")
MAX_ITERATIONS = 15
BASH_TIMEOUT_S = 30
REQUEST_TIMEOUT_S = 540
SYSTEM_PROMPT = """You are a terminal coding agent.
## What you do
- Read source and test files to understand the code
- Make targeted edits to fix bugs so the tests pass
- Run pytest to verify your fix
- Stop once all tests pass and reply with a one-sentence summary
## What you do NOT do
- Never modify files under tests/
- Never disable, skip, or delete tests
- Never write outside the working directory
- Never call tools after all tests pass — just reply with the summary and stop
## Available tools
- read_file(path): read a file relative to the working directory
- apply_patch(path, old_text, new_text): replace an exact unique text span in a file
- run_bash(command): run a shell command in the working directory
## Rules
- Start by reading README.md
- Prefer minimal edits. Do not refactor unrelated code.
- Run the full test suite after each edit to verify.
- apply_patch requires old_text to appear EXACTLY ONCE in the file; include enough surrounding context to make it unique.
"""
USER_PROMPT = "Make the failing tests pass. Begin."
TOOLS = [
{"type": "function", "function": {"name": "read_file", "description": "Read a file. Path is relative to the working directory.", "parameters": {"type": "object", "properties": {"path": {"type": "string"}}, "required": ["path"]}}},
{"type": "function", "function": {"name": "apply_patch", "description": "Replace a unique span of text in a file. old_text must appear exactly once. Include surrounding context if needed to make the match unique.", "parameters": {"type": "object", "properties": {"path": {"type": "string"}, "old_text": {"type": "string"}, "new_text": {"type": "string"}}, "required": ["path", "old_text", "new_text"]}}},
{"type": "function", "function": {"name": "run_bash", "description": "Run a shell command in the working directory. Returns stdout, stderr, and exit code.", "parameters": {"type": "object", "properties": {"command": {"type": "string"}}, "required": ["command"]}}},
]
def safe_path(workdir, rel):
p = (workdir / rel).resolve()
if not str(p).startswith(str(workdir.resolve())):
raise ValueError(f"path escapes workdir: {rel}")
return p
def tool_read_file(workdir, args):
p = safe_path(workdir, args["path"])
if not p.exists():
return f"ERROR: {args['path']} does not exist"
return p.read_text()
def tool_apply_patch(workdir, args):
p = safe_path(workdir, args["path"])
if not p.exists():
return f"ERROR: {args['path']} does not exist"
old, new = args["old_text"], args["new_text"]
text = p.read_text()
n = text.count(old)
if n == 0:
return f"ERROR: old_text not found in {args['path']}."
if n > 1:
return f"ERROR: old_text appears {n} times in {args['path']}."
p.write_text(text.replace(old, new, 1))
return f"patched {args['path']} (replaced {len(old)} chars with {len(new)} chars)"
def tool_run_bash(workdir, args):
try:
r = subprocess.run(["bash", "-c", args["command"]], cwd=workdir, capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=BASH_TIMEOUT_S)
except subprocess.TimeoutExpired:
return f"ERROR: command timed out after {BASH_TIMEOUT_S}s"
return f"exit={r.returncode}\n--- stdout ---\n{r.stdout[-4000:]}\n--- stderr ---\n{r.stderr[-2000:]}"
TOOL_DISPATCH = {"read_file": tool_read_file, "apply_patch": tool_apply_patch, "run_bash": tool_run_bash}
def ollama_chat(model, messages):
# NOTE: no "think" key — Ollama default behavior
payload = {
"model": model, "messages": messages, "tools": TOOLS,
"stream": False, "keep_alive": "10m",
"options": {"num_ctx": 32768, "num_predict": 4096, "temperature": 0.3},
}
req = urlreq.Request(f"{OLLAMA_HOST}/api/chat", data=json.dumps(payload).encode(), headers={"Content-Type": "application/json"})
with urlreq.urlopen(req, timeout=REQUEST_TIMEOUT_S) as resp:
return json.loads(resp.read())
def pytest_passes(workdir):
r = subprocess.run(["python3", "-m", "pytest", "tests/", "-q"], cwd=workdir, capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=60)
return r.returncode == 0
def run_bakeoff(model, workdir, log_path):
log_path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
messages = [{"role": "system", "content": SYSTEM_PROMPT}, {"role": "user", "content": USER_PROMPT}]
trace = {"model": model, "edit_tool": "apply_patch", "think_setting": "unset (default)", "workdir": str(workdir), "started_at": time.time(), "turns": [], "final": None}
counts = {"read_file": 0, "apply_patch": 0, "run_bash": 0}
halt = None
for i in range(1, MAX_ITERATIONS + 1):
t0 = time.time()
try:
r = ollama_chat(model, messages)
except Exception as e:
halt = f"chat_error: {e}"
trace["turns"].append({"iteration": i, "error": str(e)})
break
msg = r.get("message", {})
content = msg.get("content", "") or ""
tcs = msg.get("tool_calls") or []
thinking = msg.get("thinking")
turn = {"iteration": i, "elapsed_s": round(time.time() - t0, 2), "content": content, "tool_calls": [], "prompt_eval_count": r.get("prompt_eval_count"), "eval_count": r.get("eval_count"), "thinking_field_len": len(thinking) if thinking else 0}
messages.append({"role": "assistant", "content": content, "tool_calls": tcs})
if not tcs:
trace["turns"].append(turn)
halt = "no_tool_calls"
break
for tc in tcs:
fn = tc.get("function", {})
name = fn.get("name")
args = fn.get("arguments") or {}
if isinstance(args, str):
try: args = json.loads(args)
except: args = {"_raw": args}
try: result = TOOL_DISPATCH[name](workdir, args) if name in TOOL_DISPATCH else f"ERROR: unknown {name}"
except Exception as e: result = f"ERROR: {e}"
if name in counts: counts[name] += 1
turn["tool_calls"].append({"name": name, "arguments": args, "result": result[:800]})
messages.append({"role": "tool", "content": result})
trace["turns"].append(turn)
if i == MAX_ITERATIONS:
halt = "iteration_cap"
break
trace["final"] = {"halt_reason": halt, "tests_pass": pytest_passes(workdir), "iterations_used": len(trace["turns"]), "tool_call_counts": counts, "wall_clock_s": round(time.time() - trace["started_at"], 2)}
log_path.write_text(json.dumps(trace, indent=2, default=str))
return trace
def main():
model, workdir_s, log_s = sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2], sys.argv[3]
workdir, log_path = Path(workdir_s).resolve(), Path(log_s).resolve()
seed = Path(__file__).parent / "task_seed"
if workdir.exists(): shutil.rmtree(workdir)
shutil.copytree(seed, workdir)
r = run_bakeoff(model, workdir, log_path)
f = r["final"]
print(f"model={model} pass={f['tests_pass']} iters={f['iterations_used']} reads={f['tool_call_counts']['read_file']} patches={f['tool_call_counts']['apply_patch']} bashes={f['tool_call_counts']['run_bash']} halt={f['halt_reason']} wall={f['wall_clock_s']}s")
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
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"""Closes the loop on Round 1: original write_file harness, but think flag omitted.
If 26B PASSES here, the original Round 1 failure (and Round 2 patch-mode failure)
were both caused by `think: false`, not by the edit tool surface or response size.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import json, os, shutil, subprocess, sys, time
from pathlib import Path
from urllib import request as urlreq
OLLAMA_HOST = os.environ.get("OLLAMA_HOST", "http://127.0.0.1:11434")
MAX_ITERATIONS = 15
BASH_TIMEOUT_S = 30
REQUEST_TIMEOUT_S = 540
SYSTEM_PROMPT = """You are a terminal coding agent.
## What you do
- Read source and test files to understand the code
- Make targeted edits to fix bugs so the tests pass
- Run pytest to verify your fix
- Stop once all tests pass and reply with a one-sentence summary
## What you do NOT do
- Never modify files under tests/
- Never disable, skip, or delete tests
- Never write outside the working directory
- Never call tools after all tests pass just reply with the summary and stop
## Available tools
- read_file(path): read a file relative to the working directory
- write_file(path, content): overwrite a file relative to the working directory
- run_bash(command): run a shell command in the working directory
## Rules
- Start by reading README.md
- Prefer minimal edits. Do not refactor unrelated code.
- Run the full test suite after each edit to verify.
"""
USER_PROMPT = "Make the failing tests pass. Begin."
TOOLS = [
{"type": "function", "function": {"name": "read_file", "description": "Read a file relative to workdir.", "parameters": {"type": "object", "properties": {"path": {"type": "string"}}, "required": ["path"]}}},
{"type": "function", "function": {"name": "write_file", "description": "Overwrite a file relative to workdir.", "parameters": {"type": "object", "properties": {"path": {"type": "string"}, "content": {"type": "string"}}, "required": ["path", "content"]}}},
{"type": "function", "function": {"name": "run_bash", "description": "Run a bash command in workdir.", "parameters": {"type": "object", "properties": {"command": {"type": "string"}}, "required": ["command"]}}},
]
def safe_path(wd, rel):
p = (wd / rel).resolve()
if not str(p).startswith(str(wd.resolve())):
raise ValueError(f"path escapes workdir: {rel}")
return p
def t_read(wd, a):
p = safe_path(wd, a["path"])
return p.read_text() if p.exists() else f"ERROR: {a['path']} does not exist"
def t_write(wd, a):
p = safe_path(wd, a["path"])
p.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
p.write_text(a["content"])
return f"wrote {a['path']} ({len(a['content'])} bytes)"
def t_bash(wd, a):
try:
r = subprocess.run(["bash", "-c", a["command"]], cwd=wd, capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=BASH_TIMEOUT_S)
except subprocess.TimeoutExpired:
return f"ERROR: timeout {BASH_TIMEOUT_S}s"
return f"exit={r.returncode}\n--- stdout ---\n{r.stdout[-4000:]}\n--- stderr ---\n{r.stderr[-2000:]}"
DISP = {"read_file": t_read, "write_file": t_write, "run_bash": t_bash}
def chat(model, msgs):
payload = {"model": model, "messages": msgs, "tools": TOOLS, "stream": False, "keep_alive": "10m", "options": {"num_ctx": 32768, "num_predict": 4096, "temperature": 0.3}}
req = urlreq.Request(f"{OLLAMA_HOST}/api/chat", data=json.dumps(payload).encode(), headers={"Content-Type": "application/json"})
with urlreq.urlopen(req, timeout=REQUEST_TIMEOUT_S) as r:
return json.loads(r.read())
def run(model, wd, logp):
logp.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
msgs = [{"role": "system", "content": SYSTEM_PROMPT}, {"role": "user", "content": USER_PROMPT}]
trace = {"model": model, "edit_tool": "write_file", "think_setting": "unset (default)", "turns": [], "started_at": time.time()}
counts = {"read_file": 0, "write_file": 0, "run_bash": 0}
halt = None
for i in range(1, MAX_ITERATIONS + 1):
t0 = time.time()
try:
r = chat(model, msgs)
except Exception as e:
halt = f"error: {e}"
break
m = r.get("message", {})
tcs = m.get("tool_calls") or []
trace["turns"].append({"iteration": i, "elapsed_s": round(time.time() - t0, 2), "content": m.get("content") or "", "prompt_eval_count": r.get("prompt_eval_count"), "eval_count": r.get("eval_count"), "tool_calls_count": len(tcs)})
msgs.append({"role": "assistant", "content": m.get("content") or "", "tool_calls": tcs})
if not tcs:
halt = "no_tool_calls"
break
for tc in tcs:
fn = tc.get("function", {})
n = fn.get("name")
args = fn.get("arguments") or {}
if isinstance(args, str):
try: args = json.loads(args)
except: args = {"_raw": args}
try: res = DISP[n](wd, args) if n in DISP else f"ERROR: unknown {n}"
except Exception as e: res = f"ERROR: {e}"
if n in counts: counts[n] += 1
msgs.append({"role": "tool", "content": res})
if i == MAX_ITERATIONS:
halt = "cap"
break
p = subprocess.run(["python3", "-m", "pytest", "tests/", "-q"], cwd=wd, capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=60)
trace["final"] = {"halt_reason": halt, "tests_pass": p.returncode == 0, "iterations_used": len(trace["turns"]), "tool_call_counts": counts, "wall_clock_s": round(time.time() - trace["started_at"], 2)}
logp.write_text(json.dumps(trace, indent=2, default=str))
return trace
if __name__ == "__main__":
model, wd_s, log_s = sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2], sys.argv[3]
wd, logp = Path(wd_s).resolve(), Path(log_s).resolve()
seed = Path(__file__).parent / "task_seed"
if wd.exists(): shutil.rmtree(wd)
shutil.copytree(seed, wd)
r = run(model, wd, logp)
f = r["final"]
print(f"model={model} pass={f['tests_pass']} iters={f['iterations_used']} r={f['tool_call_counts']['read_file']} w={f['tool_call_counts']['write_file']} b={f['tool_call_counts']['run_bash']} halt={f['halt_reason']} wall={f['wall_clock_s']}s")
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"think_setting": "unset (default)",
"workdir": "/home/claude/bin/gemma4-research/scripts/bakeoff/runs_patch/gemma4-26b-no-think-flag/work",
"started_at": 1776549973.621934,
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"elapsed_s": 0.75,
"content": "",
"tool_calls": [
{
"name": "run_bash",
"arguments": {
"command": "ls -R"
},
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}
],
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"thinking_field_len": 152
},
{
"iteration": 2,
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"content": "",
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{
"name": "read_file",
"arguments": {
"path": "tests/test_stats.py"
},
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}
],
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},
{
"iteration": 3,
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"content": "",
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{
"name": "run_bash",
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"command": "pytest"
},
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"name": "run_bash",
"arguments": {
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"name": "read_file",
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"path": "calc/stats.py"
},
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"think_setting": "unset (default)",
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{
"name": "read_file",
"arguments": {
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},
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}
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