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Jesper Schulz-Wedde
822cae1b27
Own the knowledge-index generator + index-aware review skills (#25)
* Make domain-skill knowledge discovery index-aware

The 6 AL domain review skills and read.md now enumerate candidate articles
from the BCQuality knowledge index (knowledge-index.json) instead of opening
every file under the domain folder to read its frontmatter. The worklist
selection predicate is unchanged (keywords intersect diff tokens, or topic
matches a changed object type) - only the discovery source changes, so the
same articles are selected. Full article bodies are read only for worklisted
entries.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>

* Reconcile §Source wording with the lean knowledge index

The BCQuality filter now emits a lean index whose per-article description is a
one-line hint rather than the full verbatim Description. Update the six domain
skills' §Source to say the index carries a one-line description hint (keywords,
title, and a one-line description) instead of the full description. The
worklist selection predicate is unchanged: keywords drive selection and the
agent opens worklisted articles in full for their rule bodies.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>

* Own the knowledge-index generator in BCQuality

The knowledge index is an acceleration of the skills' Source step, and its
schema is part of that contract — so BCQuality should own the generator rather
than each consumer re-implementing it. Add tools/Build-KnowledgeIndex.ps1 (the
parser + lean-description shaping + emit, lifted verbatim from the
BCAppsBCQuality filter prototype) and document the index in agent-consumption.md.

Consumers prune their clone to policy, then call this script; the index stays
in lockstep with the Source contract and every orchestrator gets the same
faithful index for free. The worklist selection predicate is unchanged.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>

* Own knowledge-index generation in BCQuality (runtime + CI), not the consumer

The index is now produced by BCQuality itself: Entry's preparation step
rebuilds knowledge-index.json over the live, already-pruned clone at the start
of every run, and a new CI workflow validates the generator's health
(determinism, full coverage, selection-input integrity). Consumers no longer
invoke or know about the index.

Rebuilding over the pruned clone (vs shipping a committed full-corpus index)
keeps the index exact for any consumer policy: it can never list a denied
article, so policy-excluded rules cannot leak into discovery. READ now states
the index is discovery-only -- a finding must cite an article opened in full,
and rows whose file is absent are discarded before ranking.

- skills/entry.md: new 'Preparation -- knowledge index' precondition
- skills/read.md: index ownership + discovery-only invariant
- microsoft/skills/review/*.md (6): 'BCQuality builds' (not 'the filter emits')
- agent-consumption.md 5a: runtime+CI ownership rationale
- .github/workflows/knowledge-index.yml + scripts/Test-KnowledgeIndex.ps1: generator guard
- .gitignore: never commit the runtime index

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>

* Make runtime index build non-interactive and self-contained

entry.md now gives the exact build command (pwsh ./tools/Build-KnowledgeIndex.ps1)
so the agent's preparation step is unambiguous, and the generator's -BCQualityRoot
parameter is optional (defaults to the clone root) so it runs in non-interactive
-p mode without prompting.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>

* Resolve knowledge-index root to absolute path (cross-platform fix)

Get-ChildItem.FullName is always absolute, so deriving the relative article
path via Substring(\.Length) requires an absolute root. A relative root
such as '.' (used by the CI guard's 'Test-KnowledgeIndex.ps1 -Root .') left the
full path almost intact on Linux, producing bogus 'home/runner/.../knowledge'
paths and failing the coverage check. Normalise both the generator's
-BCQualityRoot and the test's -Root with Resolve-Path before use.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>

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Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Jesper Schulz-Wedde <jesper.schulzwedde@microsoft.com>
2026-06-04 15:02:12 +02:00
Jesper Schulz-Wedde
f07efa74a2 Tighten precision bar for agent findings and cap their severity
Agent findings (model-judgment findings not backed by a curated knowledge
file) were producing too many false positives. Raise their emission bar and
make them advisory:

- skills/do.md: add a canonical 'Precision bar' for agent findings (emit only
  concrete, material defects an expert would agree on; steelman first; an
  explicit never-emit list; 'when in doubt, omit') and cap agent-finding
  severity at minor (advisory, non-gating), with a promotion note for
  severe-but-uncovered concerns.
- al-code-review.md: decouple the mandatory self-review reasoning from output
  so emitting zero agent findings is a valid outcome; add the severity cap.
- Six leaf review skills: add the per-domain precision bar and severity cap
  (style leaf gets domain-appropriate wording).

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-06-03 15:56:10 +02:00
Jesper Schulz-Wedde
d994f2ad0e Require suggested-code or omission reason for mechanical findings
BCQ now wins on coverage in the synthetic complex benchmark, but only
2 of 25 rendered comments carried GitHub suggestion blocks while the
AIRHack reviewer emitted suggestions for every finding. Tighten the
DO contract and leaf-skill instructions so suggested-code is no longer
a soft affordance for mechanical fixes.

Changes:
- Add optional findings[].suggested-code-omission-reason to the DO
  schema.
- Document suggested-code as expected for small, local, mechanical
  findings, with examples (delete unreachable code, Count() > 0 ->
  not IsEmpty(), move local Label, add missing ToolTip/OptionCaption,
  replace string-concatenated Error, change permission token, add an
  obvious else/guard branch).
- Require omission reasons when a mechanical-looking finding omits
  suggested-code.
- Update all AL leaf skills and al-code-review guidance with the same
  stronger contract.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-05-28 15:00:10 +02:00
Jesper Schulz-Wedde
3a07ee82d2 Allow leaf sub-skills to emit agent findings within their domain
The original DO contract pinned all agent reasoning to the super-skill:
'Agent findings are emitted only by super-skills... Leaf sub-skills MUST
NOT emit agent findings'. This funnels all agent reasoning across all 6
domains through a single super-skill pass, which is the root structural
cause of the attention dilution we have been chasing in BCAppsBCQuality
PRs #28 and #30:

- T1 standalone run showed al-security-review finds rimd-on-read-only
  cleanly when run alone, but emits zero agent findings because the
  contract forbids it. So obvious things like case-without-else (no
  matching KB article yet) get dropped on the floor.
- The al-code-review self-review pass keeps producing 0-1 agent findings
  per PR because it is asked to reason across 6 domains in one pass.

The fix is to move agent reasoning into the leaves, bounded by each
leaf's domain. Each leaf now has both knowledge-backed and agent-finding
permissions within its own scope; the super-skill self-review pass
becomes a smaller, cross-cutting role.

skills/do.md
  - Replace the 'only by super-skills' / 'MUST NOT' clause with a
    two-tier model: leaf sub-skills MAY emit agent findings strictly
    within their declared domain; super-skills MAY emit agent findings
    for cross-cutting concerns that span domains.
  - Update the encoding rules: leaf agent findings have references:[]
    and an agent:-prefixed id, no from-sub-skill (the leaf's own report
    carries the finding under its own skill.id). Super-skills set
    from-sub-skill='agent' for their own self-review findings; when
    rolling up leaf agent findings, they set from-sub-skill=<leaf-id>.
  - Clarify that 'MUST validate against knowledge' applies to super-
    skill self-review candidates only - leaves already validated within
    their domain when they decided to emit.

microsoft/skills/review/al-{security,performance,privacy,style,upgrade,
                                                            ui}-review.md
  - New paragraph after the confidence rules instructing each leaf to
    surface domain-specific agent findings when no knowledge file
    covers a defect the agent recognises from general AL knowledge.
  - Bound the scope: 'The scope is strictly <domain>; defects outside
    this domain belong to other leaves and MUST NOT be emitted here.'
  - Same validation requirement: check the worklist for a matching
    knowledge file first; if one exists, upgrade to a knowledge-backed
    finding instead.

microsoft/skills/review/al-code-review.md
  - Rewrite the 'Agent self-review pass' subsection. The pass is now
    explicitly for cross-cutting concerns that no single leaf could
    have surfaced because they span multiple domains. Domain-specific
    reasoning belongs in the leaves, not duplicated here.
  - Update the rollup behavior to acknowledge leaf-emitted agent
    findings: they are rolled up like any other sub-skill finding, with
    from-sub-skill set to the leaf id, and are not re-validated by the
    super-skill (the leaf already validated within its own domain).
  - Drop the 'Leaf sub-skills MUST NOT emit agent findings' line.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-05-28 11:42:38 +02:00
Jesper Schulz-Wedde
31b9949235 Strengthen al-code-review execution, propagate suggested-code to leaves, two new KB articles
Driven by a parity comparison between BCAppsBCQuality PR #27 and
BCAppsCampAIRHack PR #162 on byte-identical content:

| | BCQuality | AIRHack |
|--|--|--|
| Total findings | 6 | 10 |
| Performance   | 0 | 4 |
| Security      | 0 | 5 |

Standalone runs of al-security-review and al-performance-review against
the SAME diff produced the expected matches (rimd-on-read-only via
inherent-permissions-minimal-grant; redundant-Get via
avoid-redundant-get-when-record-already-loaded). The miss in the live
run is therefore not a knowledge-coverage gap and not a worklist
filtering issue. It is attention dilution inside the al-code-review
super-skill, which the model collapses into one rolled-up generation
pass on real-size PRs.

Changes:

microsoft/skills/review/al-code-review.md
- New 'Execution discipline (mandatory)' subsection in the Action step
  that explicitly forbids collapsing leaves into one shared reasoning
  pass and requires each sub-skill to walk its Source -> Relevance ->
  Worklist -> Action steps as its own iteration before the next leaf
  starts.
- Self-review pass is now described as the final, mandatory iteration
  with a concrete candidate-category checklist (architecture-level
  smells, error-handling gaps, magic constants, privacy/telemetry,
  resource lifecycle). Returning zero agent findings on a real-size
  diff is explicitly defined as a defect.

microsoft/skills/review/al-{security,performance,privacy,style,
                              upgrade,ui}-review.md
- Each leaf skill now states that when an unambiguous .good.al
  companion exists, findings[].suggested-code should carry the
  literal replacement for the source lines. Closes the
  one-click-suggestion gap created when BCQ#19 only updated
  al-code-review.

microsoft/knowledge/security/case-must-handle-unknown-enum-values.{md,
                                                            bad.al,
                                                            good.al}
- New article: case over a security-sensitive enum (Authentication
  Type, Authorization Mode, Identity Provider, Permission Scope,
  Encryption Algorithm) MUST have an else arm. Without it, an unknown
  enum value silently falls through and the security context never
  initialises. The bad sample is lifted from the SharePoint Graph
  helper that triggered the parity finding.

microsoft/knowledge/performance/instream-length-unreliable-for-bc-
                                                   streams.{md,bad,good}
- New article: InStream.Length returns 0 / partial for HTTP-response
  streams and some file-API streams, breaking size-threshold branching
  in upload code. Bad sample is the simple-vs-chunked Graph upload
  pattern; good sample materialises into a Temp Blob first.

Companion change: microsoft/BCAppsBCQuality#28 extends the
orchestrator's bootstrap prompt with the same per-iteration execution
discipline and adds a CI warning when a >5-file PR returns zero agent
findings (regression signal).

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-05-28 10:48:32 +02:00
Jesper Schulz-Wedde
287c041844 Expand review skills to match the 6-domain knowledge corpus
The knowledge corpus now covers performance, security, privacy, upgrade,
style, and UI. Previously only two leaf reviewer skills existed
(al-performance-review, al-security-review), so four of the six domains
had knowledge with no skill sourcing from them. A community reader
landing in privacy/, upgrade/, style/, or ui/ would see articles with
no apparent consumer.

Three changes:

1. Move existing review skills into `microsoft/skills/review/`. The
   `review/` subfolder groups all review-kind skills together and leaves
   room for future non-review action skills at the `microsoft/skills/`
   level. Updates references in README.md, agent-consumption.md, and
   skills/entry.md to the new paths.

2. Add four new leaf reviewer skills — al-privacy-review,
   al-upgrade-review, al-style-review, al-ui-review — each following
   the same DO template as al-performance-review/al-security-review but
   sourcing from the corresponding knowledge domain. al-upgrade-review
   and al-ui-review return `not-applicable` when the diff contains no
   upgrade surface or no page files, respectively.

3. Update al-code-review to compose all six leaf skills and retarget
   the dangling references in every populated JSON example
   (`use-setloadfields.md`, `no-plaintext-secrets-in-telemetry.md`,
   `avoid-implicit-commit.md` — none of which exist in the corpus) to
   real knowledge files: `call-setloadfields-before-filters.md`,
   `use-secrettext-for-credentials.md`, `never-hardcode-secrets-in-al.md`.

Validator passes with 0 errors / 0 warnings.
2026-04-23 17:18:17 +02:00