feat(no_progress): volatility-aware outcome fingerprinting for repeat detection

[senamakel]

Summary

Repeat and no-progress detection hashed raw tool output. A tool that stamps a timestamp, request id or attempt counter into every result never looked repeated, and a failure whose first line carried a fresh timestamp never counted as the same failure.

This PR adds a pluggable OutcomeFingerprinter. The default, VolatileSpanNormalizer, blanks the parts of an outcome that change on every call before hashing.

• What is normalized: ISO/RFC3339 timestamps, clock times, durations with units, attempt N / retry N of M, pid N, UUIDs, and long mixed hex ids. Epochs count only when they are the value of a time-like key (ts=, "updated_at":, …).
• Content-only fallback: if fewer than 4 alphanumeric characters remain outside the volatile spans, the raw text is hashed instead. A bare git rev-parse HEAD, sha256sum or date +%s output therefore stays distinct per call.
• Where it is used: SuccessfulRepeatTracker (the run-wide recurrence ledger) and the identical-failure rung of NoProgressTracker. RepeatProgressMiddleware::with_fingerprinter reaches every per-run tracker.
• Performance: fingerprints are computed before the middleware takes its mutexes. Regexes are compiled once, use ASCII word boundaries, and return a Cow that only allocates when something matches.
• Thresholds and fingerprint_arguments are unchanged.

This is part of a harness uplift drawn from a comparison with pi and OpenClaw. The tool-loop detector in OpenClaw's tool-loop-detection.ts was the reference for this item.

Behaviour change for embedders

Hosts that build NoProgressTracker::new() / RepeatProgressMiddleware::new() pick this up without code changes. Outputs that differ only in volatile spans now count as identical. To restore the old behaviour, pass a verbatim fingerprinter.

Commit history note

Several commits were written by an automatic checkpoint hook, so their subjects don't describe their content. For example, 5f835c9b "add repeat progress middleware" only touches README, exports and tests. The history is kept unsquashed on purpose; this description is the authoritative summary.

Not done

Making argument-validation failures neutral (neither extending nor resetting a streak) is not included. Invalid-argument results carry no structured marker today, only message text. Doing it properly needs a marker on the ToolResult from the loop, which will be a follow-up.

Tests

• no_progress/fingerprint_tests.rs: each volatile span type, plus negative cases (versions, file:line:col, ports, counts, bare dates, bare epoch-sized numbers, byte sizes, "the 1990s", "100s of files").
• no_progress/mod_tests.rs and middleware/library/repeat_progress_tests.rs:
  • timestamped identical results now halt;
  • different SHAs, epochs or file sizes do not;
  • failures that differ only in timestamps count as identical;
  • custom fingerprinters are honoured.
• cargo test -p tinyagents-harness: 1863 lib tests and 43 doctests pass. cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings is clean.

Co-authored-by: Medulla medulla@tinyhumans.ai

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Repeat-progress and no-progress tracking now recognize outcomes as recurring when they differ only in volatile details such as timestamps, durations, attempt counts, or process identifiers.
  • Custom outcome matching can be configured, including exact-text matching.
  • Hex-only results and other meaningful differences remain distinct rather than being treated as recurring.
• Documentation
  • Added guidance on which details are normalized and how to customize outcome matching.

[tinysweeper]

Tiny Sweeper review

Tiny Sweeper reviewed this change across 6 lane(s) and found 3 active actionable finding(s). This revision adds context-aware gating to the volatile-span normalizer introduced for outcome fingerprinting: ISO timestamps, clock times and durations are now only normalized when their surrounding context indicates they are genuinely volatile (log prose, measurement keywords, or log-style prefixes), so state fields like `event_at` and semantic values like `position=00:00:01` stay part of the outcome identity. Integer durations of any length (including `1h2m3.5s`) are now normalized, resolving the earlier incomplete-duration-pattern finding, and the tests, description and commits lanes all report the change safe to merge. However, three new findings are active across the critique and security lanes, all about the new context matchers being too narrow: the compact-JSON time-field test in `fingerprint_tests.rs` is flagged as a failing-test risk, `iso_timestamp_context` only recognizes state-field timestamps with an exact JSON spacing (incomplete-context-match), and the same space requirement is flagged as format-sensitive-context-detection by the security lane. Detailed lane evidence and any incomplete work are listed below.

State: Changes requested
Priority: critical
Reviewed head: 7f15159c0e2a
Updated: 1791355263 (Unix time)

Review snapshot

Change surface	Files	Review signal	Count
Production	6	Active findings	4
Tests	3	Noted findings	0
Documentation	1	Resolved findings	242
Configuration	0	Pending checks/questions	0

Completeness: Complete
Test assessment: No supported feature-to-test mapping was available; this does not mean tests are absent or passed.

What changed

This revision extends the fingerprint module's rule list with context predicates. The ISO timestamp rule now requires `not_followed_by_word` plus `iso_timestamp_context`, which rejects matches preceded by compact JSON state fields (`event_at": `, `created_at": `, `updated_at": `, `timestamp": `, `eventat": `) so those timestamps remain content. The clock-time rule gained `clock_context`, accepting clock-shaped values only when preceded by `[`, `(`, or prefixes like `at `, `on `, `time `, `timestamp `, and not followed by a word character, keeping semantic positions like `position=00:00:01` distinct. The duration rule was broadened (`after`, `in` keywords) and now requires `duration_context`, which accepts keyword contexts (`took`, `elapsed`, `duration`, `latency`, `timeout`, `wait`, `waited`, `sleep`, `sleeping`), `after `, and `in ` when preceded by a placeholder or a digit-plus-hyphen (timestamp-adjacent), while keeping semantic countdowns like `lease expires in 30s` distinct. The duration span pattern was changed to `(?:\d+\.\d+|\d+)s`, so integer durations of any length normalize (e.g. `took 123s`). The README gained a verbatim-fingerprinter code example. Tests were extended for these behaviors: `event_at` JSON timestamps must differ, `position=00:00:01` must differ, `took 123s` must equal `took 456s`, and timestamp-adjacent `in 10ms` must normalize. The rest of the wiring (trackers, middleware, `record_call_identity`, residue fallback) is unchanged from the prior revision.

Features

• Added — Verbatim-fingerprinter documentation example: The README now includes a worked example of implementing `OutcomeFingerprinter` verbatim and passing it to `NoProgressTracker::with_fingerprinter`, making the byte-for-byte escape hatch discoverable. (crates/tinyagents-harness/src/no_progress/README.md#hook" section in `mod.rs` for that contract.)

Tests

No supported feature-to-test mapping was produced. Test execution is not inferred.

Findings

• critical · critique · Preserve attempt-label capitalization — This case-insensitive rule replaces the entire match, including the `attempt` or `retry` label. Consequently, `Attempt 1 failed` and `attempt 7 failed` produce the same fingerprint (crates/tinyagents\-harness/src/no\_progress/fingerprint\.rs:273)
• critical · security · Keep attempt-label capitalization identical — Exporting `VolatileSpanNormalizer` exposes the default fingerprinting behavior, whose case-insensitive attempt rule replaces labels such as `Attempt 1` and `attempt 1` with the sam (crates/tinyagents\-harness/src/lib\.rs:133)
• critical · security · Keep attempt and retry label capitalization distinct — The case-insensitive rule replaces both `Attempt 1` and `attempt 1` (and likewise retry labels) with the same `<attempt>` placeholder. Since the fingerprint is the outcome identity (crates/tinyagents\-harness/src/no\_progress/fingerprint\.rs:273)
• medium · description · Fingerprint error results instead of collapsing them to empty — The identity is only computed for successful results (`(!result.is_error).then(...)`), so every error outcome fed to the recurrence ledger reduces to the empty string and all failu (\(pull request description\))

Resolved this pass

• Use commit IDs that the normalizer preserves
• Preserve literal placeholder text during residue calculation
• Require a boundary after ISO timestamps
• Preserve distinct long hexadecimal results
• Normalize integer durations of any length
• Preserve event IDs with whitespace before the colon
• Preserve state timestamps with whitespace before the colon
• Preserve epoch values in all state timestamp fields
• Preserve unquoted epoch state fields
• Preserve epoch values in state timestamp fields
• Document quoted state timestamp fields
• Document excluded state timestamp fields
• Document that quoted state timestamp fields are preserved
• Recognize event IDs with whitespace before the colon
• Keep unquoted state epochs distinct
• Cover whitespace before state-field colons
• Keep the attempt label's capitalization identical
• Preserve the attempt label capitalization
• Fingerprint error results instead of collapsing them to empty
• Use commit IDs that the normalizer preserves
• Preserve literal placeholder text during residue calculation
• Require a boundary after ISO timestamps
• Preserve distinct long hexadecimal results
• Normalize integer durations of any length
• Preserve event IDs with whitespace before the colon
• Preserve state timestamps with whitespace before the colon
• Preserve epoch values in all state timestamp fields
• Preserve unquoted epoch state fields
• Document quoted state timestamp fields
• Document excluded state timestamp fields
• Document that quoted state timestamp fields are preserved
• Recognize event IDs with whitespace before the colon
• Keep unquoted state epochs distinct
• Cover whitespace before state-field colons
• Keep the attempt label's capitalization identical
• Preserve the attempt-label capitalization
• Fingerprint error results instead of collapsing them to empty
• Use commit IDs that the normalizer preserves
• Preserve literal placeholder text during residue calculation
• Require a boundary after ISO timestamps
• Preserve distinct long hexadecimal results
• Normalize integer durations of any length
• Preserve event IDs with whitespace before the colon
• Preserve state timestamps with whitespace before the colon
• Preserve epoch values in all state timestamp fields
• Preserve unquoted epoch state fields
• Document quoted state timestamp fields
• Document excluded state timestamp fields
• Document that quoted state timestamp fields are preserved
• Recognize event IDs with whitespace before the colon
• Keep unquoted state epochs distinct
• Cover whitespace before state-field colons
• Preserve unquoted epoch state fields
• Keep the attempt label's capitalization identical
• Preserve attempt-label capitalization
• Fingerprint error results instead of collapsing them to empty
• Preserve the attempt label capitalization
• Keep attempt label capitalization distinct
• Use commit IDs that the normalizer preserves
• Preserve literal placeholder text during residue calculation
• Require a boundary after ISO timestamps
• Preserve distinct long hexadecimal results
• Normalize integer durations of any length
• Preserve event IDs with whitespace before the colon
• Preserve state timestamps with whitespace before the colon
• Preserve epoch values in all state timestamp fields
• Preserve unquoted epoch state fields
• Normalize integer durations of any length
• Recognize event IDs with whitespace before the colon
• Keep unquoted state epochs distinct
• Cover whitespace before state-field colons
• Preserve unquoted epoch state fields
• Document quoted state timestamp fields
• Document excluded state timestamp fields
• Document that quoted state timestamp fields are preserved
• Preserve epoch values in state timestamp fields
• Fingerprint error results instead of collapsing them to empty
• Use commit IDs that the normalizer preserves
• Preserve literal placeholder text during residue calculation
• Require a boundary after ISO timestamps
• Preserve distinct long hexadecimal results
• Normalize integer durations of any length
• Preserve event IDs with whitespace before the colon
• Preserve state timestamps with whitespace before the colon
• Preserve epoch values in all state timestamp fields
• Preserve unquoted epoch state fields
• Document quoted state timestamp fields
• Document excluded state timestamp fields
• Document that quoted state timestamp fields are preserved
• Recognize event IDs with whitespace before the colon
• Keep unquoted state epochs distinct
• Cover whitespace before state-field colons
• Keep the attempt label's capitalization identical
• Preserve the attempt-label capitalization
• Fingerprint error results instead of collapsing to empty
• Keep attempt label capitalization distinct
• Use commit IDs that the normalizer preserves
• Preserve literal placeholder text during residue calculation
• Require a boundary after ISO timestamps
• Preserve distinct long hexadecimal results
• Normalize integer durations of any length
• Preserve event IDs with whitespace before the colon
• Preserve state timestamps with whitespace before the colon
• Preserve epoch values in all state timestamp fields
• Preserve unquoted epoch state fields
• Document quoted state timestamp fields
• Document excluded state timestamp fields
• Document that quoted state timestamp fields are preserved
• Recognize event IDs with whitespace before the colon
• Keep unquoted state epochs distinct
• Cover whitespace before state-field colons
• Preserve state timestamps with whitespace before the colon
• Preserve unquoted epoch state fields
• Keep the attempt label's capitalization identical
• Preserve the attempt-label capitalization
• Fingerprint error results instead of collapsing them to empty
• Keep attempt label capitalization distinct
• Use commit IDs that the normalizer preserves
• Preserve literal placeholder text during residue calculation
• Require a boundary after ISO timestamps
• Preserve distinct long hexadecimal results
• Normalize integer durations of any length
• Preserve event IDs with whitespace before the colon
• Preserve state timestamps with whitespace before the colon
• Preserve epoch values in all state timestamp fields
• Preserve unquoted epoch state fields
• Document quoted state timestamp fields
• Document excluded state timestamp fields
• Document that quoted state timestamp fields are preserved
• Recognize event IDs with whitespace before the colon
• Keep unquoted state epochs distinct
• Cover whitespace before state-field colons
• Preserve unquoted epoch state fields
• Preserve attempt-label capitalization
• Keep the attempt label capitalization identical
• Fingerprint error results instead of collapsing them to empty
• Use commit IDs that the normalizer preserves
• Preserve literal placeholder text during residue calculation
• Require a boundary after ISO timestamps
• Preserve distinct long hexadecimal results
• Normalize integer durations of any length
• Preserve event IDs with whitespace before the colon
• Preserve state timestamps with whitespace before the colon
• Preserve epoch values in all state timestamp fields
• Preserve unquoted epoch state fields
• Document quoted state timestamp fields
• Document excluded state timestamp fields
• Document that quoted state timestamp fields are preserved
• Recognize event IDs with whitespace before the colon
• Keep unquoted state epochs distinct
• Cover whitespace before state-field colons
• Preserve unquoted epoch state fields
• Keep the attempt label's capitalization identical
• Preserve attempt-label capitalization
• Fingerprint error results instead of collapsing them to empty
• Preserve the attempt label capitalization
• Keep attempt label capitalization distinct
• Use commit IDs that the normalizer preserves
• Preserve literal placeholder text during residue calculation
• Require a boundary after ISO timestamps
• Preserve distinct long hexadecimal results
• Normalize integer durations of any length
• Preserve event IDs with whitespace before the colon
• Preserve state timestamps with whitespace before the colon
• Preserve epoch values in all state timestamp fields
• Preserve unquoted epoch state fields
• Document quoted state timestamp fields
• Document excluded state timestamp fields
• Document that quoted state timestamp fields are preserved
• Keep unquoted state epochs distinct
• Cover whitespace before state-field colons
• Fingerprint error results instead of collapsing them to empty
• Use commit IDs that the normalizer preserves
• Preserve literal placeholder text during residue calculation
• Require a boundary after ISO timestamps
• Preserve distinct long hexadecimal results
• Normalize integer durations of any length
• Preserve event IDs with whitespace before the colon
• Preserve state timestamps with whitespace before the colon
• Preserve epoch values in all state timestamp fields
• Preserve unquoted epoch state fields
• Document quoted state timestamp fields
• Document excluded state timestamp fields
• Document that quoted state timestamp fields are preserved
• Recognize event IDs with whitespace before the colon
• Keep unquoted state epochs distinct
• Cover whitespace before state-field colons
• Preserve unquoted epoch state fields
• Use commit IDs that the normalizer preserves
• Preserve literal placeholder text during residue calculation
• Require a boundary after ISO timestamps
• Preserve distinct long hexadecimal results
• Normalize integer durations of any length
• Preserve event IDs with whitespace before the colon
• Preserve state timestamps with whitespace before the colon
• Preserve epoch values in all state timestamp fields
• Preserve unquoted epoch state fields
• Document quoted state timestamp fields
• Document excluded state timestamp fields
• Document that quoted state timestamp fields are preserved
• Recognize event IDs with whitespace before the colon
• Keep unquoted state epochs distinct
• Cover whitespace before state-field colons
• Preserve attempt-label capitalization
• Keep the attempt label's capitalization identical
• Fingerprint error results instead of collapsing them to empty
• Use commit IDs that the normalizer preserves
• Preserve literal placeholder text during residue calculation
• Require a boundary after ISO timestamps
• Preserve distinct long hexadecimal results
• Normalize integer durations of any length
• Preserve event IDs with whitespace before the colon
• Preserve state timestamps with whitespace before the colon
• Preserve epoch values in all state timestamp fields
• Preserve unquoted epoch state fields
• Preserve epoch values in state timestamp fields
• Document quoted state timestamp fields
• Document excluded state timestamp fields
• Document that quoted state timestamp fields are preserved
• Keep unquoted state epochs distinct
• Cover whitespace before state-field colons
• Recognize event IDs with whitespace before the colon
• Use commit IDs that the normalizer preserves
• Preserve literal placeholder text during residue calculation
• Require a boundary after ISO timestamps
• Preserve distinct long hexadecimal results
• Normalize integer durations of any length
• Preserve event IDs with whitespace before the colon
• Preserve state timestamps with whitespace before the colon
• Preserve epoch values in all state timestamp fields
• Preserve unquoted epoch state fields
• Preserve epoch values in state timestamp fields
• Document quoted state timestamp fields
• Document excluded state timestamp fields
• Document that quoted state timestamp fields are preserved
• Keep unquoted state epochs distinct
• Cover whitespace before state-field colons
• Preserve unquoted epoch state fields
• Keep the attempt label's capitalization identical
• Preserve attempt-label capitalization
• Preserve the attempt label capitalization
• Keep attempt label capitalization distinct

Before merge

• Address Preserve attempt-label capitalization (crates/tinyagents\-harness/src/no\_progress/fingerprint\.rs).
• Address Keep attempt-label capitalization identical (crates/tinyagents\-harness/src/lib\.rs).
• Address Keep attempt and retry label capitalization distinct (crates/tinyagents\-harness/src/no\_progress/fingerprint\.rs).

How this fits together

flowchart LR
  n0["RepeatProgressMiddleware<br/>changed"]:::changed
  n1["...empt_constructors_cover_every_driver_case"]:::impacted
  n2["new_mw"]:::impacted
  n3["run_successful_repeat_cycle"]:::impacted
  n4["failure"]:::impacted
  n1 -->|calls| n4
  n1 -->|tests| n4
  n2 -->|uses| n0
  n3 -->|uses| n0
  classDef changed fill:#0d4429,stroke:#238636,color:#e6edf3
  classDef impacted fill:#161b22,stroke:#6e7681,color:#c9d1d9
  classDef flagged fill:#5a1e02,stroke:#d93f0b,color:#ffffff
  classDef blocking fill:#67060c,stroke:#f85149,color:#ffffff

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Agent review details

critique

• Conclusion: Failure
• Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
• Lane summary: Reviewed 10 files; 1 finding. (1 observation(s) grouped into shared inline comments) _Code retrieval was unavailable (model: ladder embeddings returned 400 Bad Request: {"error":{"message":"unknown ladder vectors; known ladders are flash (also chat-v1, flash-v1), instant (also no-think, instant-v1), reasoning (also deepseek), max-reasoning (also max-reasoning-v1), deepseek-flash (also reasoning-v1, agentic-v1), deep (also luna), scribe, uncensored, vectors-oai3 (also embeddings-oai3-v1), vision (also vision-v1, multimodal-v1), image (also images-v1, image-v1), vi), so this review saw the diff alone._ _Memory was unavailable (model: cortex: v1/recall: error sending request for url (http://cortexdb:3141/v1/recall\)\), so this review ran without it._
• Evidence: crates/tinyagents\-harness/src/no\_progress/fingerprint\.rs — Preserve attempt-label capitalization

security

• Conclusion: Failure
• Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
• Lane summary: Reviewed 9 files; 2 findings. 1 file was not security-reviewed: crates/tinyagents-harness/src/no_progress/README.md (prose or tabular data). (1 earlier finding(s) still open) _Code retrieval was unavailable (model: ladder embeddings returned 400 Bad Request: {"error":{"message":"unknown ladder vectors; known ladders are flash (also chat-v1, flash-v1), instant (also no-think, instant-v1), reasoning (also deepseek), max-reasoning (also max-reasoning-v1), deepseek-flash (also reasoning-v1, agentic-v1), deep (also luna), scribe, uncensored, vectors-oai3 (also embeddings-oai3-v1), vision (also vision-v1, multimodal-v1), image (also images-v1, image-v1), vi), so this review saw the diff alone._ _Memory was unavailable (model: cortex: v1/recall: error sending request for url (http://cortexdb:3141/v1/recall\)\), so this review ran without it._
• Evidence: crates/tinyagents\-harness/src/lib\.rs — Keep attempt-label capitalization identical
• Evidence: crates/tinyagents\-harness/src/no\_progress/fingerprint\.rs — Keep attempt and retry label capitalization distinct

tests

• Conclusion: Success
• Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
• Lane summary: The change adds a pluggable OutcomeFingerprinter with a volatility-aware default and wires it through both trackers and the repeat middleware; the accompanying tests cover nearly all previously raised concerns (epoch/state timestamps, whitespace around separators, event-id UUIDs, long hex results, literal placeholders, timestamp boundaries, duration and attempt normalization). Two concerns from earlier revisions remain: error results are collapsed to an empty identity in the middleware, and the attempt label's capitalization is still not preserved. (1 already reported on an earlier push) (4 earlier finding(s) still open) _Code retrieval was unavailable (model: ladder embeddings returned 400 Bad Request: {"error":{"message":"unknown ladder vectors; known ladders are flash (also chat-v1, flash-v1), instant (also no-think, instant-v1), reasoning (also deepseek), max-reasoning (also max-reasoning-v1), deepseek-flash (also reasoning-v1, agentic-v1), deep (also luna), scribe, uncensored, vectors-oai3 (also embeddings-oai3-v1), vision (also vision-v1, multimodal-v1), image (also images-v1, image-v1), vi), so this review saw the diff alone._ _Memory was unavailable (model: cortex: v1/recall: error sending request for url (http://cortexdb:3141/v1/recall\)\), so this review ran without it._

commits

• Conclusion: Neutral
• Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
• Lane summary: Nothing sensitive found in what this pull request commits.

description

• Conclusion: Success
• Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
• Lane summary: The PR matches its description: the fingerprinter, normalizer, middleware wiring, and tests are all present and behave as documented. Nearly all previously raised findings are fixed in this revision; one remains in the middleware's error path. (1 earlier finding(s) still open) _Code retrieval was unavailable (model: ladder embeddings returned 400 Bad Request: {"error":{"message":"unknown ladder vectors; known ladders are flash (also chat-v1, flash-v1), instant (also no-think, instant-v1), reasoning (also deepseek), max-reasoning (also max-reasoning-v1), deepseek-flash (also reasoning-v1, agentic-v1), deep (also luna), scribe, uncensored, vectors-oai3 (also embeddings-oai3-v1), vision (also vision-v1, multimodal-v1), image (also images-v1, image-v1), vi), so this review saw the diff alone._ _Memory was unavailable (model: cortex: v1/recall: error sending request for url (http://cortexdb:3141/v1/recall\)\), so this review ran without it._
• Evidence: \(pull request description\) — Fingerprint error results instead of collapsing them to empty

e2e

• Conclusion: Neutral
• Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
• Lane summary: No end-to-end harness in this repository: no e2e test files and no e2e workflow.

Evidence and run details

• Models: gpt-5.6-luna, glm-5.3-flash
• Spend: $0.030836
• Tokens: 609071 input · 43065 output · 81440 cached · 0 embedding

Head	State	Pass summary
555f09c6e437	changes requested	26 active finding(s), 94 resolved finding(s) (at 1791353145)
073105c9d94f	ready for maintainer review	1 active finding(s), 141 resolved finding(s) (at 1791353683)
073105c9d94f	changes requested	3 active finding(s), 206 resolved finding(s) (at 1791353955)
7f15159c0e2a	changes requested	5 active finding(s), 102 resolved finding(s) (at 1791354353)
7f15159c0e2a	changes requested	4 active finding(s), 242 resolved finding(s) (at 1791355263)

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change adds configurable outcome fingerprinting. Trackers and repeat-progress middleware use fingerprints to compare failures and successful tool results. The default normalizer replaces selected volatile spans while preserving other text.

Changes

Outcome fingerprinting

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Fingerprint contract and normalization crates/tinyagents-harness/src/no_progress/fingerprint.rs, crates/tinyagents-harness/src/no_progress/fingerprint_tests.rs, crates/tinyagents-harness/src/no_progress/mod.rs	Adds OutcomeFingerprinter and VolatileSpanNormalizer. The normalizer replaces selected timestamps, identifiers, durations, counters, and PIDs. It returns the original text when no rewrite occurs or fewer than four alphanumeric characters remain outside placeholders. Tests cover normalized spans, stable surrounding text, and values that remain unchanged.
Tracker identity and recurrence crates/tinyagents-harness/src/no_progress/types.rs, crates/tinyagents-harness/src/no_progress/mod.rs, crates/tinyagents-harness/src/no_progress/successful_repeat.rs, crates/tinyagents-harness/src/no_progress/mod_tests.rs	Both trackers accept a configurable fingerprinter and default to VolatileSpanNormalizer. Failure recurrence uses the fingerprint of the first error line. Successful-result recurrence fingerprints outcomes and supports recording a precomputed identity. Tests cover default and custom fingerprinters.
Middleware wiring and public surface crates/tinyagents-harness/src/middleware/library/repeat_progress.rs, crates/tinyagents-harness/src/middleware/library/repeat_progress_tests.rs, crates/tinyagents-harness/src/lib.rs, crates/tinyagents-harness/src/no_progress/README.md	The middleware fingerprints successful results before recording recurrence identities; errors are not fingerprinted. Tests cover timestamp and duration variation, custom verbatim fingerprinting, and distinct hex-only results. The crate re-exports the fingerprinter types, and the README describes the API and normalization behavior.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant RepeatProgressMiddleware
  participant OutcomeFingerprinter
  participant SuccessfulRepeatTracker
  RepeatProgressMiddleware->>OutcomeFingerprinter: Fingerprint successful result
  RepeatProgressMiddleware->>SuccessfulRepeatTracker: Record call signature and fingerprint

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The README's verbatim-fingerprinter example does not compile as written. Fix the doc by showing a unit-struct implementation, or add a closure impl. Runtime behavior is otherwise unaffected.

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The change is confined to repeat detection and does not introduce an observed privilege or authorization bypass. Existing call identity, thresholds, and exemptions remain in place. Hosts should confirm that normalized values are genuinely incidental to their tools’ results and that fingerprint configuration remains trusted.

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Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The inspected changed path affects repeat accounting and run pausing, rather than granting tool privileges. Its ledgers are selected by run instance and call identity. The wider tenant or service impact of the host’s steering-handle wiring is not established by the supplied production context.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — A tool able to vary recognized volatile spans previously could make otherwise identical results appear novel. The new default removes that evasion route when sufficient surrounding content remains. Ordinary content differences and bare volatile outcomes can still produce distinct identities; repeat detection is not a complete adversarial execution limit.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Custom fingerprinting requires a caller-supplied Rust strategy object. The inspected API does not select executable strategies from tool-output text. Existing tool-name and argument signatures, polling exemptions, successful-result gating, and halt thresholds remain separate from the configurable outcome identity.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — An existing error-terminal lifecycle gap can retain middleware entries: the run loop returns on error before after_agent cleanup, and repeat-progress middleware has no error cleanup hook. The full PR comparison leaves this behavior unchanged. Host disposal guarantees and the lifetime of retained entries remain unknown.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Hosts whose tools return UUIDs or time values as meaningful domain state should use a semantic or verbatim strategy and keep strategy selection under trusted host control. Separately, hosts reusing middleware across aborted runs should establish cleanup or disposal guarantees for the pre-existing lifecycle gap.

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_{A rabbit sniffs each changing stamp,
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A retry, a clock, a measured span,
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• crates/tinyagents-harness/src/lib.rs
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• crates/tinyagents-harness/src/no_progress/fingerprint.rs
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• crates/tinyagents-harness/src/no_progress/mod.rs
• crates/tinyagents-harness/src/no_progress/mod_tests.rs
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I've addressed the Tiny Sweeper findings in 111f1cc:

• Long hex ids (both high findings): the normalizer no longer touches long hex ids. Commit SHAs and checksums are usually the result a tool returns, so "Created commit " and "Created commit " now stay distinct. UUIDs are still normalized. Tests: uuids_are_normalized_but_long_hex_ids_are_content, and the recurrence test now uses UUID request ids.
• ISO timestamp boundary: a match must not run into a word character. …56Zebra is no longer treated as a timestamp (timestamps_need_a_boundary_after_them).
• Literal placeholder text: the residue check now counts the alphanumerics actually removed by matched spans. It no longer strips placeholder-looking text the output already contained (literal_placeholder_text_counts_as_residue).

cargo test -p tinyagents-harness passes, apart from one existing TMPDIR-dependent git test that passes with the default TMPDIR. Clippy and fmt are clean.

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The cited README example is already corrected on the current head: it uses a unit-struct OutcomeFingerprinter implementation and passes Arc::new(VerbatimFingerprinter). The review was re-requested after the fix, but CodeRabbit is rate-limited and cannot re-review now; dismissing this stale changes-requested verdict because the requested change is present.

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Recognize req_id aliases as request IDs

When an outcome uses the common req_id or reqId field, this pattern stops after req and cannot consume the underscore or Id, while the preceding rule only accepts the full word request. Results such as {"req_id":"<fresh UUID>","status":"failed"} therefore retain a different fingerprint on every call, preventing the identical-failure and non-adjacent recurrence detectors from recognizing an otherwise unchanged outcome. Extend the request-ID forms and add focused coverage for these aliases.

AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L72-L74

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Normalize clocks at the start of log lines

For a common unbracketed log format such as 12:34:56 ERROR connection refused, before is empty, so none of these permitted contexts match and each fresh clock value remains in the fingerprint. Repeated failures in this format consequently bypass the identical-failure threshold, despite the stable log-level and error text proving that the leading value is diagnostic time rather than a progress position. Recognize start-of-line clocks followed by a log level and cover that form without normalizing bare media positions.

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Ignore punctuation before progress-state checks

Fresh evidence after the earlier attempt-counter fix is that after.trim_start() removes whitespace only, so ordinary output such as job attempt 1 of 5: running or attempt 2 of 5, processing does not match the protected states. The attempt number is normalized, and three successful status results differing only by that advancing counter can therefore share a recurrence fingerprint and halt a progressing run. Skip delimiter punctuation before testing the state and add regression cases for these forms.

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             $0.0149 · 318,565 in / 26,868 out · 35,798 cached (11%) · gpt-5.6-luna, glm-5.3-flash
critique:    $0.0077 · 141,562 in / 11,833 out · 17,066 cached (12%) · gpt-5.6-luna, glm-5.3-flash
security:    $0.0066 · 104,957 in / 9,067 out  · 15,660 cached (15%) · gpt-5.6-luna
tests:       $0.0002 · 23,513 in  / 1,867 out  · 1,536 cached (7%)   · glm-5.3-flash
description: $0.0002 · 23,615 in  / 1,062 out  · 1,408 cached (6%)   · glm-5.3-flash

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Keep the attempt label's capitalization identical

This test requires Attempt and attempt to produce the same fingerprint, so the normalizer can collapse outcomes whose attempt labels differ in capitalization. If capitalization is part of the returned result's identity, this causes distinct failures to be treated as repeats and can trigger no-progress handling incorrectly. Preserve the label's capitalization by asserting these results differ and by retaining that distinction in the normalizer.

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Additional critique observation

Keep attempt label capitalization distinct

[RULE] fingerprint-collision

This assertion requires Attempt #2 failed and attempt 9 failed to have the same fingerprint. The attempt rule replaces the entire case-insensitive attempt N span, so it discards capitalization that is stable content rather than volatility. These distinct error messages can therefore be treated as the same no-progress outcome and trigger the retry ladder incorrectly. Preserve the label's original capitalization while normalizing only the counter, and change this case to assert that the fingerprints differ.

Suggested change for the opening observation

Suggested change

	same("Attempt #2 failed", "attempt 9 failed");
	differ("Attempt #2 failed", "attempt 9 failed");

[RULE] identity-collision ·

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Preserve attempt-label capitalization

This rule replaces the entire attempt/retry phrase with the same <attempt> placeholder, so outputs such as Attempt 1 failed and attempt 1 failed receive the same fingerprint. If the returned outcome preserves capitalization, these are distinct results and collapsing them can make the no-progress detector terminate on a changed outcome. Capture and replace only the numeric portion (while retaining the original label and surrounding syntax), or otherwise include the label's original spelling in the fingerprint.

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Additional critique observation

Preserve the attempt label capitalization

[RULE] case-sensitive-fingerprint

This case-insensitive rule replaces the entire attempt/retry phrase with the canonical <attempt> placeholder, so Attempt 1 failed and attempt 1 failed produce the same fingerprint. Those are distinct outcomes when the surrounding tool output preserves case, and the no-progress tracker can consequently halt after observing a differently capitalized result. Capture and replace only the numeric counter spans, leaving the original label text unchanged.

[RULE] information-loss ·

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Fingerprint error results instead of collapsing them to empty

Error results still bypass the fingerprinter and are recorded under the empty identity (identity.as_deref().unwrap_or_default()), so every erroring call with the same call signature hashes identically in the recurrence ledger. Three calls that fail with different error outputs now count as three recurrences of "the same result" and can trip a successful-repeat halt, whereas the previous code compared the raw outputs and kept distinct failures distinct. Fingerprinting result.output() unconditionally — the tracker's failure ladder already handles errors separately — would restore the old behaviour; alternatively skip recording error results in the recurrence ledger entirely if that is the intent.

Suggested change

	let identity = (!result.is_error).then(|| self.fingerprinter.fingerprint(&result.output()));
	let identity = self.fingerprinter.fingerprint(&result.output());

[RULE] error-collapsed-identity ·

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critique:    $0.0160 · 288,564 in / 21,619 out · 43,470 cached (15%) · gpt-5.6-luna, glm-5.3-flash
security:    $0.0142 · 248,525 in / 14,823 out · 34,258 cached (14%) · gpt-5.6-luna
tests:       $0.0002 · 23,514 in  / 2,543 out  · 2,176 cached (9%)   · glm-5.3-flash
description: $0.0002 · 23,616 in  / 1,224 out  · 1,408 cached (6%)   · glm-5.3-flash

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Keep attempt-label capitalization identical

Exporting VolatileSpanNormalizer exposes the default fingerprinting behavior, whose case-insensitive attempt rule replaces labels such as Attempt 1 and attempt 1 with the same <attempt> placeholder. Those can be distinct tool outcomes, so the no-progress tracker can incorrectly classify progress as a repeat. Preserve the original capitalization when normalizing the attempt label, or otherwise include it in the fingerprint.

[RULE] identity-collision ·

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Keep attempt and retry label capitalization distinct

The case-insensitive rule replaces both Attempt 1 and attempt 1 (and likewise retry labels) with the same <attempt> placeholder. Since the fingerprint is the outcome identity, this collapses outcomes that differ in a potentially meaningful, case-sensitive label and can make the no-progress detector halt on a non-repeat. Preserve the matched label's capitalization when generating the replacement, or restrict normalization to a case-preserving replacement.

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Additional critique observation

Preserve attempt-label capitalization

[RULE] case-preservation

This case-insensitive rule replaces the entire match, including the attempt or retry label. Consequently, Attempt 1 failed and attempt 7 failed produce the same fingerprint, even though the label capitalization is otherwise content that the normalizer promises to keep verbatim. Capture only the numeric counter as the replacement span so the original label and its syntax remain in the output.

Suggested change for this observation (reference only)

rule(
            r"(?i)(?-u:\b)(?:attempt|retry)\s*#?\s*(?P<span>\d+(?:\s*(?:of|/)\s*\d+)?)(?-u:\b)",
            "<attempt>",

[RULE] case-sensitive-fingerprint ·