Three harnesses built during the F8 workstream. Each one answered a question we were about to ship a fix for, and each time the answer was "not that". Committing them so the evidence outlives the session , the harnesses are reusable and the findings are the expensive part.

aop-classification-eval

Question: why do vendor-notification conversations get typed Deals? (290 correctly-typed vendor conversations produce 1 task between them; 117 typed Deals produce 10.)

Answer: the classifier isn't confused, it's answering a different question. Of 126 Deals classifications on vendor-dominated conversations, only 3 mention the sender being automated. It classifies the deal described inside the notification body , and it's right about the content and wrong about the object. A Fathom recap genuinely is a sales-meeting summary, and the Deals procedure literally lists "product demos [COMPANY] is giving to prospects." The instructions never say whose conversation it is.

The template gap is real and propagated , 0 of 97 Vendor AOPs mention PandaDoc, 26 still carry the seed's exact (Zoom, Gong, ChiliPiper) line , but it is not the driver. Where the vendor category was considered it was rejected on content grounds, never for lack of the tool's name.

A candidate <automated_notification_rule> fixes 3 of 5 positives with all 4 controls at 6/6, and still fails the commonest production shape (recap stream) at 0/6.

Also surfaced: selection is one-event, not just one-shot , 84% of classifications run with a single event visible, on streams that later grow to 400+. And finalize-steps.ts:144 classifies without calling logToolCall, so onboarding backfills leave no trace at all.

deal-close-task-cancel-eval

Question: is "cancel open tasks when a deal closes" safe as a playbook instruction?

Answer: only after the linked-deal blocks shipped. Before that the best variant was 7/45 false cancellations and a blanket rule wiped 10/10 reactivations. After, one variant reaches 0/45 with every control clean , but under-cancels at 5/15 recall. Safety objection answered; effectiveness not.

domain-return-shape-eval

Question: can prompt or schema wording stop company NAMES being stored where a domain belongs?

Answer: no. Schema-only moved one case by one trial in eight. Schema+instruction fixed one case while its near-identical sibling stayed at 0/8 , the difference was the case, not the variant.

Two conventions worth keeping

Customer-side data is anonymised to .example; vendor names stay real. A fictional signing tool measures brand recognition rather than the classification rule.

The unit of analysis is the CASE. Trials within a case are repeats of one prompt, never pooled into an N, and no p-values , every one of these samples is far too small.

No production code changes. No database writes.

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Greptile Summary

This PR adds three reusable instruction-evaluation harnesses, frozen prompt baselines, and production-derived cases for AOP classification, closed-deal task cancellation, and domain return shapes.

• The deal-close harness currently evaluates a severely truncated system prompt.
• AOP scoring treats invalid selections more favorably than production does.
• Failed cancellation trials are included as favorable kept outcomes.
• The domain-return fixture contains production customer data that has not been anonymized according to the PR's stated convention.

Confidence Score: 1/5

The PR is not safe to merge until the invalid prompt extraction, divergent AOP scoring, and committed production customer data are corrected.

The deal-close results are generated without most of the production system prompt, invalid AOP selections can be counted as successful no-ops, and the domain