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fable-5.1 · Claude Code · high effort
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43:22 · 21 steps
Private reward
0.019926 · Pass
Attempt cost
$2.28
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Task instructions

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Task instructions

Build a latency-efficient PyTorch two-tower neural-network ranker

Build a two-tower neural network in CPU PyTorch for the "Made for You" shelf of a music streaming service. Although the supplied benchmark is small, it represents a production system with millions of users and millions of items; the training approach must scale to that setting and therefore must not construct or decompose a global user-item interaction matrix. The production shelf has a strict request-time latency budget. Candidate item embeddings are computed offline and stored in a nearest-neighbor index. At request time, the system computes one user embedding and retrieves items by maximum inner-product search.

The model must therefore decompose exactly into a user vector and an independently precomputable item vector of the same dimensionality, with the final relevance score equal to their dot product. Both vectors must be produced by separate trainable user and item towers implemented as PyTorch neural networks. The user tower must derive its representation from interaction history rather than a user-ID lookup. Per-user candidate eligibility, cutoff-specific explicit preference state, and a temporal backtest are provided. Candidate eligibility is platform-owned; all modeling within that candidate boundary is in scope.

Data

All inputs are under /task/data/. Training data ends at timestamp 24786800. A 30-minute gap precedes a seven-day public validation window. The hidden test is the following seven-day window after another 30-minute gap.

For each event family there is a train_*.parquet and val_*.parquet file:

FamilyMeaningColumns
listensPlayback eventsuid, timestamp, item_id, is_organic, played_ratio_pct, track_length_seconds
likesExplicit positive actionsuid, timestamp, item_id, is_organic
dislikesExplicit negative actionsuid, timestamp, item_id, is_organic
unlikesReversal of a prior likeuid, timestamp, item_id, is_organic
undislikesReversal of a prior dislikeuid, timestamp, item_id, is_organic

is_organic=1 means the listener sought out the track; 0 means the action came through a recommendation surface. A listen is a conventional positive at 50% completion. The discovery-quality objective below uses the stronger 80% threshold.

The two public windows have different roles:

  1. Build and tune a validation ranker using only train_* as history and val_* as subsequent outcomes.
  2. After selecting the approach, refit it on train_* + val_*. At hidden-test time the validation events are observed history, not recommendable outcomes.

Do not use val_* events as features when measuring a validation ranking. They may and should be used when refitting the final hidden-test ranker.

Additional files under /task/data/:

  • candidate_catalog.parquet: the 30,000 retrieval-catalog tracks, ordered by training positive-listen popularity.
  • target_users.parquet: users with at least 20 positive listens in the 90 days before the training cutoff, selected without future labels.
  • validation_preference_state.parquet: active explicit state at the training cutoff, for validation ranking.
  • test_preference_state.parquet: active explicit state after validation, for the final hidden-test ranking. State is liked or disliked; a pair may have both active channels.
  • validation_eligible_candidates.npz and test_eligible_candidates.npz: cutoff-correct candidate sets for every target user. Each contains aligned arrays uids, item_ids, and packed_eligible. For user row r, recover the Boolean item mask with np.unpackbits(packed_eligible[r], count=len(item_ids), bitorder="little").

The exact available Python distribution inventory is listed in /task/requirements.txt. Future test interactions are hidden and used only by the separate Harbor verifier.

Discovery objective

Rank only the candidates returned for the relevant cutoff. Relevance is based on organic behavior in the immediately following window:

  • grade 3: the user organically likes the track;
  • grade 1: the user organically listens to at least 80% of the track;
  • grade 0: otherwise.

If both positive events occur, grade 3 wins. Ranking quality is measured with graded NDCG@10. DCG uses gain 2^grade - 1 and discount 1/log2(rank + 1), then averages per-user NDCG over users with at least one relevant item.

The public evaluator reports this objective for development, but its score is not a separate acceptance stage. Final acceptance is determined on the hidden test using the same objective.

The Yambda logs contain interactions, not impression propensities. Treat the organic objective as a robust offline target, not as a causal estimate of online lift.

Public tools

/task/evaluate_public.py scores a validation-stage ranking against the public window. Pass the path to a ranking with the same schema as the final deliverable:

python /task/evaluate_public.py solution/validation.parquet

Stage-independent evaluation helpers are available in /task/ranking_evaluation.py. The builder installs the same checked-in module in the public agent image and private verifier image so scoring mechanics cannot drift. The public copy contains no hidden labels, evaluator-owned data paths, or pass thresholds.

The public evaluator uses validation_eligible_candidates.npz; it is not a validator for the final artifact. No model implementation, fitted representation, or example submission is supplied. Design and tune the required PyTorch neural two-tower model, then refit the selected approach as described above.

Deliverable

Write /app/solution/submission.parquet or /app/solution/submission.csv, with exactly 100 rows for every target user and columns uid, item_id, rank. Ranks must be the integers 1-100 with no ties or duplicate items. Every submitted item must be present in that user's test_eligible_candidates.npz candidate set.

Leave the code that defines, trains, and applies both towers, along with a concise /app/solution/README.md, in /app/solution/. The README should state the model architecture, training objective, public validation score, and final submission command. Keep the best valid submission saved throughout the attempt so it survives the deadline.

Constraints

  • Write deliverables and intermediate artifacts only under /app/solution/.
  • Treat /task/ and the installed Python environment as read-only.
  • Do not invoke nested agents or attempt to access verifier files, credentials, other trials, or host paths.
  • Do not install packages or use network access except for the model provider connection managed by Harbor.
  • The environment includes CPU PyTorch 2.8.0. No accelerator is available.
  • You have up to 60 minutes. Improve the model as much as possible within that limit. Structural validity alone is not sufficient; the final submission is also evaluated for ranking quality.
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    "This iteration of Claude is Claude Fable 5.1, the newest model in Anthropic's Claude 5 family and part of the Mythos-class model tier that sits above Claude Opus in capability. Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 share the same underlying model. Claude Fable 5.1 is our most intelligent generally available model, and includes additional safety measures for dual-use capabilities, while Claude Mythos 5.1 is available without those measures to only approved organizations. Fable 5.1 is the most advanced generally available Claude model. If the person asks about the differences between the two, Claude can direct them to https://www.anthropic.com/claude/fable for more information.",
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List task data and show evaluator code

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Recorded reasoning 22 words

I should start by exploring the environment first, keeping in mind I only have 60 minutes so I need to work efficiently.

Model text

I'll start by inspecting the data, tools, and environment, then build a two-tower model quickly and iterate.

Tool callBashList task data and show evaluator code Returned

Tool call · Input

cd /task && ls -la data/ && cat requirements.txt && nproc && free -g && cat evaluate_public.py && cat ranking_evaluation.py

Tool response

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Score a validation-stage ranking against public discovery labels.

``build_task.py`` publishes this module with the solver-visible task files. It
loads target users, validation eligibility, and validation-window events from
the adjacent ``data`` directory, then evaluates one ranking supplied on the
command line. Stage-independent mechanics come from the adjacent public
``ranking_evaluation.py`` module. The builder installs the same checked-in
module in the private judge, so public and private scoring mechanics cannot
drift. A relevant candidate receives grade 3 for an organic like or grade 1 for
an organic listen with at least 80 percent completion; a like takes precedence
when both events exist.

Before scoring, the ranking must contain exactly 100 distinct eligible items
for every target user, with integer-valued ``uid``, ``item_id``, and ``rank``
columns and ranks 1 through 100 exactly once per user. Extra columns are
ignored. Quality is graded NDCG@10, averaged only over users who have at least
one eligible relevant item in the validation window.

The evaluator prints a JSON object containing the model path and scores. It
does not apply the task's pass threshold; its purpose is model development and
selection. The private judge applies the threshold to the final submission.

Usage::

    python evaluate_public.py <validation-ranking.parquet|csv>
"""
from __future__ import annotations

import json
import sys
from pathlib import Path

import pandas as pd

from ranking_evaluation import (
    CandidateSet,
    RankingValidationError,
    ranked_items,
    read_ranking,
    score_rankings,
    validate_ranking,
)


HERE = Path(__file__).resolve().parent
DATA = HERE / "data"
LISTEN_STRONG = 80


def validation_truth(
    eligibility: CandidateSet, targets: set[int]
) -> dict[int, dict[int, int]]:
    """Build cutoff-correct graded relevance from public validation events.

    Only target-user events for eligible candidates are retained. Organic
    listens completed to at least 80 percent receive grade 1, and organic likes
    receive grade 3. Repeated user-item events are collapsed, and processing
    likes second ensures that grade 3 wins over grade 1.

    Args:
        eligibility: Validation-cutoff candidate membership service.
        targets: Complete set of target user IDs.

    Returns:
        A nested ``uid -> item_id -> grade`` mapping. Users without an eligible
        relevant event are omitted.
    """
    listens = pd.read_parquet(DATA / "val_listens.parquet")
    likes = pd.read_parquet(DATA / "val_likes.parquet")
    strong = listens[
        listens.uid.isin(targets)
        & (listens.is_organic == 1)
        & (listens.played_ratio_pct >= LISTEN_STRONG)
    ][["uid", "item_id"]].drop_duplicates()
    organic_likes = likes[
        likes.uid.isin(targets) & (likes.is_organic == 1)
    ][["uid", "item_id"]].drop_duplicates()

    graded: dict[int, dict[int, int]] = {}
    for raw_uid, raw_item in strong.itertuples(index=False, name=None):
        uid, item = int(raw_uid), int(raw_item)
        if eligibility.is_eligible(uid, item):
            graded.setdefault(uid, {})[item] = 1
    for raw_uid, raw_item in organic_likes.itertuples(index=False, name=None):
        uid, item = int(raw_uid), int(raw_item)
        if eligibility.is_eligible(uid, item):
            graded.setdefault(uid, {})[item] = 3
    return graded


def load_submission(
    path: Path, eligibility: CandidateSet, targets: set[int]
) -> dict[int, list[int]]:
    """Load and validate a public validation ranking.

    Files ending in ``.parquet`` are read as parquet; every other suffix is
    read as CSV. The required columns must be integer-valued, cover exactly the
    target-user set, contain 100 rows and ranks 1 through 100 per user, avoid
    duplicate user-item pairs, and contain only cutoff-eligible items.

    Args:
        path: Ranking file to read.
        eligibility: Validation-cutoff candidate membership service.
        targets: Exact set of users the ranking must cover.

    Returns:
        A ``uid -> ranked item IDs`` mapping ordered by ascending rank.

    Raises:
        ValueError: If the ranking violates the required schema or invariants.
    """
    frame = validate_ranking(read_ranking(path), targets)
    if not all(
        eligibility.is_eligible(uid, item)
        for uid, item in frame[["uid", "item_id"]].itertuples(index=False, name=None)
    ):
        raise RankingValidationError(
            "submission contains an item rejected by eligibility service"
        )
    return ranked_items(frame)


def score(
    ranked: dict[int, list[int]],
    graded: dict[int, dict[int, int]],
) -> dict[str, float | int]:
    """Aggregate per-user NDCG@10 over users with public relevance labels.

    Args:
        ranked: Ranked item IDs for every target user.
        graded: Eligible validation relevance keyed by user and item.

    Returns:
        The six-decimal ``quality_ndcg@10`` value and number of scored users.
    """
    return score_rankings(ranked, graded)


def main() -> None:
    """Run the public evaluator CLI and print its JSON score report."""
    targets_frame = pd.read_parquet(DATA / "target_users.parquet")
    targets = set(targets_frame.uid.astype(int))
    eligibility = CandidateSet(DATA / "validation_eligible_candidates.npz")
    graded = validation_truth(eligibility, targets)

    if len(sys.argv) != 2:
        raise SystemExit(
            "usage: evaluate_public.py <validation-ranking.parquet|csv>"
        )
    path = Path(sys.argv[1])
    ranked = load_submission(path, eligibility, targets)
    print(json.dumps({"model": str(path), "scores": score(ranked, graded)}, indent=2))


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()
"""Shared public primitives for Yambda discovery-ranking evaluation.

Both the solver-visible validation evaluator and the private submission judge
import this module from the generated task's ``public`` directory. It owns the
stage-independent contract: reading a ranking, validating its shape, converting
it to per-user rank order, looking up packed candidate eligibility, and
computing graded NDCG@10.

The module deliberately contains no event-derived labels, private artifact
paths, or pass thresholds. Each evaluator supplies its own relevance data and
per-cutoff eligibility checks around these common operations.
"""
from __future__ import annotations

from pathlib import Path

import numpy as np
import pandas as pd


__all__ = [
    "CandidateSet",
    "QUALITY_K",
    "RankingValidationError",
    "REQUIRED_COLUMNS",
    "TOP_N",
    "ndcg_at_k",
    "ranked_items",
    "read_ranking",
    "score_rankings",
    "validate_ranking",
]

TOP_N = 100
QUALITY_K = 10
REQUIRED_COLUMNS = ("uid", "item_id", "rank")


class RankingValidationError(ValueError):
    """Report a ranking-schema or structural-contract violation."""


class CandidateSet:
    """Provide membership lookups over one packed candidate-set archive.

    The archive contains aligned ``uids``, ``item_ids``, and
    ``packed_eligible`` arrays. Candidate column ``c`` is represented by bit
    ``c % 8`` of byte ``c // 8`` using little-endian bit order. Arrays are
    copied into memory so they remain valid after the archive is closed.
    """

    def __init__(self, path: Path):
        """Load an eligibility archive and build ID-to-position indexes.

        Args:
            path: Path to a ``.npz`` archive with the candidate-set schema.
        """
        with np.load(path, allow_pickle=False) as artifact:
            self.uids = artifact["uids"].astype(np.int64, copy=True)
            self.item_ids = artifact["item_ids"].astype(np.int64, copy=True)
            self.packed = artifact["packed_eligible"].astype(np.uint8, copy=True)
        self.uid_row = {int(uid): row for row, uid in enumerate(self.uids)}
        self.item_column = {
            int(item): column for column, item in enumerate(self.item_ids)
        }

    def is_eligible(self, uid: int, item_id: int) -> bool:
        """Return whether ``item_id`` is eligible for ``uid``.

        IDs absent from the target-user or candidate-item arrays are treated as
        ineligible rather than raising an exception.

        Args:
            uid: Target user ID to query.
            item_id: Candidate item ID to query.

        Returns:
            ``True`` only when the corresponding packed eligibility bit is set.
        """
        row = self.uid_row.get(int(uid))
        column = self.item_column.get(int(item_id))
        if row is None or column is None:
            return False
        byte, bit = divmod(column, 8)
        return bool((int(self.packed[row, byte]) >> bit) & 1)


def read_ranking(path: Path) -> pd.DataFrame:
    """Read a parquet or CSV ranking into a pandas frame.

    Args:
        path: Input path. A ``.parquet`` suffix selects parquet; every other
            suffix is interpreted as CSV.

    Returns:
        The ranking frame as loaded by pandas.
    """
    return pd.read_parquet(path) if path.suffix == ".parquet" else pd.read_csv(path)


def validate_ranking(
    frame: pd.DataFrame,
    targets: set[int],
) -> pd.DataFrame:
    """Normalize and validate the stage-independent ranking contract.

    Required values must be finite integers. The user set must exactly match
    ``targets``; every user must have 100 rows, distinct items, and each rank
    from 1 through 100 exactly once. Cutoff-specific candidate eligibility is
    intentionally left to the calling evaluator.

    Args:
        frame: Raw ranking frame. Extra columns are discarded from an internal
            copy; the caller's frame is not modified.
        targets: Exact set of target user IDs the ranking must cover.

    Returns:
        A normalized frame containing only the required ``int64`` columns.

    Raises:
        RankingValidationError: If the ranking violates the shared contract.
    """
    required = list(REQUIRED_COLUMNS)
    if not all(column in frame for column in required):
        raise RankingValidationError(f"submission requires columns {required}")

    normalized = frame[required].copy()
    for column in required:
        numeric = pd.to_numeric(normalized[column], errors="coerce")
        values = numeric.to_numpy(dtype=float)
        if numeric.isna().any() or not np.isfinite(values).all():
            raise RankingValidationError(
                f"submission {column} must be finite numeric values"
            )
        if not np.equal(numeric, np.floor(numeric)).all():
            raise RankingValidationError(
                f"submission {column} must contain integers"
            )
        normalized[column] = numeric.astype(np.int64)

    submitted_users = set(map(int, normalized.uid.unique()))
    if submitted_users != targets:
        raise RankingValidationError(
            f"submission user set mismatch: missing={len(targets - submitted_users)} "
            f"extra={len(submitted_users - targets)}"
        )
    counts = normalized.groupby("uid").size()
    if not (counts == TOP_N).all():
        raise RankingValidationError(
            f"submission must contain exactly {TOP_N} rows for every target user"
        )
    if normalized.duplicated(["uid", "item_id"]).any():
        raise RankingValidationError(
            "submission contains duplicate (uid, item_id) pairs"
        )
    valid_ranks = set(range(1, TOP_N + 1))
    ranks_are_valid = normalized.groupby("uid")["rank"].apply(
        lambda values: set(map(int, values)) == valid_ranks
    )
    if not ranks_are_valid.all():
        raise RankingValidationError(
            f"each user must have every rank from 1 through {TOP_N} exactly once"
        )
    return normalized


def ranked_items(frame: pd.DataFrame) -> dict[int, list[int]]:
    """Convert a validated ranking frame to ordered items keyed by user.

    Args:
        frame: Frame that has passed :func:`validate_ranking`.

    Returns:
        A ``uid -> item IDs`` mapping ordered by ascending rank.
    """
    ordered = frame.sort_values(["uid", "rank"])
    return {
        int(uid): list(map(int, values))
        for uid, values in ordered.groupby("uid").item_id
    }


def ndcg_at_k(ranked: list[int], gold: dict[int, int], k: int) -> float:
    """Compute graded normalized discounted cumulative gain at ``k``.

    Relevance gain is ``2**grade - 1`` and the discount at one-based rank
    ``r`` is ``1 / log2(r + 1)``. Items absent from ``gold`` have grade zero.

    Args:
        ranked: Item IDs in predicted rank order.
        gold: Mapping from relevant item IDs to integer relevance grades.
        k: Maximum number of predicted positions to score.

    Returns:
        For a valid duplicate-free ranking, NDCG in ``[0, 1]``; returns
        ``0.0`` when the ideal gain is zero.
    """
    gains = np.asarray([gold.get(item, 0) for item in ranked[:k]], dtype=np.float64)
    discounts = 1.0 / np.log2(np.arange(2, len(gains) + 2))
    dcg = float(np.sum((np.power(2.0, gains) - 1.0) * discounts))
    ideal = np.asarray(sorted(gold.values(), reverse=True)[:k], dtype=np.float64)
    ideal_discounts = 1.0 / np.log2(np.arange(2, len(ideal) + 2))
    idcg = float(np.sum((np.power(2.0, ideal) - 1.0) * ideal_discounts))
    return dcg / idcg if idcg else 0.0


def score_rankings(
    ranked: dict[int, list[int]],
    graded: dict[int, dict[int, int]],
) -> dict[str, float | int]:
    """Aggregate per-user NDCG@10 over users with relevance labels.

    Args:
        ranked: Ranked item IDs for every target user.
        graded: Relevant item grades keyed by user and item.

    Returns:
        The six-decimal ``quality_ndcg@10`` value and number of scored users.
    """
    quality = float(
        np.mean(
            [
                ndcg_at_k(ranked[uid], gold, QUALITY_K)
                for uid, gold in graded.items()
            ]
        )
    )
    return {
        "quality_ndcg@10": round(quality, 6),
        "quality_users": len(graded),
    }
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      "description": "Launch a new agent to handle complex, multi-step tasks. Each agent type has specific capabilities and tools available to it.\n\nAvailable agent types are listed in <system-reminder> messages in the conversation.\n\nWhen using the Agent tool, specify a subagent_type parameter to select which agent type to use. If omitted, the general-purpose agent is used.\n\n## When to use\n\nReach for this when the task matches an available agent type, when you have independent work to run in parallel, or when answering would mean reading across several files — delegate it and you keep the conclusion, not the file dumps. For a single-fact lookup where you already know the file, symbol, or value, search directly. Once you've delegated a search, don't also run it yourself — wait for the result.\n\n- The agent's final report is not shown to the user — relay what matters.\n- Use SendMessage with the agent's ID or name to continue a previously spawned agent with its context intact; a new Agent call starts fresh.\n- Each agent type's model, reasoning effort, and tools come from its definition (`.claude/agents/*.md` frontmatter or SDK `agents`).\n- `isolation: \"worktree\"` gives the agent its own git worktree (auto-cleaned if unchanged).\n- Subagents run in the background by default; you'll be notified when one completes. Pass `run_in_background: false` only when your very next action depends on the result and nothing else could usefully happen while it runs — otherwise background it so the user can interject. Never fabricate or predict a pending agent's results — the notification is never something you write yourself; if the user asks before it arrives, say it's still running.",
      "schema": {
        "name": "Agent",
        "description": "Launch a new agent to handle complex, multi-step tasks. Each agent type has specific capabilities and tools available to it.\n\nAvailable agent types are listed in <system-reminder> messages in the conversation.\n\nWhen using the Agent tool, specify a subagent_type parameter to select which agent type to use. If omitted, the general-purpose agent is used.\n\n## When to use\n\nReach for this when the task matches an available agent type, when you have independent work to run in parallel, or when answering would mean reading across several files — delegate it and you keep the conclusion, not the file dumps. For a single-fact lookup where you already know the file, symbol, or value, search directly. Once you've delegated a search, don't also run it yourself — wait for the result.\n\n- The agent's final report is not shown to the user — relay what matters.\n- Use SendMessage with the agent's ID or name to continue a previously spawned agent with its context intact; a new Agent call starts fresh.\n- Each agent type's model, reasoning effort, and tools come from its definition (`.claude/agents/*.md` frontmatter or SDK `agents`).\n- `isolation: \"worktree\"` gives the agent its own git worktree (auto-cleaned if unchanged).\n- Subagents run in the background by default; you'll be notified when one completes. Pass `run_in_background: false` only when your very next action depends on the result and nothing else could usefully happen while it runs — otherwise background it so the user can interject. Never fabricate or predict a pending agent's results — the notification is never something you write yourself; if the user asks before it arrives, say it's still running.",
        "input_schema": {
          "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "description": {
              "description": "A short (3-5 word) description of the task",
              "type": "string"
            },
            "prompt": {
              "description": "The task for the agent to perform",
              "type": "string"
            },
            "subagent_type": {
              "description": "The type of specialized agent to use for this task",
              "type": "string"
            },
            "model": {
              "description": "Optional model override for this agent. Takes precedence over the agent definition's model frontmatter and the configured default subagent model. If omitted, uses the agent definition's model, else the default (inherits from the parent unless a default subagent model is configured). Ignored for subagent_type: \"fork\" — forks always inherit the parent model.",
              "type": "string",
              "enum": [
                "sonnet",
                "opus",
                "haiku",
                "fable"
              ]
            },
            "run_in_background": {
              "description": "Agents run in the background by default; you will be notified when one completes. Set to false only when your very next action depends on this agent's result and nothing else could usefully happen while it runs — otherwise leave it in the background so the user can hand you other work.",
              "type": "boolean"
            },
            "isolation": {
              "description": "Isolation mode. \"worktree\" creates a temporary git worktree so the agent works on an isolated copy of the repo. \"remote\" launches the agent in a remote cloud environment (always runs in background; availability is gated).",
              "type": "string",
              "enum": [
                "worktree",
                "remote"
              ]
            }
          },
          "required": [
            "description",
            "prompt"
          ],
          "additionalProperties": false
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "Bash",
      "description": "Executes a bash command and returns its output.\n\n- Working directory persists between calls, but prefer absolute paths — `cd` in a compound command can trigger a permission prompt. Shell state (env vars, functions) does not persist; the shell is initialized from the user's profile.\n- Command output is displayed to you, not reliably to the user.\n- `timeout` is in milliseconds: default 120000, max 600000 for a foreground command.\n- `run_in_background` runs the command detached: it keeps running across turns and re-invokes you when it exits. With it, `timeout` is how long the command may run in the background (default 1800000, max 7200000); at that limit it is stopped and you are re-invoked. No `&` needed.\n\n# Git\n- Interactive flags (`-i`, e.g. `git rebase -i`, `git add -i`) are not supported in this environment.\n- Use the `gh` CLI for GitHub operations (PRs, issues, API).\n- Commit or push only when the user asks. If on the default branch, branch first.\n- End git commit messages and PR bodies with the attribution lines given in the conversation's system-reminder, when one is present.",
      "schema": {
        "name": "Bash",
        "description": "Executes a bash command and returns its output.\n\n- Working directory persists between calls, but prefer absolute paths — `cd` in a compound command can trigger a permission prompt. Shell state (env vars, functions) does not persist; the shell is initialized from the user's profile.\n- Command output is displayed to you, not reliably to the user.\n- `timeout` is in milliseconds: default 120000, max 600000 for a foreground command.\n- `run_in_background` runs the command detached: it keeps running across turns and re-invokes you when it exits. With it, `timeout` is how long the command may run in the background (default 1800000, max 7200000); at that limit it is stopped and you are re-invoked. No `&` needed.\n\n# Git\n- Interactive flags (`-i`, e.g. `git rebase -i`, `git add -i`) are not supported in this environment.\n- Use the `gh` CLI for GitHub operations (PRs, issues, API).\n- Commit or push only when the user asks. If on the default branch, branch first.\n- End git commit messages and PR bodies with the attribution lines given in the conversation's system-reminder, when one is present.",
        "input_schema": {
          "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "command": {
              "description": "The command to execute",
              "type": "string"
            },
            "timeout": {
              "description": "Optional timeout in milliseconds (max 600000 for a foreground command)",
              "type": "number"
            },
            "description": {
              "description": "Clear, concise description of what this command does in active voice. Never use words like \"complex\" or \"risk\" in the description - just describe what it does.\n\nSay what the command does in plain words: do not echo the command's text, its flags, or file paths - the user reads this description, often without seeing the command.\n\nFor simple commands (git, npm, standard CLI tools), keep it brief (5-10 words):\n- ls → \"List files in current directory\"\n- git status → \"Show working tree status\"\n- npm install → \"Install package dependencies\"\n\nFor commands that are harder to parse at a glance (piped commands, obscure flags, etc.), add enough context to clarify what it does:\n- find . -name \"*.tmp\" -exec rm {} \\; → \"Find and delete all .tmp files recursively\"\n- git reset --hard origin/main → \"Discard all local changes and match remote main\"\n- curl -s url | jq '.data[]' → \"Fetch JSON from URL and extract data array elements\"",
              "type": "string"
            },
            "run_in_background": {
              "description": "Set to true to run this command in the background. With it, `timeout` limits how long the command may run in the background before it is stopped (default 1800000 ms, max 7200000 ms).",
              "type": "boolean"
            },
            "dangerouslyDisableSandbox": {
              "description": "Set this to true to dangerously override sandbox mode and run commands without sandboxing.",
              "type": "boolean"
            }
          },
          "required": [
            "command"
          ],
          "additionalProperties": false
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "Edit",
      "description": "Performs exact string replacement in a file.\n\n- You must Read the file in this conversation before editing, or the call will fail.\n- `old_string` must match the file exactly, including indentation, and be unique — the edit fails otherwise. Strip the Read line prefix (line number + tab) before matching.\n- `replace_all: true` replaces every occurrence instead.",
      "schema": {
        "name": "Edit",
        "description": "Performs exact string replacement in a file.\n\n- You must Read the file in this conversation before editing, or the call will fail.\n- `old_string` must match the file exactly, including indentation, and be unique — the edit fails otherwise. Strip the Read line prefix (line number + tab) before matching.\n- `replace_all: true` replaces every occurrence instead.",
        "input_schema": {
          "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "file_path": {
              "description": "The absolute path to the file to modify",
              "type": "string"
            },
            "old_string": {
              "description": "The text to replace",
              "type": "string"
            },
            "new_string": {
              "description": "The text to replace it with (must be different from old_string)",
              "type": "string"
            },
            "replace_all": {
              "description": "Replace all occurrences of old_string (default false)",
              "default": false,
              "type": "boolean"
            }
          },
          "required": [
            "file_path",
            "old_string",
            "new_string"
          ],
          "additionalProperties": false
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "ListAgents",
      "description": "Lists agents you can SendMessage to — in-process subagents you spawned, the teammates on your team, other local Claude sessions on this machine, your Claude sessions running in the cloud (when this session has cloud access; a cloud session receives your message but cannot message any session back yet — do not ask it to reply, read its answer in its own transcript), and (when Remote Control is connected here) your account's other sessions — Remote Control sessions on other machines and cloud sessions, each row labeled by kind. Names are the address: send with `SendMessage({to: \"<name>\", message: \"...\"})`, copying the name exactly as a row prints it. Append a row's ` [ref]` only when the bare name is not enough — two rows share it, or an error asks you to disambiguate.",
      "schema": {
        "name": "ListAgents",
        "description": "Lists agents you can SendMessage to — in-process subagents you spawned, the teammates on your team, other local Claude sessions on this machine, your Claude sessions running in the cloud (when this session has cloud access; a cloud session receives your message but cannot message any session back yet — do not ask it to reply, read its answer in its own transcript), and (when Remote Control is connected here) your account's other sessions — Remote Control sessions on other machines and cloud sessions, each row labeled by kind. Names are the address: send with `SendMessage({to: \"<name>\", message: \"...\"})`, copying the name exactly as a row prints it. Append a row's ` [ref]` only when the bare name is not enough — two rows share it, or an error asks you to disambiguate.",
        "input_schema": {
          "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "channel": {
              "description": "Not available in this build; leave unset.",
              "type": "string",
              "maxLength": 256
            },
            "q": {
              "description": "Not available in this build; leave unset.",
              "type": "string",
              "maxLength": 256
            }
          },
          "additionalProperties": false
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "Read",
      "description": "Reads a file from the local filesystem.\n\n- `file_path` must be an absolute path.\n- Reads up to 2000 lines by default.\n- When you already know which part of the file you need, only read that part. This can be important for larger files.\n- Results are returned using cat -n format, with line numbers starting at 1\n- Reads images (PNG, JPG, …) and presents them visually. Reads PDFs via the `pages` parameter (e.g. \"1-5\", max 20 pages/request; required for PDFs over 10 pages). Reads Jupyter notebooks (.ipynb) as cells with outputs.\n- Reading a directory, a missing file, or an empty file returns an error or system reminder rather than content.\n- Do NOT re-read a file you just edited to verify — Edit/Write would have errored if the change failed, and the harness tracks file state for you.",
      "schema": {
        "name": "Read",
        "description": "Reads a file from the local filesystem.\n\n- `file_path` must be an absolute path.\n- Reads up to 2000 lines by default.\n- When you already know which part of the file you need, only read that part. This can be important for larger files.\n- Results are returned using cat -n format, with line numbers starting at 1\n- Reads images (PNG, JPG, …) and presents them visually. Reads PDFs via the `pages` parameter (e.g. \"1-5\", max 20 pages/request; required for PDFs over 10 pages). Reads Jupyter notebooks (.ipynb) as cells with outputs.\n- Reading a directory, a missing file, or an empty file returns an error or system reminder rather than content.\n- Do NOT re-read a file you just edited to verify — Edit/Write would have errored if the change failed, and the harness tracks file state for you.",
        "input_schema": {
          "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "file_path": {
              "description": "The absolute path to the file to read",
              "type": "string"
            },
            "offset": {
              "description": "The line number to start reading from. Only provide if the file is too large to read at once",
              "type": "integer",
              "minimum": 0,
              "maximum": 9007199254740991
            },
            "limit": {
              "description": "The number of lines to read. Only provide if the file is too large to read at once.",
              "type": "integer",
              "exclusiveMinimum": 0,
              "maximum": 9007199254740991
            },
            "pages": {
              "description": "Page range for PDF files (e.g., \"1-5\", \"3\", \"10-20\"). Only applicable to PDF files. Maximum 20 pages per request.",
              "type": "string"
            }
          },
          "required": [
            "file_path"
          ],
          "additionalProperties": false
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "ReportFindings",
      "description": "Report code-review findings as a typed list so the host UI can render them. Use this only when the active code-review instructions tell you to report findings with this tool; otherwise follow whatever output format those instructions specify. When reporting a review's results, call it once with the verified findings ranked most-severe first (empty array if nothing survived verification) and do not also print the findings as text. When re-reporting after applying fixes (only if the apply instructions ask for it), set `outcome` on each finding to what actually happened.",
      "schema": {
        "name": "ReportFindings",
        "description": "Report code-review findings as a typed list so the host UI can render them. Use this only when the active code-review instructions tell you to report findings with this tool; otherwise follow whatever output format those instructions specify. When reporting a review's results, call it once with the verified findings ranked most-severe first (empty array if nothing survived verification) and do not also print the findings as text. When re-reporting after applying fixes (only if the apply instructions ask for it), set `outcome` on each finding to what actually happened.",
        "input_schema": {
          "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "level": {
              "description": "Effort level the review ran at",
              "type": "string",
              "enum": [
                "low",
                "medium",
                "high",
                "xhigh",
                "max"
              ]
            },
            "findings": {
              "description": "Verified findings, most-severe first; empty if none survived",
              "maxItems": 32,
              "type": "array",
              "items": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                  "file": {
                    "description": "Repo-relative path of the file the finding is in",
                    "type": "string"
                  },
                  "line": {
                    "description": "1-indexed line the finding anchors to",
                    "type": "integer",
                    "minimum": -9007199254740991,
                    "maximum": 9007199254740991
                  },
                  "summary": {
                    "description": "One-sentence statement of the defect",
                    "type": "string"
                  },
                  "short_summary": {
                    "description": "Compressed label for compact UI (≤60 chars): the claim alone, no rationale or consequence clause",
                    "type": "string",
                    "maxLength": 60
                  },
                  "failure_scenario": {
                    "description": "Concrete inputs/state → wrong output/crash",
                    "type": "string"
                  },
                  "category": {
                    "description": "Short kebab-case slug of the finding type, e.g. \"correctness\", \"simplification\", \"efficiency\", \"test-coverage\"",
                    "type": "string",
                    "maxLength": 40
                  },
                  "verdict": {
                    "description": "Set when a verify pass ran; absent on inline-only reviews",
                    "type": "string",
                    "enum": [
                      "CONFIRMED",
                      "PLAUSIBLE"
                    ]
                  },
                  "outcome": {
                    "description": "Set ONLY when re-reporting after applying fixes: what happened to this finding",
                    "type": "string",
                    "enum": [
                      "fixed",
                      "skipped",
                      "no_change_needed"
                    ]
                  }
                },
                "required": [
                  "file",
                  "summary",
                  "failure_scenario"
                ],
                "additionalProperties": false
              }
            }
          },
          "required": [
            "findings"
          ],
          "additionalProperties": false
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "ScheduleWakeup",
      "description": "Schedule when to resume work in /loop dynamic mode — the user invoked /loop without an interval, asking you to self-pace iterations of a specific task.\n\nDo NOT schedule a short-interval wakeup to poll for background work you started — when harness-tracked work finishes, you are re-invoked automatically, so polling is wasted. Instead schedule a long fallback (1200s+) so the loop survives if the work hangs or never notifies. The exception is external work the harness cannot track (a CI run, a deploy, a remote queue) — there, pick a delay matched to how fast that state actually changes.\n\nPass the same /loop prompt back via `prompt` each turn so the next firing repeats the task. For an autonomous /loop (no user prompt), pass the literal sentinel `<<autonomous-loop-dynamic>>` as `prompt` instead — the runtime resolves it back to the autonomous-loop instructions at fire time. (There is a similar `<<autonomous-loop>>` sentinel for CronCreate-based autonomous loops; do not confuse the two — ScheduleWakeup always uses the `-dynamic` variant.) To end the loop, call this tool with `stop: true` (omit every other field) — the loop ends immediately and no further wakeups fire.\n\nSet `noop: true` if nothing changed — you checked and there's nothing to report (\"no change\", \"still waiting\", \"quiet hold\"). Set `noop: false` if something happened worth keeping — you edited a file, posted a message, advanced state, or surfaced a finding. Consecutive `noop: true` ticks are collapsed in the user's terminal view and tracked as a streak, so long quiet holds stay legible to the user without scrolling. Omit `noop` when stopping (`stop: true`).\n\n## Picking delaySeconds\n\nThis session's requests use a 1-hour Anthropic prompt-cache TTL, so effectively every allowed delay (the runtime clamps to [60, 3600]) wakes up with your conversation context still cached. There is no cache cliff inside that range to pace around, and scheduling extra wakeups just to keep the cache warm is pure waste — never do that. (If the session enters usage overage, later requests drop to the 5-minute TTL; don't try to track or preempt that — the guidance here stays the same.)\n\nMatch the delay to what you're actually waiting for:\n\n- **Actively polling external state the harness can't notify you about** (a CI run, a deploy, a remote queue): pick the delay from how fast that state actually changes. A CI run that takes ~8 minutes deserves one ~480s check, not eight 60s ones.\n- **The long fallback heartbeat** (something else — a Monitor, a task notification — is the primary wake signal): 1200s+, so quiet wakeups stay rare.\n- **Idle ticks with no specific signal to watch**: default to **1200s–1800s** (20–30 min). The loop still checks back regularly, and the user can always interrupt if they need you sooner.\n\nDon't think in cache windows — think about what you're actually waiting for.\n\n## The reason field\n\nOne short sentence on what you chose and why. Goes to telemetry and is shown back to the user. \"watching CI run\" beats \"waiting.\" The user reads this to understand what you're doing without having to predict your cadence in advance — make it specific.\n",
      "schema": {
        "name": "ScheduleWakeup",
        "description": "Schedule when to resume work in /loop dynamic mode — the user invoked /loop without an interval, asking you to self-pace iterations of a specific task.\n\nDo NOT schedule a short-interval wakeup to poll for background work you started — when harness-tracked work finishes, you are re-invoked automatically, so polling is wasted. Instead schedule a long fallback (1200s+) so the loop survives if the work hangs or never notifies. The exception is external work the harness cannot track (a CI run, a deploy, a remote queue) — there, pick a delay matched to how fast that state actually changes.\n\nPass the same /loop prompt back via `prompt` each turn so the next firing repeats the task. For an autonomous /loop (no user prompt), pass the literal sentinel `<<autonomous-loop-dynamic>>` as `prompt` instead — the runtime resolves it back to the autonomous-loop instructions at fire time. (There is a similar `<<autonomous-loop>>` sentinel for CronCreate-based autonomous loops; do not confuse the two — ScheduleWakeup always uses the `-dynamic` variant.) To end the loop, call this tool with `stop: true` (omit every other field) — the loop ends immediately and no further wakeups fire.\n\nSet `noop: true` if nothing changed — you checked and there's nothing to report (\"no change\", \"still waiting\", \"quiet hold\"). Set `noop: false` if something happened worth keeping — you edited a file, posted a message, advanced state, or surfaced a finding. Consecutive `noop: true` ticks are collapsed in the user's terminal view and tracked as a streak, so long quiet holds stay legible to the user without scrolling. Omit `noop` when stopping (`stop: true`).\n\n## Picking delaySeconds\n\nThis session's requests use a 1-hour Anthropic prompt-cache TTL, so effectively every allowed delay (the runtime clamps to [60, 3600]) wakes up with your conversation context still cached. There is no cache cliff inside that range to pace around, and scheduling extra wakeups just to keep the cache warm is pure waste — never do that. (If the session enters usage overage, later requests drop to the 5-minute TTL; don't try to track or preempt that — the guidance here stays the same.)\n\nMatch the delay to what you're actually waiting for:\n\n- **Actively polling external state the harness can't notify you about** (a CI run, a deploy, a remote queue): pick the delay from how fast that state actually changes. A CI run that takes ~8 minutes deserves one ~480s check, not eight 60s ones.\n- **The long fallback heartbeat** (something else — a Monitor, a task notification — is the primary wake signal): 1200s+, so quiet wakeups stay rare.\n- **Idle ticks with no specific signal to watch**: default to **1200s–1800s** (20–30 min). The loop still checks back regularly, and the user can always interrupt if they need you sooner.\n\nDon't think in cache windows — think about what you're actually waiting for.\n\n## The reason field\n\nOne short sentence on what you chose and why. Goes to telemetry and is shown back to the user. \"watching CI run\" beats \"waiting.\" The user reads this to understand what you're doing without having to predict your cadence in advance — make it specific.\n",
        "input_schema": {
          "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "delaySeconds": {
              "description": "Seconds from now to wake up. Clamped to [60, 3600] by the runtime. Required unless `stop` is true.",
              "type": "number"
            },
            "reason": {
              "description": "One short sentence explaining the chosen delay. Goes to telemetry and is shown to the user. Be specific. Required unless `stop` is true.",
              "type": "string"
            },
            "prompt": {
              "description": "The /loop input to fire on wake-up. Pass the same /loop input verbatim each turn so the next firing re-enters the skill and continues the loop. For autonomous /loop (no user prompt), pass the literal sentinel `<<autonomous-loop-dynamic>>` instead (the dynamic-pacing variant, not the CronCreate-mode `<<autonomous-loop>>`). Required unless `stop` is true.",
              "type": "string"
            },
            "stop": {
              "description": "Set to true to end the dynamic loop immediately instead of scheduling another wakeup. When true, all other fields are ignored and no further wakeups fire.",
              "type": "boolean"
            },
            "noop": {
              "description": "true = nothing changed (you checked and there is nothing to report). false = something happened worth keeping (edited a file, posted a message, advanced state, surfaced a finding). Consecutive noop:true ticks are collapsed in the user's terminal view and tracked as a streak. Required unless `stop` is true.",
              "type": "boolean"
            }
          },
          "additionalProperties": false
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "Skill",
      "description": "Invoke a skill.\n\nA skill is a packaged set of instructions the user or project has set up for a particular kind of task (deploy steps, a review checklist, a repo-specific workflow). Available skills appear in a system-reminder listing with one-line descriptions. When the task at hand is one a listed skill covers, call this tool first — the skill's instructions load into the turn for you to follow in place of your default approach; some skills instead run in a subagent and return the finished result. A skill that runs in the background returns only the agent's name — its result arrives later as a task notification, so don't wait on it or invoke it again in the meantime. Users may also ask for one by name (`/<name>`, or \"slash command\"); that's a request to invoke it.\n\n- `skill`: exact name from the listing, no leading slash. Plugin skills use `plugin:skill`. Directory-scoped skills are listed with a path prefix (`apps/web:deploy`); when both scoped and unscoped variants of a name exist, pick the one whose directory contains the files you're working on (most specific wins; unscoped otherwise).\n- `args`: optional arguments to pass through.\n\nOnly names from the listing (or that the user typed explicitly) are valid. Built-in CLI commands (`/help`, `/clear`, …) aren't skills. If a `<command-name>` block is already present this turn, the skill is loaded — follow it directly rather than calling again.\n",
      "schema": {
        "name": "Skill",
        "description": "Invoke a skill.\n\nA skill is a packaged set of instructions the user or project has set up for a particular kind of task (deploy steps, a review checklist, a repo-specific workflow). Available skills appear in a system-reminder listing with one-line descriptions. When the task at hand is one a listed skill covers, call this tool first — the skill's instructions load into the turn for you to follow in place of your default approach; some skills instead run in a subagent and return the finished result. A skill that runs in the background returns only the agent's name — its result arrives later as a task notification, so don't wait on it or invoke it again in the meantime. Users may also ask for one by name (`/<name>`, or \"slash command\"); that's a request to invoke it.\n\n- `skill`: exact name from the listing, no leading slash. Plugin skills use `plugin:skill`. Directory-scoped skills are listed with a path prefix (`apps/web:deploy`); when both scoped and unscoped variants of a name exist, pick the one whose directory contains the files you're working on (most specific wins; unscoped otherwise).\n- `args`: optional arguments to pass through.\n\nOnly names from the listing (or that the user typed explicitly) are valid. Built-in CLI commands (`/help`, `/clear`, …) aren't skills. If a `<command-name>` block is already present this turn, the skill is loaded — follow it directly rather than calling again.\n",
        "input_schema": {
          "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "skill": {
              "description": "The name of a skill from the available-skills list. Do not guess names.",
              "type": "string"
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            "args": {
              "description": "Optional arguments for the skill",
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          "required": [
            "skill"
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        }
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    },
    {
      "name": "ToolSearch",
      "description": "Fetches full schema definitions for deferred tools so they can be called.\n\nDeferred tools appear by name in <system-reminder> messages. Until fetched, only the name is known — there is no parameter schema, so the tool cannot be invoked. This tool takes a query, matches it against the deferred tool list, and returns the matched tools' complete JSONSchema definitions inside a <functions> block. Once a tool's schema appears in that result, it is callable exactly like any tool defined at the top of the prompt.\n\nResult format: each matched tool appears as one <function>{\"description\": \"...\", \"name\": \"...\", \"parameters\": {...}}</function> line inside the <functions> block — the same encoding as the tool list at the top of this prompt.\n\nQuery forms:\n- \"select:Read,Edit,Grep\" — fetch these exact tools by name\n- \"notebook jupyter\" — keyword search, up to max_results best matches\n- \"+slack send\" — require \"slack\" in the name, rank by remaining terms",
      "schema": {
        "name": "ToolSearch",
        "description": "Fetches full schema definitions for deferred tools so they can be called.\n\nDeferred tools appear by name in <system-reminder> messages. Until fetched, only the name is known — there is no parameter schema, so the tool cannot be invoked. This tool takes a query, matches it against the deferred tool list, and returns the matched tools' complete JSONSchema definitions inside a <functions> block. Once a tool's schema appears in that result, it is callable exactly like any tool defined at the top of the prompt.\n\nResult format: each matched tool appears as one <function>{\"description\": \"...\", \"name\": \"...\", \"parameters\": {...}}</function> line inside the <functions> block — the same encoding as the tool list at the top of this prompt.\n\nQuery forms:\n- \"select:Read,Edit,Grep\" — fetch these exact tools by name\n- \"notebook jupyter\" — keyword search, up to max_results best matches\n- \"+slack send\" — require \"slack\" in the name, rank by remaining terms",
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      "name": "Workflow",
      "description": "Execute a workflow script that orchestrates multiple subagents deterministically. Workflows run in the background — this tool returns immediately with a task ID, and a <task-notification> arrives when the workflow completes. Use /workflows to watch live progress.\n\nONLY call this tool when the user has explicitly opted into multi-agent orchestration. Workflows can spawn dozens of agents and consume a large amount of tokens; the user must request that scale, not have it inferred. Explicit opt-in means one of:\n- The user included the keyword \"ultracode\" in their prompt (you'll see a system-reminder confirming it).\n- Ultracode is on for the session (a system-reminder confirms it) — see **Ultracode** in the workflow authoring reference.\n- The user directly asked you to run a workflow or use multi-agent orchestration in their own words (\"use a workflow\", \"run a workflow\", \"fan out agents\", \"orchestrate this with subagents\"). The ask must be in the user's words — a task that would merely benefit from a workflow does not count.\n- The user invoked a skill or slash command whose instructions tell you to call Workflow.\n- The user asked you to run a specific named or saved workflow.\n\nFor any other task — even one that would clearly benefit from parallelism — do NOT call this tool. Use the Agent tool (if available) for individual subagents, or briefly describe what a multi-agent workflow could do and how much it would roughly cost, and ask the user whether to run it. Mention they can ask for one with \"use a workflow\" in a future message to skip the ask.\n\nEvery script must begin with `export const meta = {...}`: a PURE LITERAL (no variables, calls or interpolation) giving the workflow's `name`, a one-line `description` (shown in the permission dialog) and optionally `phases` — one `{ title, detail? }` per phase() call, titles matched exactly. Pass the script inline via `script` — do not Write it to a file first, and do not also set the tool's `name` input (that selects a saved workflow); it is plain JavaScript, not TypeScript.\n\nThe canonical multi-stage pattern — pipeline by default, each dimension verifies as soon as its review completes:\n  export const meta = {\n    name: 'review-changes',\n    description: 'Review changed files across dimensions, verify each finding',\n    phases: [{ title: 'Review' }, { title: 'Verify' }],\n  }\n  const DIMENSIONS = [{key: 'bugs', prompt: '...'}, {key: 'perf', prompt: '...'}]\n  const results = await pipeline(\n    DIMENSIONS,\n    d => agent(d.prompt, {label: `review:${d.key}`, phase: 'Review', schema: FINDINGS_SCHEMA}),\n    review => parallel(review.findings.map(f => () =>\n      agent(`Adversarially verify: ${f.title}`, {label: `verify:${f.file}`, phase: 'Verify', schema: VERDICT_SCHEMA})\n        .then(v => ({...f, verdict: v}))\n    ))\n  )\n  const confirmed = results.flat().filter(Boolean).filter(f => f.verdict?.isReal)\n  return { confirmed }\n  // Dimension 'bugs' findings verify while dimension 'perf' is still reviewing. No wasted wall-clock.\n\nBefore writing a script, load the `workflow-authoring` skill — the workflow authoring reference: script API and gotchas, resume, the **Ultracode** section, quality patterns, worked examples.\n\nThis session has the default workflow size guideline: medium — keep workflows under 10 agents. This is a guideline, not a hard limit — follow it unless the user's prompt calls for a different scale. The user can raise or remove it with \"Dynamic workflow size\" in /config.",
      "schema": {
        "name": "Workflow",
        "description": "Execute a workflow script that orchestrates multiple subagents deterministically. Workflows run in the background — this tool returns immediately with a task ID, and a <task-notification> arrives when the workflow completes. Use /workflows to watch live progress.\n\nONLY call this tool when the user has explicitly opted into multi-agent orchestration. Workflows can spawn dozens of agents and consume a large amount of tokens; the user must request that scale, not have it inferred. Explicit opt-in means one of:\n- The user included the keyword \"ultracode\" in their prompt (you'll see a system-reminder confirming it).\n- Ultracode is on for the session (a system-reminder confirms it) — see **Ultracode** in the workflow authoring reference.\n- The user directly asked you to run a workflow or use multi-agent orchestration in their own words (\"use a workflow\", \"run a workflow\", \"fan out agents\", \"orchestrate this with subagents\"). The ask must be in the user's words — a task that would merely benefit from a workflow does not count.\n- The user invoked a skill or slash command whose instructions tell you to call Workflow.\n- The user asked you to run a specific named or saved workflow.\n\nFor any other task — even one that would clearly benefit from parallelism — do NOT call this tool. Use the Agent tool (if available) for individual subagents, or briefly describe what a multi-agent workflow could do and how much it would roughly cost, and ask the user whether to run it. Mention they can ask for one with \"use a workflow\" in a future message to skip the ask.\n\nEvery script must begin with `export const meta = {...}`: a PURE LITERAL (no variables, calls or interpolation) giving the workflow's `name`, a one-line `description` (shown in the permission dialog) and optionally `phases` — one `{ title, detail? }` per phase() call, titles matched exactly. Pass the script inline via `script` — do not Write it to a file first, and do not also set the tool's `name` input (that selects a saved workflow); it is plain JavaScript, not TypeScript.\n\nThe canonical multi-stage pattern — pipeline by default, each dimension verifies as soon as its review completes:\n  export const meta = {\n    name: 'review-changes',\n    description: 'Review changed files across dimensions, verify each finding',\n    phases: [{ title: 'Review' }, { title: 'Verify' }],\n  }\n  const DIMENSIONS = [{key: 'bugs', prompt: '...'}, {key: 'perf', prompt: '...'}]\n  const results = await pipeline(\n    DIMENSIONS,\n    d => agent(d.prompt, {label: `review:${d.key}`, phase: 'Review', schema: FINDINGS_SCHEMA}),\n    review => parallel(review.findings.map(f => () =>\n      agent(`Adversarially verify: ${f.title}`, {label: `verify:${f.file}`, phase: 'Verify', schema: VERDICT_SCHEMA})\n        .then(v => ({...f, verdict: v}))\n    ))\n  )\n  const confirmed = results.flat().filter(Boolean).filter(f => f.verdict?.isReal)\n  return { confirmed }\n  // Dimension 'bugs' findings verify while dimension 'perf' is still reviewing. No wasted wall-clock.\n\nBefore writing a script, load the `workflow-authoring` skill — the workflow authoring reference: script API and gotchas, resume, the **Ultracode** section, quality patterns, worked examples.\n\nThis session has the default workflow size guideline: medium — keep workflows under 10 agents. This is a guideline, not a hard limit — follow it unless the user's prompt calls for a different scale. The user can raise or remove it with \"Dynamic workflow size\" in /config.",
        "input_schema": {
          "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "script": {
              "description": "Self-contained workflow script. Must begin with `export const meta = { name, description, phases }` (pure literal, no computed values) followed by the script body using agent()/parallel()/pipeline()/phase().",
              "type": "string",
              "maxLength": 524288
            },
            "name": {
              "description": "Name of a predefined workflow (built-in or from .claude/workflows/). Resolves to a self-contained script.",
              "type": "string"
            },
            "description": {
              "description": "Ignored — set the workflow description in the script's `meta` block.",
              "type": "string"
            },
            "title": {
              "description": "Ignored — set the workflow title in the script's `meta` block.",
              "type": "string"
            },
            "args": {
              "description": "Optional input value exposed to the script as the global `args`, verbatim. Pass arrays/objects as actual JSON values, NOT as a JSON-encoded string — a stringified list breaks `args.filter`/`args.map` in the script. Use for parameterized named workflows (e.g. a research question)."
            },
            "scriptPath": {
              "description": "Path to a workflow script file on disk. Every Workflow invocation persists its script under the session directory and returns the path in the tool result. To iterate, edit that file with Write/Edit and re-invoke Workflow with the same `scriptPath` instead of re-sending the full script. Takes precedence over `script` and `name`.",
              "type": "string"
            },
            "resumeFromRunId": {
              "description": "Run ID of a prior Workflow invocation to resume from. Completed agent() calls with unchanged (prompt, opts) return their cached results instantly; only edited or new calls re-run. Same-session only. Stop the prior run first (TaskStop) before resuming.",
              "type": "string",
              "pattern": "^wf_[a-z0-9-]{6,}$"
            }
          },
          "additionalProperties": false
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "Write",
      "description": "Writes a file to the local filesystem, overwriting if one exists.\n\nWhen to use: creating a new file, or fully replacing one you've already Read. Overwriting an existing file you haven't Read will fail. For partial changes, use Edit instead.",
      "schema": {
        "name": "Write",
        "description": "Writes a file to the local filesystem, overwriting if one exists.\n\nWhen to use: creating a new file, or fully replacing one you've already Read. Overwriting an existing file you haven't Read will fail. For partial changes, use Edit instead.",
        "input_schema": {
          "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "file_path": {
              "description": "The absolute path to the file to write (must be absolute, not relative)",
              "type": "string"
            },
            "content": {
              "description": "The content to write to the file",
              "type": "string"
            }
          },
          "required": [
            "file_path",
            "content"
          ],
          "additionalProperties": false
        }
      }
    }
  ],
  "cliPrefix": "You are a Claude agent, built on Anthropic's Claude Agent SDK.",
  "reminderFold": false,
  "systemTurns": true,
  "toolChangeHeader": true,
  "inlineTools": false,
  "keptReminders": true,
  "echoWireToolInputs": false,
  "contextRendering": "announced"
}
Harness context total tokens reminder
{
  "type": "total_tokens_reminder",
  "text": "<total_tokens>14980374 tokens left</total_tokens>"
}
Harness context batching reminder sent
{
  "type": "batching_reminder_sent",
  "text": "First privately list what you need next; then request every item that doesn't depend on another's result in this one response.",
  "model": "claude-fable-5-1",
  "clearAt": "next_user_message"
}
03

Inspect data shapes, columns, and basic statistics

+00:17
Tool callBashInspect data shapes, columns, and basic statistics Returned

Tool call · Input

mkdir -p solution && python -c "
import pandas as pd, numpy as np
D='/task/data/'
for f in ['candidate_catalog','target_users','validation_preference_state','test_preference_state','train_likes','val_likes','train_dislikes','val_listens']:
    df=pd.read_parquet(D+f+'.parquet'); print(f, df.shape); print(df.head(3)); print(df.dtypes.to_dict())
tl=pd.read_parquet(D+'train_listens.parquet', columns=['uid','timestamp','item_id','is_organic','played_ratio_pct'])
print('train_listens', tl.shape, tl.timestamp.min(), tl.timestamp.max(), tl.uid.nunique(), tl.item_id.nunique())
print(tl.is_organic.mean(), (tl.played_ratio_pct>=80).mean(), (tl.played_ratio_pct>=50).mean())
vl=pd.read_parquet(D+'val_listens.parquet'); print('val', vl.timestamp.min(), vl.timestamp.max(), vl.uid.nunique())
z=np.load(D+'validation_eligible_candidates.npz'); print({k:z[k].shape for k in z}); 
m=np.unpackbits(z['packed_eligible'],axis=1,count=len(z['item_ids']),bitorder='little'); print('elig per user', m.sum(1).mean(), m.sum(1).min(), m.sum(1).max())
z2=np.load(D+'test_eligible_candidates.npz'); m2=np.unpackbits(z2['packed_eligible'],axis=1,count=len(z2['item_ids']),bitorder='little'); print('test elig', m2.sum(1).mean())
cat=pd.read_parquet(D+'candidate_catalog.parquet'); print(cat.columns.tolist())
tu=pd.read_parquet(D+'target_users.parquet'); print(len(tu))
# how many validation positives are in catalog
catset=set(cat.item_id); print('val organic likes in catalog', vl[(vl.is_organic==1)&(vl.played_ratio_pct>=80)].item_id.isin(catset).mean())
# ineligible = already listened?
"

Tool response

candidate_catalog (30000, 4)
   item_id  positive_listens  organic_positive_listens  popularity_rank
0  5862961             26615                     20620                1
1  6901374             25536                     17347                2
2  5635052             24691                     17194                3
{'item_id': dtype('uint32'), 'positive_listens': dtype('int64'), 'organic_positive_listens': dtype('uint64'), 'popularity_rank': dtype('int32')}
target_users (8456, 3)
   uid  recent_positive_listens  history_positive_listens
0  100                    844.0                      2604
1  200                     50.0                       286
2  300                    168.0                       359
{'uid': dtype('uint32'), 'recent_positive_listens': dtype('float64'), 'history_positive_listens': dtype('int64')}
validation_preference_state (469124, 3)
   uid  item_id  state
0  100   410868  liked
1  100   732449  liked
2  100   982903  liked
{'uid': dtype('uint32'), 'item_id': dtype('uint32'), 'state': dtype('O')}
test_preference_state (484776, 3)
   uid  item_id  state
0  100   410868  liked
1  100   732449  liked
2  100   982903  liked
{'uid': dtype('uint32'), 'item_id': dtype('uint32'), 'state': dtype('O')}
train_likes (814831, 4)
   uid  timestamp  item_id  is_organic
0  100      44755   732449           1
1  100    1155860  6568592           0
2  100    1259125  5411243           1
{'uid': dtype('uint32'), 'timestamp': dtype('uint32'), 'item_id': dtype('uint32'), 'is_organic': dtype('uint8')}
val_likes (37795, 4)
   uid  timestamp  item_id  is_organic
0  100   25249855  3526521           1
1  300   25046245  4867327           1
2  300   25046970  2674136           1
{'uid': dtype('uint32'), 'timestamp': dtype('uint32'), 'item_id': dtype('uint32'), 'is_organic': dtype('uint8')}
train_dislikes (101075, 4)
   uid  timestamp  item_id  is_organic
0  100    3087560  9170134           1
1  100    3936560  8661238           1
2  100   20432825  4927727           1
{'uid': dtype('uint32'), 'timestamp': dtype('uint32'), 'item_id': dtype('uint32'), 'is_organic': dtype('uint8')}
val_listens (1501697, 6)
   uid  timestamp  item_id  is_organic  played_ratio_pct  track_length_seconds
0  100   24943430  9321269           0               100                   195
1  100   24943605  5452713           0               100                   175
2  100   24943765  6448777           0               100                   160
{'uid': dtype('uint32'), 'timestamp': dtype('uint32'), 'item_id': dtype('uint32'), 'is_organic': dtype('uint8'), 'played_ratio_pct': dtype('uint16'), 'track_length_seconds': dtype('uint32')}
train_listens (43484159, 5) 0 24786795 9238 845395
0.5169151828370419 0.5922891828263254 0.6324315712303417
val 24788600 25393395 8196
{'uids': (8456,), 'item_ids': (30000,), 'packed_eligible': (8456, 3750)}
elig per user 29067.306291390727 24657 30000
test elig 29041.3178807947
['item_id', 'positive_listens', 'organic_positive_listens', 'popularity_rank']
8456
val organic likes in catalog 0.683884593272243
Harness context total tokens reminder
{
  "type": "total_tokens_reminder",
  "text": "<total_tokens>14972624 tokens left</total_tokens>"
}
Harness context batching reminder sent
{
  "type": "batching_reminder_sent",
  "text": "First privately list what you need next; then request every item that doesn't depend on another's result in this one response.",
  "model": "claude-fable-5-1",
  "clearAt": "next_user_message"
}
04

Analyze eligibility semantics and validation relevance statistics

+00:51
Recorded reasoning 452 words

I should check what makes items eligible versus excluded—likely previously interacted items (listened/liked/disliked) are filtered out, which would explain the ~930 excluded items per user. I'm planning to start preprocessing: mapping the 30000 catalog items to indices and building per-user history.

History items may extend beyond the catalog itself (845k distinct items in train listens vs only 30k in catalog), so I need a separate larger embedding vocabulary for history items while the item tower only needs to cover the 30k candidates. I'm sketching the architecture: an item tower combining ID embeddings with features like popularity into an MLP, and a user tower that pools history embeddings with attention or weighted averaging, incorporating recency and event-type (listen/like/dislike) signals, trained via sampled softmax with in-batch negatives and log-Q correction, using organic positive interactions as training signal.

To mimic the real task structure, I'm considering a time-split within training data — using several weekly cutoffs (train_end minus 7, 14, 21, 28 days) where history is everything before the cutoff and positives are organic listens/likes on catalog items in the following 7-day window, excluding items already in the user's history to match eligibility rules. Per-example slicing by exact event timestamp would be more faithful but too costly computationally, so the window-based approach is the practical tradeoff given the remaining ~55 minutes of budget.

Loading the 43M-row listens file will take roughly 30 seconds, so I want to work efficiently — checking the eligibility definition (whether ineligible items are simply those already listened to in training, and what fraction of validation-relevant items were previously heard) while simultaneously writing the preprocessing script. For preprocessing, I'll load train listens with user id, timestamp, item id, organic flag, and played ratio, keep all ~9238 users since nearly all are targets, and restrict the item vocabulary to those with at least 20 positive listens (roughly 100k items), giving a manageable 6.4M-parameter embedding table at dimension 64.

For training, each example pairs a cutoff time with a user's weighted history (up to 200 recent distinct items with count, recency, and type weights) against their positive items, and since the catalog is only 30k items, I can compute a full softmax over the entire catalog per batch rather than sampling — it's cheap enough with a 512-user batch times a 64-dim embedding against 30k item vectors. I'd use multi-label cross-entropy summing log-softmax over all positives weighted by grade, and I'm considering masking ineligible history items out of the softmax at training time to match the eligibility rules.

Full softmax should also naturally account for popularity bias, so that's a bonus. Next I want to nail down the eligibility semantics precisely and get started on the prep script, running a quick analysis first.

Tool callBashAnalyze eligibility semantics and validation relevance statistics Returned

Tool call · Input

python -c "
import pandas as pd, numpy as np, time
D='/task/data/'
t=time.time()
tl=pd.read_parquet(D+'train_listens.parquet', columns=['uid','timestamp','item_id','is_organic','played_ratio_pct'])
print('load',time.time()-t)
z=np.load(D+'validation_eligible_candidates.npz'); items=z['item_ids']; uids=z['uids']
m=np.unpackbits(z['packed_eligible'],axis=1,count=len(items),bitorder='little').astype(bool)
col={int(i):c for c,i in enumerate(items)}
likes=pd.read_parquet(D+'train_likes.parquet'); dis=pd.read_parquet(D+'train_dislikes.parquet')
for r in range(3):
    u=uids[r]; inel=set(items[~m[r]])
    lu=tl[tl.uid==u]; 
    lset=set(lu.item_id); lpos=set(lu[lu.played_ratio_pct>=50].item_id); lk=set(likes[likes.uid==u].item_id); dk=set(dis[dis.uid==u].item_id)
    print(u,'inelig',len(inel),'cover by any listen',len(inel&lset),'by pos listen',len(inel&lpos),'by like',len(inel&lk),'dislike',len(inel&dk), 'union', len(inel&(lset|lk|dk)))
    print('  listened cat items that ARE eligible:', len((lset&set(items))-inel), 'poslistened eligible', len((lpos&set(items))-inel))
# val relevance stats
vl=pd.read_parquet(D+'val_listens.parquet'); vk=pd.read_parquet(D+'val_likes.parquet')
rel=pd.concat([vl[(vl.is_organic==1)&(vl.played_ratio_pct>=80)][['uid','item_id']], vk[vk.is_organic==1][['uid','item_id']]]).drop_duplicates()
rel=rel[rel.uid.isin(set(uids))&rel.item_id.isin(col)]
row={int(u):r for r,u in enumerate(uids)}
el=np.array([m[row[u],col[i]] for u,i in zip(rel.uid,rel.item_id)])
print('rel pairs',len(rel),'eligible frac',el.mean(),'users with rel',rel[el].uid.nunique(), 'per user', rel[el].groupby('uid').size().describe())
# were eligible relevant items previously listened at all by that user?
rel_e=rel[el]
prev=tl[tl.uid.isin(set(uids))][['uid','item_id']].drop_duplicates()
mg=rel_e.merge(prev,on=['uid','item_id'],how='left',indicator=True); print('eligible relevant previously listened frac', (mg._merge=='both').mean())
# popularity of relevant items
cat=pd.read_parquet(D+'candidate_catalog.parquet'); pr=dict(zip(cat.item_id,cat.popularity_rank))
print('pop rank of rel items', pd.Series([pr[i] for i in rel_e.item_id]).describe())
print('val non-organic listens frac', (vl.is_organic==0).mean())
"

Tool response

load 0.4815640449523926
100 inelig 682 cover by any listen 682 by pos listen 600 by like 13 dislike 2 union 682
  listened cat items that ARE eligible: 0 poslistened eligible 0
200 inelig 168 cover by any listen 168 by pos listen 163 by like 0 dislike 0 union 168
  listened cat items that ARE eligible: 0 poslistened eligible 0
300 inelig 69 cover by any listen 69 by pos listen 45 by like 3 dislike 0 union 69
  listened cat items that ARE eligible: 0 poslistened eligible 0
rel pairs 175729 eligible frac 0.2149275304588315 users with rel 4263 per user count    4263.000000
mean        8.859723
std        15.773444
min         1.000000
25%         2.000000
50%         4.000000
75%        10.000000
max       442.000000
dtype: float64
eligible relevant previously listened frac 0.0
pop rank of rel items count    37769.000000
mean      8463.087744
std       8117.953262
min          1.000000
25%       1733.000000
50%       5622.000000
75%      13374.000000
max      30000.000000
dtype: float64
val non-organic listens frac 0.48292764785439407
Harness context total tokens reminder
{
  "type": "total_tokens_reminder",
  "text": "<total_tokens>14968634 tokens left</total_tokens>"
}
Harness context batching reminder sent
{
  "type": "batching_reminder_sent",
  "text": "First privately list what you need next; then request every item that doesn't depend on another's result in this one response.",
  "model": "claude-fable-5-1",
  "clearAt": "next_user_message"
}
05

Write two-tower pipeline and run validation stage

+02:12
Recorded reasoning 624 words

Eligibility means catalog items the user never listened to before the cutoff, so this is pure discovery — about 4263 users have relevant items, averaging roughly 8.9 per user. I'm now sketching the pipeline: a prep script that loads train listens, likes, and dislikes (plus validation data for the final refit), then builds a history vocabulary of items indexed by listen count across all users, including the full catalog with index 0 reserved for padding.

Given the time constraint, I'm settling on a simpler design: each user's history is represented by up to 100 most recent positive items (listens over 50% or likes) with recency weights, plus up to 30 recent dislikes. The user tower embeds these into a table, computes attention weights from log-count and recency via a small MLP, pools positives and dislikes separately, concatenates them, and passes through an MLP to produce the final vector used for dot-product similarity search.

I'm planning the item tower as an embedding table combined with log-popularity features feeding into an MLP for a 64-dim output, and training with full softmax over the 30k catalog using grade-weighted positives masked against history. I'm setting training windows at weekly cutoffs going back six weeks to generate roughly 54k examples, plus figuring out validation and test splits where history accumulates up to each cutoff, and double-checking that timestamps are likely in seconds based on the max value in the training set.

For efficiency, I'm computing per-user, per-item recency and counts by sorting positive events by timestamp, dropping duplicates to get the most recent distinct items before each cutoff, and restricting history to strong positives (high-ratio listens and likes) within a vocabulary filtered to items with at least 10 occurrences.

I'm planning to keep user-tower and item-tower embeddings separate rather than shared, and write the full pipeline into a single twotower.py script with --stage val/--stage test modes, caching per-cutoff features to disk. Now I'm working out the exact event filtering logic per cutoff for building training history.

For each cutoff, I take history before the cutoff, rank items by recency per user, keep the top 150 slots, and encode features as log-count and log-age. For labeling the prediction window, I need to flag organic likes/listens in the next 7 days while excluding any item the user has ever listened to before — so I'm computing a first-listen timestamp per user-item pair to use as the eligibility filter.

Training examples pair each user's history slots with their sparse list of target items and grades, restricted to users with both history and targets, while validation scoring builds a user vector from pre-cutoff history and scores all catalog items masked by eligibility. For the model itself, I'm sketching an item tower combining an embedding with popularity features through an MLP, and a user tower that embeds history slots with padding and encodes count/age features...

Writing the attention pooling logic...

The loss function uses a multi-positive softmax over scaled logits, weighting each positive target and masking out items the user already interacted with by setting their logits to a large negative value using a per-user mask built from first-interaction timestamps.

I'm weighing whether to actually implement the history mask — skipping it is simpler but pushes user embeddings slightly away from similar already-heard items, which is mildly harmful; I'll build it as a sparse CSR structure (indptr/indices) of history catalog columns per example, gathered into a dense boolean mask per batch. Compute-wise, with batch size 512, catalog size 30k, and embedding dim 64, each batch logit computation is roughly a gigaflop, which is comfortably fast for this scale.

With time running low, I should just write the script now — combining data prep and training with caching, aiming to finish within the remaining window.

Recorded reasoning 40 words

Eligibility means surfacing catalog items the user hasn't interacted with, so this is purely a discovery task. I'll now build the full pipeline: feature prep with sliding training cutoffs, a history-based user tower, an item tower, and full-catalog softmax training.

Tool callBashWrite two-tower pipeline and run validation stage Error

Tool call · Input

mkdir -p /app/solution/cache && cat > /app/solution/twotower.py <<'EOF'
#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Two-tower discovery ranker for the "Made for You" shelf (CPU PyTorch).

User tower: attention-pooled embeddings of the user's recent interaction
history (positive listens / likes, and dislikes) -> MLP -> d-dim vector.
Item tower: catalog item embedding + popularity features -> MLP -> d-dim vector.
Score = dot(user_vec, item_vec).  Training = full-catalog multi-positive softmax
over sliding 7-day windows (history before cutoff -> organic positives after).

Usage:
  python twotower.py --stage val    # train on train_*, rank validation candidates
  python twotower.py --stage test   # refit on train_*+val_*, write submission
"""
import argparse, os, time, json
import numpy as np, pandas as pd, torch, torch.nn as nn, torch.nn.functional as F

D = '/task/data/'
OUT = '/app/solution/'
TRAIN_END = 24786800
VAL_START = TRAIN_END + 1800
VAL_END = VAL_START + 7 * 86400          # 25393400
DAY = 86400
WIN = 7 * DAY
L_POS, L_NEG = 160, 24
torch.set_num_threads(8)


def log(*a):
    print(time.strftime('%H:%M:%S'), *a, flush=True)


def load_events(stage):
    fams = ['train'] + (['val'] if stage == 'test' else [])
    cols = ['uid', 'timestamp', 'item_id', 'is_organic', 'played_ratio_pct']
    listens = pd.concat([pd.read_parquet(D + f'{f}_listens.parquet', columns=cols) for f in fams], ignore_index=True)
    likes = pd.concat([pd.read_parquet(D + f'{f}_likes.parquet') for f in fams], ignore_index=True)
    dislikes = pd.concat([pd.read_parquet(D + f'{f}_dislikes.parquet') for f in fams], ignore_index=True)
    return listens, likes, dislikes


def build(stage):
    cache = OUT + f'cache/feat_{stage}.npz'
    if os.path.exists(cache):
        z = np.load(cache, allow_pickle=True)
        return {k: z[k] for k in z.files}
    listens, likes, dislikes = load_events(stage)
    cat = pd.read_parquet(D + 'candidate_catalog.parquet')
    cat_items = cat.item_id.values.astype(np.int64)
    n_cat = len(cat_items)
    end = VAL_END if stage == 'test' else TRAIN_END
    log('events', len(listens), len(likes), len(dislikes))

    # history vocabulary: catalog items first, then other items with enough listens
    cnt = listens.item_id.value_counts()
    other = cnt[(cnt >= 15)].index.values.astype(np.int64)
    other = other[~np.isin(other, cat_items)]
    vocab = np.concatenate([cat_items, other])
    vid = pd.Series(np.arange(1, len(vocab) + 1), index=vocab)  # 0 = pad
    log('vocab', len(vocab))

    # positive events: listens >=50% and likes
    pos = listens[listens.played_ratio_pct >= 50][['uid', 'timestamp', 'item_id']]
    pos = pd.concat([pos, likes[['uid', 'timestamp', 'item_id']]], ignore_index=True)
    pos = pos[pos.item_id.isin(vid.index)]
    pos['v'] = vid.reindex(pos.item_id.values).values.astype(np.int32)
    neg = dislikes[dislikes.item_id.isin(vid.index)][['uid', 'timestamp', 'item_id']].copy()
    neg['v'] = vid.reindex(neg.item_id.values).values.astype(np.int32)

    # first interaction time per (uid, catalog item) -> eligibility reconstruction
    inter = pd.concat([listens[['uid', 'timestamp', 'item_id']], likes[['uid', 'timestamp', 'item_id']],
                       dislikes[['uid', 'timestamp', 'item_id']]], ignore_index=True)
    inter = inter[inter.item_id.isin(cat_items)]
    first = inter.groupby(['uid', 'item_id']).timestamp.min().reset_index()
    first['c'] = pd.Series(np.arange(n_cat), index=cat_items).reindex(first.item_id.values).values
    log('first-interaction pairs', len(first))

    # organic target events
    tl = listens[(listens.is_organic == 1) & (listens.played_ratio_pct >= 80) & listens.item_id.isin(cat_items)][['uid', 'timestamp', 'item_id']].copy()
    tl['g'] = 1.0
    tk = likes[(likes.is_organic == 1) & likes.item_id.isin(cat_items)][['uid', 'timestamp', 'item_id']].copy()
    tk['g'] = 3.0
    tgt_all = pd.concat([tl, tk], ignore_index=True)
    tgt_all['c'] = pd.Series(np.arange(n_cat), index=cat_items).reindex(tgt_all.item_id.values).values

    users_all = np.sort(pd.read_parquet(D + 'target_users.parquet').uid.values.astype(np.int64))

    def hist_for(cutoff, uids):
        """Per-user slots of most recent distinct positive items before cutoff."""
        h = pos[(pos.timestamp < cutoff) & pos.uid.isin(uids)]
        g = h.groupby(['uid', 'v']).agg(cnt=('timestamp', 'size'), last=('timestamp', 'max')).reset_index()
        g = g.sort_values(['uid', 'last'], ascending=[True, False])
        g['r'] = g.groupby('uid').cumcount()
        g = g[g.r < L_POS]
        n = len(uids)
        urow = pd.Series(np.arange(n), index=uids)
        rows = urow.reindex(g.uid.values).values
        HV = np.zeros((n, L_POS), np.int32); HC = np.zeros((n, L_POS), np.float32); HA = np.zeros((n, L_POS), np.float32)
        HV[rows, g.r.values] = g.v.values
        HC[rows, g.r.values] = np.log1p(g.cnt.values)
        HA[rows, g.r.values] = np.log1p((cutoff - g['last'].values) / DAY)
        d = neg[(neg.timestamp < cutoff) & neg.uid.isin(uids)]
        gd = d.groupby(['uid', 'v']).timestamp.max().reset_index().sort_values(['uid', 'timestamp'], ascending=[True, False])
        gd['r'] = gd.groupby('uid').cumcount(); gd = gd[gd.r < L_NEG]
        DV = np.zeros((n, L_NEG), np.int32)
        DV[urow.reindex(gd.uid.values).values, gd.r.values] = gd.v.values
        # total positive events in last 90 days as a scalar user feature
        act = h[h.timestamp >= cutoff - 90 * DAY].groupby('uid').size()
        UF = np.log1p(act.reindex(uids).fillna(0).values).astype(np.float32)[:, None]
        return HV, HC, HA, DV, UF

    # ---- training windows ----
    cutoffs = [end - WIN * k for k in range(1, 9)]
    ex = {k: [] for k in ['HV', 'HC', 'HA', 'DV', 'UF']}
    tgt_rows, tgt_cols, tgt_g = [], [], []
    msk_rows, msk_cols = [], []
    base = 0
    for c in cutoffs:
        t = tgt_all[(tgt_all.timestamp >= c) & (tgt_all.timestamp < c + WIN)]
        t = t.groupby(['uid', 'c']).g.max().reset_index()
        # drop items interacted before cutoff (mimic eligibility)
        f = first[first.timestamp < c][['uid', 'c']]
        t = t.merge(f, on=['uid', 'c'], how='left', indicator=True)
        t = t[t._merge == 'left_only'].drop(columns='_merge')
        uids = np.sort(t.uid.unique())
        HV, HC, HA, DV, UF = hist_for(c, uids)
        keep = (HV[:, 0] > 0)
        uids = uids[keep]
        for k, v in zip(['HV', 'HC', 'HA', 'DV', 'UF'], [HV[keep], HC[keep], HA[keep], DV[keep], UF[keep]]):
            ex[k].append(v)
        urow = pd.Series(np.arange(len(uids)), index=uids)
        t = t[t.uid.isin(uids)]
        tgt_rows.append(base + urow.reindex(t.uid.values).values); tgt_cols.append(t.c.values.astype(np.int64)); tgt_g.append(t.g.values.astype(np.float32))
        f = f[f.uid.isin(uids)]
        msk_rows.append(base + urow.reindex(f.uid.values).values); msk_cols.append(f.c.values.astype(np.int64))
        base += len(uids)
        log(f'cutoff {c}: users {len(uids)} targets {len(t)}')
    feats = {k: np.concatenate(v) for k, v in ex.items()}
    feats.update(tgt_rows=np.concatenate(tgt_rows), tgt_cols=np.concatenate(tgt_cols), tgt_g=np.concatenate(tgt_g),
                 msk_rows=np.concatenate(msk_rows), msk_cols=np.concatenate(msk_cols))
    # ---- inference features for target users at the final cutoff ----
    HV, HC, HA, DV, UF = hist_for(end, users_all)
    feats.update(QHV=HV, QHC=HC, QHA=HA, QDV=DV, QUF=UF, Quids=users_all)
    # item features: log popularity, organic share
    pop = np.log1p(cat.positive_listens.values.astype(np.float32))
    org = (cat.organic_positive_listens.values / np.maximum(cat.positive_listens.values, 1)).astype(np.float32)
    feats['item_feat'] = np.stack([(pop - pop.mean()) / pop.std(), (org - org.mean()) / org.std()], 1).astype(np.float32)
    feats['n_vocab'] = np.array(len(vocab) + 1)
    np.savez(cache, **feats)
    return feats


class ItemTower(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self, n_items, n_feat, d, out):
        super().__init__()
        self.emb = nn.Embedding(n_items, d)
        nn.init.normal_(self.emb.weight, std=0.05)
        self.feat = nn.Linear(n_feat, d)
        self.mlp = nn.Sequential(nn.LayerNorm(d), nn.Linear(d, d), nn.GELU(), nn.Linear(d, out))

    def forward(self, idx, feat):
        return self.mlp(self.emb(idx) + self.feat(feat))


class UserTower(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self, n_vocab, d, out):
        super().__init__()
        self.emb = nn.Embedding(n_vocab, d, padding_idx=0)
        nn.init.normal_(self.emb.weight, std=0.05)
        with torch.no_grad(): self.emb.weight[0].zero_()
        self.slot = nn.Sequential(nn.Linear(2, 16), nn.GELU(), nn.Linear(16, d))
        self.att = nn.Sequential(nn.Linear(d, 32), nn.GELU(), nn.Linear(32, 1))
        self.demb = nn.Embedding(n_vocab, d, padding_idx=0)
        nn.init.normal_(self.demb.weight, std=0.01)
        self.mlp = nn.Sequential(nn.LayerNorm(2 * d + 1), nn.Linear(2 * d + 1, 2 * d), nn.GELU(), nn.Dropout(0.1), nn.Linear(2 * d, out))

    def forward(self, hv, hc, ha, dv, uf):
        m = hv > 0
        e = self.emb(hv) + self.slot(torch.stack([hc, ha], -1))
        a = self.att(e).squeeze(-1).masked_fill(~m, -1e9)
        a = torch.softmax(a, -1) * m.any(-1, keepdim=True)
        pooled = (a.unsqueeze(-1) * e).sum(1)
        dm = (dv > 0).float().unsqueeze(-1)
        dpool = (self.demb(dv) * dm).sum(1) / dm.sum(1).clamp(min=1)
        return self.mlp(torch.cat([pooled, dpool, uf], -1))


class TwoTower(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self, n_vocab, n_items, n_feat, d=96, out=64):
        super().__init__()
        self.user = UserTower(n_vocab, d, out)
        self.item = ItemTower(n_items, n_feat, d, out)
        self.register_buffer('item_idx', torch.arange(n_items))

    def item_vecs(self, feat):
        return self.item(self.item_idx, feat)


def to_t(feats, keys, idx=None):
    out = []
    for k in keys:
        a = feats[k] if idx is None else feats[k][idx]
        out.append(torch.from_numpy(np.ascontiguousarray(a)))
    return out


def train(feats, args):
    n_ex = len(feats['HV']); n_cat = len(feats['item_feat'])
    tgt = torch.sparse_coo_tensor(np.stack([feats['tgt_rows'], feats['tgt_cols']]), feats['tgt_g'], (n_ex, n_cat)).coalesce().to_sparse_csr()
    msk = torch.sparse_coo_tensor(np.stack([feats['msk_rows'], feats['msk_cols']]), np.ones(len(feats['msk_rows']), np.float32), (n_ex, n_cat)).coalesce().to_sparse_csr()
    item_feat = torch.from_numpy(feats['item_feat'])
    model = TwoTower(int(feats['n_vocab']), n_cat, item_feat.shape[1], d=args.d, out=args.out)
    opt = torch.optim.AdamW(model.parameters(), lr=args.lr, weight_decay=args.wd)
    steps = args.epochs * ((n_ex + args.bs - 1) // args.bs)
    sched = torch.optim.lr_scheduler.OneCycleLR(opt, max_lr=args.lr, total_steps=steps, pct_start=0.1)
    log(f'train examples {n_ex}, steps {steps}')
    tau = args.tau
    for ep in range(args.epochs):
        perm = torch.randperm(n_ex); tot = 0; nb = 0
        model.train()
        for i in range(0, n_ex, args.bs):
            b = perm[i:i + args.bs]
            hv, hc, ha, dv, uf = to_t(feats, ['HV', 'HC', 'HA', 'DV', 'UF'], b.numpy())
            # random history dropout for robustness
            if args.hist_drop > 0:
                keep = (torch.rand(hv.shape) > args.hist_drop) | (torch.arange(hv.shape[1]) < 4)
                hv = hv * keep
            u = model.user(hv, hc.float(), ha.float(), dv, uf)
            it = model.item_vecs(item_feat)
            logits = u @ it.T / tau
            tg = torch.index_select(tgt, 0, b).to_dense()
            mk = torch.index_select(msk, 0, b).to_dense() > 0
            logits = logits.masked_fill(mk, -1e9)
            logp = torch.log_softmax(logits, -1)
            w = tg.clamp(max=args.gmax)
            loss = -(w * logp).sum() / w.sum()
            opt.zero_grad(); loss.backward(); nn.utils.clip_grad_norm_(model.parameters(), 5.0); opt.step(); sched.step()
            tot += loss.item(); nb += 1
        log(f'epoch {ep} loss {tot / nb:.4f}')
    return model


@torch.no_grad()
def rank(model, feats, elig_path, out_path):
    model.eval()
    z = np.load(elig_path)
    uids, items = z['uids'].astype(np.int64), z['item_ids'].astype(np.int64)
    cat_items = pd.read_parquet(D + 'candidate_catalog.parquet').item_id.values.astype(np.int64)
    assert (items == cat_items).all()
    elig = np.unpackbits(z['packed_eligible'], axis=1, count=len(items), bitorder='little').astype(bool)
    item_vecs = model.item_vecs(torch.from_numpy(feats['item_feat'])).numpy()
    q = pd.Series(np.arange(len(feats['Quids'])), index=feats['Quids']).reindex(uids).values
    hv, hc, ha, dv, uf = to_t(feats, ['QHV', 'QHC', 'QHA', 'QDV', 'QUF'], q)
    rows = []
    for i in range(0, len(uids), 1024):
        u = model.user(hv[i:i + 1024], hc[i:i + 1024].float(), ha[i:i + 1024].float(), dv[i:i + 1024], uf[i:i + 1024]).numpy()
        s = u @ item_vecs.T
        s[~elig[i:i + 1024]] = -np.inf
        top = np.argpartition(-s, 100, axis=1)[:, :100]
        ts = np.take_along_axis(s, top, 1)
        order = np.argsort(-ts, axis=1)
        top = np.take_along_axis(top, order, 1)
        for r, uid in enumerate(uids[i:i + 1024]):
            rows.append(pd.DataFrame({'uid': uid, 'item_id': items[top[r]], 'rank': np.arange(1, 101)}))
    df = pd.concat(rows, ignore_index=True)
    df['uid'] = df.uid.astype(np.int64); df['item_id'] = df.item_id.astype(np.int64); df['rank'] = df['rank'].astype(np.int64)
    df.to_parquet(out_path, index=False)
    np.save(OUT + 'cache/item_vecs.npy', item_vecs)
    log('wrote', out_path, df.shape)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    p = argparse.ArgumentParser()
    p.add_argument('--stage', default='val')
    p.add_argument('--epochs', type=int, default=8)
    p.add_argument('--bs', type=int, default=512)
    p.add_argument('--lr', type=float, default=3e-3)
    p.add_argument('--wd', type=float, default=1e-5)
    p.add_argument('--d', type=int, default=96)
    p.add_argument('--out', type=int, default=64)
    p.add_argument('--tau', type=float, default=1.0)
    p.add_argument('--gmax', type=float, default=3.0)
    p.add_argument('--hist_drop', type=float, default=0.1)
    p.add_argument('--seed', type=int, default=0)
    p.add_argument('--outfile', default=None)
    args = p.parse_args()
    torch.manual_seed(args.seed); np.random.seed(args.seed)
    feats = build(args.stage)
    model = train(feats, args)
    if args.stage == 'val':
        rank(model, feats, D + 'validation_eligible_candidates.npz', args.outfile or OUT + 'validation.parquet')
    else:
        rank(model, feats, D + 'test_eligible_candidates.npz', args.outfile or OUT + 'submission.parquet')
        torch.save(model.state_dict(), OUT + 'cache/model_test.pt')
EOF
cd /app/solution && python twotower.py --stage val --epochs 6 2>&1 | tail -30 && python /task/evaluate_public.py /app/solution/validation.parquet

Options

{
  "timeout": 900000
}

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/task/evaluate_public.py", line 157, in <module>
    main()
  File "/task/evaluate_public.py", line 152, in main
    ranked = load_submission(path, eligibility, targets)
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/task/evaluate_public.py", line 113, in load_submission
    frame = validate_ranking(read_ranking(path), targets)
                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/task/ranking_evaluation.py", line 98, in read_ranking
    return pd.read_parquet(path) if path.suffix == ".parquet" else pd.read_csv(path)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/opt/task-venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pandas/io/parquet.py", line 669, in read_parquet
    return impl.read(
           ^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/opt/task-venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pandas/io/parquet.py", line 258, in read
    path_or_handle, handles, filesystem = _get_path_or_handle(
                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/opt/task-venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pandas/io/parquet.py", line 141, in _get_path_or_handle
    handles = get_handle(
              ^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/opt/task-venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pandas/io/common.py", line 882, in get_handle
    handle = open(handle, ioargs.mode)
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/app/solution/validation.parquet'
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06

Fix sparse batch gather and rerun validation training

+04:33
Recorded reasoning 33 words

Index_select on sparse CSR tensors probably isn't supported, which could explain the error—though features are cached, which is good. I should try converting sparse tensors to dense per batch using scipy CSR instead.

Tool callBashFix sparse batch gather and rerun validation training Returned

Tool call · Input

cd /app/solution && ls cache/ && python - <<'EOF'
import re
s=open('twotower.py').read()
s=s.replace("""    tgt = torch.sparse_coo_tensor(np.stack([feats['tgt_rows'], feats['tgt_cols']]), feats['tgt_g'], (n_ex, n_cat)).coalesce().to_sparse_csr()
    msk = torch.sparse_coo_tensor(np.stack([feats['msk_rows'], feats['msk_cols']]), np.ones(len(feats['msk_rows']), np.float32), (n_ex, n_cat)).coalesce().to_sparse_csr()
""","""    import scipy.sparse as sp
    tgt = sp.csr_matrix((feats['tgt_g'], (feats['tgt_rows'], feats['tgt_cols'])), shape=(n_ex, n_cat))
    msk = sp.csr_matrix((np.ones(len(feats['msk_rows']), np.float32), (feats['msk_rows'], feats['msk_cols'])), shape=(n_ex, n_cat))
""")
s=s.replace("""            tg = torch.index_select(tgt, 0, b).to_dense()
            mk = torch.index_select(msk, 0, b).to_dense() > 0
""","""            tg = torch.from_numpy(tgt[b.numpy()].toarray())
            mk = torch.from_numpy(msk[b.numpy()].toarray()) > 0
""")
open('twotower.py','w').write(s)
EOF
python twotower.py --stage val --epochs 6 2>&1 | grep -v Warning | tail -20 && python /task/evaluate_public.py /app/solution/validation.parquet

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feat_val.npz
08:17:57 train examples 34519, steps 408
08:18:26 epoch 0 loss 9.7168
08:18:55 epoch 1 loss 9.3357
08:19:23 epoch 2 loss 9.1282
08:19:51 epoch 3 loss 8.8963
08:20:19 epoch 4 loss 8.6804
08:20:48 epoch 5 loss 8.5734
08:20:51 wrote /app/solution/validation.parquet (845600, 3)
{
  "model": "/app/solution/validation.parquet",
  "scores": {
    "quality_ndcg@10": 0.022071,
    "quality_users": 4263
  }
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07

Compute popularity baselines and start test feature build in background

+07:58
Recorded reasoning 116 words

That loss of 8.57 against a log(30000)≈10.3 ceiling seems decent but not great given the limited data, so I want to calibrate against a popularity baseline — ranking eligible items by catalog popularity — and possibly an item-item cooccurrence baseline to see what's actually achievable here.

I should kick off the test-stage feature caching in the background since it doesn't depend on model tweaks. On the model side, I'm wondering if more epochs or a higher learning rate would help since loss is still decreasing, and double-checking details like log1p(age days) and the user tower attention for bugs — possibly the model is just overfitting to popular item embeddings. Getting baseline numbers first will clarify this.

Tool callBashCompute popularity baselines and start test feature build in background Error

Tool call · Input

(nohup python -c "
import twotower; twotower.build('test')" > cache/build_test.log 2>&1 &) ; python - <<'EOF'
import numpy as np, pandas as pd, sys
sys.path.insert(0,'/task')
from ranking_evaluation import CandidateSet, score_rankings
import evaluate_public as ep
D='/task/data/'
z=np.load(D+'validation_eligible_candidates.npz'); uids=z['uids']; items=z['item_ids']
elig=np.unpackbits(z['packed_eligible'],axis=1,count=len(items),bitorder='little').astype(bool)
cat=pd.read_parquet(D+'candidate_catalog.parquet')
targets=set(int(u) for u in uids)
graded=ep.validation_truth(CandidateSet(D+'validation_eligible_candidates.npz'), targets)
def evalscore(S):
    S=np.where(elig,S,-np.inf); top=np.argsort(-S,axis=1)[:,:100]
    ranked={int(u):[int(i) for i in items[top[r]]] for r,u in enumerate(uids)}
    return score_rankings(ranked,graded)
# popularity baseline
pop=np.log1p(cat.positive_listens.values.astype(float)); print('pop', evalscore(np.tile(pop,(len(uids),1))))
orgpop=np.log1p(cat.organic_positive_listens.values.astype(float)); print('orgpop', evalscore(np.tile(orgpop,(len(uids),1))))
# recent popularity (last 7 days of train, organic)
tl=pd.read_parquet(D+'train_listens.parquet', columns=['uid','timestamp','item_id','is_organic','played_ratio_pct'])
rec=tl[(tl.timestamp>=24786800-7*86400)&(tl.played_ratio_pct>=80)&(tl.is_organic==1)&tl.item_id.isin(items)].item_id.value_counts()
col=pd.Series(np.arange(len(items)),index=items)
rp=np.zeros(len(items)); rp[col.reindex(rec.index).values]=np.log1p(rec.values); print('recent org pop 7d', evalscore(np.tile(rp,(len(uids),1))))
rec=tl[(tl.timestamp>=24786800-1*86400)&(tl.played_ratio_pct>=80)&(tl.is_organic==1)&tl.item_id.isin(items)].item_id.value_counts()
rp=np.zeros(len(items)); rp[col.reindex(rec.index).values]=np.log1p(rec.values); print('recent org pop 1d', evalscore(np.tile(rp,(len(uids),1))))
EOF

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  "timeout": 600000
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Tool response · Tool error

Exit code 137
/bin/bash: line 53:  8388 Killed                  python - <<'EOF'
import numpy as np, pandas as pd, sys
sys.path.insert(0,'/task')
from ranking_evaluation import CandidateSet, score_rankings
import evaluate_public as ep
D='/task/data/'
z=np.load(D+'validation_eligible_candidates.npz'); uids=z['uids']; items=z['item_ids']
elig=np.unpackbits(z['packed_eligible'],axis=1,count=len(items),bitorder='little').astype(bool)
cat=pd.read_parquet(D+'candidate_catalog.parquet')
targets=set(int(u) for u in uids)
graded=ep.validation_truth(CandidateSet(D+'validation_eligible_candidates.npz'), targets)
def evalscore(S):
    S=np.where(elig,S,-np.inf); top=np.argsort(-S,axis=1)[:,:100]
    ranked={int(u):[int(i) for i in items[top[r]]] for r,u in enumerate(uids)}
    return score_rankings(ranked,graded)
# popularity baseline
pop=np.log1p(cat.positive_listens.values.astype(float)); print('pop', evalscore(np.tile(pop,(len(uids),1))))
orgpop=np.log1p(cat.organic_positive_listens.values.astype(float)); print('orgpop', evalscore(np.tile(orgpop,(len(uids),1))))
# recent popularity (last 7 days of train, organic)
tl=pd.read_parquet(D+'train_listens.parquet', columns=['uid','timestamp','item_id','is_organic','played_ratio_pct'])
rec=tl[(tl.timestamp>=24786800-7*86400)&(tl.played_ratio_pct>=80)&(tl.is_organic==1)&tl.item_id.isin(items)].item_id.value_counts()
col=pd.Series(np.arange(len(items)),index=items)
rp=np.zeros(len(items)); rp[col.reindex(rec.index).values]=np.log1p(rec.values); print('recent org pop 7d', evalscore(np.tile(rp,(len(uids),1))))
rec=tl[(tl.timestamp>=24786800-1*86400)&(tl.played_ratio_pct>=80)&(tl.is_organic==1)&tl.item_id.isin(items)].item_id.value_counts()
rp=np.zeros(len(items)); rp[col.reindex(rec.index).values]=np.log1p(rec.values); print('recent org pop 1d', evalscore(np.tile(rp,(len(uids),1))))
EOF
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08

Check background test feature build status

+08:20
Recorded reasoning 53 words

I got an OOM error — likely because the background build of test features combined with loading those 43M rows twice overloaded memory. I should check whether the background build got killed, and with about 40 minutes left, I need to run things sequentially rather than in parallel to avoid this happening again.

Model text

Out of memory from running two 43M-row loads concurrently. Checking whether the background test-feature build survived, then running the baselines alone.

Tool callBashCheck background test feature build status Returned

Tool call · Input

sleep 20; cat cache/build_test.log | grep -v Warn | tail -5; ls -la cache/; pgrep -af twotower | head

Tool response

08:21:28 first-interaction pairs 8284563
08:21:34 cutoff 24788600: users 4886 targets 41278
08:21:39 cutoff 24183800: users 4655 targets 41732
08:21:43 cutoff 23579000: users 4583 targets 39680
08:21:47 cutoff 22974200: users 4439 targets 39364
total 580496
drwxr-xr-x 2 agent agent      4096 Oct  3 08:21 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 agent agent      4096 Oct  3 08:20 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 agent agent       306 Oct  3 08:21 build_test.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 agent agent 586727128 Oct  3 08:17 feat_val.npz
-rw-r--r-- 1 agent agent   7680128 Oct  3 08:20 item_vecs.npy
8387 python -c  import twotower; twotower.build('test')
8438 /bin/bash -c source /logs/agent/sessions/shell-snapshots/snapshot-bash-1791015196639-4ulxv5.sh 2>/dev/null || true && shopt -u extglob 2>/dev/null || true && { \builtin unalias -- 'unsetenv'; \builtin unset -f -- 'unsetenv'; } >/dev/null 2>&1 || true && eval 'sleep 20; cat cache/build_test.log | grep -v Warn | tail -5; ls -la cache/; pgrep -af twotower | head' < /dev/null && pwd -P >| /tmp/claude-c484-cwd
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09

Wait for test build, then compute popularity baselines

+08:46
Recorded reasoning 25 words

The test build should finish soon, so I'll wait for it before running the baselines to understand what that 0.022 score actually means in context.

Tool callBashWait for test build, then compute popularity baselines Returned

Tool call · Input

while pgrep -f "twotower.build" >/dev/null; do sleep 3; done; tail -2 cache/build_test.log; free -g | head -2; cd /app/solution && python - <<'EOF'
import numpy as np, pandas as pd, sys
sys.path.insert(0,'/task')
from ranking_evaluation import CandidateSet, score_rankings
import evaluate_public as ep
D='/task/data/'
z=np.load(D+'validation_eligible_candidates.npz'); uids=z['uids']; items=z['item_ids']
elig=np.unpackbits(z['packed_eligible'],axis=1,count=len(items),bitorder='little').astype(bool)
cat=pd.read_parquet(D+'candidate_catalog.parquet')
targets=set(int(u) for u in uids)
graded=ep.validation_truth(CandidateSet(D+'validation_eligible_candidates.npz'), targets)
def evalscore(S):
    S=np.where(elig,S,-np.inf); top=np.argsort(-S,axis=1)[:,:100]
    ranked={int(u):[int(i) for i in items[top[r]]] for r,u in enumerate(uids)}
    return score_rankings(ranked,graded)['quality_ndcg@10']
pop=np.log1p(cat.positive_listens.values.astype(float)); print('pop', evalscore(np.tile(pop,(len(uids),1))))
tl=pd.read_parquet(D+'train_listens.parquet', columns=['uid','timestamp','item_id','is_organic','played_ratio_pct'])
tl=tl[tl.item_id.isin(items)]
col=pd.Series(np.arange(len(items)),index=items)
for days in [1,3,7,30]:
    rec=tl[(tl.timestamp>=24786800-days*86400)&(tl.played_ratio_pct>=80)&(tl.is_organic==1)].item_id.value_counts()
    rp=np.zeros(len(items)); rp[col.reindex(rec.index).values]=np.log1p(rec.values); print(f'recent org pop {days}d', evalscore(np.tile(rp,(len(uids),1))))
# model vecs
EOF

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Command did not complete within its 600s timeout and was moved to the background (ID: bx790zvko). Output is being written to: /tmp/claude-1000/-app/04f1b3b0-6d15-4fb7-9fe8-c2f6ea33e8d3/tasks/bx790zvko.output. You will be notified when it completes. If it is still running after 30m in the background, it will be stopped and you will be notified. To check interim output, use Read on that file path.
Session cwd remains /app/solution; directory changes made by the backgrounded command do not apply to subsequent commands.
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10

Check status of background baseline job and processes

+19:00
Tool callBashCheck status of background baseline job and processes Returned

Tool call · Input

cat /tmp/claude-1000/-app/04f1b3b0-6d15-4fb7-9fe8-c2f6ea33e8d3/tasks/bx790zvko.output | grep -v Warn | tail; ls -la /app/solution/cache; pgrep -af python | grep -v pgrep | cut -c1-120; free -g | head -2; date

Tool response

total 1170548
drwxr-xr-x 2 agent agent      4096 Oct  3 08:22 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 agent agent      4096 Oct  3 08:20 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 agent agent       510 Oct  3 08:22 build_test.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 agent agent 604205260 Oct  3 08:22 feat_test.npz
-rw-r--r-- 1 agent agent 586727128 Oct  3 08:17 feat_val.npz
-rw-r--r-- 1 agent agent   7680128 Oct  3 08:20 item_vecs.npy
               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:              15           1           7           0           6          14
Sat Oct  3 08:32:11 UTC 2026
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11

Start test refit in background and compute popularity baselines

+19:12
Recorded reasoning 102 words

Ugh, the baseline job died because my pgrep check accidentally matched its own command string and looped until the timeout killed it — I've lost 10 minutes. It's now 08:32, with roughly 35 minutes left before 09:08, so my priority has to shift to immediately saving a valid test submission with whatever model I currently have.

I'll run the test stage in the background with the current config (~3 min, ~0.022 score, weak but valid), while evaluating the popularity baseline in the foreground — memory should be fine since test features are only ~600MB and the baseline's 43M rows add about 1.5GB.

Recorded reasoning 37 words

The wait loop ended up matching its own command line, wasting ten minutes. I'll now secure a valid submission by refitting on train+val in the background while computing popularity baselines in parallel to calibrate the model's score.

Tool callBashStart test refit in background and compute popularity baselines Error

Tool call · Input

(nohup python twotower.py --stage test --epochs 6 > cache/test_run1.log 2>&1 &); python - <<'EOF'
import numpy as np, pandas as pd, sys
sys.path.insert(0,'/task')
from ranking_evaluation import CandidateSet, score_rankings
import evaluate_public as ep
D='/task/data/'
z=np.load(D+'validation_eligible_candidates.npz'); uids=z['uids']; items=z['item_ids']
elig=np.unpackbits(z['packed_eligible'],axis=1,count=len(items),bitorder='little').astype(bool)
cat=pd.read_parquet(D+'candidate_catalog.parquet')
targets=set(int(u) for u in uids)
graded=ep.validation_truth(CandidateSet(D+'validation_eligible_candidates.npz'), targets)
def evalscore(S):
    S=np.where(elig,S,-np.inf); top=np.argsort(-S,axis=1)[:,:100]
    ranked={int(u):[int(i) for i in items[top[r]]] for r,u in enumerate(uids)}
    return score_rankings(ranked,graded)['quality_ndcg@10']
pop=np.log1p(cat.positive_listens.values.astype(float)); print('pop', evalscore(np.tile(pop,(len(uids),1))), flush=True)
tl=pd.read_parquet(D+'train_listens.parquet', columns=['uid','timestamp','item_id','is_organic','played_ratio_pct'])
tl=tl[tl.item_id.isin(items)]
col=pd.Series(np.arange(len(items)),index=items)
for days in [1,7,30]:
    rec=tl[(tl.timestamp>=24786800-days*86400)&(tl.played_ratio_pct>=80)&(tl.is_organic==1)].item_id.value_counts()
    rp=np.zeros(len(items)); rp[col.reindex(rec.index).values]=np.log1p(rec.values); print(f'recent org pop {days}d', evalscore(np.tile(rp,(len(uids),1))), flush=True)
EOF

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  "timeout": 400000
}

Tool response · Tool error

Exit code 137
pop 0.0107
/bin/bash: line 45:  9062 Killed                  python - <<'EOF'
import numpy as np, pandas as pd, sys
sys.path.insert(0,'/task')
from ranking_evaluation import CandidateSet, score_rankings
import evaluate_public as ep
D='/task/data/'
z=np.load(D+'validation_eligible_candidates.npz'); uids=z['uids']; items=z['item_ids']
elig=np.unpackbits(z['packed_eligible'],axis=1,count=len(items),bitorder='little').astype(bool)
cat=pd.read_parquet(D+'candidate_catalog.parquet')
targets=set(int(u) for u in uids)
graded=ep.validation_truth(CandidateSet(D+'validation_eligible_candidates.npz'), targets)
def evalscore(S):
    S=np.where(elig,S,-np.inf); top=np.argsort(-S,axis=1)[:,:100]
    ranked={int(u):[int(i) for i in items[top[r]]] for r,u in enumerate(uids)}
    return score_rankings(ranked,graded)['quality_ndcg@10']
pop=np.log1p(cat.positive_listens.values.astype(float)); print('pop', evalscore(np.tile(pop,(len(uids),1))), flush=True)
tl=pd.read_parquet(D+'train_listens.parquet', columns=['uid','timestamp','item_id','is_organic','played_ratio_pct'])
tl=tl[tl.item_id.isin(items)]
col=pd.Series(np.arange(len(items)),index=items)
for days in [1,7,30]:
    rec=tl[(tl.timestamp>=24786800-days*86400)&(tl.played_ratio_pct>=80)&(tl.is_organic==1)].item_id.value_counts()
    rp=np.zeros(len(items)); rp[col.reindex(rec.index).values]=np.log1p(rec.values); print(f'recent org pop {days}d', evalscore(np.tile(rp,(len(uids),1))), flush=True)
EOF
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12

Check test refit progress and memory

+19:36
Recorded reasoning 52 words

The training uses considerable memory given the fully loaded feature arrays plus 43M listens, but the results check out: the model scores 0.022 versus a 0.0107 popularity baseline, roughly double, so this is just a genuinely hard sparse-discovery task rather than a bug. I should verify the test run is still alive.

Model text

Popularity baseline scores 0.0107, so the model at 0.022 is roughly double popularity. Checking the background test refit is still alive.

Tool callBashCheck test refit progress and memory Returned

Tool call · Input

pgrep -af "twotower.py" | grep -v pgrep | cut -c1-100; grep -v Warn cache/test_run1.log | tail -3; free -g | head -2

Tool response

08:32:38 train examples 35396, steps 420
               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:              15           1           8           0           5          13
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13

Run test refit in background and a 12-epoch validation experiment

+19:55
Recorded reasoning 205 words

The test run also got killed with no process left, so I'm trying to pin down the memory culprit. The baseline script loads a 43M-row, 5-column table at roughly 650MB, then builds an isin mask and a filtered copy on top of that, which could easily push memory usage over the limit.

Actually now I realize the real memory hog: tiling the population array to 8456 rows creates a 2GB float64 array, and both np.where and argsort each spin up another 2GB copy -- that's 6-8GB right there, enough to explain the OOM kill since the test log cuts off right after "train examples."

It's 08:34 with about 33 minutes left. My plan is to run the test refit alone in the foreground first since it's quick, then spend the remaining time trying a val experiment with more epochs and a larger learning rate, refitting if it improves. Alternatively, to save time I could run the test refit in the background while concurrently running a val experiment with different hyperparameters, capping threads at 4 each so both processes fit in memory without CPU contention -- test refit with 4 threads alongside a val run at 12 epochs and lr 5e-3, each taking around 5-6 minutes.

Recorded reasoning 33 words

The test refit also got killed by the baseline script's memory spike. I'm rerunning the refit alone with the safe config, plus a parallel validation experiment with longer training, both on 4 threads.

Tool callBashRun test refit in background and a 12-epoch validation experiment Returned

Tool call · Input

sed -i 's/torch.set_num_threads(8)/torch.set_num_threads(int(os.environ.get("NT", "8")))/' twotower.py && (NT=4 nohup python twotower.py --stage test --epochs 6 > cache/test_run1.log 2>&1 &); sleep 1; NT=4 python twotower.py --stage val --epochs 12 --lr 4e-3 --outfile /app/solution/cache/val_e12.parquet 2>&1 | grep -v Warn | tail -14 && python /task/evaluate_public.py /app/solution/cache/val_e12.parquet; grep -v Warn cache/test_run1.log | tail -2

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Tool response

08:33:22 train examples 34519, steps 816
08:34:07 epoch 0 loss 9.7666
08:34:52 epoch 1 loss 9.3796
08:35:36 epoch 2 loss 9.1299
08:36:21 epoch 3 loss 8.8385
08:37:06 epoch 4 loss 8.5464
08:37:51 epoch 5 loss 8.2436
08:38:24 epoch 6 loss 7.9583
08:38:55 epoch 7 loss 7.6835
08:39:26 epoch 8 loss 7.4470
08:39:57 epoch 9 loss 7.2692
08:40:28 epoch 10 loss 7.1647
08:40:59 epoch 11 loss 7.1273
08:41:03 wrote /app/solution/cache/val_e12.parquet (845600, 3)
{
  "model": "/app/solution/cache/val_e12.parquet",
  "scores": {
    "quality_ndcg@10": 0.016341,
    "quality_users": 4263
  }
}
08:37:52 epoch 5 loss 8.6276
08:37:56 wrote /app/solution/submission.parquet (845600, 3)
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14

Add shared-embedding option and evaluate on validation

+28:10
Recorded reasoning 114 words

Longer training is clearly overfitting compared to the better validation result, and I already have a valid submission to fall back on. With limited time left, I want to try one or two quick variations, like fewer epochs combined with stronger weight decay, to see if that helps the embedding table generalize better instead of memorizing.

Another idea worth testing is sharing the item tower embedding with the user-history embedding for catalog items, acting as a strong regularizer similar to item-item collaborative filtering. I'll implement this with a share option, run it for 6 epochs with 8 threads, and if it improves results, refit on test data and start drafting the README while waiting.

Recorded reasoning 37 words

Training longer leads to overfitting (0.0163 vs 0.0221), so I've saved a valid submission using the 6-epoch config instead. Next, I'll try sharing catalog item embeddings between the item tower and user history tower as a regularizer.

Tool callBashAdd shared-embedding option and evaluate on validation Returned

Tool call · Input

python - <<'EOF'
s=open('twotower.py').read()
s=s.replace("""    def forward(self, idx, feat):
        return self.mlp(self.emb(idx) + self.feat(feat))
""","""        self.shared = None  # optional embedding shared with the user tower (rows 1..n_items)

    def forward(self, idx, feat):
        e = self.shared(idx + 1) if self.shared is not None else self.emb(idx)
        return self.mlp(e + self.feat(feat))
""")
s=s.replace("""        self.item = ItemTower(n_items, n_feat, d, out)
""","""        self.item = ItemTower(n_items, n_feat, d, out)
        if share:
            self.item.shared = self.user.emb
""")
s=s.replace("def __init__(self, n_vocab, n_items, n_feat, d=96, out=64):","def __init__(self, n_vocab, n_items, n_feat, d=96, out=64, share=False):")
s=s.replace("model = TwoTower(int(feats['n_vocab']), n_cat, item_feat.shape[1], d=args.d, out=args.out)","model = TwoTower(int(feats['n_vocab']), n_cat, item_feat.shape[1], d=args.d, out=args.out, share=bool(args.share))")
s=s.replace("    p.add_argument('--seed', type=int, default=0)","    p.add_argument('--seed', type=int, default=0)\n    p.add_argument('--share', type=int, default=0)")
open('twotower.py','w').write(s)
EOF
python twotower.py --stage val --epochs 6 --share 1 --outfile /app/solution/cache/val_share.parquet 2>&1 | grep -v Warn | tail -3 && python /task/evaluate_public.py /app/solution/cache/val_share.parquet

Options

{
  "timeout": 600000
}

Tool response

08:43:57 epoch 4 loss 8.7897
08:44:25 epoch 5 loss 8.6866
08:44:29 wrote /app/solution/cache/val_share.parquet (845600, 3)
{
  "model": "/app/solution/cache/val_share.parquet",
  "scores": {
    "quality_ndcg@10": 0.022518,
    "quality_users": 4263
  }
}
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15

Refit test with shared embeddings in background and test a 4-epoch schedule

+31:30
Recorded reasoning 55 words

The improvement is marginal, basically within noise, and I'm running low on time—about 20 minutes left. I'll try one more quick experiment with fewer epochs (4 instead of 6) since more epochs seemed to overfit, then use the best config to refit on the test set and write up the README before time runs out.

Model text

Marginal gain with sharing. I'll refit the test submission with that config in the background while testing a shorter 4-epoch schedule, and write the README meanwhile.

Tool callBashRefit test with shared embeddings in background and test a 4-epoch schedule Returned

Tool call · Input

cp submission.parquet cache/submission_run1.parquet; (NT=4 nohup python twotower.py --stage test --epochs 6 --share 1 --outfile /app/solution/cache/submission_share.parquet > cache/test_run2.log 2>&1 &); sleep 1; NT=4 python twotower.py --stage val --epochs 4 --share 1 --outfile /app/solution/cache/val_share_e4.parquet 2>&1 | grep -v Warn | tail -2 && python /task/evaluate_public.py /app/solution/cache/val_share_e4.parquet; grep -v Warn cache/test_run2.log | tail -2

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}

Tool response

08:47:56 epoch 3 loss 9.1047
08:48:00 wrote /app/solution/cache/val_share_e4.parquet (845600, 3)
{
  "model": "/app/solution/cache/val_share_e4.parquet",
  "scores": {
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  }
}
08:47:12 epoch 2 loss 9.2058
08:47:59 epoch 3 loss 9.0044
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16

Write README and wait for background test refit

+35:03
Recorded reasoning 49 words

4 epochs gives 0.0233, an improvement, at 08:48. The background 6-epoch share refit should finish in about 1.5 minutes, after which I'll run a final 4-epoch share refit (~2.5 min with 8 threads) as the submission. I'll write the README now while waiting for the background job to complete.

Model text

4 epochs scores best so far (0.0233). Writing the README now, then the final refit with the 4-epoch shared config once the background job finishes.

Tool callBashWrite README and wait for background test refit Returned

Tool call · Input

cat > /app/solution/README.md <<'EOF'
# Two-tower discovery ranker ("Made for You" shelf)

Code: `twotower.py` (feature building, model, training, ranking). Artifacts in `cache/`.

## Model (CPU PyTorch 2.8, `TwoTower` in `twotower.py`)
Score(u, i) = `user_vec(u) · item_vec(i)`, both 64-dim, produced by independent towers.
Item vectors are precomputable offline (saved to `cache/item_vecs.npy`) and served via MIPS.

* **User tower** (history only, no user-ID lookup): the user's 160 most recent distinct
  positive items (listen >= 50% or like) are embedded (96-dim, vocabulary = 30k catalog items +
  items with >= 15 listens, ~0.3M), each slot is augmented with a small MLP over
  `[log count, log age-in-days]`, pooled by learned masked-softmax attention; the 24 most recent
  disliked items are mean-pooled through a separate embedding; concatenated with a
  log-activity scalar -> LayerNorm -> MLP -> 64-dim.
* **Item tower**: catalog item embedding (96-dim, shared with the user tower's history embedding
  table for the catalog rows) + linear projection of `[log popularity, organic share]` ->
  LayerNorm -> MLP -> 64-dim.

## Training objective
Sliding 7-day windows: 8 cutoffs spaced 7 days apart ending at the stage cutoff. For each
(cutoff, user) example, history = all events before the cutoff, targets = organic likes (weight 3)
and organic >= 80% listens (weight 1) in the following 7 days that are catalog items the user had
never interacted with (reconstructing the eligibility rule). Loss = weighted multi-positive
softmax cross-entropy over the **full 30k catalog** (all other catalog items are negatives), with
already-interacted items masked out of the softmax. AdamW, one-cycle LR 3e-3, batch 512,
4 epochs, 10% history dropout. No user-item matrix is built or factorized; cost is linear in
the number of events and users.

## Validation (history = train_*, outcomes = val_*, `evaluate_public.py`)
| config | NDCG@10 |
| --- | --- |
| popularity baseline | 0.0107 |
| two-tower, 6 epochs, separate item table | 0.0221 |
| two-tower, 6 epochs, shared catalog embedding | 0.0225 |
| **two-tower, 4 epochs, shared catalog embedding (selected)** | **0.0233** |
| two-tower, 12 epochs (overfits) | 0.0163 |

4263 scored users. Reproduce with `python twotower.py --stage val --epochs 4 --share 1`
then `python /task/evaluate_public.py /app/solution/validation.parquet`.

## Final submission
Refit on train_* + val_* (val events become history; the last training window targets the
validation week) and rank `test_eligible_candidates.npz`:

```sh
cd /app/solution && python twotower.py --stage test --epochs 4 --share 1
```
Writes `/app/solution/submission.parquet` (uid, item_id, rank 1-100 per target user).
EOF
while pgrep -f "stage test" >/dev/null; do sleep 2; done; grep -v Warn cache/test_run2.log | tail -1; ls -la cache/*.parquet

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Tool response

Command did not complete within its 300s timeout and was moved to the background (ID: b6qf5tpy2). Output is being written to: /tmp/claude-1000/-app/04f1b3b0-6d15-4fb7-9fe8-c2f6ea33e8d3/tasks/b6qf5tpy2.output. You will be notified when it completes. If it is still running after 30m in the background, it will be stopped and you will be notified. To check interim output, use Read on that file path.
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17

Stop stuck wait loop and check refit output

+40:27
Recorded reasoning 50 words

Oops, the pgrep loop matched itself again since the command text includes "stage test." With only about 13 minutes left, I need to kill that background loop, confirm test_run2 finished, then run the final 4-epoch refit directly, which should take about 2 minutes with the cached build and 8 threads.

Tool callBashStop stuck wait loop and check refit output Error

Tool call · Input

pkill -f "while pgrep" ; grep -v Warn /app/solution/cache/test_run2.log | tail -1; ls -la /app/solution/cache/*.parquet /app/solution/*.parquet; pgrep -af twotower.py | grep -v pgrep | cut -c1-80

Tool response · Tool error

Exit code 144
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18

Check refit output files and time

+40:32
Tool callBashCheck refit output files and time Returned

Tool call · Input

grep -v Warn /app/solution/cache/test_run2.log | tail -1; ls -la /app/solution/cache/*.parquet /app/solution/*.parquet; ls /app/solution/README.md; date

Tool response

08:49:10 wrote /app/solution/cache/submission_share.parquet (845600, 3)
-rw-r--r-- 1 agent agent 1511992 Oct  3 08:44 /app/solution/cache/submission_run1.parquet
-rw-r--r-- 1 agent agent 1402631 Oct  3 08:49 /app/solution/cache/submission_share.parquet
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-rw-r--r-- 1 agent agent 1285163 Oct  3 08:48 /app/solution/cache/val_share_e4.parquet
-rw-r--r-- 1 agent agent 1511992 Oct  3 08:37 /app/solution/submission.parquet
-rw-r--r-- 1 agent agent 1514699 Oct  3 08:20 /app/solution/validation.parquet
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Sat Oct  3 08:53:42 UTC 2026
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19

Promote shared-config submission, run final 4-epoch refit, validate and promote

+40:39
Recorded reasoning 39 words

With time running low, I should promote submission_share.parquet (val 0.0225) as the current safe submission now, then kick off the final refit with 8 threads, writing to a cache file first and validating it before overwriting the real submission.

Tool callBashPromote shared-config submission, run final 4-epoch refit, validate and promote Returned

Tool call · Input

cp cache/submission_share.parquet submission.parquet && cp cache/val_share_e4.parquet validation.parquet && timeout 420 python twotower.py --stage test --epochs 4 --share 1 --outfile /app/solution/cache/submission_share_e4.parquet 2>&1 | grep -v Warn | tail -2; python - <<'EOF'
import sys, pandas as pd, numpy as np
sys.path.insert(0,'/task')
from ranking_evaluation import CandidateSet, validate_ranking
p='/app/solution/cache/submission_share_e4.parquet'
df=pd.read_parquet(p); t=set(pd.read_parquet('/task/data/target_users.parquet').uid.astype(int))
f=validate_ranking(df,t); cs=CandidateSet('/task/data/test_eligible_candidates.npz')
ok=all(cs.is_eligible(u,i) for u,i in f[['uid','item_id']].itertuples(index=False,name=None))
print('valid', ok, f.shape)
if ok:
    import shutil; shutil.copy(p,'/app/solution/submission.parquet'); print('promoted')
EOF
ls -la /app/solution/submission.parquet; date

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Tool response

08:56:03 epoch 3 loss 9.1183
08:56:07 wrote /app/solution/cache/submission_share_e4.parquet (845600, 3)
valid True (845600, 3)
promoted
-rw-r--r-- 1 agent agent 1177353 Oct  3 08:56 /app/solution/submission.parquet
Sat Oct  3 08:56:10 UTC 2026
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20

List deliverables and confirm validation score

+43:04

Model text

The final submission is written and validated. Quick last check that the README's reproduce command matches and the deliverables are in place.

Tool callBashList deliverables and confirm validation score Returned

Tool call · Input

ls -la /app/solution/ && python /task/evaluate_public.py /app/solution/validation.parquet | tail -4

Tool response

total 2444
drwxr-xr-x 1 agent agent    4096 Oct  3 08:48 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 agent agent    4096 Oct  3 08:08 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 agent agent    2691 Oct  3 08:48 README.md
drwxr-xr-x 2 agent agent    4096 Oct  3 08:56 cache
-rw-r--r-- 1 agent agent 1177353 Oct  3 08:56 submission.parquet
-rw-r--r-- 1 agent agent   15024 Oct  3 08:41 twotower.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 agent agent 1285163 Oct  3 08:53 validation.parquet
    "quality_ndcg@10": 0.023295,
    "quality_users": 4263
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21

Final response

+43:22

Model text

Done. The final submission is at /app/solution/submission.parquet, validated against the test eligibility sets, with code and README alongside it.

What was built (/app/solution/twotower.py)

  • User tower: attention-pooled embeddings of the user's 160 most recent distinct positive items, each slot augmented with log-count and log-age features, plus mean-pooled recent dislikes and an activity scalar, fed through an MLP to a 64-dim vector. No user-ID lookup.
  • Item tower: catalog item embedding shared with the user tower's history table, plus log-popularity and organic-share features, through an MLP to 64 dims. Item vectors are saved offline for maximum inner-product search.
  • Training: eight sliding 7-day windows. History before each cutoff predicts organic likes (weight 3) and organic 80%+ listens (weight 1) in the next week, restricted to never-interacted catalog items to mirror the eligibility rule. The loss is a weighted multi-positive softmax over the full 30k catalog with previously interacted items masked. No user-item matrix is built.

Validation results (graded NDCG@10 over 4263 users)

ConfigScore
Popularity baseline0.0107
Two-tower, 6 epochs0.0221
Two-tower, 6 epochs, shared catalog embedding0.0225
Two-tower, 4 epochs, shared embedding (selected)0.0233
Two-tower, 12 epochs0.0163

Longer training overfit the item embeddings, so the shorter schedule was chosen. The selected config was refit on train plus validation events and used for the final ranking.

Caveats

  • Two wait loops matched their own command lines and cost about fifteen minutes, so only a handful of hyperparameter variants were explored. Likely further gains: larger history vocabulary, in-window recency-weighted popularity features, and a per-user temperature or normalization.
  • Earlier submission variants are kept in /app/solution/cache/ for reference.
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fable51-high-2-1-288-base-r05-20261003T075109Z
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