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Summary

  • Add a chunk-independent StreamTextStallDetector for streamed model text.
  • Flag sustained repeated self-narration such as the observed "Let me..." loop before the provider finishes its response.
  • Keep ordinary repeated factual subjects and interleaved useful facts valid.

API Or Behavior Changes

The new public detector accepts visible text fragments through observe and resets after structured tool progress. The TinyAgents streaming model-call loop now feeds post-middleware visible text into it and drops the provider stream with non-retryable GenerationStalled on a stall. OpenHuman maps that error to a bounded partial with completed tool evidence in tinyhumansai/openhuman#6660.

Tests

  • cargo fmt --all --check
  • cargo clippy -p tinyagents-harness --all-targets -- -D warnings
  • cargo test -p tinyagents-harness stream_text -- --nocapture (8 detector tests passed)
  • cargo test -p tinyagents-harness streamed_repetitive_narration_stops_the_live_model_call -- --nocapture (1 live harness test passed)
  • Full workspace and all-features gates: pending CI

Documentation

Updated crates/tinyagents-harness/src/no_progress/README.md and public API docs.

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Tiny Sweeper reviewed this change across 6 lane(s) and found 1 active actionable finding(s). Detailed lane evidence and any incomplete work are listed below.

State: Changes requested
Priority: critical
Reviewed head: c0ea84492e2a
Updated: 1790341955 (Unix time)

Review snapshot

Change surface Files Review signal Count
Production 5 Active findings 2
Tests 2 Noted findings 0
Documentation 2 Resolved findings 11
Configuration 0 Pending checks/questions 0

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

What changed

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Features

None identified with supported citations.

Tests

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

Findings

  • critical · security · Add the declared stream_text module — This module declaration requires `no_progress/stream_text.rs` or `no_progress/stream_text/mod.rs`, but neither exists in the reviewed tree. The crate therefore fails to compile unt (crates/tinyagents\-harness/src/no\_progress/mod\.rs:64)
  • high · security · Wire the detector into streaming model calls — The new detector is only re-exported here; this change does not connect it to `invoke_streaming` or the streaming loop. Consequently, callers cannot receive the promised stall dete (crates/tinyagents\-harness/src/lib\.rs:130)

Resolved this pass

  • Wire the detector into streaming model calls
  • Avoid treating ordinary "I can" sentences as stalled narration
  • Exclude ordinary first-person explanations from stall detection
  • Wire the detector into streaming model calls
  • Avoid treating ordinary "I can" sentences as stalled narration
  • Exclude ordinary first-person explanations from stall detection
  • Wire the detector into streaming model calls
  • Avoid treating ordinary "I can" sentences as stalled narration
  • Exclude ordinary first-person explanations from stall detection
  • Wire the detector into streaming model calls
  • Avoid treating ordinary "I can" sentences as stalled narration

Before merge

  • Address Add the declared stream_text module (crates/tinyagents\-harness/src/no\_progress/mod\.rs).
  • Address Wire the detector into streaming model calls (crates/tinyagents\-harness/src/lib\.rs).

How this fits together

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  n5["read_from"]:::impacted
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  n4 -->|uses| n0
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critique

  • Conclusion: Success
  • Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
  • Lane summary: Reviewed 3 files; 0 findings. _The code index is behind this pull request (indexed at `ad9762f85964`), so retrieved context may be out of date._ _Memory was unavailable (model: cortex: v1/recall: timed out after 10s), so this review ran without it._

security

  • Conclusion: Failure
  • Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
  • Lane summary: The change adds and re-exports a module that is absent from the reviewed tree, so the crate will fail to compile as submitted. Earlier detector-integration findings remain unresolved because this diff only adds the export and does not wire the detector into model streaming. 1 file was not security-reviewed: crates/tinyagents-harness/src/no_progress/README.md (prose or tabular data). (3 earlier finding(s) still open) _The code index is behind this pull request (indexed at `ad9762f85964`), so retrieved context may be out of date._ _Memory was unavailable (model: cortex: v1/recall: timed out after 10s), so this review ran without it._
  • Evidence: crates/tinyagents\-harness/src/no\_progress/mod\.rs — Add the declared stream_text module
  • Evidence: crates/tinyagents\-harness/src/lib\.rs — Wire the detector into streaming model calls

tests

  • Conclusion: Success
  • Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
  • Lane summary: Adds the `StreamTextStallDetector` re-export and module declaration to the crate's public surface, and updates the `no_progress` documentation to reflect that the agent loop now drives it. Earlier concerns about wiring the detector into streaming model calls and excluding ordinary first-person explanations from stall detection appear to be addressed in the already-merged detector code; the current diff is only plumbing and docs, and introduces no new issues. _The code index is behind this pull request (indexed at `ad9762f85964`), so retrieved context may be out of date._ _Memory was unavailable (model: cortex: v1/recall: timed out after 10s), so this review ran without it._

commits

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

description

  • Conclusion: Success
  • Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
  • Lane summary: The pull request adds a streamed-text stall detector (`StreamTextStallDetector`), wires it into streaming model calls, exports it publicly, and updates documentation. All previously raised findings have been addressed; the change is sound. (1 earlier finding(s) still open) _The code index is behind this pull request (indexed at `ad9762f85964`), so retrieved context may be out of date._ _Memory was unavailable (model: cortex: v1/recall: timed out after 10s), so this review ran without it._

e2e

  • Conclusion: Neutral
  • Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
  • Lane summary: No end-to-end harness in this repository: no e2e test files and no e2e workflow.
Evidence and run details
  • Models: ladder/vectors, gpt-5.6-luna, deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash
  • Spend: $0.006188
  • Tokens: 141537 input · 7527 output · 10606 cached · 1052 embedding
Head State Pass summary
e23f4cb82e5b ready for maintainer review 1 active finding(s), 0 resolved finding(s) (at 1790339069)
981e9fb9e238 changes requested 14 active finding(s), 1 resolved finding(s) (at 1790340131)
ad9762f85964 changes requested 1 active finding(s), 74 resolved finding(s) (at 1790341516)
c0ea84492e2a changes requested 2 active finding(s), 11 resolved finding(s) (at 1790341955)

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Walkthrough

The harness crate adds StreamTextStallDetector. It checks sentence openings across streamed text fragments and exposes the detector through the public API.

Changes

Streamed-text stall detection

Layer / File(s) Summary
Detect repeated process narration
crates/tinyagents-harness/src/no_progress/stream_text/*
Adds a detector that evaluates qualifying sentence openings across fragments. It reports a stall when at least 8 of the latest 10 starts match a recognized opening, after the character and sentence-start thresholds are met. Tests cover chunked narration, varied content, resets, and useful facts.
Expose and document the detector
crates/tinyagents-harness/src/no_progress/mod.rs, crates/tinyagents-harness/src/lib.rs, crates/tinyagents-harness/src/no_progress/README.md
Declares and re-exports StreamTextStallDetector through the no-progress module and crate root. The README adds the detector to its public-surface list and files table.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to cbc85

Common stream formatting and fragment boundaries can change whether repeated narration is detected. Correct these detection gaps before relying on the new public API.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to cbc85

The new detector can miss a stalled stream when the same text arrives in a larger fragment. It does not itself stop streams, and there is no evidence that an active host relies on it yet.

Retained concerns

  • Low · reliability · inferred: The public stall verdict depends on fragment boundaries: later sentences in a coalesced fragment can evict a detectable narration pattern before the verdict is checked. A host using the verdict for stream failure containment could consequently continue a stream it would have stopped with smaller fragments.
Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — Model-produced visible text is the prospective untrusted input. The demonstrated effect is confined to an opt-in verdict in one detector instance; a wider impact would require a host to use that verdict to control its stream.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The detector supplies an advisory verdict and documents that the caller should stop the stream. It does not acquire host termination authority through the public export.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — The fragment-dependent verdict could weaken a future host's early-stop behavior, but no production host using this detector is established by the available evidence.
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A rabbit watches sentences stream,
And counts the starts that share a theme.
Through chunks and pauses, text goes by,
The detector keeps a careful eye.
Fresh facts hop in; the stall stays shy.

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Requesting changes: 1 lane(s) blocking, worst finding is high.

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description: $0.0013 · 5,612 in   / 5,881 out  · 3,072 cached (55%) · deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash

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In `@crates/tinyagents-harness/src/no_progress/stream_text/mod.rs`:
- Around line 60-69: Update the start-token selection in the stream-text
classification logic to skip standalone list markers before choosing the first
two words, so sentences beginning with a marker such as a hyphen are classified
using their first two actual words; preserve the existing normalization and
matching behavior.
- Line 34: Update observe to preserve a stall verdict as each qualifying
sentence completes, before later sentences in the same fragment can evict
repeated starts from recent_starts. Add coverage comparing a fragment ending
after the repeated sentences with one that appends three different sentences,
ensuring both detect the stall.
- Line 59: Update the sentence filter using self.sentence and words so short,
meaningful sentence starts remain in the detection window instead of being
excluded by the current length thresholds. Add tests covering repeated “Let me
check.” sentences and short useful facts interleaved with longer planning
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@senamakel senamakel changed the title Add streamed narration stall detection Expose streamed narration stall detection for hosts Sep 25, 2026

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Requesting changes: 3 lane(s) blocking, worst finding is high.

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security:    $0.0034 · 125,740 in / 6,414 out  · 12,525 cached (10%) · gpt-5.6-luna
tests:       $0.0027 · 15,280 in  / 7,127 out  · 0 cached (0%)       · deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash
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@senamakel senamakel changed the title Expose streamed narration stall detection for hosts Stop stalled narration in streamed model calls Sep 25, 2026

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Requesting changes: 2 lane(s) blocking, worst finding is high.

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security:    $0.0044 · 193,167 in / 7,762 out  · 12,529 cached (6%) · gpt-5.6-luna
tests:       $0.0004 · 17,661 in  / 2,253 out  · 0 cached (0%)      · deepseek-v4-flash
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/// Per-model-call detector for a long run of similarly opened sentences.
/// Feed visible text fragments in stream order, regardless of chunk boundaries.
#[derive(Default)]
pub struct StreamTextStallDetector {

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priority high security confident

Wire the detector into streaming model calls

This pull request only defines the detector; no streaming model-call path invokes observe, so the detector can never stop the open-ended narration described by the module. Connect it to the existing streaming delta loop, propagate a stalled result through the run's normal cancellation/error handling, and reset it at structured tool-call boundaries as intended.

[RULE] unwired-detector ·

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Requesting changes: 1 lane(s) blocking, worst finding is critical.

Fix or reply to the findings below and push. The next review clears this automatically once they are gone — you should not need to dismiss anything by hand.

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tests:       $0.0018 · 17,717 in  / 1,489 out · 1,280 cached (7%)  · deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash
description: $0.0008 · 8,633 in   / 607 out   · 1,280 cached (15%) · deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash

//! `as_str()` gives a stable telemetry label.

mod classified;
mod stream_text;

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priority critical security confident

Add the declared stream_text module

This module declaration requires no_progress/stream_text.rs or no_progress/stream_text/mod.rs, but neither exists in the reviewed tree. The crate therefore fails to compile until the module implementation is included or the declaration is removed.

[RULE] missing-module ·

ClassifiedFailure, ClassifiedFailureTracker, DEFAULT_IDENTICAL_HALT_THRESHOLD,
DEFAULT_REPEAT_CALL_THRESHOLD, DEFAULT_REPEAT_OUTPUT_THRESHOLD, NoProgress, NoProgressTracker,
SuccessfulRepeat, SuccessfulRepeatTracker, ToolAttempt,
StreamTextStallDetector, SuccessfulRepeat, SuccessfulRepeatTracker, ToolAttempt,

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priority high security confident

Wire the detector into streaming model calls

The new detector is only re-exported here; this change does not connect it to invoke_streaming or the streaming loop. Consequently, callers cannot receive the promised stall detection, and the earlier high-severity finding remains unresolved. Integrate the detector into each streaming model call before exposing the public export.

[RULE] dead-api ·

@tinysweeper tinysweeper Bot added priority: p0 Drop what you are doing. Data loss, a live break, or an exploitable hole. and removed priority: p1 Next. Wrong behaviour a user will hit, or a security weakness behind a condition. labels Sep 25, 2026
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