Splits the flat outer-search comparator (-n_fails, fitness) into a tiered
(-n_hard, -n_soft, fitness) so search budget stops being spent polishing
SOFT shape fails (crinkliness/proportion/size/width/edge-too-long/
staircase-volume) while HARD structural fails (missing space, wrong/
required level, level/circulation/vertical connectivity, adjacency,
stairs, covered-outside, storey limits, public access) remain unfixed.
fitness.classify_fail_tier/tier_counts classify every fail string emitted
across fitness.py and graph.py, raising on anything unrecognised so new
fail sites must declare a tier. Validated against all real fail strings in
the checked-in corpus plus every fail-emission call site read from source.
driver.Individual gains n_hard/n_soft (populated from innerloop.Result.
fail_lines); search(use_tiers=...) swaps the comparator when set (default
off, so existing runs are unaffected — inner-loop 0.5^n cliff untouched).
evolve.py exposes --use-tiers / HOMEMAKER_USE_TIERS.
experiments/tier_ab_2g7_3.py runs the acceptance A/B (harbor+maple, 3
seeds, 20k evals) in the background; results pending.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LSwQwpEaHFBkeVSDDWd75S
