check_space_counts emitted, per missing room instance, two base failures
plus one placeholder for each optional key the author happened to type --
has_size/has_width/has_proportion are literally "size" in c from the YAML.
So a missing room cost 3, 4 or 5 fails depending on nothing but how
verbosely its space was written, and under value *= 0.5 ** len(failures)
that is a 4x difference in penalty between two single rooms. The tiered
comparator inherits it directly, since n_hard is dominated by these
cascades -- the search's primary key was partly a measure of config style.
The two paths disagreed about the same room. A PRESENT room is checked on
all three qualities regardless of declaration: get_space_params fills width
and proportion from defaults, deriving width from size when absent, so
programme-house's t2 declares size: alone and still gets a real width
target of 1.633 it can fail on. Missing, it emitted one placeholder where
b1 emitted three. The cascade stands in for the checks that could not run,
and it stood in for the wrong number of them.
Fix: emit all three placeholders always -- a fixed 5 per missing instance,
mirroring the present-room path. 36 of 67 corpus codes were under-counted.
Max weight ratio between two single rooms 4x -> 1x (programme-house),
2x -> 1x (harbor, maple).
This makes fail counts LARGER and that is the point; it is a correctness
fix, not an improvement. harbor evolved-3M-nols-3 82 -> 84, generated
155 -> 174, evolved-3M 131 -> 144; maple generated unchanged (no missing
instances).
NOT taken: 1i8's other option, one fail per instance with the placeholders
informational. It fixes the verbosity dependence too but silently rescales
a missing room from 1/32 to 1/2, the same weight as one crinkliness fail.
Whether it SHOULD cost 1/32 is a real and separate question; bundling it
here would change the objective's priorities under cover of a bug fix.
Magnitude left exactly where it was, filed as homemaker-py-3i3.
Every historical corpus fail count is invalidated again, on top of 39.4 and
38.10/38.11 -- which is why the cold-start re-baseline belongs after the
objective work, not before it.
Closes homemaker-py-1i8.
Lint at parity (46); tests 379 passed (3 new), 0 failed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MJ84Feep79Hhm3E4zZJmnB
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