homemaker-layout/CLAUDE.md
Claude d0567d7a74
Remove the Perl oracle
Owner's decision: "we need to abandon the perl oracle, this was only useful
when initially porting, but I suspect many of the remaining problems have been
carried in from the perl (such as the weird scoring of outdoor and circulation
space, which definitely needs fixing)".

39 supports that second clause. Every defect the section found is inherited,
not introduced: the two-sided crinkliness gaussian that double-charges surplus
daylight (39.14), quality as a product over a variable number of factors
(39.18), value_supported priced as value_inside so a terrace was worth more per
m2 than a room (39.19), and circulation returning 0.07 per unit cost (hxi).

So parity with the oracle was never a safety net -- it was a commitment to
reproduce those defects. Each of 39.14, 39.18 and 39.19 would have been a
parity failure had parity ever been checked, and keeping the tests would have
meant reverting the fixes or explaining the failures away.

Removed: oracle.py, test_oracle.py, the two parity tests and their fixture
machinery in test_dom_corpus.py, innerloop.OracleEvaluator with its use_native
and urb_root plumbing, the same plumbing through driver, and fourteen
experiments/ scripts that could only run against Perl. Several of those are
cited in earlier DESIGN sections; the citations now point into git history,
which is the honest state -- they had been unrunnable since the oracle root
(/home/bruno/src/urb) stopped being present. run_search is superseded by
run_search_scaled, which does the same job natively.

Kept: dump_areas.pl/.py, which validate GEOMETRY against Urb (4.1) rather than
fitness, and the prose in fitness_cmd.py and dom.py explaining why the
.score/.fails formats are shaped as they are. Provenance is worth keeping; a
dead code path is not.

CLAUDE.md updated: fitness.py is the only evaluator, and "Urb did it this way"
is no longer an argument that a constant is right. 39.16 is the standing
counterweight in the other direction -- the crinkliness target WAS right and
twice looked wrong only because the code reading it was misunderstood.
Inheritance is neither evidence for nor against.

410 passed. The 69 removed cases account exactly: 64 parity (all skipped, since
no oracle .score was ever committed), 4 in test_oracle.py, and the guard test
39.20 added as a stopgap.

Closes homemaker-py-118. Files homemaker-py-bk9 for the re-baseline that 39.19
made necessary.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MJ84Feep79Hhm3E4zZJmnB
2026-09-06 07:56:24 +00:00

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Project Instructions for AI Agents

This file provides instructions and context for AI coding agents working on this project.

Beads Issue Tracker

This project uses bd (beads) for issue tracking. Run bd prime to see full workflow context and commands.

Quick Reference

bd ready              # Find available work
bd show <id>          # View issue details
bd update <id> --claim  # Claim work
bd close <id>         # Complete work

Rules

  • Use bd for ALL task tracking — do NOT use TodoWrite, TaskCreate, or markdown TODO lists
  • Run bd prime for detailed command reference and session close protocol
  • Use bd remember for persistent knowledge — do NOT use MEMORY.md files

Room-code namespaces (DESIGN.md §39.4/§39.6)

Leaf types share a first character across three namespaces:

  • C / O / S — generic structural types (circulation / outside / sahn), uppercase, reserved. A programme code spelled exactly one of these is rejected at load.
  • programme room codes — lowercase, may start with any letter. The generic tests match C/O/S exactly, so cr1 is a room, not circulation.
  • usage: — every space declares its access-requirement class (living/kitchen/bedroom/toilet/utility/none), mandatory, no fallback (DESIGN.md §39.7). A code's spelling decides nothing: name: is free text, usage: drives behaviour. There is no first-character type test left anywhere in the codebase.

When adding or editing a programme, run python experiments/audit_programme_config.py — it reports reserved-name collisions, the usage class each code picks up, and per-room-spec satisfiability.

Session Completion

When ending a work session, you MUST complete ALL steps below. Work is NOT complete until git push succeeds.

MANDATORY WORKFLOW:

  1. File issues for remaining work - Create issues for anything that needs follow-up
  2. Run quality gates (if code changed) - Tests, linters, builds
  3. Update issue status - Close finished work, update in-progress items
  4. PUSH TO REMOTE - This is MANDATORY:
    git pull --rebase
    bd dolt push
    git push
    git status  # MUST show "up to date with origin"
    
  5. Clean up - Clear stashes, prune remote branches
  6. Verify - All changes committed AND pushed
  7. Hand off - Provide context for next session

CRITICAL RULES:

  • Work is NOT complete until git push succeeds
  • NEVER stop before pushing - that leaves work stranded locally
  • NEVER say "ready to push when you are" - YOU must push
  • If push fails, resolve and retry until it succeeds

Build & Test

pip install -e .
pytest

Architecture Overview

homemaker-layout is a Python successor to the Perl Urb project. It represents a building as a binary slicing tree where leaves carry target dimensions from the programme and division ratios are solved bottom-up (inverting Urb's top-down approach). The evolutionary search explores topology, types, and adjacency only.

Key modules:

  • dom.py — read/write Urb .dom YAML into a Node tree
  • geometry.py — faithful port of Urb's top-down geometry
  • programme.py — parse patterns.config space requirements
  • solver.py — bottom-up ratio solve (scipy)
  • shapecurve.py — Otten/Stockmeyer shape-curve DP: exact size/width/proportion feasibility for a frozen topology, any storey count (DESIGN.md §37.2/§37.4-§37.6); used as driver._evaluate's NM warm-start/hard pre-filter
  • cpsat.py — exact room-code-to-leaf labelling via OR-Tools CP-SAT for a fixed topology (DESIGN.md §37.7); replaces operators._assign_adjacency_aware's greedy/beam room placement behind assign_solver="cpsat", and powers the operators.mutate_reassign in-search repair operator
  • fitness.py — native Python fitness evaluator (replaces Perl oracle)
  • fitness_cmd.pyhomemaker-fitness CLI entry point
  • collapse_cmd.pyhomemaker-collapse CLI: finish-time global cell→room collapse (94g)
  • graph.py — leaf-adjacency graph for programme-driven fitness checks
  • genome.py — topology genome: base-floor tree + per-storey deltas
  • operators.py — high-locality mutation and subtree crossover
  • innerloop.py — ratio optimisation inner loop (Nelder-Mead / CMA-ES)
  • driver.py — memetic search outer loop
  • evolve.pyhomemaker-evolve CLI entry point
  • bubble.py — 3D bubble-diagram adjacency fitness-signal prototype (DESIGN.md §27, mi7); validated NULL, not wired into fitness.py — reference only, do not build on without a new formulation

Conventions & Patterns

Scoring .dom files

Use the native homemaker-fitness command. Like the old urb-fitness.pl, you must cd to the directory containing the .dom file first — the tool resolves patterns.config, costs.config, and writes .score/.fails relative to cwd:

cd /home/bruno/src/homemaker-layout/examples/programme-house
homemaker-fitness cf0b8a77e8b2325f92a7e7d150184a55.dom

The score is written to <file>.dom.score and failures to <file>.dom.fails; the numeric score is also printed to stderr.

fitness.py is the only evaluator. The Perl oracle it was ported from — oracle.py, urb-fitness.pl, and the parity tests against them — is gone (DESIGN.md §39.21). Those parity tests had never actually run: no oracle .score was ever committed, so on a clean checkout every case skipped, and the only cases that ever executed compared the native scorer with itself (§39.20).

The corollary matters when reading the objective: a constant or a rule that looks odd is not thereby validated by "Urb did it this way". Several defects found in §39 were carried straight over from the Perl — see §39.19 on value_supported, and homemaker-py-hxi on circulation, which the owner has ruled needs fixing.