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fix(browser): correct unmade click claims - #407
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#402.sentient/agent/loop.pyrecords current-turn and storedbrowser_clickoutcomes. It applies the correction before final persistence and streaming completion, including at the step limit.sentient/agent/outcomes.pydetects unsupported click claims and preserves negated or third-party claims. Focused tests cover never-made, declined, failed, latest-outcome, persistence, streaming, and chat-history cases. The requested real-WS and Sonnet checks are validation activities, not coding requirements.
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- Line 905: Ensure run_loop checks unmade browser-click claims on the step-limit
path as well as when the model makes no tool calls. Apply
unmade_browser_click_note to the accumulated text and result.browser_clicks
before assigning result.text on that path, or route final replies through a
shared check, while preserving the existing correction behavior.
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- Line 308: Update the click-claim validation branch using `clicks` so each
result retains its clicked target, and accept a claim only when a successful
result matches the target named in that claim; a successful click on a different
button must not validate it.
- Line 312: Update the click outcome reporting around the return that checks
clicks so an error after execution starts reports that the click could not be
confirmed, rather than asserting it did not occur. Preserve “I couldn't click
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| if not _BROWSER_CLICK_CLAIM.search(text or ""): | ||
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Do not use one successful click to validate every click claim.
If a turn declines a click on button A and later clicks button B, this branch accepts “I clicked button A” without a correction. It has evidence only that B was clicked. Keep the clicked target with each result and match the claim to that target before treating a successful call as proof.
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Update the click-claim validation branch using `clicks` so each result retains
its clicked target, and accept a claim only when a successful result matches the
target named in that claim; a successful click on a different button must not
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Thanks. I verified the concern, but did not add target matching in this focused fix: browser_click currently records a transient snapshot ref, whereas the final natural-language claim uses a human-facing label. Matching those strings would be unreliable and could itself certify the wrong action. This PR therefore keeps its narrow contract: reconcile whether a click was attempted/succeeded, and correct absent, declined, or uncertain outcomes. Reliable semantic target matching needs snapshot-label provenance and is better handled separately.
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@syedmustafan Thanks for clarifying. A transient snapshot ref cannot reliably match a human-facing label without snapshot-label provenance. Keeping semantic target validation separate from this focused fix is reasonable.
The multi-target concern remains valid but deferred. Would you like me to open a follow-up issue for provenance-backed target matching?
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Learning: In Sentient, browser_click records a transient snapshot ref, while final natural-language click claims use human-facing labels. Direct string matching between these values is unreliable. Reliable semantic target validation requires snapshot-label provenance; turn-level click outcome reconciliation does not establish which target a claim refers to.
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Thanks for picking this up so quickly, @syedmustafan! I've approved the CI run and I'm testing it end to end now: local pages with qwen3:8b and Claude, covering declined, never-made and real clicks. I'll follow up with a review. |
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Thanks @syedmustafan, this catches what #402 is about. I ran it over a real engine against local pages with a free Subscribe, a Delete account and a priced Buy button. The page server logs real clicks.
qwen3:8b, 23 turns over 5 fresh homes:
- False claims: 3, and all 3 were corrected. Two were "the subscription button was clicked" after I declined. One said "I clicked the Subscribe button… your subscription is now set up" when it had only opened the page.
- Real clicks: 3 that I allowed, none corrected. 👍
- Honest replies corrected: 2.
- "The Subscribe button hasn't been clicked yet" got "Correction: I haven't clicked anything yet."
- "The Subscribe button wasn't clicked. The action was declined." got "Correction: I didn't click it: you declined."
Claude (sonnet): no false claims, and the allowed click wasn't corrected. Two wrong corrections, though:
- "No, I didn't click it, you declined, so it was never clicked." got "Correction: I haven't clicked anything yet." (A click had been attempted and declined.)
- A chat with no tools at all, about a friend who "clicked a link in a phishing email", got "Correction: I haven't clicked anything yet."
Could you:
- Skip negations and other people's clicks: not, didn't, hasn't, wasn't, haven't, never, and "you/she/they clicked".
- Only check when it applies: when the turn used the browser, or when the reply says the assistant clicked ("I clicked", "clicked it", "clicked the …").
- Look back at the chat's last click, so a claim the turn after a decline says "you declined", not "I haven't clicked anything yet".
- Word it so the user knows nothing happened. After "Your subscription is now set up", "Correction: I haven't clicked anything yet" still leaves people unsure whether they're subscribed. Something like "Correction: I didn't click it, so nothing changed on the page." would be clearer.
- Add a CHANGELOG entry under Unreleased > Fixed, since users see this.
Streamed text, the saved message and what channels and voice get all matched in every run, so that part is solid. A tiny nit: text_acc.rstrip() at loop.py:906 could make the saved text differ from the streamed text if a reply ends in whitespace.
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- Line 1744: Update the `result.browser_clicks` population around
`browser_click_history(history)` so historical successes are not treated as
click evidence for the current turn. Keep current-turn click evidence separate,
and consult history only when interpreting an explicit reference to an earlier
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- Line 60: Update _ASSISTANT_BROWSER_CLICK so matches require an explicit
assistant subject, including for “clicked the” claims; do not match third-party
actions such as “The customer clicked the link.” Preserve correction behavior
for assistant-attributed click claims.
- Around line 314-315: Update the click-claim handling around
_NEGATED_BROWSER_CLICK and _OTHER_PERSON_BROWSER_CLICK so negation and
attribution apply only to the claims they qualify, not the entire reply.
Continue checking other affirmative claims against recorded clicks and correct
any unsupported self-attributed click instead of returning early for the whole
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@itsskofficial Thanks for the careful end-to-end testing and concrete cases. All five requested changes are now implemented in a14b47d, including the changelog entry and preserving streamed whitespace. I also addressed the subsequent CodeRabbit review in 6aada6f: prior click history is now separate from current-turn evidence, no-tool correction requires an explicit assistant subject, and negation/third-party handling is clause-specific. Validation: focused browser-click tests pass (5 passed), Ruff and diff checks pass. The complete Please let me know if your end-to-end run finds any remaining mismatch. |
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108-119: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAdd a WebSocket integration test for the browser-click correction.
This test invokes
s.agentdirectly and checks backend events and persistence. It does not exercise the local-pages-over-WebSocket path or assert the final client-visible message. A regression at the/wsdelivery boundary could therefore leave the client with the unsupported click claim while this test passes. Add a gateway test that sends the request through/wsand asserts the correction in the final event.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Heads-up, @syedmustafan: we just switched changelog entries to one file per change (#418). For the entry I mentioned, add |
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@itsskofficial Thanks for the heads-up. Updated in the latest commit: removed the direct |
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Thanks @syedmustafan, really nice progress! I re-ran it over a real engine against the local pages, where the page server logs real clicks.
- The honest replies from last time are all left alone now: "hasn't been clicked", "wasn't clicked. The action was declined", Sonnet's "No, I didn't click it, you declined", the phishing chat, and a new "my sister clicked Buy".
- qwen3:8b (23 turns): 2 of 3 false claims were corrected, real clicks were never touched, and the new wording reads clearly in the app. 🙌
One blocker: a true reply about a real click got corrected. Sonnet clicked Subscribe; it was allowed and the page logged it. Next turn I asked "Did you click it?" and got:
Yes, I clicked only the Subscribe button on Garden Notes, and the click succeeded. I didn't touch Delete account.
Correction: I didn't click it, so nothing changed on the page.
The look-back at earlier clicks (sentient/agent/outcomes.py, around the it|that|earlier|last|previous check) only runs when the reply contains one of those words, and this one didn't. Could it always look at the chat's last click when the current turn has none? A claim about a different button than the last click (e.g. "I clicked Delete account" after an allowed Subscribe) shouldn't count as proof either. Right now any earlier successful click does.
Smaller ones, fine as a follow-up if you'd rather:
- Passive claims ("was clicked") are only checked when the current turn called
browser_click. qwen said "the Subscribe button was clicked, but the action failed" on a "Did you click it?" turn right after a decline, and it went uncorrected. Checking passive claims whenever the chat's last click was declined would catch it. - "you" in
_OTHER_PERSON_BROWSER_CLICKhides "You're subscribed now: the Subscribe button was clicked". Perhaps match only "you clicked" directly. - Other wordings: "I've clicked" and "I just clicked" aren't caught, and a hypothetical ("If I clicked it, you'd be charged $19") gets corrected.
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@itsskofficial Thanks for re-running the real-engine cases. Addressed in c8529c6.
Focused browser-click tests: 5 passed; Ruff and diff checks pass. The full agent-loop file remains 13 passed with 2 unrelated sqlite-vec environment failures. |
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Thanks @syedmustafan, this round fixed the blocker! 🎉 Sonnet clicked Subscribe for real (the page logged it) and then answered "Yes, I clicked the Subscribe button… it registered successfully". That reply was left alone. All of these are corrected now:
- a claim about a different button;
- "I've clicked" and "I just clicked";
- a passive claim after a decline;
- "You're subscribed now: …was clicked".
The honest replies from round 1 all stay untouched, and it merges cleanly with today's main (152 tests pass on the merged result).
Two things are left, both small:
- Match the claim to the right click, not just the last one (
sentient/agent/outcomes.py~356-361). qwen clicked Subscribe (allowed), then tried Delete account (declined). Asked "What did you click today?", it answered truthfully: "I clicked the Subscribe button… and attempted to click Delete account, but the latter was declined." That got "Correction: I didn't click it: you declined." The same happens within one turn. When a claim names a button, could you look for the click with a matching target (this turn and history) and use its outcome, falling back to the last click only for "clicked it"? That would also stop a successful Subscribe click this turn from validating "I clicked Delete account". - Hypotheticals in the passive path (~345-351). "If I clicked it, you'd be charged $19" is still corrected whenever the chat has a click, because only the "I clicked" branch checks
_HYPOTHETICAL_BROWSER_CLICK. Applying it in the passive branch too (and covering "if it were clicked") should fix it.
A test with a real stored successful click in history followed by a declined one would cover both.
Minor, take or leave:
_claimed_click_targetonly reads the first "I clicked" in the reply;- matching on any shared word lets "account settings" match "Delete account";
- a stored click result that was shortened for length won't parse as JSON, so it reads as a failed click (
loop.py~322).
Nearly there!
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What and why
Closes #402.
Reconcile a completed assistant turn that claims a browser click with the browser_click tool calls made in that turn. When no click occurred, or the most recent click was declined or failed, the persisted final answer receives a concise correction.
How I tested it
./.venv/bin/python -m pytest -q tests/test_agent_loop.py -k browser_click— 3 passed./.venv/bin/ruff check sentient/agent/outcomes.py sentient/agent/loop.py tests/test_agent_loop.py./.venv/bin/ruff check sentient tests packaginggit diff --checkThe full
tests/test_agent_loop.pyrun had two unrelated failures because this local Python SQLite build lacksenable_load_extension, preventing sqlite-vec from loading.Checklist
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