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Summary

Adds an optional assessment mode so the simulator can run a graded, multi-level prompt-engineering task entirely in the browser. It turns on only when session.config.json has an assessment block. Without it, courses behave exactly as before.

Assessment mode

• Reference panel for materials, plus a level label, an intro line, and a "New level" banner. The page polls GET /api/assessment/stage and reloads when the level changes.
• Locked provided cases. The server supplies them and the browser can't edit them. Each has an include toggle, and candidates can add their own cases.
• New metrics:
  • field-match checks labeled Label: value lines.
  • custom-check has the judge apply the candidate's own PASS/FAIL criteria.
• Calibration. Test my check (POST /api/check/calibrate) compares the check with reviewer-labeled samples.
• Consistency per case and overall. Unreadable outputs never count as agreeing.
• Notes panel and run-cost estimate.
• Server-enforced limits: runs (up to 10), cases (up to 20), call budget, and prompt, criteria and notes length. Over-limit text shows a counter and an error instead of being truncated silently.
• Copy/paste measurement against the materials, using four-word phrases (lib/copy-detection.js), available to hidden tests. The submission report no longer prints a copy/paste verdict.
• Grader files. .codesignal/submission.json and .md plus evaluations.jsonl. lib/grading.js lets hidden tests re-run a saved prompt or check exactly the way the simulator scores it, so browser-reported scores are never trusted.
• Session restore. The session is rebuilt from submission.json when eval-session.json is missing.

Comparing provided prompts

For levels where the candidate judges prompts someone else wrote:

• Provided prompts: a level can provide a read-only Prompt A and/or Prompt B (assessment.promptA / promptB). The server always runs the provided text, whatever the request sends. History rows, logs and the submission report say which prompts were provided (promptAProvided, promptBProvided, version hashes).
• Locked candidate prompt: assessment.lockCandidatePrompt keeps the candidate's own prompt as they submitted it at the previous level. It is still graded and no longer editable, and the page shows it in a collapsed read-only panel. A provided A never replaces it, so a candidate can't paste a provided prompt into their graded one.
• Case-by-case comparison: after an A vs B run the page shows each prompt's score per label line, and every case's answers, runs right, flips and which prompt did better. It deliberately states no verdict, because deciding whether a gap is real is the candidate's work.
  • lib/compare-summary.js also computes a tally, a seeded paired-bootstrap range, an exact sign test and a verdict (better only when the range excludes zero and p < 0.05) for graders and the submission report.
  • With a custom check as the metric, the table shows what the check judged.
• Notes per level: assessment.notes.key keeps each level's notes separately, so a later level never overwrites an earlier one's. The server merges them and accepts only the current level's key.
• Judge failures: failed judge calls are left out of check calibration instead of counting as disagreement.

Tester feedback

• Reference messages: the Reference panel shows every material as an expanded message card, with From/Sent as a header, plus a list of titles at the top that jumps to each card. Nothing is hidden behind a toggle, so a short, newer message can't be missed under a long one.
• "How the custom check works": a new explainer says which model judges, what it is given and told, and what it answers. A test keeps it in line with CUSTOM_CHECK_SYSTEM_PROMPT.
• Score table with 5 runs: the per-run score table no longer runs into the stability line, or under the other prompt's card in compare mode.

Restoring submitted work

Progressive assessments re-grade earlier levels' work as it is now. To make an accidental edit recoverable, much like restoring a coding submission:

• Saved on Submit: lib/submitted-versions.js saves the scored fields (prompt, custom check criteria, notes) to .codesignal/submitted-versions.json each time the candidate submits. Own test cases are not saved.
• Restore menus: the simulator shows a Restore a submitted … menu under each field, newest first, with Undo. GET /api/assessment/submitted-versions serves the list.
• The submit hook goes in the task's hidden tests, not main.sh. This is unusual but deliberate. On CodeSignal, Submit runs the test runner in the live workspace with the hidden files readable, while Run executes main.sh with the hidden files moved away. A main.sh hook would therefore fire on every Run and never on Submit. The README and the module header document this.

Blind-review fixes (round 1)

• Provided cases: they keep their flag, so submission.md no longer reports them as the candidate's own ("0 + 11").
• Branding: assessment mode drops the course branding and uses an optional eyebrow line instead.
• Level change: a new level starts with an empty Results panel.
• Copy/paste: the flag now needs copied phrases to be at least half the text (was 40%). Quoting some memo lists alongside the candidate's own rules no longer zeroes the prompt.
• Autosave no longer fails silently on big sessions. Saves carried the last results, with a prompt copy per case, so they broke Express's 100 KB default and later edits never reached submission.json.
  • In every mode, courses included, the server now stores results itself, so autosave sends only the editable work. If the page hasn't saved yet, the first evaluation starts the session from the request.
  • The body limit is 5 MB as a safety net.
  • A failed save shows a retrying notice, and the level switch waits for a successful save.

Fixes for all modes

• Rejected temperature: the OpenAI provider retries without it. GPT-5 and GPT-6 accept only the default.
• LiteLLM proxies: when a proxy rejects reasoning_effort, the provider adds allowed_openai_params and remembers that for each provider.
• Reasoning effort: now configurable, none to max.
• Failed runs: the page shows "All N runs failed: " instead of "not scored". Judge errors are counted, not dropped silently.

Release pack

• What changed: npm run pack now also bundles the grading modules to their source paths under dist/lib/. That covers lib/grading.js, session-config.js, llm/provider.js, helpers.js, copy-detection.js, eval-compare.js, metrics/index.js, consistency.js and custom-check-calibration.js.
• Why: hidden tests import these by path, so a task can pin a release instead of shipping the source tree.
• How: the bundles use code splitting, so shared modules (and their state) exist once. eval-system-prompt.md sits beside them.
• Checks: the pack verifies that each module loads and that a prompt grades end to end.

Testing

• npm test: 419 tests pass (30 files), including new suites for config, metrics, consistency, store, view, grading, copy detection, the assessment API, comparison summaries and level changes.
• npm run build and npm run pack both succeed, and the pack's health check passes.
• Release with no node_modules: I extracted dist.tar.gz to a separate folder and loaded the modules the way the hidden grader does.
  • gradePrompt, gradeCustomCheck, loadCandidateWork, measureCopying and normalizeSessionConfig give the same results as the source tree.
  • One real gpt-6-luna call through the bundled provider returned a correct label.
• Restore menus checked in headless Chrome: the menus list submissions, Restore saves the restored text, and Undo works. I also ran the submit hook inside a real hidden mocha run; it saved one version and skipped an identical resubmission.
• Exercised on CodeSignal staging as a three-level progressive task. There, hidden tests re-run each submission through lib/grading.js behind the LLM proxy.

Notes for review

• No hidden data in this repo. Tests use synthetic fixtures only. Task data, answer keys and hidden specs live with the task, not here.
• README: the "Assessment mode" section documents the config.

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📝 Walkthrough

The pull request adds assessment-mode configuration, case selection, custom-check calibration, consistency reporting, candidate-work persistence, and hidden grading helpers. It adds server endpoints and browser controls for these workflows. Evaluation supports additional metrics, larger run and case limits, and optional reasoning-effort settings. The release packer bundles the grading modules and checks them with a stub-provider grading run.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 27f9a

Assessment mode is mostly sound. Two small issues should be followed up. Overlapping saves can occasionally fail to write, or leave a stale Markdown submission file. Some LiteLLM proxy setups will also make an extra failed request and drop the temperature setting. Neither issue blocks normal use.

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