β.6: demo dry-run + failure fallback (closes #6) by Rchari1 · Pull Request #11 · harmoniqs/amicode

Rchari1 · 2026-06-17T18:48:51Z

Closes #6 — the final β task. Makes the live demo robust and freezes the Phase-β contract. Stacked on #10 (β.4); base rchari/beta4-provisioning (retargets to main as the stack lands).

What & why

The live demo had one real failure mode (diagnosed on-machine): the agent ran amico-run synchronously, so the ~100 s Julia solve blew past opencode's ~120 s bash-tool timeout and any mid-turn message aborted the turn → "trouble running gates." This PR removes that, adds an on-site fallback, and freezes the contract.

1. Detached solve (`AGENTS.md`)

The agent now launches the solve detached and hands off to the Run Inspector — the bash tool returns in <1 s, no timeout:

( nohup amico-run --project <JULIA_PROJECT> /tmp/amicode-work/solve.jl > … 2>&1 < /dev/null & )

Portable (macOS + Linux): no setsid (Linux-only — it would silently break the Mac demo). Replaces both the synchronous run step and the blocking "quote the DONE line" step. A guard test (agents_md.test.ts) enforces the idiom (nohup + & ) + "Run Inspector"), forbids setsid, and forbids any "wait for the solve to finish".

2. Pre-baked replay fallback

demo/run/ bundles a real known-good transmon-X solve (F=0.99998, 60 iters, 7 frames; pulse.jld2 omitted). New command "Amicode: Replay demo run" (amicode.replayDemo) stages it via the pure, unit-tested stageDemoRun(demoDir, runsRoot) — fresh β.1 runId, manifest run_id rewritten, index appended, latest swung — and the existing watcher replays the converged solve with no Julia, no opencode, no creds. Ships in the VSIX (.vscodeignore !demo/**); packaging.test.ts now requires demo/run/.

3. Phase-β DoD

CONTRACT.md freezes + documents the run-dir layout, the provisional validate* schemas, and amico-run's exit codes (verified against cli.ts). DEMO_CHECKLIST.md is the pre-flight + live + DoD sign-off with a timings table. RUNBOOK.md gains a Fallback section.

Verification

Clean-room: rm -rf node_modules && pnpm install && build && typecheck && test → 45 amico-run + 33 extension green. VSIX packs (30 files, 39.7 MB); packaging assertion confirms all 11 demo/run/ files ship.
Detached-survival (mechanical, macOS): deterministic check — detached child reparents to PID 1 and survives both parent-shell exit and SIGHUP. Authoritative end-to-end: a real amico-run launched via the exact idiom, launcher exited, solve ran in the background and reached FINISHED{completed} F=0.9998 (92 s solve + cold precompile). The hard pgid-SIGKILL on tool teardown stays the acknowledged residual risk (no setsid on macOS, spec §7) — the replay fallback covers it; a killed solve shows "running", never a false completion.

Split (per spec §1)

The timed clean-machine live rehearsal + the chat→LLM hop is yours to run from DEMO_CHECKLIST.md (this PR ships the artifacts + checklist it fills in).

This completes the β phase (β.1–β.6).

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Rchari1 · 2026-06-17T18:51:21Z

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jack-champagne

Gave β.6 a look — runbook + fallback read well, CI green. Two demo-asset gaps stood out.

Must change (before demo day)

demo/run/ has no run.log, but the inspector reads run.log to build the stats row — so the replayed demo renders a blank stats row, which undercuts the 'exactly like a live solve' fallback. Bundle a real run.log (or soften that claim).
AGENTS.md step 2 copies to solve.jl but step 3 runs /tmp/amicode-work/solve.jl — author/run paths should match.

Taste / non-blocking

Q52 (detached launch) is effectively being set here — worth ratifying rather than closing-by-impl.

jack-champagne · 2026-06-19T04:37:31Z

+3. Run it **detached** so the chat doesn't block on the ~minutes-long solve:
+   ```bash
+   mkdir -p /tmp/amicode-work
+   ( nohup amico-run --project <JULIA_PROJECT> /tmp/amicode-work/solve.jl \


Step 2 copies to solve.jl but you run /tmp/amicode-work/solve.jl here — have step 2 write to that path so they match.

Fixed in e21539c (on #23, stacked above) — step 2 now writes /tmp/amicode-work/solve.jl, the exact path step 3 runs (mkdir -p /tmp/amicode-work && cp {{TEMPLATE_PATH}} /tmp/amicode-work/solve.jl).

…p subshell) + hands off to inspector Replaces the synchronous run + blocking 'quote DONE line' steps with a detached ( nohup ... & ) launch so the ~100s Julia solve can't hit opencode's ~120s bash-tool timeout. Agent hands off to the Run Inspector, which streams iterations + final fidelity from the run dir. No setsid (Linux-only; breaks the macOS demo). Guard test enforces the idiom + no-block. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

…lback A real transmon-X solve (F=0.99998, 60 iters) captured under demo/run/: manifest, run.log, 7 iter_*.png frames, result.toml, FINISHED{completed}. pulse.jld2 omitted (inspector never reads it). Ships in the VSIX via .vscodeignore !demo/**; packaging.test.ts now requires demo/run/. Removed the stale local amicode.vsix so the packaging assertion stays inert until Task 6 rebuilds it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

… (fresh runId, β.1 contract) Pure fn: copies demo/run/ under a fresh generateRunId(), rewrites the manifest run_id to match, appendIndex + updateLatest. Reuses the β.1 primitives so the staged dir is contract-identical and the existing watcher renders it. Unit test validates the staged manifest/FINISHED against the β.1 validators and asserts latest + index resolve. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

…s the pre-baked solve Command Palette 'Amicode: Replay demo run' stages the bundled demo/run/ into the resolved runs root via stageDemoRun and focuses the Run Inspector. The watcher follows latest -> replays the converged solve with no Julia/opencode/ creds. Guards a missing bundle with a clear reinstall message. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

…ecklist + RUNBOOK fallback CONTRACT.md freezes the β run-dir layout + provisional schemas (Phase-β DoD); exit codes + index/latest paths verified against amico-run. DEMO_CHECKLIST.md is the pre-flight + live + DoD sign-off with a timings table. RUNBOOK gains a Fallback section pointing at 'Amicode: Replay demo run'. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

…ck review nits The real "plots never display" bug: LiveRunSink shared one counter between image() and iter(). run.log AMICODE_ITER lines stream once per iteration and race the counter to max BEFORE the lagging PNG frames land (solver logs iter=k, then writes iter_k.png), so every image() hit `k <= latest` and was dropped — blank inspector for the whole solve. Split into SinkDedup: frames dedup only against frames; log lines advance a separate high-water mark for the status bar. Extracted SinkDedup to the pure, vscode-free run_dir_reader layer so the live path is finally unit-tested (Jack #9: "no test covering the live status-bar / incremental inspector path" — the exact gap this regression slipped through). Also folds in the remaining non-blocking review nits (kept here rather than restacking the 7-deep chain to place one-liners on their home branches): - #13: #runlabel was styled but never populated → setRunLabel + webview handler. - #12: resolveJuliaProject now expands a leading ~ (parity with resolveRunsRoot). - #9: server_manager ServerOptions.env comment no longer cites the removed AMICODE_EXTENSION_URL/MCP-callback env. - #9/#11: AGENTS.md step-2 author path now matches step-3 run path (/tmp/amicode-work/solve.jl) and the invocation passes --lab default (run provenance — amico-run supports --lab). Plus the cold-start display polish already in flight on this branch: launch stays idle for a prior finished run (no stale plot), and the placeholder toggles via style.display (the [hidden] attr was overridden by .placeholder{display:flex}). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

…ipped) Jack #11 must-change ("bundle a real run.log") never actually landed: the demo run.log is matched by .gitignore's `*.log`, so it was never committed. .vscodeignore has `!demo/**` so it'd ship IF present on disk — meaning it only "worked" on the capture machine; a clean checkout / CI VSIX shipped the demo with NO run.log → blank stats row, exactly the failure he flagged. Un-ignore the asset (.gitignore negation), track it, and assert it in the packaging manifest test so a future drop is caught. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Rchari1 · 2026-06-22T21:21:05Z

@jack-champagne on your other must-change ("demo/run/ has no run.log → blank stats row"): you were more right than the branch showed. The run.log is matched by .gitignore's *.log, so it was never committed — and .vscodeignore has !demo/**, so it'd only ship if present on the capture machine. A clean checkout / CI VSIX shipped the demo with no run.log → blank stats, exactly as you called.

Fixed in 32438de (on #23, stacked above): un-ignored the asset via a .gitignore negation, tracked it, and added it to the packaging-manifest assertion so a future drop is caught. AGENTS.md step-2/step-3 path match is in e21539c.

Both landed on #23 to avoid restacking the 7-deep chain for these. If you'd rather they sit on this PR proper (so #11 is correct in isolation), say the word and I'll relocate + restack.

jack-champagne · 2026-06-26T19:33:56Z

CONTRACT.md is the strong part — run-dir layout + validators + exit codes frozen and verified against cli.ts. Two issues, both fixed in #23 (now validated end-to-end), recording for history:

[was-blocker] AGENTS.md step 2 / step 3 disagreed on the script path. Step 2 says write solve.jl (cwd-relative); step 3 runs ( nohup amico-run … /tmp/amicode-work/solve.jl … ) (absolute). opencode's cwd is the mkdtemp project dir and nothing creates /tmp/amicode-work/solve.jl, so LocalExecutor.submit throws ConfigError "script not found" and writes no run dir → blank inspector. Reconciled in perf: smoother solve cold-start — warming-up UX + live-frame display fix #23.
[was-important] The replay fallback shipped without run.log — demo/run/ had manifest + 7 PNGs + result + FINISHED but no run.log (root .gitignore is *.log), and the inspector's stats row reads only run.log, so the replay rendered frames + fidelity but zero AMICODE_ITER rows. Fixed in perf: smoother solve cold-start — warming-up UX + live-frame display fix #23's run.log commit.

Non-blocking follow-ups: demo_replay.test.ts fabricates its own run.log, so point it at the real bundled dir; the bundled manifest.toml carries a /Users/raghavchari/... script_path; the body says "11 demo/run/ files" but there are 9.

jack-champagne

Approving as a unit member — the script-path mismatch and the missing run.log are both fixed in #23 (validated). Non-blocking follow-ups noted above.

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1. Detached solve (AGENTS.md)

2. Pre-baked replay fallback

3. Phase-β DoD

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1. Detached solve (`AGENTS.md`)