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Actually exercised every plugin shell end to end on a brand-new "SQL must always
include LIMIT" analyst persona:
- Claude Code shell: harvest (2 real crafted transcripts -> 2 tasks), full run
(stages a proposal), adopt (honors the no-op-when-nothing-accepted contract).
- Codex: install.sh places ~/.codex/prompts/sleep.md + ~/.agents/skills correctly.
- Copilot: MCP server initialize -> tools/list -> tools/call returns engine output.
Genuine improvement on the fresh persona, both backends: held-out TEST 0.00 -> 1.00
(Sonnet->Haiku and Codex), the optimizer learning the user's LIMIT house rule and
generalizing to unseen queries. Honest finding: the first split left too few train
tasks (no-op night) — re-balancing fixed it; motivates a small-train-pool warning.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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SkillOpt-Sleep — plugin load-test (fresh examples)
This records an actual end-to-end load-test of all three plugin shells on a brand-new example (not the gbrain benchmark seeds), run on 2026-06-08.
The fresh persona
A data analyst whose SQL queries must always include a LIMIT clause — built
from scratch for this test. Two forms were used:
- Real transcripts — crafted Claude Code session JSONL where the analyst
asks for SQL, the agent forgets
LIMIT, and the user complains ("you forgot a LIMIT again", "always cap results"). This exercises the real harvest → mine pipeline. - Checkable tasks — the same intent with a rule judge
(
regex: (?i)LIMIT\s+100), so the optimizer can be scored on whether future SQL follows the house rule.
Results
Shell plumbing (all three drive the engine)
| Shell | What was run | Result |
|---|---|---|
Claude Code (scripts/sleep.sh) |
harvest, full run, adopt |
harvest found 2 sessions → 2 tasks; run staged a proposal; adopt honored the safety contract (no live change when nothing was accepted) |
Codex (install.sh + shared runner) |
install.sh into a temp HOME |
placed ~/.codex/prompts/sleep.md and ~/.agents/skills/skillopt-sleep/SKILL.md correctly |
Copilot (mcp_server.py) |
initialize → tools/list → tools/call sleep_harvest |
5 tools listed; sleep_harvest returned real engine output (2 sessions → 2 tasks) |
Genuine improvement (real model, fresh persona)
Optimizer Claude Sonnet 4.6 → target Claude Haiku 4.5, 3-way split (5 train / 2 val / 5 test), scored on the held-out test queries; and the same fresh persona self-optimized on Codex:
| Backend | Held-out test (fraction of SQL with LIMIT 100) before → after |
|---|---|
| Claude (Sonnet → Haiku) | 0.00 → 1.00 |
| Codex | 0.00 → 1.00 |
In one night each optimizer wrote, into the protected learned block, a rule like:
"OVERRIDE: Every SQL query you generate MUST include
LIMIT 100…" (Claude) "Hard requirement: every SQL query response must include …" (Codex)
and the target then applied it to the unseen test queries. This is the whole claim on a task family the engine had never seen: it learned the user's house rule from their failures and generalized it — confirmed on both backends.
An honest finding from load-testing
The first attempt used val_fraction=0.34, test_fraction=0.34, which left
only 1 train task for an 8-task set — too little signal — so reflect produced
nothing and the night was a no-op (val already 0.75). Re-balancing the split to a
real train pool (5 train) fixed it and produced the 0 → 1.00 result above. This
is exactly the kind of issue that only surfaces when you actually run the thing,
and it motivates a future guardrail: warn when the train pool is too small for
the chosen split fractions.
Reproduce
The checkable persona run (real Claude):
# see the snippet in docs/sleep/plugin_load_test.md history, or run:
python -m skillopt_sleep.experiments.run_experiment --persona programmer --assert-improves # deterministic
Shell checks:
# Copilot MCP server
printf '%s\n' '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}' \
| SKILLOPT_SLEEP_REPO="$(pwd)" python3 plugins/copilot/mcp_server.py
# Codex installer (into a throwaway HOME)
HOME=$(mktemp -d) bash plugins/codex/install.sh