prompts: a COBOL two-pass measurement round anyone can run - #319
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… and nobody had written the round that measures more The COBOL stack behind issue #70 is measured entirely on 716 public files -- NIST, CardDemo, an OMP course set, and vendor and exercism samples. That is a convenience sample, not a census, and the roadmap items it cannot see (CICS LINK/XCTL, SQL INCLUDE, COPY REPLACING, nested programs, free format) are currently ordered by guesswork. prompts/cobol-measure-on-your-corpus.md is the round that fixes that, runnable by anyone with public COBOL to point it at. It carries the facts a reader needs to reproduce the recommended configuration -- the two-pass two-grammar merge, the two scanner bugs pass A needs patched, the token-splitting bug in pass B, the role merge, and the best-tree trap that looks better while collapsing PERFORM recall to 54.5% -- and asks for parse rates by artifact kind and recall SPLIT BY TIER, because tree edges and token-fallback edges are different products at identical totals. A separate, optional section is for a reader with production COBOL they cannot share. It is aggregate-only by construction: counts, rates and histogram buckets, never a file name, a symbol, a snippet or a path, and any step that cannot be answered without naming something is skipped and the skip reported. Part 2 is the decision the fork turns on: whether their extraction already knows where a symbol's BODY ends, which is what serving fetch_body honestly from a SCIP index requires (typed_enclosing_range, single_line 10 / multi_line 11; enclosing_range 7 is deprecated). Either answer is useful and neither is a heuristic -- we will not guess where a symbol ends. prompts/README.md gains its row and README.md's prompt count moves to thirteen, which readmedriftcheck (I1) re-derives from the directory. Gates: readmedriftcheck ALL PASS, deckcheck ALL PASS, ripwirepubliccheck ALL PASS. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three prompts were missing from the collapsed list — add-a-language and improve-quality-panel were already absent at twelve, and this lane's COBOL round makes three. Nothing gates that sentence, which is why it drifted; the gated count above it was right the whole time. Now: three highlighted plus ten others equals the thirteen files in prompts/. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds a COBOL two-pass corpus measurement prompt. It defines setup constraints, parse and recall metrics, production-code aggregation rules, resolver evaluation, and reporting requirements. README files update the prompt count and catalog. ChangesCOBOL measurement prompt
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Change: Other Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to The prompt can produce irreproducible or incomparable measurements that misinform COBOL implementation decisions. Define and pin the measurement protocol before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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- Around line 51-57: Update the measurement instructions to require recording
immutable commit IDs for both grammar passes and including or referencing the
exact patch contents applied to Pass A and any workaround applied to Pass B.
Keep the existing grammar and patch requirements intact while making the
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- Around line 142-143: Clarify the frequency-counting requirements near “Report
how often each one appears” by defining the counting unit, normalization,
treatment of comments and literals, behavior for malformed parses, and
deduplication rules. Explicitly specify the denominator and calculation for both
occurrence counts and files-containing counts for every construct.
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…frequency count review of #319: several figures in the "already measured" table and prose (27.8 MB corpus size, 23 KB/16.4 MB compiled-object sizes, 98.7/100 definitions, 98.9% programs/copybooks parsed, 1.76s/1.03s cost, the 105,906-row lexical-oracle count, the 182-row hand-checked sample) do not appear anywhere in issue #70's public thread or the PR description. Removed them; kept only what the thread actually supports (716 files, 96.7% files fully covered, 100% combined PERFORM/CALL/COPY recall and precision) and said plainly that the finer splits are what Part 1 re-derives, denominators included. Also, from CodeRabbit's review: - require pinning the exact commit for both grammar passes and including the patch content, so "patched" is reproducible (not just a moving branch) - add a minimal definitions oracle (PROGRAM-ID/paragraph-name/SECTION scan) so 1.2(2)'s false-definition rate has a defined procedure - define the frequency-counting rule for 1.3 (raw-text literal match, comment lines and string literals skipped, per-occurrence vs per-file counted) - README §16's collapsed prompt-category list still named only the pre-#319 ten; added the three it was missing (add-a-language, improve-quality-panel, cobol-measure-on-your-corpus) so it doesn't undercount against "thirteen" Gates run from this worktree: ripwirepubliccheck.sh ALL PASS (2771 files swept), readmedriftcheck.sh ALL PASS (arm I1 still reads thirteen prompts against the 13 files). Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Every COBOL number this project holds came from 716 public files — NIST, CardDemo, an OMP course set, IBM/MS/exercism samples. That is not a census, and nobody had written the round that measures more. This adds it.
prompts/cobol-measure-on-your-corpus.mdis a self-contained orchestrator prompt in the house shape: paste it at the root of a checkout, it writes a plan and stops for your go-ahead.Part 1 — public datasets, which is the part anyone can run. Reproduce and extend the two-pass, two-grammar measurement: the patched
yutaro-sakamotoPR #41 branch for structure,barrettotte/treesitter-ibmifor the artifacts it parses that the first one does not, merged by role. The prompt is explicit that best-tree-per-file is a trap — it looks better (95% clean files) and collapses PERFORM recall to 54.5%, because barrettotte trees carry no statement nodes. It asks for the six numbers with the tier split (tree edges vs token-fallback edges) called out as the whole point, since that says how much of the answer rests on the fallback.Part 1b — optional, for anyone with production COBOL they cannot share. Aggregate counts, rates and histogram buckets only; no file names, no symbol names, no snippets, no paths. Any step that cannot be answered without naming something is skipped and the skip reported. We cannot see that code and do not want to.
Part 2 —
typed_enclosing_range. The single blocker for #70's actual ask, put in decision-shaped form: a SCIP definition occurrence'srangeis the identifier, not the body, so servingfetch_bodyhonestly needssingle_line_enclosing_range/multi_line_enclosing_range(the oldenclosing_range = 7is deprecated). If a resolver already knows where a symbol's body ends, the SCIP-source path is viable; if it does not, a vendored grammar is the only honest route. We will not ship a heuristic that guesses where a symbol ends, so "we could approximate it" counts as a no.The question the prompt most wants answered is one we cannot answer ourselves: how often EXEC CICS LINK/XCTL, SQL INCLUDE, COPY REPLACING, nested programs and free format actually appear. Our gap list is guesswork about what real shops use. It is asked in both halves on purpose — public sample code under-represents CICS and SQL badly, so a public-corpus frequency is a floor, not an estimate, and the two answers differing is itself the finding.
Second commit fixes an honesty drift it surfaced: the collapsed prompt list in
README.mdsaid "the other seven" and named seven of ten.add-a-languageandimprove-quality-panelwere already missing at twelve; this lane makes three. Nothing gates that sentence, which is why it drifted — the gated count above it was right the whole time.Gates run (unpiped, from a clean worktree at
origin/main):readmedriftcheck.shALL PASS (arm I1 now reads thirteen prompts against the 13 files),deckcheck.shALL PASS (61 sources, every--flagin the new prose is real),ripwirepubliccheck.shALL PASS (16 arms, 2,771 files swept, run with the new file staged so it was actually scanned). Notest/*check.shadded, so no gate registrations change.One thing for a reviewer's eye rather than mine:
deckcheck.shprintsprintf: write error: Broken pipeat its lines 265/267 and still exits 0 with ALL PASS. It does this unpiped and onorigin/maintoo, so it is pre-existing and not caused here — but it is the shape of the "a gate's printf can fail" trap and deserves someone's look.Refs #70.
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