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kyle 9a8dae3948 p3: harvest 28 bake-off queries with targets and blind protocol
Kyle-approved fleet harvest. Sibling targets (domain/page or open).
Runner labels A-D; mapping stays in a sealed key file until scoring.
2026-09-23 14:09:42 -07:00

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P3 §10 bake-off protocol

Query list: search_queries.txt (28, Kyle-approved 2026-09-23). Targets: search_targets.txt (same order; open = no required domain).

Do not enable sources or start runs until this commit is on kyle/sift master. SearXNG journal redaction (searx.service) is a prerequisite for search.searxng.enabled.

Configurations (never shown to the judge)

  1. SearXNG alone
  2. SearXNG + Brave LLM Context
  3. SearXNG + Brave LLM Context + Tavily
  4. Current Hermes Tavily web_search (live tool, not sift)

Sift does not take source names from the request. Configs 1–3 are three orion [search] settings (or three sequential enables), not query parameters. Config 4 is a fleet-host Hermes call, same 28 queries, limit matching sift k.

Record per query: top-k URLs, titles, snippets, latency, Tavily credits, Brave calls.

Blind judging

The runner writes only labelled packs A B C D. Each pack is the full 28-query result set for one configuration, with no source names, no warnings that name a vendor, and no config id.

The mapping A–D → 1–4 goes in a separate key file that the judge does not read until scoring is done. Default path (gitignored):

tests/testdata/bakeoff-out/key.json
tests/testdata/bakeoff-out/{A,B,C,D}.json

Shuffle with tests/bakeoff/blind.py after the four raw dumps exist.

Judges: talos or Claude. Score each query: would you sift fetch the correct URL from this list? Against search_targets.txt when it is not open.

After scores land, open key.json and report: winner (becomes default-on), cost/query, p90 latency.