# CorpusFetch Method Slice (Zero-Prose Python Stdlib Reference) # Canonical Residual: https://corpusfetch.com/c/what-reference-aggregation-invariants-prevent-agents-from-amplifying-low-quality-sources.md # Remnant Warrant: https://corpusfetch.com/c/what-reference-aggregation-invariants-prevent-agents-from-amplifying-low-quality-sources.warrant.json # Markdown SHA-256: 27015334fd7682e43cbd1df367f623a2a711c8c483771dca8d0b330b4a15b63d # Code AST SHA-256: e8eb72d01f4842787fb5cdbb52aeb3f44240129e5c8353e63b2bf18f1bdccbc3 # Verified Classes: AggregationVerdict, ReferenceSource, AggregationState, AggregationPolicy, AggregationManifest, SourceQualityAggregationGuard # Defensive Guards: 1 fail-closed invariants (zero external deps) from dataclasses import dataclass from enum import Enum, auto import hashlib import json class AggregationVerdict(Enum): UNIFORM_SOURCES = auto() QUALITY_WEIGHTED = auto() VOLUME_PENALTY_APPLIED = auto() INSUFFICIENT_QUALITY_DATA = auto() @dataclass(frozen=True) class ReferenceSource: source_id: str quality_score: float reference_count: int @dataclass(frozen=True) class AggregationState: sources: tuple[ReferenceSource, ...] average_quality: float max_acceptable_volume_ratio: float @dataclass(frozen=True) class AggregationPolicy: require_quality_scores: bool @dataclass(frozen=True) class AggregationManifest: verdict: AggregationVerdict directive: str manifest_digest: str class SourceQualityAggregationGuard: @staticmethod def _hash(data: str) -> str: return hashlib.sha256(data.encode("utf-8")).hexdigest() @classmethod def evaluate_aggregation( cls, state: AggregationState, policy: AggregationPolicy ) -> AggregationManifest: if not state.sources: raise ValueError("No sources to aggregate.") # Gate 1: Quality data presence if policy.require_quality_scores: missing = [s.source_id for s in state.sources if s.quality_score <= 0] if missing: return AggregationManifest( verdict=AggregationVerdict.INSUFFICIENT_QUALITY_DATA, directive=f"HALT: {len(missing)} sources lack quality scores.", manifest_digest=cls._hash(f"NO_QUALITY:{len(missing)}") ) # Gate 2: Compute expected ratios total_refs = sum(s.reference_count for s in state.sources) total_quality = sum(s.quality_score for s in state.sources) for source in state.sources: ref_ratio = source.reference_count / total_refs if total_refs > 0 else 0 quality_ratio = source.quality_score / total_quality if total_quality > 0 else 0 if ref_ratio > quality_ratio * state.max_acceptable_volume_ratio: return AggregationManifest( verdict=AggregationVerdict.VOLUME_PENALTY_APPLIED, directive=f"APPLY_PENALTY: Source {source.source_id} ref_ratio {ref_ratio:.2f} > quality_ratio {quality_ratio:.2f} * {state.max_acceptable_volume_ratio:.2f}.", manifest_digest=cls._hash(f"VOLUME_PENALTY:{source.source_id}") ) # Gate 3: Quality-weighted digest = cls._hash(json.dumps({ "sources": tuple( {"id": s.source_id, "quality": f"{s.quality_score:.2f}", "count": str(s.reference_count)} for s in state.sources ), "total_quality": f"{total_quality:.2f}" }, sort_keys=True)) return AggregationManifest( verdict=AggregationVerdict.QUALITY_WEIGHTED, directive=f"PROCEED: {len(state.sources)} sources quality-weighted.", manifest_digest=digest )