| name | annotation-improvement |
| description | Guides coding agents through Discovery Forge prompt improvement after selecting the `wandb-primary` skill. Use `wandb-primary` to fetch W&B Weave research_run traces, human annotations, runnable feedback, and evaluations, then use this workflow when improving researcher.md from annotation queues, reviewed research traces, or human feedback. |
Annotation Improvement
Use this skill when improving src/discovery_forge/agents/researcher.md from live Weave annotation evidence fetched with the wandb-primary skill.
The coding agent fetches evidence, writes a plan, edits the prompt, publishes the prompt, and validates the change.
Before You Start
Follow AGENTS.md setup first, then select and use the installed wandb-primary skill for Weave trace, feedback, annotation, prompt, and evaluation access. This skill only defines the Discovery Forge prompt-improvement workflow.
Fetch all trace and feedback evidence live from Weave through wandb-primary skill guidance, including its Weave SDK / W&B API patterns. Do not use W&B MCP tools, and do not add discovery-forge query wrappers.
Default Project
- Entity: read from
.env as WANDB_ENTITY (required; use your own W&B entity)
- Project: read from
.env as WANDB_PROJECT (required; .env.example uses discovery-forge)
- API key: read from
.env as WANDB_API_KEY (required)
- Prompt file:
src/discovery_forge/agents/researcher.md
- Evidence source: Weave traces and feedback fetched live via the
wandb-primary skill
- Improvement history:
src/discovery_forge/agents/improve_history/<day>/plan.md and src/discovery_forge/agents/improve_history/<day>/applied.md
- Root trace unit: one
research_run_<i> / openai_agent_trace call per discovered tool
Evidence Workflow
- Identify the target from what the user gives you: explicit Weave call IDs, a Weave Evaluation link / eval call ID, a run day, or a run ID.
- Use the
wandb-primary skill to fetch the target root calls and feedback from Weave. If you only have a day or run ID, use wandb-primary Weave SDK guidance to identify the matching root calls for that scope.
- Include feedback evidence for the same root calls.
- Read these fields per root call:
id, display_name, output, attributes, summary, feedback.
- Separate feedback into:
- human annotations:
wandb.annotation.QualitySelector, wandb.annotation.QualityReviewer
- runnable scorer feedback:
Researcher-quality-check, Researcher-category-check, Quality-classifiers
- Prefer human annotations for final quality judgment, but use runnable scorer feedback for concrete evidence failures such as missing sources, unsupported claims, placeholder URLs, wrong category, or hallucination risk.
- Read the current
researcher.md.
- Write
src/discovery_forge/agents/improve_history/<day>/plan.md before editing. If the file already exists for that day, overwrite it with the latest plan.
Evidence Selection
Use the wandb-primary skill to fetch and inspect Weave evidence. This skill only defines which Discovery Forge evidence matters:
- Root trace unit: one root call per discovered tool, display name
research_run_<i> (or openai_agent_trace).
- For explicit Weave call IDs, inspect exactly those calls.
- For a day/run target, inspect the matching
research_run_* root calls for that scope.
- For an evaluation target, inspect the parent evaluation call and its child rows.
- Read only the evidence needed for analysis: call identity, display name, output, attributes, summary, and feedback. Current ResearcherAgent outputs include reviewer payload fields (
profile_review_markdown, verdict, tool_name, primary_url, summary, search, run) and may also include eval-compatible fields (scope_status, verdict_reason, final_output, profile).
- Separate human annotations from runnable scorer feedback in the plan.
Date Scope
- Prefer run day from the Weave call output or attributes over annotation creation date.
- Include feedback only when the annotated call belongs to the requested day, run ID, or stage.
- Deduplicate feedback by feedback ID.
- Do not treat all historical annotations from a shared queue as current evidence.
Offline Evaluation Evidence
If the user provides a Weave Evaluation link or eval call ID:
- Inspect that exact evaluation before rerunning anything.
- Use the
wandb-primary skill to inspect the parent evaluation call first.
- Use the
wandb-primary skill to inspect the evaluation child rows.
- Read only the fields you need first: inputs, output, scorer outputs, display name, status.
- Limit initial child rows to failed scorer rows or a small sample, then broaden only if needed.
Evaluation datasets, audit sidecars, and scorers are read-only evidence. Do not change dataset rows, labels, dedup logic, scorer logic, or evaluation runner behavior to improve scores.
Plan Format
Use this structure:
# Skill-Based Prompt Improvement Plan for <day>
## Source
- Weave traces and feedback fetched via the `wandb-primary` skill
- Human annotations inspected
- Runnable scorer feedback inspected
- Current `researcher.md` inspected
## Feedback Summary
- <concrete signals and conflicts>
## Proposed Prompt Change
- <exact behavior change>
## Applied Files
- `src/discovery_forge/agents/researcher.md`
## Out of Scope
- <code/dataset/scorer changes not made>
Apply Rules
- Prompt-only changes may edit only
src/discovery_forge/agents/researcher.md.
- Do not change evaluation datasets or scorers to make results look better.
- Do not create fallback behavior.
- Keep scope verdict separate from metadata completeness.
- If primary sources prove the loop but metadata is incomplete, record the weakness in
key_limitations instead of rejecting solely for metadata incompleteness.
- Never invent placeholder URLs, paper IDs, arXiv IDs, citations, dates, or docs links. Use
unknown or null when unverified.
- If feedback includes explicit candidate names, URLs, or phrases ("search for X", "missed X", "exclude Y"), preserve the concrete examples in the plan. Use them as query examples or policy examples, not as hardcoded required outputs.
- If
expected_scope_status == accepted and the agent rejects due to missing metadata, keep scope verdict separate from metadata completeness.
- If
expected_scope_status == rejected and the agent accepts, treat it as a likely scope-policy issue unless the dataset row itself appears wrong.
- If a dataset row, annotation label, or scorer appears wrong, report it as dataset/scorer maintenance rather than editing those artifacts in this workflow.
After editing, write src/discovery_forge/agents/improve_history/<day>/applied.md. If the file already exists for that day, overwrite it with the latest applied summary.
Publish Prompt
After a prompt edit, publish the updated prompt using the project helper:
uv run python - <<'PY'
from discovery_forge.observability import init_observability
from discovery_forge.tools.prompts import publish_instruction_prompts, prompt_hashes, prompt_refs
init_observability(day_id="<day>-skill-improve")
versions = publish_instruction_prompts(max_tools=5)
print(prompt_refs(versions))
print(prompt_hashes(versions))
PY
Record the prompt ref and prompt hash in src/discovery_forge/agents/improve_history/<day>/applied.md.
Validation
Run focused validation:
uv run pytest tests/unit/test_researcher.py -q
If the change touches code outside researcher.md, add or update focused tests and run the relevant unit tests.
Report Back
Report:
- day/run inspected
- number of root traces queried
- feedback types inspected
- prompt changes made
- Weave prompt ref/hash published
- tests run
- residual risks or items needing manual review
