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admin 9446c6e0be Document validation architecture and renderer faithfulness findings 
- document Entity Registry and Meeting Context V2 architecture
- preserve meeting_context.yaml as the authoritative meeting-specific input
- define immutable authoritative metadata across all pipeline stages
- restrict Constraint Repair to deterministic structured-data operations
- record BUG-003 root cause and deferred entity-verification resolution
- document BUG-005 attendance-consistency design
- add BUG-006 renderer faithfulness root-cause analysis
- distinguish Engineering Readiness from Practical Usability
- update the persistent regression bug tracker
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BUG-003 Root Cause Analysis

Observed Behaviour

The final working protocol contains two names that were flagged as not belonging to the real meeting:

  • Guido
  • Noah

Observed output:

  • samples/benchmarks/meeting_context_v1/final_protocol_with_context/working_protocol.md:36 contains Einbinden der Fachbereiche (stellvertretend durch Guido) zur Definition von Prüfsteinen.
  • samples/benchmarks/meeting_context_v1/final_protocol_with_context/working_protocol.md:44 contains Sollte ein eigener Prozess für Noah (Business Development) benötigt werden oder reicht der bestehende?

Evidence

The names are present in the final renderer raw response as well as working_protocol.md:

  • samples/benchmarks/meeting_context_v1/final_protocol_with_context/raw_model_response.txt:36 contains Guido
  • samples/benchmarks/meeting_context_v1/final_protocol_with_context/raw_model_response.txt:44 contains Noah

They are also present before rendering in the repaired consolidated input:

  • samples/benchmarks/meeting_context_v1/semantic_consolidator_repair_v1/consolidated_extractions.json:1047 contains the open question text with Noah
  • samples/benchmarks/meeting_context_v1/semantic_consolidator_repair_v1/consolidated_extractions.json:1048 contains evidence Oder brauchen wir einen eigenen Prozess bei Noah?
  • samples/benchmarks/meeting_context_v1/semantic_consolidator_repair_v1/consolidated_extractions.json:1537 contains the action item text with Guido

They are present before semantic consolidation in the canonicalized output:

  • samples/benchmarks/meeting_context_v1/canonicalizer/canonicalized_extractions.json:411 contains the open question text with Noah
  • samples/benchmarks/meeting_context_v1/canonicalizer/canonicalized_extractions.json:412 contains evidence Oder brauchen wir einen eigenen Prozess bei Noah?
  • samples/benchmarks/meeting_context_v1/canonicalizer/canonicalized_extractions.json:1401 contains the action item text with Guido

They are present before canonicalization in extraction output and raw model responses:

  • samples/benchmarks/meeting_context_v1/full_context_run/chunk_02_extraction.json:18 contains the extracted open question with Noah
  • samples/benchmarks/meeting_context_v1/full_context_run/chunk_02_extraction.raw.txt:76 contains the same raw model output question with Noah
  • samples/benchmarks/meeting_context_v1/full_context_run/chunk_07_extraction.json:11 contains the extracted todo with Guido
  • samples/benchmarks/meeting_context_v1/full_context_run/chunk_07_extraction.raw.txt:53 contains the same raw model output todo with Guido

They are present before extraction in the reconstructed normalized chunks:

  • samples/benchmarks/meeting_context_v1/source_reconstruction/chunk_02_normalized.txt:79 contains Oder brauchen wir einen eigenen Prozess bei Noah?
  • samples/benchmarks/meeting_context_v1/source_reconstruction/chunk_07_normalized.txt:213 contains Guido

They are present before normalization in reconstructed raw chunks:

  • samples/benchmarks/meeting_context_v1/source_reconstruction/chunk_02.txt:79 contains Oder brauchen wir einen eigenen Prozess bei Noah?
  • samples/benchmarks/meeting_context_v1/source_reconstruction/chunk_07.txt:213 contains Guido

They are present in the source cleaned Whisper transcript used to reconstruct the chunks:

  • samples/real_live/project_process_meeting/transcript/meeting_speech_cleaned.json:5783 has segment text Oder brauchen wir einen eigenen Prozess bei Noah?
  • samples/real_live/project_process_meeting/transcript/meeting_speech_cleaned.json:26315 has segment text Guido

Segment-level verification:

  • Noah: segment id=182, start=899.6400000000001, end=901.94, text Oder brauchen wir einen eigenen Prozess bei Noah?
  • Guido: segment id=776, start=4157.86, end=4160.14, text Guido

The original Whisper transcript also contains both names:

  • samples/real_live/project_process_meeting/transcript/meeting_speech.json:1 contains both Noah and Guido in the top-level transcript text and segment data.

Meeting Context does not contain either name:

  • rg -n "Guido|Noah" samples/real_live/project_process_meeting/meeting_context.yaml returned no matches.

Prompt files do not contain either name:

  • rg -n "Guido|Noah" prompts returned no matches.

Earliest Pipeline Stage Containing the Names

The earliest verified pipeline artifact containing the names is the Whisper transcript stage:

  • samples/real_live/project_process_meeting/transcript/meeting_speech.json
  • samples/real_live/project_process_meeting/transcript/meeting_speech_cleaned.json

For the reconstructed benchmark specifically, the earliest input used by the TODO 4 pipeline is:

  • samples/real_live/project_process_meeting/transcript/meeting_speech_cleaned.json

The reconstructed chunks preserve the names from that cleaned Whisper JSON. Extraction, canonicalization, consolidation and rendering propagate them.

Repository Search Results

Repository search for Guido|Noah found these occurrence groups:

  • docs/regression-bugs.md: tracker entry for BUG-003 mentions both names.
  • tests/gold/responsibility_attribution_negative/transcript.txt: contains Noah in a synthetic gold scenario.
  • tests/gold/responsibility_attribution_negative/expected.json: contains expected Noah entries for that synthetic gold scenario.
  • samples/real_live/project_process_meeting/transcript/meeting_speech.json: contains Noah and Guido.
  • samples/real_live/project_process_meeting/transcript/meeting_speech_cleaned.json: contains Noah and Guido.
  • samples/benchmarks/meeting_context_v1/source_reconstruction/chunk_02.txt and chunk_02_normalized.txt: contain Noah.
  • samples/benchmarks/meeting_context_v1/source_reconstruction/chunk_07.txt and chunk_07_normalized.txt: contain Guido.
  • samples/benchmarks/meeting_context_v1/full_context_run/chunk_02_extraction.json and chunk_02_extraction.raw.txt: contain Noah.
  • samples/benchmarks/meeting_context_v1/full_context_run/chunk_07_extraction.json and chunk_07_extraction.raw.txt: contain Guido.
  • samples/benchmarks/meeting_context_v1/canonicalizer/canonicalized_extractions.json: contains both names.
  • samples/benchmarks/meeting_context_v1/semantic_consolidator_repair_v1/consolidated_extractions.json: contains both names.
  • samples/benchmarks/meeting_context_v1/final_protocol_with_context/raw_model_response.txt and working_protocol.md: contain both names.
  • samples/benchmarks/meeting_context_v1/final_protocol_with_context/comparison.md: mentions Noah in the evaluation notes.

Search results did not find Guido or Noah in:

  • prompts/
  • samples/real_live/project_process_meeting/meeting_context.yaml
  • src/

Prompt Inspection

Renderer prompt:

  • samples/benchmarks/meeting_context_v1/final_protocol_with_context/metadata.json records prompt_file: "prompts/working_protocol.md" and input_source: "samples/benchmarks/meeting_context_v1/semantic_consolidator_repair_v1/consolidated_extractions.json".
  • prompts/working_protocol.md contains no few-shot examples and no Guido or Noah occurrences.

Extraction prompt assembly:

  • src/meeting_lab/llm/prompts.py builds extraction prompts from prompts/common.md, optional Meeting Context, explicitly requested task prompts and the provided transcript.
  • src/meeting_lab/extraction/extract_chunks.py calls that shared builder with decisions.md and todos.md as task prompts.

Semantic Consolidator prompt assembly:

  • src/meeting_lab/consolidation/consolidate_facts.py builds its prompt from prompts/consolidate_facts.md plus the canonicalized fact payload.

Gold/test prompt inspection:

  • tests/gold/responsibility_attribution_negative/ contains synthetic Noah examples.
  • scripts/run_gold_test.py is a gold-test runner and reads scenario_dir / "transcript.txt" when explicitly invoked.
  • The inspected production metadata for the TODO 4 extraction run records input_path values under samples/benchmarks/meeting_context_v1/source_reconstruction/, not tests/gold/.
  • The inspected renderer metadata records only the repaired consolidated JSON and prompts/working_protocol.md.

No evidence was found that few-shot examples, embedded examples, test transcripts or gold scenarios became part of the production prompt for this benchmark run.

Pipeline Verification

The persisted metadata verifies the production execution path:

  • chunk_02_extraction.metadata.json input: samples/benchmarks/meeting_context_v1/source_reconstruction/chunk_02_normalized.txt
  • chunk_07_extraction.metadata.json input: samples/benchmarks/meeting_context_v1/source_reconstruction/chunk_07_normalized.txt
  • both extraction metadata files record Meeting Context source: samples/real_live/project_process_meeting/meeting_context.yaml
  • canonicalizer/metadata.json records input directory: samples/benchmarks/meeting_context_v1/full_context_run
  • semantic_consolidator_repair_v1/report.md records output: samples/benchmarks/meeting_context_v1/semantic_consolidator_repair_v1/consolidated_extractions.json
  • final_protocol_with_context/metadata.json records renderer input: samples/benchmarks/meeting_context_v1/semantic_consolidator_repair_v1/consolidated_extractions.json and prompt file prompts/working_protocol.md

No execution metadata points to unrelated examples, templates, tests or gold scenarios.

Verified Root Cause

The verified root cause for BUG-003 in this pipeline run is upstream transcript contamination: Guido and Noah already exist in the Whisper transcript and the cleaned Whisper transcript used as the benchmark source.

The later stages did not introduce these names from prompts, Meeting Context, gold tests or renderer examples. They propagated names already present in the pipeline input:

meeting_speech.json -> meeting_speech_cleaned.json -> reconstructed chunks -> extraction JSON -> canonicalized JSON -> repaired consolidated JSON -> final working protocol

What cannot be established from repository artifacts alone:

  • whether Whisper hallucinated these names from audio
  • whether the source audio actually contains words that sound like these names
  • what the correct intended tokens should be

Those questions require audio-level or human-transcript verification and are outside the evidence available in this repository trace.

Confidence

High

The conclusion that the final protocol names originated before extraction is directly supported by persisted source transcript, chunk, extraction, canonicalization, consolidation and renderer artifacts.

The confidence does not extend to identifying the correct replacement words. That remains unverified.

Recommended Fix

Conceptually, add a transcript/source-quality validation step before extraction that flags person or organization names not present in Meeting Context or an approved alias list. The step should preserve the original transcript text, but mark suspicious entity mentions for review before they become structured knowledge and final protocol content.

Do not treat gold scenarios or prompt examples as the root cause for this bug; the evidence does not support that.

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