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Two independent defects in sse_client.py, both with the same consequence: a transient infrastructure fault is recorded as a hard eval failure. Together they accounted for 20 of 56 runs (36%) in one recent visualization eval batch (vis_agentic + visualization, Boozt workspace) — those runs produced no score at all.

1. The adhoc-visualization fallback could never validate

When create_adhoc_visualization fails (e.g. the data source is unreachable), _build_chat_result falls back to the agent's raw tool-call arguments so the turn can still be scored on the visualization the agent intended.

Those arguments describe a definition, not a persisted object, so they carry no id — but CreatedVisualization.id is required with no default. Every turn reaching this path raised:

ValidationError: 1 validation error for ChatResult
createdVisualizations.objects.0.id
  Field required

…which is precisely the outcome the fallback exists to prevent: a stalled data source scored as an agent content failure. 10 of 56 runs.

Fix: synthesize a sentinel id on the fallback path only. An id present in the arguments still wins.

Why CI didn't catch it: both existing fallback tests hand-write an id into the tool arguments. Real agent calls do not — so CI passed while this path failed 100% of the time in production. The added test uses realistic arguments and fails against the unfixed parser with the exact error above.

2. Mid-stream 500s were not retryable

_RETRYABLE_STATUS_CODES omitted 500, so a statusCode: 500 raised a terminal ChatError with zero retry attempts — the same gap the RemoteProtocolError comment right below it already documents.

Evidence these are transient, not deterministic server bugs: 10 of 56 runs died this way, and every affected question scored normally when the same question/model ran again the next day. None reproduced.

A genuinely deterministic 500 still terminates, just after the bounded backoff (GOODDATA_EVAL_CHAT_MAX_RETRIES, default 5) rather than immediately.

Two existing tests used 500 as a generic "hard error" code. Since TransientChatError subclasses ChatError they would have kept passing while no longer testing the terminal path they were written for, so they move to 400.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Transient server errors, including HTTP 500 responses, are now retried automatically.
    • Relative day, month, quarter, year, and US-week date filters are compared using resolved date ranges for more consistent evaluation.
    • Invalid or unresolvable date offsets fall back safely to literal comparison.
    • Missing identifiers in unsaved visualization tool calls no longer cause the conversation turn to be lost.
    • Evaluation details now display resolved absolute dates using the same date reference as scoring.

…g validation

When `create_adhoc_visualization` fails (e.g. the data source is unreachable),
`_build_chat_result` falls back to the agent's raw tool-call arguments so the
turn can still be scored on the visualization the agent *intended*. But those
arguments describe a definition, not a persisted object, so they carry no `id`
-- and `CreatedVisualization.id` is required with no default.

The result is that the fallback path could never validate. Every turn that
reached it raised

    ValidationError: 1 validation error for ChatResult
    createdVisualizations.objects.0.id
      Field required

and was recorded as a hard error, which is precisely the outcome the fallback
was added to prevent: a stalled data source scored as an agent content failure.
Observed on 10 of 56 runs in one recent visualization eval batch.

Synthesize a sentinel id on the fallback path only. An `id` present in the
arguments still wins.

Both existing fallback tests hand-wrote an `id` into the tool arguments, which
real agent calls do not have -- so CI passed while production failed 100% of
the time this path was taken. The added test uses realistic arguments and fails
against the unfixed parser with the exact error above.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The evaluation package now retries HTTP 500 responses, resolves supported relative date filters against a shared date anchor, preserves literal WEEK comparison, and adds regression coverage for SSE parsing and visualization filter reporting.

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SSE handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Retryable status and SSE validation
packages/gooddata-eval/src/gooddata_eval/core/chat/sse_client.py, packages/gooddata-eval/tests/test_sse_client.py
HTTP 500 responses now use the existing retry path. Tests cover terminal 400 errors, retryable 500 responses, and id-less adhoc visualization results.

Date filter scoring

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Relative date normalization
packages/gooddata-eval/src/gooddata_eval/core/scoring.py
DAY, MONTH, QUARTER, YEAR, and WEEK_US offsets now resolve to inclusive absolute spans. Unsupported or invalid offsets retain literal comparison.
Shared evaluator date anchor
packages/gooddata-eval/src/gooddata_eval/core/evaluators/visualization.py
Visualization evaluation passes one date anchor through candidate scoring and reported filter normalization.
Date filter comparison coverage
packages/gooddata-eval/tests/test_scoring.py, packages/gooddata-eval/tests/test_visualization_evaluator.py
Tests cover date equivalence, boundary differences, dataset identity, invalid offsets, and absolute dates in evaluator details.

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`_RETRYABLE_STATUS_CODES` omitted 500, so a mid-stream `statusCode: 500` from
gen-ai raised a terminal `ChatError` with zero retry attempts -- the same shape
as the `RemoteProtocolError` gap already documented just below it.

Evidence that these are transient rather than deterministic server bugs: in one
visualization eval batch, 10 of 56 runs died this way, and *every* affected
question scored normally when the same question/model ran again the next day.
Not one reproduced.

A genuinely deterministic 500 still terminates the run, just after the bounded
backoff (`GOODDATA_EVAL_CHAT_MAX_RETRIES`, default 5) rather than immediately.

Two existing tests used 500 as a generic "hard error" code. Since 500 now
raises `TransientChatError` -- a `ChatError` subclass -- they would still have
passed while no longer testing the terminal path they were written for, so they
move to 400.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@Tomkess Tomkess changed the title fix(gooddata-eval): stop the adhoc-visualization fallback from failing validation fix(gooddata-eval): stop transient gen-ai faults from being scored as content failures Sep 9, 2026
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The agent may express "last month" either relatively (`granularity: MONTH,
from: -1, to: -1`) or absolutely (`from: 2026-08-01, to: 2026-08-31`).
`_normalize_date_filter` passed `from`/`to`/`granularity` straight through, so
the two encodings could never compare equal -- a correct answer in whichever
encoding the fixture did not happen to use was scored as a wrong date period.

Both forms now resolve to the inclusive absolute span they denote, for DAY,
MONTH, QUARTER and YEAR. The WEEK family deliberately falls back to literal
comparison: its start-of-week convention varies (WEEK vs WEEK_US), and guessing
would trade a false negative for a false positive.

Resolution uses a single `today` anchor threaded through `check_filters`, so
both sides resolve against the same date even if a run straddles midnight.

Note this changes the rendering of `detail.expected_filters` / `actual_filters`
for resolvable granularities: an entry now carries an absolute `from`/`to` and
no `granularity` key. That is also more legible when diagnosing a date-score
failure, which is what those fields exist for.

Verified against a real eval batch: two runs scored as date-period failures are
correctly matches. Genuinely different windows still fail -- an absolute range
spanning two months does not match a one-month relative filter, and an
off-by-one day count still differs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Tomkess and others added 3 commits September 9, 2026 21:31
WEEK_US names a Sunday-start week, so unlike a bare WEEK it can be resolved to
an absolute span without guessing a convention -- and a bare WEEK is not in the
AAC granularity enum at all (the convertor rewrites WEEK_US to AFM's WEEK).

Without this, a fixture pinned to WEEK_US could never match an agent that
answered the same period absolutely.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ring anchor

Two defects in relative-date scoring, both found in review of this PR.

An offset far enough out to leave the representable date range raised out of
_absolute_span instead of resolving. Every granularity can be pushed past it: a
YEAR offset of -today.year lands on year 0, large DAY/WEEK_US offsets exceed
timedelta's magnitude limit, and large MONTH/QUARTER offsets leave 1..9999. The
exception escaped through _normalize_date_filter and check_filters, failing the
whole item over one malformed filter. It now resolves to None, putting the
filter back on the literal-comparison path an unresolvable span already takes.

Separately, check_filters shared one anchor across its two sides, but the
evaluator resolved the filters it reports through separate normalized_filters
calls, each taking its own date.today(). A run straddling midnight could report
periods the verdict was never computed from -- a detail contradicting its own
score. The anchor is now captured once in _evaluate_visualization and passed to
check_filters and both normalized_filters calls; _evaluate_against_candidates
captures one too, so candidates are never ranked on spans from different days.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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