superpowers/evals/CLAUDE.md

Drill

Superpowers skill compliance benchmark. Python 3.11+, managed with uv.

Commands

• install: uv sync --dev
• test: uv run pytest
• test single: uv run pytest tests/test_engine.py -x -q
• lint: uv run ruff check
• format: uv run ruff format
• typecheck: uv run ty check
• run scenario: uv run drill run <scenario> -b <backend>
• sweep: uv run drill run <scenario> --models claude-opus-4-6,claude-opus-4-7 --n 10
• compare: uv run drill compare <scenario>
• list: uv run drill list

Architecture

• drill/engine.py — Tmux session orchestration. Creates workdir, runs setup helpers, drives actor/agent turns, collects results.
• drill/actor.py — Sonnet 4.6 LLM simulating a user. Reads turn intents from scenario YAML and generates realistic prompts.
• drill/verifier.py — Sonnet 4.6 LLM evaluating session transcript + filesystem against semantic criteria.
• drill/assertions.py — Deterministic post-session checks. Runs shell commands from verify.assertions in the results dir.
• drill/sweep.py — Multi-backend, N-repetition orchestrator. Wraps Engine with try/except per run, writes run-group.json manifest.
• drill/compare.py — Loads results, computes pass rates and Wilson CIs, formats comparison tables.
• drill/stats.py — Wilson score confidence interval for pass rate estimation at small N.
• scenarios/*.yaml — Scenario definitions (setup, turns, limits, verify).
• setup_helpers/*.py — Repo fixture creators. Each creates a git repo with specific conditions.
• backends/*.yaml — Per-backend CLI config (args, env, idle patterns, shutdown commands).
• bin/ — Assertion helper scripts: tool-called, tool-not-called, tool-count, tool-before, tool-arg-match. Run against tool_calls.jsonl in results dir.

Conventions

• Setup helpers take workdir: Path and mutate the filesystem. Register in setup_helpers/__init__.py.
• Scenarios use user_posture: naive (no skill names) or spec-aware (can name skills).
• Verify criteria are semantic (LLM-evaluated). Verify assertions are deterministic (exit code 0 = pass).
• Assertions run in the results dir with $DRILL_WORKDIR pointing to the scenario workdir and bin/ on PATH.
• Backend YAMLs are fully self-contained — no override/alias system.

Required env

ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-...

SUPERPOWERS_ROOT defaults to the parent of evals/ (the superpowers repo root). Override only if running drill against a different superpowers checkout.