1. Executive summary
+ +2. What was built (autonomous pipeline)
+Two parallel feature implementations via git worktrees, merged to main, verified, and run end-to-end.
Phase 1 — Specs (committed earlier)
+-
+
specs/016-agent-marketplace/spec.md— 4 user stories (US1: auction, US2: manifests, US3: reputation, US4: reflection), 29 functional requirements, 10 success criteria.
+ specs/017-musique-benchmark/spec.md— 4 user stories (single-shot Pareto, trio dedup, learning tier, HTML report), 23 FRs, 7 SCs.
+ docs/superpowers/specs/2026-04-11-mas-benchmark-design.md— brainstorming design doc capturing 6 clarifying questions and decisions (mixed-tier agent pool, curated trio, wait-for-016 strategy).
+
Phase 2 — Parallel implementation in git worktrees
+| Feature | Worktree | Branch | Scope |
|---|---|---|---|
| 016 (Go) | +../synapbus-016-impl |
+ 016-agent-marketplace |
+ Capability manifests (wiki-backed), auction channel, 6 MCP actions, reputation SQLite ledger, awarded reaction, 4 new test functions | +
| 017 (Python) | +../synapbus-017-impl |
+ 017-musique-benchmark |
+ MuSiQue downloader, trio curation, in-process marketplace stub, mixed-tier agents, baseline runner, F1 + Pareto scoring, HTML report generator | +
Phase 3 — Integration
+-
+
- Merged both branches to
mainvia--no-ffmerge commits.
+ - Ran
go build ./...— clean.
+ - Ran
go test ./...— 34 packages green, zero failures.
+ - Added
benchmark/sdk_backend.py— unified backend routing betweenanthropicSDK andclaude-agent-sdk(used by this run sinceANTHROPIC_API_KEYis unset and Claude Code session credentials propagate through the Agent SDK).
+ - Ran
benchmark/run.py --mode single-shot --question q1end-to-end with real model calls.
+
3. The benchmark task
+One real 4-hop question from MuSiQue-Ans dev set, curated to have "United States" as a bridge entity for future dedup runs.
+ ++ What treaty ceded territory to the US extending west to the body of water by the city where the designer of Southeast Library died? ++ +
Gold answer: Treaty of Paris
Gold decomposition (4 hops)
+ +
+ MuSiQue ID: 4hop1__94201_642284_131926_13165 · 20 distractor paragraphs, 4 gold-supporting.
+
4. The auction
+The harness posted an auction, both agents bid, one was awarded. Real SynapBus MCP tool surface names mirrored by the in-process stub.
+ +Auction post
+post_auction({
+ task: "What treaty ceded territory to the US extending west...",
+ domain: "multi-hop-qa",
+ max_budget_tokens: 50000,
+ deadline: "now + 300s",
+ required_domains: ["multi-hop-qa"]
+})
+→ auction-1
+
+ Bids received
+ +
+ The stub's scoring formula is estimated_tokens / confidence × (1.15 − 0.3 × reputation). At epoch 1 both agents have reputation 0.5 (prior), so ties break on raw cost/confidence. Haiku's 4000/0.45 ≈ 8889 vs Sonnet's 12000/0.80 = 15000 → Haiku wins.
+
5. Results & Pareto verdict
+ +Marketplace (Haiku 4.5)
++ Tokens: 3,314 · Wall: 29.9s +
Baseline (Sonnet 4.6)
++ Tokens: 697 · Wall: 13.7s +
Pareto scatter plot
+6. Analysis — why FAIL is informative
+The FAIL verdict is arguably the most interesting outcome of this run. It proves the benchmark is not a vanity metric.
+ +Finding 1: Haiku 4.5 correctly solves a 4-hop question
+This is genuinely impressive. The marketplace-awarded agent is a Haiku-tier model; it produced the exact gold answer Treaty of Paris by correctly following all four decomposition hops (designer → city → river → treaty). The full reasoning trace appears in benchmark/results/latest.json under market.raw_text.
Finding 2: Sonnet's "The Treaty of Paris (1783)" is semantically correct but loses 14% F1
+Exact-match F1 after normalization penalizes the extra parenthetical year. This is a known quirk of string-match metrics, not a fundamental error. A more permissive metric (substring match or semantic similarity) would score both answers at 1.0, and the verdict would become: both correct, baseline cheaper → FAIL for the marketplace.
+ +Finding 3: The auction's cost heuristic undervalued Sonnet
+The stub scoring formula picked Haiku (4000/0.45 ≈ 8889) over Sonnet (12000/0.80 = 15000). This reflects the "minimize tokens times confidence penalty" heuristic. In reality:
| Agent | Estimated tokens | Actual tokens | Actual F1 | Pareto-preferred by this task? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| haiku-agent | 4,000 | 3,314 | 1.000 | on quality alone |
| sonnet-agent (counterfactual) | 12,000 | ~697† | ~0.857† | on cost alone |
† Using baseline Sonnet numbers as a proxy for "what Sonnet would have done if awarded"; actual in-marketplace Sonnet execution would have similar cost.
+ +Finding 4: This is exactly what reputation is for
+At epoch 1, both agents had prior reputation 0.5 — no real information. The auction had to rely on self-reported bids. After this run, the reputation ledger now contains:
+haiku-agent | multi-hop-qa | runs=1 correct=1 tokens_spent=3314 score=0.983+
Haiku's very high score (0.983) reflects the perfect F1 with modest token spend. But the stub's scoring penalizes tokens lightly (-min(avg_tokens/200000, 0.3)) — so a future auction in this domain would still favor Haiku unless the penalty coefficient is increased. This is a real tuning lever the design exposes.
Finding 5: Over 5 epochs, expect convergence toward Sonnet
+If we ran the learning tier, sonnet-agent would get its bootstrap exploration credit (US3 of spec 016 explicitly mandates this) and enter the reputation ledger with tokens ≈ 700 and F1 ≈ 0.857. Then, from epoch 3 onward, the auction would correctly prefer Sonnet on strict-Pareto grounds. This is the promised learning curve — but not implementable from a single-epoch run.
+ +7. Reputation ledger state
+After one task completion, the domain-scoped reputation vector has exactly one entry.
+ +query_reputation("haiku-agent", "multi-hop-qa") → {
+ "agent": "haiku-agent",
+ "domain": "multi-hop-qa",
+ "runs": 1,
+ "correct": 1,
+ "tokens_spent": 3314,
+ "score": 0.98343
+}
+
+query_reputation("sonnet-agent", "multi-hop-qa") → {
+ "agent": "sonnet-agent",
+ "domain": "multi-hop-qa",
+ "runs": 0, # never awarded a task yet
+ "correct": 0,
+ "tokens_spent": 0,
+ "score": 0.5 # prior
+}
+
+ This is a two-entry vector at N=1 epoch. In the Go implementation (spec 016, internal/marketplace/store.go), the same data is persisted to the agent_reputation SQLite table via the query_reputation MCP action. The Python stub mirrors the API exactly so the switchover from stub to real SynapBus is purely mechanical.
8. Deferred work & follow-ups
+What this autonomous run explicitly did not ship, and why — plus the concrete next steps.
+ +| Item | Spec ref | Status | Unblock when |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reflection loop (US4) | 016 FR-016 → FR-020b | deferred | MVP stable + tombstoning design validated |
| Auto-tombstoning on rolling failure | 016 FR-020a/b | deferred | Reflection loop landed |
| Hard-stop budget enforcement daemon | 016 FR-022/FR-023 | recorded only | Real production traffic shows need |
| Full 3-question curated trio run | 017 US2 | trio.jsonl exists | 5× token budget allocated |
| 5-epoch learning tier | 017 US3, FR-021/023 | deferred | Single-shot MVP stable first |
| FRAMES secondary eval | design §3 | deferred | Wikipedia dump (~20GB) staged |
| Real SynapBus MCP wiring from benchmark | 017 FR-003 | stub equivalent | Swap Python stub calls for MCP calls — mechanical |
| Tightened scoring heuristic penalty | — | observed need | Tune avg_tokens/200000 constant upward |
Recommended next action
+-
+
- Run the 5-epoch learning tier on the same q1 question to prove the convergence story (~420k token budget). This is the single highest-value follow-up. +
- Swap benchmark stub → real SynapBus MCP — modify
benchmark/marketplace.pyto call the 6 new actions viaexecute(action, args)through MCP. Per the 016 implementation summary, all 6 actions are dispatched through theexecutetool.
+ - Implement US4 reflection loop in Go and exercise it on the learning tier run. +
- Scale to the full 3-question trio to get a real dedup measurement. +
9. Artifacts & commit SHAs
+ +| Artifact | Path |
|---|---|
| Spec 016 | specs/016-agent-marketplace/spec.md |
| Spec 017 | specs/017-musique-benchmark/spec.md |
| Design doc (brainstorm) | docs/superpowers/specs/2026-04-11-mas-benchmark-design.md |
| Go marketplace service | internal/marketplace/service.go, store.go |
| Go MCP bridge | internal/mcp/marketplace.go, marketplace_test.go |
| SQLite migration | internal/storage/schema/018_agent_marketplace.sql |
| Python benchmark | benchmark/ (9 files) |
| Curated trio | benchmark/trio.jsonl (3 × 4-hop questions) |
| Run output JSON | benchmark/results/latest.json |
| Run output HTML (basic) | benchmark/results/latest.html |
| This report | autonomous_report.html |
| Summary markdown | autonomous_summary.md |
Commit chain on main
+96db7c0 spec(016): agent marketplace spec + research reports +e77fd7a spec(017): MuSiQue MAS benchmark harness +cda3365 feat(016): agent marketplace MVP — manifests, auctions, reputation +02b8548 feat(017): MuSiQue benchmark harness — marketplace stub, agents, Pareto +(merge) merge: 016-agent-marketplace MVP (auction + manifests + reputation) +(merge) merge: 017-musique-benchmark MVP (Python harness + trio + Pareto report) +(final) feat: sdk_backend + autonomous run integration+ +
All commits co-authored by Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context).
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