Pre-existing v0.71.13 test flaked on windows-latest CI: record_thumb stamps
time.time() and count_new_thumbs_since uses strict `>`, so on Windows' ~15.6ms
clock resolution the two mid-train thumbs could land in the same tick as
run_started (ts == run_started, dropped). Sleep one clock tick at the start of
slow_train so the thumbs are strictly later. Prod semantics unchanged; tests-only.
CI failed on the HF-rate-limited runners: test_anchor_term_with_file did a
live from_pretrained that 429'd, so it failed AND its unique MiniLLM-anchor
lines went uncovered, tipping the 77% gate to 76.77% on exactly those jobs
(macos + 3.11 stayed green where the cache warmed).
- Skip test_anchor_term_with_file on OSError (offline / rate-limited) instead
of failing.
- Add test_anchor_term_with_fake_model: a fake tokenizer + tiny nn.Module
exercise the identical _load_anchor + anchor_term lines with no network, so
coverage no longer depends on HF availability.
- Add TestReachableInternals cushion (prompt_compile._resolve_metric,
prompt_distill._build_provider_fn + default-provider wiring) so the gate
sits comfortably above 77% (the DSPy/TextGrad/GEPA optimiser bodies are
uncoverable without the [compile] extra).
Tests 13424 -> 13430.
Lift the v0.68.0 deferred-stub family to live (closes#225, #226, #227, #229):
- #229 local-rl train --once: harvest thumbs -> DPO/KTO/ORPO train via a
soup train subprocess (argv list, no shell); state table tracks last_train_at
(skip-on-no-new-thumbs + skip-on-insufficient-pairs); no --once renders a
systemd/launchd nightly scheduler scaffold. New local_rl_scheduler.py.
- #226 distill-prompt: call the teacher once per trace (Ollama/Anthropic/vLLM)
and write a real dataset (sft/kl -> messages; preference -> chosen/rejected).
- #225 compile / #227 compile-tools: live DSPy/GEPA/TextGrad dispatch behind the
new [compile] extra with a friendly ImportError when absent; injectable seams.
Security: reject \n/\r in the model id + shell-quote ExecStart args (systemd
injection defence). Fix: render train output as a plain string (schema-valid),
with a regression test against SoupConfig.
Tests 13329 -> 13424. Smoked end-to-end: real DPO train on SmolLM2-135M (RTX 3050)
+ real Ollama teacher distillation.
Alpamys